[MohawkARC] Notes from club meeting

Sat May 30 17:19:17 EDT 2015

I'm thinking we should be the best we can be. Work it out with Fitchburg later. Need to give everyone as much radio time as possible

> On May 30, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Matt Tatro <tatro.matt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 1)  The thinking was that instead of having people just sitting around
> because the radios were in use, like the last couple years, we'd get them
> on the air and use the 4th station as a full station.  If there is a need
> for a GOTA station (when/if we get visitors), then it can revert to such.
> I'd much rather get more people on and operating than being constrained to
> 3 stations and having people unable to get air time.  Bill was going to
> talk to our friendly competitors.
> 
> Frankly, I'm of the opinion that we could run 4A full-time, with an
> additional GOTA station using a simple radio/antenna like an IC7000 with a
> multiband vertical.  That would simplify things and allow a bunch to get on
> the air.
> 
> 2)  We were never competitive to begin with in 3A, we finished 78th in the
> country last year.  If we had entered 4A, even with the score last year we
> would have come in 49th.  The score would have been even higher with the
> additional station.
> 
> -Matt NM1C
> 
>> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Doug Lepisto <dlepisto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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