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Regular
schedule
The club meets for
breakfast at 9:30 on the first Saturday of each month, currently at
Doc's Marina Grill at the foot of Madison. Spouses, children, newcomers
and lapsed hams are welcome. We are reasonably well-behaved and have
not yet been ejected by the management.
Kitsap
ACS/RACES/ARES
conducts a 2m check-in every Sunday evening at 7:30 on their 145.43 repeater.
On the first Sunday of each month we segue into a simplex check-in using
the Island simplex frequency 147.54.
Requests for Volunteers
We are often asked to help out at events. Sometimes organizations need people on an ongoing basis. Here are some current and upcoming opportunities to get involved:
Life Cycle Bremerton - June 2nd
To volunteer, contact Peter: KB7TGF at ARRL dot net or at
(360) 697-2183.
Again this year, communications assistance and SAG vehicle support has
been requested for the Life Cycle Bremerton bicycle event to be held on
Saturday, June 2nd. The event which runs from 0700-1630 is in support of the
Bremerton Schools Foundation which supports youth programs.
There will be 5 rest stops and 5 courses running from Port Orchard to
Poulsbo. The main hub and start/finish is Evergreen Park, Bremerton.
Radio
operators are needed at all rest stops and SAG vehicle drivers are
needed to
monitor the courses. T-shirts will be provided for all volunteers.
Since this event is only two weeks away, please let Peter know as soon
as
possible if you can assist.
Fun Fair at the Fire Station - June 16th
This is one of our better chances to interact with the public
and drag unsuspecting civilians over to the Dark Side. Our fearless president (no, not Obama; our fearless *club* president) will set up the table and the club go-box, to impress people with
blinking lights. We could use a couple others to help staff the
booth, answer questions, etc. Help kids talk to operators all the way on the other side of the parking lot! They feed us for free so it doesn't
get much better than that, unless you get lucky and dunk the Chief.
The Kiwanis Summer Challenge - August 26th
They
have added a third route, making a very complicated event and giving
us a huge amount of road to monitor. We're going to need all the
volunteers we can find.
This is an all-day bike rally, so we mostly need people in vehicles
but we will also need some help staffing the base station.
SET June 5th and 6th
We have a large exercise coming June 5th and 6th called Evergreen Earthquake.
Hams will be involved on the morning of
the 5th, and we need to staff the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) (now at Madison, not City
Hall). We understand we will be given injects (drill event data) at that time.
This is not a regular EOC-EOC drill, but we don't yet know at what level
the drill is being organized.
This is a Tuesday which is bad for most of us. If you can possibly
participate, please let us know.
Events
Rotary Auction - Saturday preceding July 4th
The Bainbridge
Island Rotary Club conducts what is possibly the largest single-seller
garage sale in the world, raising over $300,000 in recent years. You
have to see it to believe it. For more information, visit the Rotary
site. But for a really great map, you
have to come to us.
We are always
interested in help from visiting hams. We have duties that involve
a lot of walking with HTs, but we also have roles that don't demand
any walking. It's typically hot, and dehydration is a concern to hams
and the entire crowd. If you're interested, contact
us. Volunteers (including the hams) get fed, which is a plus.
Field Day - last weekend in June
What happens when amateur radio operators all over the country step away from the power grid,
maybe go camping, and string enough wire between tree-tops to make a safety net for falling giants?
Field Day! Field Day is a contest in which the goal is to contact as many stations in as many places
over as many frequencies as possible, all without using utility-supplied power. It's great fun, of course, and also helps us prepare to serve in emergencies when the power is knocked out. Last year and this year Field Day falls on a different weekend than the Rotary Auction, so we're delighted to be able to participate.
Kiwanis Summer Challenge - August 26
Chilly Hilly comes but once a year - so, to double your cycling pleasure, the Kiwanis Club has begun offering a cycling event half a year later. In Summer! When it's warm! (Well, warm relative to February, anyway.)
Chilly Hilly - February
In February of
each year we provide communication and logistical aid to the Chilly
Hilly bicycle rally, which is conducted by the Cascade
Bicycle Club. This event draws 4000 riders or more for a circuit
of the island.
We are interested
in help from visiting hams on this one, too. This is a highly mobile
event, and hams typically need a vehicle and a mobile radio. An HT
is not sufficient due to the island hilly layout.
MSwalk - April
This is a small event benefitting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. It takes a half
dozen hams with either vehicles or on bikes with HTs. They feed us,
too.
Simulated Emergency Tests
From time to time
we have run Simulated Emergency Tests (SETs) on the island, and we participate
in county- and state-wide SETs as well. The software we have used for
home-grown SETs is available
free.
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