[TVARC] Villages On the Air VOTA First Draft
Paul Nittel
paulnit82 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 17:17:46 EST 2021
Your checklist idea is a good one, Mark. We can always build upon
initial success. For new technicians, and every one else, this should be
a great activity.
73,
Paul
On 2/7/2021 13:47, Mark Graybill wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto:psk2ps at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> What exactly is the VOTA?
>
> 73, Pete, K2PS
>
> *From:*tvarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
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> <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
> <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
> <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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