[nrv-hams] Call for AT HOME volunteers for Audie Murphy Event Saturday!

[Knight, Dave]

 Maybe we'd get better member participation if we posted more Audie Murphy
info that connected to the NRVARC event, for example: that Audie Murphy
died in a plane crash on May 28, 1971, on Brush Mountain near where the
club's repeater is set up.  There is a memorial monument
<https://www.virginia.org/listing/audie-murphy-monument/4952/> there.  Read
the details here <https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CDbwdFsQ8Og/maxresdefault.jpg>.

Also, it might help if the announcement includes the freq/offset/tone
necessary to talk to any non-NRVAREC repeater.  Maybe I just missed it for
this event, but it was like pulling teeth to find the details for the w8ara
repeater.

I would also encourage whoever is responsible for the club's  Audie Murphy
event page <https://www.n4nrv.org/2023-audie-murphy/> to fix, ASAP, that
glaring typo:

   "Event station will be ran by the *New River Valley Amateur Radio Club*.",
should read "will be run".

Dave


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On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 7:54 AM Knight, Dave <diemkae at gmail.com> wrote:

> That was fun.  I monitored the n4nrv repeater from Radford for both
> sessions but wasn't able to reach the w8ara repeater with my 8-watt HT.
>
> With only a handful of check-ins in each session, I was disappointed we
> didn't see a better turnout from NRVARC members.  Was the turnout any
> better on the w8ara repeater?
>
> Do you have any ideas on how we can prompt a better NRVARC turnout next
> year?
>
> --
>
> In your time of need, may your piece be with you!
>
> "Selig sind die Toten die im Herrn sterben von nun an."
>                                                     (Offenbarung 14,13)
>
> The trouble with many of today's college graduates is not that they're
> ignorant, it's that they've been taught so much that just isn't so!
>
>                                                       (with apologies to
> Ronald Reagan).
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 8:50 PM Cam Coble <cam at doubleclickdata.com> wrote:
>
>> This year we're going to try something new.
>> We will have 4 scheduled hours for making contacts on our club repeaters,
>> as well as the Appalachian Repeater Association, W8ARA repeater network.
>> We
>> need volunteers for these time slots to make calls out on the repeaters
>> and
>> log contacts. This will be much like a net, but just taking contacts for
>> the event, and you'll stick around for the time slot. You will operate as
>> W2A for the event from your own shack! You will need a good signal to and
>> from the repeater you are working.
>>
>> The slotted times will be, Saturday June 3rd local time:
>> #1 - 10am-11am - N4NRV repeaters
>> #2 - 11am-12pm - W8ARA repeaters
>> #3 - 1pm-2pm - N4NRV repeaters
>> #4 - 2pm-3pm - W8ARA repeaters
>>
>> Please email Danny, AI4RC at dannywylam at gmail.com if you would like to
>> volunteer, along with what time slot(s) you would be able to work.
>> More details available here about the event, and the repeaters:
>> https://www.n4nrv.org/2023-audie-murphy/
>>
>> Thanks so much to the W8ARA Repeater Association for offering the use of
>> their network!
>>
>> Thanks and 73!
>> --
>> Cam, W4XXV
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