[MDC-EC] Marine Corps Marathon Sign-up

[Jim Cross]

To All ECs,

Below and attached is a request for volunteers to signup for the Marine
Corps Marathon.  It is also going out as a MDC Section email and hopefully
as an Atlantic Division email.  Would you please post it to your local ARES
reflector for wider coverage?  We really need the help with this major
event.  Thanks very much.

73, Jim Cross WI3N
SM MDC



MARINE CORPS MARATHON 2011 NEEDS MORE OPERATORS ESPECIALLY IN
DIGITAL.

(18 August 2011) Less than two weeks before its self-imposed target date,
the Amateur Radio Planning Team is 70 volunteers short and needs more HAMs
to sign up. Now.

Go to NCACDC.COM. Scroll down and click on the red "Sign Up Here". The
Marines' sign-up page ("DoItSports") will load. Click on "Volunteer for This
Job". The Marine volunteer form page will load. Answer the questions, read
the information, and when satisfied, send the form. If successful, the
Marine sign up will send a confirming e-mail. As soon as you receive the
confirming e-mail, follow its instructions to sign up. You are not signed up
until you complete both steps.

Sign up now. If not now, sign up by the end of August. The Marines want to
know all the HAMs on the course, where they’ll be and what they'll be doing,
by the end of September. The Marines in turn use this for food orders,
credentials, tee shirts, etc. The Planning Team uses it to create the race
info packets.  Building the roster takes a month do--if Planning has all the
sign-ups.

Again, please make sure you've signed up and we have your information before
Wednesday 31 August.  Think of it as arriving two hours before your flight.

Also the MCM Planning Team has been asked to staff several more medical
locations. And so, it is looking for more volunteers with mobile/portable
D-STAR DV and DD as well as 9600 bps packet.

And, by the way, if you have a Kenwood TM-D700A you have an out-of-the-box
9600 bps packet radio that works with our requirements--fine. Of course,
outboard 9600 bps TNCs also would work fine.

CREDIT AND THANKS

The Planning Team is grateful to the volunteers who signed up for this
year's MCM---a one-of-a-kind opportunity to gain operating experience in a
real, multi-region event.

Planning would also like to thank Amateur Radio's area leadership who are
making sure this Call for Volunteers is broadcast and seen by as many
Radioamateurs as possible.

ABOUT THE NCACDC

NCACDC, The National Capital Amateur Council, District of Columbia, were
coordinating
representatives of Amateur Radio emergency communications organizations in
the National Capital Region who now organize and plan for Amateur Radio at
the MCM.

William Hatfield W3QX,
-30-