{"id":4993,"date":"2010-08-07T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T15:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2016-04-11T07:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:10:25","slug":"emergency-communications-team-competition-coming-soon-september-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4993","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Communications Team Competition Coming Soon! &#8211; September 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: MS PMincho;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: MS PMincho;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1821\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"boot_camp\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boot_camp-350x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boot_camp-350x179.jpg 350w, http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boot_camp-200x102.jpg 200w, http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boot_camp.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/strong><\/span>Be a part of this first of it&#8217;s kind competition!\u00a0 Rick Palm of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ARRL ARES E-Letter<\/span>\u00a0says of\u00a0this event: &#8220;this is a cool idea!&#8221;\u00a0and is including info about it in the August ARES E-Letter.\u00a0He will be sent the results for possible ARRL publication. Your last chance to sign up. Get a team together.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>When:<\/strong> September 5, 2010<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Where:<\/strong> South Texas park. Park location to be announced before the competition to pre-registered teams.\u00a0 This is not a spectator sport event.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Teams:<\/strong> Teams, made up of 4 people each, will compete to see\u00a0which team\u00a0can set up an operational communications (Jump Team) site and make 5 HF contacts in the least amount of time and in the proper manner. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><!--more--><\/div>\n<div><strong>Competition: <\/strong><strong>Teams would be required to properly:<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Erect a 6 man sleeping tent and a \u201ctoilet tent\u201d (this includes ground tarp and rain tarp.)<\/li>\n<li>Erect an operations area (canopy) with chairs and tables and radio gear.<\/li>\n<li>Erect a food prep canopy with tables, chairs, stove, cooking supplies.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Erect one\u00a040 meter \u201cInverted V\u201d antenna with coax back to the operations area with proper\u00a0hazard flagging.<\/li>\n<li>Assemble\u00a0one HF\u00a0station powered by deep-cycle batteries.<\/li>\n<li>Assemble\u00a02 solar panel assemblies and charge at least one deep-cycle battery.\u00a0(2 panels to charge batteries)<\/li>\n<li>Filter\u00a010 gallons of water (as part of the setup responsibilities)<\/li>\n<li>Cook\u00a0a simple meal\u00a0in the food-prep area (enough to feed\u00a0the\u00a0judges lunch)<\/li>\n<li>Make at least 5 HF contacts on 40 meters SSB\u00a0to stations outside our immediate area with proper logging of contacts made. (paper log)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Then properly disassemble\u00a0all shelters and\u00a0gear, clean all food handling and cooking \u201cstuff\u201d and properly put them back into their storage boxes, fill out logging paperwork and submit to judges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>\u00a0Notes:<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Communications will begin only after <strong>all<\/strong> the setups have been accomplished<\/li>\n<li>Cooking not included as a requirement to begin communications<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Judges will determine when all setups have been completed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>This competition\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0limited to any group or organization. Any 4 people, such as a scout group,\u00a0who have at least one licensed ham (General class or above) can compete. They will all be using the same equipment and gear supplied by the Bexar Operators Group.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>We \u00a0estimate\u00a0about 90 minutes for each competing team\u00a0to complete their \u201crun\u201d.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Pictures will be taken and a report, in article form, will be submitted to the ARRL<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>A reference website concerning this type of operations may be found at:\u00a0<strong>Emergency Communications Teams<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>At this time, we have at least two teams: Chaparral ARC (CARC) and Hill Country REACT (HCR)\u00a0signed up\u00a0to compete<\/strong> in this competition which is slated to take place on September 5th. Bob Rod, Lee Besing and myself have agreed to be the judges. I am hoping that others, especially local emcomm\u00a0groups or radio clubs,\u00a0will assemble 4 members to\u00a0compete. More than one team may compete representing any group.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>Please spread the word to all the amateur radio clubs in Texas<\/strong> that this event is open to everyone, but there will be a registration cutoff date so no one should be expected to \u201cjust show up\u201d and compete.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<h1><strong>\u00a0No pre-registration =\u00a0no competing.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>So which club or group is going to capture \u201cemcomm\u00a0bragging rights\u201d (and a plaque)\u00a0from Texas?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>Register by emailing to <\/strong><a title=\"mailto:W2IK@ARRL.NET\" href=\"mailto:W2IK@ARRL.NET\"><strong>W2IK@ARRL.NET<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0 with a list of\u00a0your team members\/callsigns\u00a0and a contact email and phone number<em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Be a part of this first of it&#8217;s kind competition!\u00a0 Rick Palm of the ARRL ARES E-Letter\u00a0says of\u00a0this event: &#8220;this is a cool idea!&#8221;\u00a0and is including info about it in the August ARES E-Letter.\u00a0He will be sent the results for possible ARRL publication. Your last chance to sign up. Get a team together. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,117,9,16,20,14],"tags":[582,532],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7738,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions\/7738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}