[nrv-hams] Call for AT HOME volunteers for Audie Murphy Event Saturday!
Cam Coble
cam at doubleclickdata.com
Mon Jun 5 10:53:25 EDT 2023
Thanks for the suggestions Dave, here are responses to your concerns.
- Better participation for locals -
We could certainly try to give more relevance information to our local, but
I don't know now.
It was the NRV club putting on the special event.
It was also mentioned that,
"The location we will set up is on Brush Mountain, VA, on the Appalachian
Trail near the Audie Murphy Memorial."
The event was sent out via our email reflector, Facebook, and the ARRL.
- W8ARA repeaters -
The main page for the Audie Murphy event linked straight to the W8ARA
repeater network with the frequencies. There's no way I was going to try to
list them all as it is a vast network. The information on their site should
have been adequate to find something close to your location (it even has a
clickable map).
- Typeo -
Well, that was me, and I'm certain that's not the only one on our site.
It's offense was noted and corrected.
73
--
Cam, W4XXV
On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 1:17 PM Knight, Dave <diemkae at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
> --
>
> 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 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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