[OFARC] FW: Adapting for Field Day

Dominic Mazoch domemt at juno.com
Wed May 13 17:16:32 EDT 2020 

If one comes into Corus Christi from San Antonio or Victoria, using I37 or I69E/US77, one crsses the Nueces River.  Right after the bridge, thete is an exit for the service road and a park.  One thinks it belongs to TXDOT, but it belongs to the City.

A ham club got permission to do FD there.  Once we got something up, you could see people on the freeway SB giving us the WTF lok.  People went to the next exit, got off the mainlanes and drove over. We got about 10 to 20 cars an hour during the daylight hours.....

And we let people come look at ALL operation stations, not just GOTA.

Afyer an all clear, a like visable situation would be using Walmart parking lots.....

Ralph:  Intergrating neighborhood association, CERT, and ham is a good idea.  You are near BW8, I69, and downwind from US 90A and the UP.  What could possibly go wrong...


Dominic Mazoch

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Jeremy Penner <jeremy at mpenner.com>
To: "Ralph (home)" <ke5hdf at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: Dominic Mazoch <domemt at juno.com>, "ofarc at mailman.qth.net" <ofarc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [OFARC] FW:  Adapting for Field Day
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 19:22:48 +0000

Ralph,
If you can’t use the tables from the building in the field I may be able to get permission to use the ones from my scout troop. If I get permission I’ll need to have some help hauling them. 
Jeremy. 

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> On May 13, 2020, at 2:17 PM, Ralph (home) <ke5hdf at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Dom,
> I agree with  your premise.  
> 
> Too many FD set-ups are planned to the extreme, run as a competition, and
> set up where the public never knows about it.
> That is why I concentrated on OUTREACH last year and did FD in the middle of
> a neighborhood.
> That is what got people into CERT training in December and the radio license
> class in January. 
> 
> I am trying to get permission to use tables from our community building and
> set  up in the field next to the building (with access to the building for
> toilets).
> If that fails, I plan to set up at the neighborhood park or in my front yard
> using solar panels for power and a long wire antenna (or maybe one of my
> infamous ladder-line antennas made with popsicle sticks!)
> Maybe I will make a sign "EMERGENCY COMMUNICAITONS DRILL"
> 
> I may make a habit of doing FD as a roving event.... do at a different
> public location each year......  neighborhood school, church, post office,
> Walmart, etc.
> 
> Ralph - KE5HDF
> Ad Astra!!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominic Mazoch [mailto:domemt at juno.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 14:00
> To: ke5hdf at sbcglobal.net
> Cc: ofarc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [OFARC] FW: Adapting for Field Day
> 
> CQ;
> 
> I am going to be a bit to the point blunt.
> 
> But FD in its present form is Jurassic Park.
> 
> We need to be able to deploy and use all modes and all frequencies.
> 
> But FD I do not think cuts it.  Too plained.  To normal.
> 
> The real test is when something comes out of nowhere and the defication
> meets the ventilation. At night.  During the week.
> 
> And does it move the needle in terms of getting new hams?
> 
> Personally, PI Day last year, the BSA events at the Dome, and even Dickens
> introduced more people to ham radio.  And the first two were under FD
> conditions
> 
> I think the FD part should be more intergrated to the Simulated Emergency
> Test in October.  Now, once we get the all clear, the GOTA station could be
> an event on its own.
> 
> The needle needs to be moved.  But I think we having been doing a famous
> line from I think Albert Einstein:  Doing the same thing overand over again
> expecting a diferent result.
> 
> Sometimes it is good not doing something, for when you return, you are fresh
> and have an open mind.
> 
> If I skip FD, it is OK.  HF has not been too great generally below 7.0mhz.
> 
> 73,
> 
> 
> Dominic Mazoch, N5TCB
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: "Ralph \(home\)" <ke5hdf at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "OFARC" <ofarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [OFARC] FW:  Adapting for Field Day
> Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 12:38:57 -0500
> 
> I missed this link..... this has some more creative ideas for Field Day
> 
> http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Field-Day/2020/Creative%20Approaches%20to%20F
> ield%20Day%202020.pdf
> 
> 
> Ralph
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ofarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:ofarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Ralph
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 20:10
> To: OFARC <ofarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [OFARC] Adapting for Field Day
> 
> This link takes you to a nice article at ARRL
> 
> It describes ways adapt and still participate as a club or individual.
> 
> Hal and I welcome your thoughts on how OFARC should proceed.
> 
> 
> http://www.arrl.org/news/field-day-2020-a-time-to-adapt
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 73
> 
> Ralph  KE5HDF
> 
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