[W8MWA] Out of the Darkness Walk update

[Randy Crowe]

I sent this out earlier but am re sending it. Tomorrow is the day. It 
looks to be a great day weather wise.

We're planning to use the 146.76 repeater for coordination. As parking 
is limited at the riverfront Please call in on the repeater before you 
come down. I plan to just assign you somewhere unless you have a 
specific place in mind. There are several places along the route that 
you can just park and work from your car if you want.

I've had limited response on who's available so we'll make do as we can. 
If you can come out please do so. This is  a community event and I'd 
hate to see us fail due to lack of participation. I'm not worried about 
having too many - there's room for all. If you're afraid to volunteer 
because you think you might make a mistake, well forget that idea. We've 
all done that. It's not an issue. That's how you learn. We'll coach you 
through it if you need. Also there will be a couple extra handheld 
radios available if someone need to borrow one.

Hope to see you tomorrow. I'll be on the air around 10:00 or so.

Randy


*Date:* 10/19/2024
*On-Site Registration Starts: *10:00 am
*Program Starts:* 11:30 am
*Location:* Hazel Ruby McQuain Park, Morgantown, WV

Attached find the proposed map of the walk. It's on the streets of 
downtown Morgantown. This is a football Saturday so it's anybody's guess 
as to traffic at this time. We can use as many people as we can get but 
a minimum of 8 to cover the route seems to be necessary. At a minimum 
I'd like to put 2 people at the start, one at University Ave and Foundry 
St., one at University and Fayette St., one at Chestnut and Fayette, one 
at Chestnut and Willey, one at Willey and Spruce, one on Pleasant 
between Spruce and High, one at High and Fayette. If we have more we'll 
spread them out and fill in wherever we think will be a good place.

This is a good chance to get your feet wet with public service work. I 
encourage everyone to get some experience. This should be a low key 
event with us just providing route / walker updates, keeping an eye out 
for anyone having difficulties, things like that.

By the published schedule of events and experience from last year, I 
expect the walk portion of the day to actually start closer to 12:30 but 
I'd like to have people in place by 11:30 if possible. The actual walk 
will probably take about an hour. I anticipate being able to use simplex 
operation for the event but I will check and get permission to use the 
WVU 146.76 repeater if we find simplex won't get it. Hope to test that 
sometime before the event.

More info as I get it.

Thanks for your help

Randy
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