Hi John
With this reflector, the sender is always bvarc@bvarc.org even though it
populates the name of the individual first, so all of us see the replies
anyway. 🙂
73
John Denison
KD5YOU
On 5/17/2024 5:46 PM, John Chauvin via BVARC wrote:
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.Â
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."Â 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 expectedÂ
2 how to achieve this 3 hear what others do that I can do better.
Does anyone object??
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