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details and a look at the trailer.-thanks<br />
b..<br />
c..<br />
Helping set up the site: 6<br />
Helping the FD manager<br />
to Mark GEwell, KC5IZN and Avery organize FD: 3<br />
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K2TQN) (deThe ARRL Letter and The American<br />
<strong>Radio</strong> Relay League -Ed)<br />
d.. Helping FD manager find an<br />
Field Day<br />
Planning<br />
Yes, you've seen the earlier notes<br />
about Field Day (PD). It is time to get<br />
serious about getting our stuff together to<br />
enjoy FD this first year of the new century.<br />
Those of you who attended the<br />
February meeting may remember that<br />
there was a survey form distributed concerning<br />
FD. Here are the statistics regarding<br />
the results ofthe survey:<br />
1.. Number of surveys distributed: 45<br />
2.. Number returned: 16<br />
3.. Should PARC participate in FD:<br />
a.. Yes: 14<br />
b.. No: 2<br />
4.. I've participated in FD events:<br />
a.. Yes: 12<br />
b.. No: 4<br />
5.. FD is an important:<br />
a.. Event: 12<br />
b.. Test: 2<br />
c.. Contest: 2<br />
6.. The objectives of FD should be<br />
(mark all that apply):<br />
a.. Practice setting up alternate<br />
communications: 12<br />
b.. Giving hams chance to operate<br />
on all bands: 8<br />
c.. Scoring high points in the<br />
contest: 4<br />
d.. Giving new hams chance to<br />
work crowded bands: 8<br />
7.. I am willing to participate in FD<br />
"if':<br />
a.. I'm already signed up to<br />
participate: 7<br />
b.. IfI know in advance when I am<br />
going to operate: 1<br />
c.. The FD site were somewhere<br />
else: 3<br />
alternate site: 1<br />
9.. I'll participate in FD if it includes<br />
a picnic: 5<br />
10. I'm willing to help picnic chores<br />
ifthere is a picnic: 2<br />
So, the membership has spoken.<br />
We]], I don't. know what it means, but<br />
it is interesting.<br />
Those of you "on the fence" out<br />
there should be aware that several<br />
things are happening for FD.<br />
First, there is a new net set up on<br />
146.730 PARC repeater to chat and<br />
discuss ideas about FD, and help organize<br />
the FD this year. The net meets on<br />
Wednesday nights (except on club<br />
meeting night) at 9:00 PM. It is a<br />
directed net. Ifyou have time and want<br />
to contribute ideas, please join the net.<br />
Second, this year there will be a<br />
picnic at the FD site. P ARC will provide<br />
the "heavy lift" material (tube<br />
steaks and sliders). The remainder of<br />
the picnic details are yet to be worked<br />
out. So stay tuned to the SCOPE and<br />
to the Wednesday night net for details.<br />
We certainly want to invite and<br />
encourage that you participate this<br />
year. Remember that FD is intended to<br />
be an emergency communications test,<br />
preparing us to do communications<br />
from unusual locations, and under<br />
"duress". But above all else, FD is an<br />
OUTSTANDING opportunity to have<br />
fim, and for hams who do not have<br />
access to antennas, HF gear, etc., to<br />
"play" the low bands.<br />
See you at FD?<br />
TWOBIT (ondisk)<br />
At the last meeting I was able to sell<br />
my TWOBIT disk with the club roster<br />
like hot cakes ..sold about 8 or 9.<br />
Anyone wanting a TWOBIT disk<br />
should e-mail me and I will have it at<br />
Your Newsletter<br />
Readers need to remember that the<br />
Scope is your newsletter and if it is not<br />
addressing your needs, then you need to<br />
make your suggestions known to your<br />
Editor or a Board member.<br />
The newsletter tries to cover the following<br />
informational areas:<br />
Activities & Nets, Autopatch,<br />
<strong>Club</strong> Status, Emergency, General<br />
Interest Items, Meetings, Member's<br />
Sale & Want Ads, News, Repeaters,<br />
Special Interest Items, Work Parties,<br />
WWWeb, and Who to Contact.<br />
It is only natural to assume that your<br />
editor, left to his own devices, will probably<br />
lean towards his interests so from<br />
time to time he would appreciate readers<br />
making requests or submit articles covering<br />
areas oftheir interests.<br />
These submitted articles are selected<br />
on a "space available" basis and ifthey<br />
don't appear in the month after submitted,<br />
they are probably slated for a future<br />
Scope. when space is available or the<br />
subject area is more timely.<br />
Articles can be submitted typed or<br />
by E-mail (please, no attached files)<br />
using the COpy & PASTE commands<br />
under the EDIT command of IBMlMS<br />
type machines.<br />
Submitted articles might be edited<br />
for size and content but never to change<br />
the thought or idea being expressed.<br />
It is your Scope. What have you<br />
contributed to it lately?<br />
KD6IVF Thanks<br />
Jim (wherever you are), the club<br />
thanks you for your great effort in keeping<br />
the club membership records up to<br />
date while you were membership chairman.<br />
We hope that you are still on the<br />
Internet and that you will be reading this<br />
thanks to you ... and are wishes for a<br />
speedy return to the San Diego Area.<br />
Jim instituted the addition to the<br />
membership records ofmember's e-mail<br />
addresses and faithfully cranked out the ~<br />
labels each month for the Scope.<br />
Thanks, Jim!
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