Howdy Jim,
I believe that if private or parochial schools take federal money, and many
do, then they have to follow the same rules. Otherwise they might be a good
choice. From my experience, most H.S. graduations are in early June.
As to noise from the lights, should be no problem because they won't be on.
Bill, W5VX
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Lux [mailto:jimlux@earthlink.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 3:28 PM
>To: Bill Parry; 'Gary "Joe" Mayfield'; towertalk@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Stadiums as Tower/Contest Locations
>
>At 06:18 AM 7/4/2007, Bill Parry wrote:
>>Interesting idea. (Speaking only of college stadiums.) I bet it would cost
>a
>>lot to take one of those things down. You would probably have to hire a
>>really really big crane! I had originally thought of using the light
>>standards to get our long wires higher for field day but was told to
>forget
>>using them. I had thought about using a bow and arrow from the top of
>>seating area in the stadium to shoot a small rope over the lights. I was
>>told that the "aiming of those lights was a big deal and if I screwed it
>up
>>I would have to pay to get it "re-aimed". I think there is supposed to be
>a
>>certain number of candlepower of light on the field so the players can
>see.
>
>Some years ago, I wrote some software to figure out the aiming. It's
>not so much the brightness, but the evenness and lack of confusing
>shadows that's important. It's a tedious chore to do the
>aiming. YOu figure out where the "center of the beam" hits the
>ground, and put out little flags on the field for each lamp. Then
>someone goes up in a bucket truck or on the ladders, and you turn on
>one lamp at a time while someone stands on the aim point and signals
>which way to move the fixture.
>
>Not a whole lot different than setting lighting instruments in a
>theater. (and, in fact, these days, there's all kinds of cool
>lighting design software that lets you figure out what it's going to
>look like ahead of time.)
>
>
>
>>High school stadiums, on the other hand are used frequently at night
>during
>>the school year. This requires some forethought but Field Day is in June
>and
>>few schools are using these facilities during June, in fact many districts
>>are shut down for a couple of weeks during this time.
>
>Graduations?
>
>But the shutdown might actually be a hindrance... they might want
>their grounds crew there.
>
>
>>In the past few years there have been some court cases that require school
>>districts to give equal access to facilities to everyone if access is
>given
>>to anyone. Unfortunately, this has forced public school districts to be
>VERY
>>careful about how they let facilities be used. If your local school board
>>gets involved, you can probably expect to be turned down.
>
>
>Might try private or parochial schools.
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