Our regular volunteers already know to get their radios and batteries ready for operations when the month of April hits.\u00a0 Actually many of the Ham Volunteers with Hill Country REACT never stopped being ready for events.\u00a0\u00a0 They worked events in January and March already, out in the Bandera, Texas, area at the Hill Country State Natural Park.\u00a0 One event was the Bandera 100k Cross Country running event (24 hours) in January, followed by the Big Bend 50k out west.\u00a0On March 5-6th was a horse ride endurance event (2 day) back in the Hill Country State Natural Area (state park).\u00a0 There may have been other events in between that I missed.\u00a0 Look for event posts by the REACT Team president, Louis Upton N5STX, elsewhere in this blog.<\/p>\n
Anyway, back to the topic at hand.\u00a0 We have lots of volunteer events happening between now and Field Day weekend.\u00a0 This is just a short list of known events being held involving San Antonio and the surrounding\u00a0area hams.\u00a0 If someone wants to\u00a0build up a list of contest, I’ll be happy to work with you on posting those dates as well.<\/p>\n
April 15-17th – BPMS150 National MS Bicycle Ride (2 days).\u00a0<\/strong> At present time, 5 teams of SAG vans will depart on Friday, April 15th from San Antonio, to arrive that night in Katy, TX, outside of Houston, to start off the biggest bicycle tour in Texas the next morning.\u00a0 The San Antonio contingent will be joined\u00a0by other SAG Teams from Austin and these two groups will be swallowed up by all of the others coming from the\u00a0 Houston area.\u00a0 At last count, I think there were around 45 SAG Vans, 12 SAG Box Truck \/ Bus combos (Rental Moving Van with a School bus tagging along).\u00a0 More info will be posted after the event.\u00a0 Volunteer list is closed for this event due to the logistics, but rooms are provided for\u00a0both overnights, plus the fuel doesn’t require out of pocket expense either. Hams use both 2 meter and 440 frequencies, plus APRS, to communicate.\u00a0 Non-hams use provided MURS radios. Mobile radios with dual band preferred for usage.<\/p>\n April 21st – Battle of the Bands Festival<\/strong> – Hams are used to coordinate the bands and VIP arrivals.\u00a0 See posting here<\/a>.<\/p>\n April 24th – Fiesta Wildflower 100 Bicycle Tour<\/strong> – Hams are used to coordinate the rest stops along the route. Motorcycle Safety Marshals, some are hams, will be\u00a0 used to spot problems or rider issues along the route.\u00a0 See posting here.<\/a><\/p>\n May 7th – Area 20 Special Olympics Spring Games<\/strong> – This really isn’t a big ham radio event, since we mostly coordinate the commercial hand held radios at the event, but occasionally we’ve had W2IK out here with a special events station as well.\u00a0 This is a one day event, running from around 7am thru 4pm, held at a local San Antonio\u00a0area sports stadium.\u00a0\u00a0 Contact Lee Besing N5NTG at info@Sanantoniohams.org <\/a>or via phone 210-771-7075 (voice\/text).<\/p>\n May 7th – Bulverde’s 17th annual Run For The Hills race<\/a><\/strong> – Hams from Hill Country REACT with the help of other area hams, provide coordination for this 10k event\u00a0which is held north of San Antonio, off Hwy 281 and FM1863, in Bulverde Texas. In addition to spotter positions along the route, volunteers also\u00a0help coordinate\u00a0the parking lot area to avoid confusion in the wee hours before sunrise.\u00a0 This event is a Saturday morning event, over by noon. \u00a0Contact Charlie Land KC5NKK at 512-796-7565 (voice\/text) or kc5nkk@hillcountryreact.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n May 14th – San Antonio American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure ride<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0– Ham\u00a0are used to coordinate the rest stops along the route. Motorcycle Safety Marshals, some are hams, will be\u00a0 used to spot problems or rider issues along the route.\u00a0 See posting here.<\/a><\/p>\n May 29th – American Hero 25k Relay Run<\/strong> – Hams are used to monitor the turn around points on the looped\u00a0race course that never leaves the\u00a0 property for the University. Hours are 7am-1pm with free t-shirts provided for the volunteers.\u00a0Contact Lee Besing N5NTG at info@Sanantoniohams.org <\/a>or via phone 210-771-7075 (voice\/text).<\/p>\n June 11-13th – Texas Water Safari.\u00a0<\/strong> Hams are used to provide communications from the start line on Saturday until the finish line on Wednesday, but most positions near the front are done much quicker.\u00a0 Last year over 100 canoe teams\u00a0 competed for this 100 hour, 262 mile river race (yes, it’s a timed race) from San Marcos, down thru Victoria and on to Sea Drift, on the Texas Gulf Coast.\u00a0 This event is run 24 hours a day until the last canoe team has been accounted for, but each check point along the river has different operation hours.\u00a0\u00a0 Both voice and digital communication modes are used to pass the in\/out team information to the next check point down the river.\u00a0\u00a0Ham operators play a critical port in the safety of this event.\u00a0\u00a0 Volunteers are coordinated on the front end check points \u00a0of the race course by Erik Olson WB5ZJQ<\/strong>, while other check points are coordinated\u00a0by Harvey Babb WB5MCT<\/strong>.\u00a0 Contact Erik at 210-213-4098 (voice\/text during non-business hours please) or WB5ZJQ@SARepeater.net<\/a>\u00a0 Contact Harvey at 361-676-0356 or Harvey.babb@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our regular volunteers already know to get their radios and batteries ready for operations when the month of April hits.\u00a0 Actually many of the Ham Volunteers with Hill Country REACT never stopped being ready for events.\u00a0\u00a0 They worked events in January and March already, out in the Bandera, Texas, area at the Hill Country State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,640,770,6,94,4,188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7567,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions\/7567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}