[OMIK] Fwd: HBCUs on the air: campus security during the QSO Party

[Henry R. Leggette]

Hello Jesse,
How are you all after the HBCU net?  I am sure that was a large amount of fun with those young men and women experiencing contact across the USA and maybe around the world.  

Somewhere about 20 to 30 years ago, I went to Mississippi Valley State College at the time and operated.  Moses W5UTC was the electronics instructor there.  We operated the Mississippi QSO party.  I donated the college the transceiver.  After Moses stop teaching I never heard them on again.  I think Moses is a SK now.

Any communications, electronics that the HBCU students receive will be great in their careers. Again, thanks for coming up with the idea. I wish you all much luck!!!

73's,
Henry R. Leggette, WD4Q and author of 
Progress Through Struggle
   

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Subject: [OMIK] Fwd: HBCUs on the air: campus security during the QSO Party

During the HBCU net last night, Lloyd KO4L asked the question about how we would deal with campus security and get access to HBCU campuses during the QSO party.

I know the Howard University community has faced many cyberattacks, bomb threats, harassment, and other threats. I’m sure the same thing is true for the other HBCUs. Just showing with your POTA gear, throwing a sloper over a tree branch, and operating will probably raise eyebrows.

Besides, "the yard" or "quad" on many HBCU campus is perceived as "sacred ground."

Answer: We would need to be inviting on campus. This means that we would have to develop a relationship with our hosts from school of engineering or physics before the QSO party. We have a year. How best do we do this?

Ultimately, I'd also like to leave a self-sustaining station (licensed staff/faculty, equipment, local club support, etc.) behind at each of the HBCUs we operate from.

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I take my HT with me whenever I go to Homecoming because the cell sites get overloaded and start blocking calls. (Howard is probably too cheap to hire a COW from Verizon or AT&T... but I digress.) The point is that I’ve never been challenged or approached be anyone.

Your thoughts?

TNX ES 73,
Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3
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TNX ES 73,
Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3
OMIK Amateur Radio Association, Inc.
SKYWARN #PG116
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https://mastodon.hams.social/@wb2ifs
wb2ifs at arrl.net
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