Richard,I am responding only to you with a c.c. to Mike Hardwick. I hate it
when people needlessly "reply to all."
Not only do I not have a problem with your having a class at Field Day but I
think it is a superb idea. After all, FD is supposedly an emergency
preparedness event. However, it must not interfere with the ongoing on-the-air
operations. A large faction of the club like to make as many Qs as possible.
Yes, I will do CW, but I'm very casual about it.
I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your approach to
managing field day. Yes, there are a lot of members who are on "auto-pilot"
and they know what they are doing. It is imperative that you track all the
various tasks so none are overlooked and on-track. This is a project that
needs to be actively managed, and I don't know if you have an MBA or you
dropped out of elementary school but regardless I like what I saw at the
meeting. I trust that you are using some sort of Project Management Document.
I was Chairperson of the Hamfest for about 10 years, taking it from 20 tables
to 220 tables; I used an Excel spread sheet listing all the tasks on separate
lines, with columns (or other) to list the task leader, status, deadlines,
critical action items, comments & notes without micromanaging. However, there
are 9 ways to skin a cat but the project management document must follow
normally accepted business management practices to be successful. I
specifically like that you are letting the people who know what they are doing,
do so rather than coming in like "a bull in a china closet" and "improving"
across the board from the status quo. It's best to pretty much, but not
completely, do it the way it has been done with some tweaking the first year
and then possibly making some significant changes (if you deem necessary) the
2nd year. I also like that you want to return to the Firemen's Training Field
next year as it has a lot of advantages with a lot of room, sometimes with
separate buildings, a lot of "skyhooks" for antennas, etc.
Oh by the way, it might behoove you to go to Museum Ships Weekend which occurs
3 weeks before FD (May 31, June 1 and 2), assuming that the Pelican Island
Causeway bridge has been reopened by then. We have long ago dubbed this "A
precursor to Field Day." See a brief description in a block on the BVARC
homepage; more detailed info will be published via the reflector as well as the
BVARC web page within a week. Also, you can check with Mark Janzer (Chairman)
or me for more info.
Keep up the good work and I look forward to FD-2024.
Tnx es 73, de John, K5IZO
On Friday, May 17, 2024 at 03:32:43 PM CDT, Richard Bonica via BVARC
<bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
To all,
Does anyone mind if I take an hour on sat to run a round table on emergency
response to incident?
I now have a personal experience since my office is at Magnum and 290. I was
also home when they hit 99 and West park. At home I had people answer - but at
290 I felt VERY alone with no response. I have always been one for ham and
emergency - but until last night - I was clueless of what I realy did not
understand.
I would like to hold a round table and talk about 1 what is expected 2 how to
achieve this 3 hear what others do that I can do better.
Does anyone object??________________________________________________
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