[W1SMH] Meeting

[Scott Bumpus]

Happy 4th of July everyone.  It's hard to believe that it is here already.
I hope everyone is doing well.

The first item that I have is Kids Day.  For those of you that may or may
not know the annual Kids Day event, which is a non-profit organization
event, is being held next weekend with a car show on Thursday night,
fireworks on Friday night and Saturday night and a road race on Sunday
morning.  What I would like to ask is that if anyone is planing on going to
the fireworks on Friday or Saturday night, please bring an HT with them and
just check in with either myself or N1NVE on the .195 Attleboro repeater and
let us know that you are at the field and are on the air and just be
observers.  If you see a police, fire or EMS emergency, contact either one
of us and we can get the approiate resources dispatched to the location.
For Sunday, if there are enough people willing and able to help it would be
nice if we could have ham radio coverage along the road race course.  If you
are able to help at all during this event, please let me know thank you.

Next, at long last the antenna/radio project for the fire stations and the
EOC here in town has been completed with the help of John KA1EWN and Pete
N1NVE along with the members of NAFD and NAPD.  We have installed Diamond
X-200 antennas at all 3 fire stations and NAPD HQ for the EOC along with
Yaesu FT8800R dual band mobile radios with Samlex SEC1223 13.8 volt
switching DC power supplies.  With this project being completed we would
like to conduct another simplex test and then after that simplex test is
completed we would like to meet at the EOC in NAPD HQ.  The information is
as follows.  Date Wednesday July 21  Time  6pm to 8 or 830pm.

We would like to cover the following locations.

NAFD HQ - KA1EWN
NAFD Station 2 - OPEN
NAFD Station 3 - OPEN
EOC @ NAPD HQ - N1NVE
DPW office 49 Whiting St. (must have HT or Mobile) - OPEN
NA Middle School Landry Ave. (must have HT or Mobile) - OPEN
NA Town Hall South Washington St. (must have HT or Mobile, ONLY IF WE HAVE
ALL OTHER LOCATIONS FILLED AND EXTRA PEOPLE)
SMH Radio Room - N1SEC?

Everyone should be at their assignments for 1800, at 1800 we will do a role
call on .195 and then switch to simplex for our test.  After our test is
completed we will meet in the EOC at NAPD HQ where we will have a meeting
with an agenda containing but not limited too, A recap of the antenna/radio
project, an update on the Regional Hospital Radio Project, 2 software demo's
and a show and tell of the Regional Field Communications Unit that has just
been relocated here to North Attleobro.  Please reply to me with your name
callsign and if you have an HT or a Mobile and would be able to cover one of
the 3 locations that might require an HT or a Mobile.  Also if you have any
questions please feel free to contact me.


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Sincerely,
Scott Bumpus N1SEC
NAEMA Radio Officer
RACES/ARES