George,
Thank you for the introduction and for your support.
Everyone,
What began as a casual idea discussed following the All Communicators Picnic
has become a reality. With your help I plan to put K0GRL on the air as a
special event station during the two days of the Offutt AFB Air Show. With
Field Day having just concluded I don't think there are any "technical"
challenges to putting a station on the air. The only challenge is putting a
team together.
As George mentioned below, I need lots of help. In particular, I need
people to staff the station as operators, loggers and greeters to talk to
people about SACMARC and amateur radio. The air show gates will be open
9:00am - 5:00pm. The plan is to have the station on the air from 10:00am to
4:00pm, six hours each on Saturday and Sunday. Depending on the number of
people who are available to operate I'd like to setup 'shifts' of 1 - 2
hours for people to take turns operating and/or logging. I wouldn't ask
anyone to spend the entire day talking on the radio. We need to have at
least three people at the booth at any given time, more would be better.
Ken Lemke (AC0DQ) has volunteered the use of his radio and antenna, but he
has to work for the base the day of the air show, so he isn't available to
operate. I plan to have a sun shelter setup with tables, radio, antenna,
chairs, equipment and refreshments by the time the gate opens. Operators
will (hopefully) have a "walk on" role.
For the sake of discussion, let's start with two hour shifts, and we'll
lower lower it if we have enough volunteers. Tentatively, the shifts would
be 10am - Noon, Noon - 2pm and 2pm - 4:00pm. Amateurs working the Air Show
in support of the 55th Medical Group and Sarpy EMA are certain welcome to
take breaks at the SACMARC booth and either operate or talk about Ham radio
with air show visitors.
All volunteers, please e-mail me ( <mailto:kc0ykn@cox.net> kc0ykn@cox.net)
with your preferred day and shift. We need to get a list of people who will
be staffing the booth to the air show staff, so I need to know as soon as
possible who our volunteers are. If you don't have a General (or higher)
license I'm sure we can find a control operator to allow you to operate
legally.
Saturday Sunday
10-12 _____ _____
12-2 _____ _____
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Dennis - KC0YKN
------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:33:08 PM CDT
From: "George Bellairs" <kb0zzt@usa.net>
To: "MEMBERS SACMARC" <sacmarc@sacmarc.org>, "ALL SACMARK"
<sacmarc@sacmarc.org>
Subject: SACMARC Special Event Station at Offutt AFB Open House, August 16 &
17
At the SACMARC quarterly meeting held Friday, June 20th a proposal was made
and approved for SACMARC to setup a special event station to honor the late
General Curtis LeMay (by using his amateur radio call sign K0GRL) in
conjunction with the Offutt AFB Air Show on August 16th & 17th.
Dennis Mitchell (kc0ykn) has volunteered to lead the project. This is the
first event station he has been associated with, so he'll need lots of help.
Ken Lemke (ac0dq) has already been in contact with the air show staff and
Offutt Public Affairs. Offutt Air Force Base staff have approved this event.
If you can assist Dennis with planning and setup of the station, or more
importantly, operating the station during the air show, please e-mail him at
kc0ykn@cox.net to give him some encouragement and your support.
Thank you,
George Bellairs, KB0ZZT
SACMARC President
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George H. Bellairs
Amateur Radio Operator KBØZZT
910 LeMay Drive
Bellevue, NE 68005-3253
E-Mail: kb0zzt@usa.net
(402) 291-0960 (home)
(402) 559-5677 (office)
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