[TCARC-NTX] Horse and Buggy Event - Details

[Gerald Buxton]

Hello everyone,

The Horse and Buggy Event will be this Saturday, March 20, at Cottondale.  

Directions are as follows:
>From Springtown, take FM51 (the road that Checker's is on) North about 6 miles
to FM 2123.  Turn left (west) on FM 2123 and go about 5 miles to Cottondale. 
Turn left (south) in Cottondale on CR 3585.  (Cottondale is very small, and
this road is right when you come into town, look for a gas station on the
right as a landmark.)  Go about 3/4 mile on CR 3585 to a T intersection, then
go right.  This is still CR 3585.  About 1/2 mile the road curves to the left,
the entrance to the ranch where the event is held is right at the curve, to
your right.  Park around the club trailer.  Be on the lookout for pedestrians
and horses as you come up the ranch driveway.

David has volunteered to bring the club trailer.  You can bring it Saturday
morning, or if you would like, Donna said that you can bring it out Friday
afternoon or evening.  Thanks, David!

We will need 3-4 people at 07:00 Saturday morning.  One to be with Donna, one
at the dressage event with the judge or techinical delegate (or one each if we
have 4), and I will be coordinating communications and our club role at the
trailer (also providing liason to the EMT).  The dressage event starts at
07:30.

For the afternoon marathon, we will need a minimum of 10 people.  One with the
judge, one with the technical delegate, one with Donna, one at each of 5
hazards (hazard 2 and 3 will be covered by one operator if we have the minimum
operators), one each at the start and finish and myself at the trailer with
the EMT.  The optimal number of operators would be 14, in order to have some
mobile units out at the far stretches of the course to spot for problems away
from the hazards and to handle hazards 2 and 3 with a single operator each. 
The course is about 6 miles total length.

Operators for the marathon event will have to be on hand at 12:00.  I will
have lists of the entries for the race to assist in keeping track as they pass
the hazards, maps, and provide coordination so that everyone is at their post
when the race begins at 12:30.

The marathon event is expected to finish at about 14:45 and we will be
released after that event.

I will be there at 07:00, and I understand that David and Bob will be too. 
Others may wait until the 12:00 call, but all are welcome at any time.

I have received commitment from the following club members:
Myself
David
Fred
Matt
Bob (morning only)
Daryl
Roy

As you can see, that is four people short of the afternoon minimum.  Hopefully
Roy will bring Reyn and Cindy?  Please talk this up on the repeater throughout
the week, I will be unavailable this Tuesday-Friday.  Any other volunteers are
badly needed to make our 10 operator afternoon minimum, so if you can help
please respond to the reflector or just show up!

You will need an HT with fresh batteries, a chair so you can sit if you wish,
water and snacks.  Conditions always depend on the weather, but we will be out
in pastureland so boots are recommended.  The people that are assigned to the
judge, technical delegate and Donna should plan on using speaker or
speaker/mic as these people have requested to be able to hear our
communications.  We will use the club simplex frequency, 147.42 MHz.

Operators who attend for the full day will receive free lunch.

Contact me via email or on the repeater Monday if you have any questions.

Thank you all, in advance!

Jerry
N0JY