{"id":4834,"date":"2010-05-22T14:36:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T20:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2016-04-11T07:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:10:25","slug":"emcomm-jump-team-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4834","title":{"rendered":"EMCOMM “Jump Team” Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emergency Communications Team Competition\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
No, not a tug of war!<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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When: September 5, 2010<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Where:<\/strong> South Texas park. Park to be announced before the competition to pre-registered teams.<\/span><\/div>\n
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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
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Competition:<\/strong> Teams would be required to properly:<\/div>\n

Erect a 6 man sleeping tent and a \u201ctoilet tent\u201d (this includes ground tarp and rain tarp.)<\/p>\n

Erect an operations area (canopy) with chairs and tables and radio gear.<\/div>\n
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Erect a food prep canopy with tables, chairs, stove, cooking supplies.<\/div>\n
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Erect one\u00a040 meter \u201cInverted V\u201d antenna with coax back to the operations area with proper\u00a0hazard flagging.<\/div>\n
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Assemble\u00a0one HF\u00a0station powered by deep-cycle batteries.<\/div>\n
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Assemble\u00a02 solar panel assemblies and charge at least one deep-cycle battery.\u00a0(2 panels to charge batteries)<\/div>\n
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Filter\u00a010 gallons of water (as part of the setup responsibilities)<\/div>\n
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Cook\u00a0a simple meal\u00a0in the food-prep area (enough to feed 4 people lunch)<\/div>\n
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Make at least 5 HF contacts on 40 meters SSB\u00a0to stations outside our immediate area<\/div>\n
with proper logging of contacts made. (paper log)<\/div>\n
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(Communications will begin only after all<\/strong> the setups have been accomplished)<\/div>\n
(Cooking not included as a requirement to begin communications)<\/div>\n
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Judges will determine when all setups have been completed.<\/div>\n
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Disassemble all 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.<\/div>\n
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This competition\u00a0is\u00a0not<\/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<\/strong><\/div>\n
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I estimate\u00a0about 60 minutes for each competing team\u00a0to complete their \u201crun\u201d. Pictures will be taken and a report, in article form, will be submitted to the ARRL<\/strong>.<\/div>\n
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A reference website concerning this type of operations may be found at:<\/div>\n
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Emergency Communications Teams<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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At this time, we have at least two teams: Chaparral ARC (CARC) and Hill Country REACT (HCR)\u00a0signed up\u00a0to compete 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
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Please spread the word to all the amateur radio clubs in Texas 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.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\u00a0No pre-registration =\u00a0no competing.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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So which club or group is going to capture \u201cemcomm\u00a0bragging rights\u201d (and a plaque)\u00a0in Texas?<\/div>\n
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Register by emailing to <\/strong>W2IK@ARRL.NET<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 with a list of\u00a0your team members\/callsigns\u00a0and a contact email and phone number.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Emergency Communications Team Competition\u00a0 No, not a tug of war! \u00a0 When: September 5, 2010 \u00a0\u00a0 Where: South Texas park. Park to be announced before the competition to pre-registered teams. \u00a0 Teams: 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,21,140,9,349,4,378],"tags":[582,583,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7737,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/7737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}