[TVARC] Villages On the Air VOTA First Draft

[Mark Graybill]

Great ideas, John!

My initial thoughts were to have the VOTA list as primarily an "inreach"
activity for Villagers to communicate with Villagers, but adding an annual
event to that is something that could happen as well. Mostly I was thinking
of creating a checklist to work against, so that club members could start
collecting contacts from different Villages and other locations in TV.

With the rate that TV grows, a "Worked All Villages" would be a moving
target, but given that we already have 100 Villages on the list, before
adding town squares, country clubs, parks, and so on within TV, we could
certainly have VCC standings to encourage participation. It'd be something
easy for even Technicians with an HT to participate in. Getting 100
"entities" in TV from a single location would be a challenge on 440 FM
likely requiring something better than a rubber duck.

Adding an event on top of that could certainly work very well. We would be
activating as many of our "entities" as possible, and taking and making
contacts both within and outside TV. Certainly it could be good advertising
to get more hams down here to help make things more ham-friendly down here!
Haha.

Right now I'm up for building a checklist, and we should probably form a
committee so that it's not just me to look at what we want to do both on
the paper chasing and on any possible events.

I guess that could be an item for a future meeting?

Thanks!

Mark W8BIT

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 7:53 AM John Ellis <john.np2b at gmail.com> wrote:

> GM all,
>
> Villagers on the air.
>
> We could find something significant that
> happened in the Villages and use that to
> set the date. With a little planning
> we could make it a national contest. Maybe
> the Villages might want to print qsls for us?
> Or certificates for working 15 villagers? I
> could get some QST real estate of we give
> them enough time to get it published.
> I thought about special 1X1 callsigns but
> the special 1X1 callsign but the two "Ls"
> would prevent that (unless one station
> stayed on FT-8.
>
> Thoughts ?????????????
> 73,
> John, NP2B
>
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> On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 10:25 PM K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What exactly is the VOTA?
>>
>>
>>
>> 73, Pete, K2PS
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* tvarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:
>> tvarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] *On Behalf Of *Mark Graybill
>> *Sent:* Saturday, February 6, 2021 5:02 PM
>> *To:* villages reflector
>> *Subject:* [TVARC] Villages On the Air VOTA First Draft
>>
>>
>>
>> I have taken a first pass at creating a list of Villages for VOTA.
>>
>> I started with the Villages list at:
>> https://www.districtgov.org/images/villages_neighborhoods.pdf
>>
>> I added The Lofts at Brownwood, which if I understand correctly are part
>> of District 9. I gave the historical Villages a district number of zero. I
>> gave each Village a code designation for use in an exchange which has two
>> alphabetic characters followed by the district number, e.g. Liberty Park is
>> Lima Papa Five. The list as it stands has 99 "entities" or Villages.
>>
>> Please have a look at the list and let me know if there are any flaws or
>> omissions that you're aware of, even if all you do is check your own
>> Village. It can be seen at:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f-Y5-FyfMAgyYZw0dUyaFEGypfXXGTrxUh-TZggaU54/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> Also, are there other areas that we should add as unique "entities"? For
>> example, Town Squares, Regional Rec Centers, Preserve areas or other
>> special areas (e.g. Sharon Rose Weichens Preserve, Fenney Nature Trail,
>> Polo Field, Country Clubs?)
>>
>> Looking forward to everyone's input.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark, W8BIT
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