Ryan, KC8PMX wrote:
"Steve Robeson K4CAP" wrote in message
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Subject: Field Day Plans?
From: "Ryan, KC8PMX"
Date: 6/24/2004 11:20 AM Central Standard Time
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Will be running KC8PMX on 50Mhz-450Mhz bands.
I was thinking a shorter call would help, but I ran those phonetics
thru
my mind a couple times, and "PAPA MIKE X-RAY" seems to me to be rather
prominent.
It's not too bad, although I wished I would have gotten a different call
when originally assigned. I might purposefully go for the vanity call of
K8KEA, just to be a pain in the ass because our club call is W8KEA. hi hi
Decided to run on my own as a
matter of passive resistance to the local club's field day planner.
Field
day is supposed to be an emergency preparedness scenario, and there is
nothing close to that from what I see of the plans locally here.
How's that, Ryan...??? Too much of the picnic-in-the-park thing?
No, just a kind of passive resistance thing. I seriously do not agree with
the person who is our field day planner and club vicepresident. I am not
the only one boycotting the club field day either.... It has been chosen
solely by him to be placed at one of the high schools out in the county (as
opposed to the city) where there is little traffic on the weekends (passing
by the school that is).
That you disagree is one thing. No problem there. But field day is for
your club, and it seems that there is an "if things aren't done my way,
I'm not going to play. Not too teamlike.
And if you all seriously want to do it differently, vote the dude out!
Of course, will someone step up to the plate and run field day in his
absence? Is there a clamor and a rush of people wanting to be FD Chairman?
Field Day should be at least 50% PROMOTIONAL as well as 50% emergency
simulation. Since it is not an actual emergency simulation since we all
clearly know when it is going to be, AND of course get to chose where we set
up, just how does that qualify as emergency planning/communications. Yes
there is the PREPLANNING but on our fire department we dont get to know when
our next medical call or car accident or house fire is, we just respond and
deal with it as best as we can.
In a real emergency, we may be required to set up in an area less that to be
desired, such as a parking lot. Or an open field without those natural
antenna supports..... Also, we would not normally know when that emergency
would occur.......
Sure. You may need to be operating while ill from something or be
putting your life at serious risk at the time. You may be up for several
days without sleep. You may be injured.
Heck, even the person you are trying to communicate with may only have
a CW rig. So you can't even begin to simulate truly accurate emergency
condx.
Under most real emergency circumstances, some emergency personell is
going to tell you to go to a certain place, and operate a certain
transciever. You won't set up a tent or put together a station or anything.
The purpose of FD is to in large prt get peopl simply *thinking* about
emergency ops, and *doing* some simulated ops. Dunno where tha hyper
accurate emergency scenario that I hear about came from.
Maybe, at least if it was changed to where we DO know the weekend it is
gonna be, BUT each countie's EC/RO or emergency services director decides
the location??? I still believe that the PR value of Field Day far
outwieghs any other aspect of field day.
Best way to control where the site is is to become an EC. The you can
do as YOUR philosophical desires dictate. Are you willing to do that?
Related item. I was in a club years ago where I was in charge of our
biggest fund raiser. Some of the club members didn't like how I was
doing things (specifically, my methods required some work) But we made a
LOT of money for a small club. So they led a revolt against me,
supported by the club prez of refusing to help me or work for me. My
only option that didn't make me look like an idiot was to resign from my
position and chairmanship and the club. I was ironically the Vice president.
The result? Remember how they thought that my working demands were too
much? I wanted 4 hours of work per year per club member. Well, no one
wanted to work even after they got ride of the ******* - me, so they
ended up hiring three people to do my job (keeping in mind, I did it for
nuttin'), subbed out the most lucrative part of the job, and now make
absolutely no money on a fund raiser that was bringing in a lot of money
every year. They are actually in money trouble now. Smart people weren't
they?
Point is, be good to the volunteers, and if you don't like what they
are doing, do better.
- Mike KB3EIA -