[MohawkARC] Notes from club meeting

Sat May 30 19:11:14 EDT 2015

That all sounds good, I was just wondering if those things were discussed.  I agree that we could run 4A full time too, and just have a separate simple GOTA set-up. That would fix the logging issue. Or since we're going to have 4 stations we could just get rid of the GOTA all together and if anyone from the public wanted to operate they could just use one of the 4 stations with the normal N1WW call.

Doug

On May 30, 2015, at 5:19 PM, Bill Leger <n1uz at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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