BEXAR OPERATORS GROUP announces the 2010 version of it’s “Jump Team Boot Camp” which will be held on May 14 – 16th. This year’s event is a full three days.
This would be the fourth “Jump Team Boot Camp” given by the Bexar Operators Group. It would be a three day deployment event at a site yet to be disclosed. This “Jump Team Boot Camp” will concentrate on amateur radio and the ways and means to get a communications jump team operational should there be a need to deploy some distance from your home and communicate in the aftermath of a disaster when nothing is left standing. Learn what other groups don’t teach. This is a complete “hands on” class.
Just like previous sessions given by the Bexar Operators Group, this will be an actual drive-and-operate operation and NOT a desktop drill. When the destination has been reached, all participants will assist in the construction of shelters and operating areas after being prepped on procedures.
We will be teaching the proper way to do the all-important site evaluation before any structure or antenna is erected in order to avoid problems which could be encountered should weather take a turn for the worse (additional rains and/or high winds). We will be supplying energy to operate using two types of power: gas generation and solar generation with instruction on the set up and safe operation each system.
Since it is important that every Jump Team member have a firm grasp of all aspects of setting up and operating during an emergency, special emphasis will be placed on the logical sequence of setting up (structures, power and antennas), meeting nutritional requirements (basic cooking and meal planning), station operation and message logging/handling and band propagation.
Attendees will also be given a 100+ page work/reference book to better prepare them if they need to create a jump team for their own communications group. This book is the first and only one of it’s kind covering jump team operation and safety.
We are limited to ten attendees so if you are interested, email us at: W2IK@ARRL.NET asap. Serious communicators only. You will work up a sweat, so be prepared!
W2IK inventories several tons of jump team gear owned by the “Bexar Operators Group” and used for emergency communications work and during their yearly 3-4 day “Jump Team Boot Camp” class. Jump team cache includes several “man pack” – style portable vhf systems for search and rescue, portable vhf repeater, several complete HF stations, survival gear including a water purification system, three generators, 4 solar power generation systems, portable cooking/kitchen gear and enough sheltering for up to 12 people.
