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June 29th 04, 05:34 AM
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"Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... Ryan, KC8PMX wrote: "Steve Robeson K4CAP" wrote in message ... Subject: Field Day Plans? From: "Ryan, KC8PMX" Date: 6/24/2004 11:20 AM Central Standard Time Message-id: 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! Believe me, that is in the works. 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? No, apparently only the vice-pres can do that.... 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. Now thats going to extremes, but in reality, still, right now we have up to a year to choose the sites we operate for F.D., and like I said, some places might be less than desired..... 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. Well hell, I can *think* about emergency ops all day/year long..... but it is NOT a simulation at this point from what I have seen locally of at least a dozen local area groups..... Its merely a "contest" but doing it from outside instead of indoors. 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? Yep, and an assistant EC right now. 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 - Yeah, unfortunately we have our own set of problems..... including lack of participation..... I feel your pain brother. Ryan KC8PMX |
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