[MohawkARC] Notes from club meeting

[Doug Lepisto]

A couple things come to mind with running Field Day as 4A. These are my concerns.

1. What class will the Fitchburg club be running for Field Day? If we are to have a friendly competition, running 4A with them running 3A would be unfair and we couldn't have a comparison in our operations.

2. If we do run 4A it would be better to have a fourth station that is separate from the GOTA station so that it could be utilized the entire time.  If it's being shared as GOTA this presents two problems.  First, while Field Day isn't an official contest, we wouldn't have a "competitive" edge in the 4A category since we'd only be "part-time" 4A.  Second, this would also present a logistical problem with logging as the GOTA station call sign must be different from N1WW (our main Field Day call).

Doug
N1DBL

On May 28, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Kevin Erickson <N1ERS at arrl.net> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> It was good to see many of you at last night's club meeting and it was
> great to be in the new space at the Gardner Police Headquarters. Thank you
> Paul, W1SEX for arranging that.
> 
> Here are just a few notes and information with last night's meeting.
> 
> -- Special Event Station at Relay for Life
> 
> We need lots of volunteers for setup and operating the special event
> station. An online signup sheet has been started at Signup Genius. The link
> to sign up is http://goo.gl/n3y7dD
> 
> -- SKYWARN
> 
> There will be a SKYWARN training coming up next week in Maynard, MA.
> Details below.
> 
> Wednesday June 3rd 2015 - 7-10 PM
> 
> Maynard Public Library - The Roosevelt Room
> 
> 77 Nason St
> 
> Maynard, MA
> 
> Taught by: NWS Forecaster
> Registration: None Required
> 
> More SKYWARN info at www.wx1box.org. And even if you are not a trained
> SKYWARN spotter it is important to assist the National Weather Service when
> they call for severe weather reports from our area.
> 
> -- Field Day
> 
> Looks like we are going to run a 4 Alpha station this year by utilizing the
> GOTA (Get On The Air) station as a normal station when not in use for GOTA.
> We'll have to work out the logistics of that during our next Field Day
> planning meeting on June 8th. That said, we will need plenty of help and
> operators this year. We will likely set up another online signup page for
> Field Day stuff. Stay tuned.
> 
> That covers is for now.
> 
> 73
> Kevin, N1ERS
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