In a message dated 8/25/99 11:12:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, n6ig@netcom.com
writes:
> What I _really_ find frustrating is the fact that our local club has been
> trying for years to get items onto the CAC docket with little success.
> There seems to be a great amount of mystery in the way items get brought
> to them in the first place, and even more mystery in how they are
> discussed and resolved.
I tried several years ago to propose a change to Field Day, was told after 2
year it would be considered with other Field Day changes and never heard of
any CAC member that was told of the proposal.
After the CA quake during FD back in 91 or 92 I suggested that the ARRL add
the idea of propagation into FD. There I was for many hours running 75 Phone
all night and never knew CA had a quake until listening to the news after FD
ended.
Certainly our effort would have been a bust in a real emergency, we were not
on the correct band to even know there was an emergency.
The art of selecting antennas, bands, time of day, etc to make contact with a
certain area is a needed talent for an operator to understand. Except for the
learning by experience method, it doesn't come easy for many to follow. The
passing on of this by Elmer's at FD might just help.
I had writen that ARRL should declare an emergency area each FD that would be
the target area to communicate with. The year being the selection of the
call area as the target, ie, W0 next year.
Allow 1 point extra to the score for each QSO with the designated area, now
CW doubling as an emergency message is the same no matter what mode it was
sent in.
One could easily figure the number of 0'land Q's to add as a bonus point to
the final score.
Back when I originally wrote this I also proposed that it be tried as a test
by announcing it in the FD Special Bulletin. It would also show that the
bulletin was actually copied.
Past FD bulletins regarding slow speed novice Q's had already set a similar
example of what was suggested.
Granted I only knew 3 CAC members to personally ask if they ever saw what was
writen, but none ever did.
I very much believe that the ablity to communicate with designated areas for
emergency reasons at least had its basis in FD which some people try to pass
off as not a contest but emergency preparedness. As long as we state a real
life reason for FD lets at least come closer to it that just another contest.
73, Bob, W2CE
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