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ARRL newsletter feature ideas for instructors and PR for Field Day

Posted: 06 Jun 2016 12:03 PM PDT
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In the last couple of days, Ive gotten e-mails announcing the latest issues
of Radio Waves and Contact, the ARRL newsletters for instructors and public
information officers (PIOs). Both have some interesting items.



The Spring 2016 issue of Radio Waves includes articles on using amateur
radio in home schooling, ARISS activities, Girl Scout amateur radio
activities (including information on the Girl Scout Radio and Wireless
Technology patch), and links to other online instructional resources.

One that I found interesting was a link to the Tait Radio Academy. It
offers a number of free courses on different aspects of land mobile radio
(LMR) technology, including basic radio awareness, P25, and DMR. As Ive
been getting interested in DMR lately, Ive started viewing the videos in
this course.

The June 2016 issue of Contact features short articles on Field Day and
Dayton. The Field Day article gives the following advice:

Get your social media platforms going and earn that new 100 point bonus for
engaging the public and your local media on Facebook, Twitter and other
social media platforms. Be sure to post lots of photos and short video of
your team having fun.
If you’re hosting a PR table this year, do more than lay out pamphlets; you
will have far greater impact with your visitors if you have a team
dedicated to welcoming visitors and showing them around your site. Those
team members should be friendly and outgoing, and be able to steer your
visitors to relevant areas of your Field Day site based on what your
visitors tell you theyre curious about.
If you’re going to post signs on the street to drive visitors to your site,
be sure to include the phrases “Open House� and “Public Welcome.� Not
everybody understands what a Field Day is, but the term Open House is very
common.


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