Thank you all for your responses to this request, all of which were useful. The camp is now over. We had many visitors to our section and at least 1 participant a day who wants to go further and take the first exam in our (3 tier) system. That included 2 adult leaders who had been considering it. 73 de David, M0XDF
On Jul 29, 2014, at 12:08 PM, David Ferrington, M0XDF <[email protected]> wrote: > Please forgive this off-topic post - I’m hoping some of your can provide some > info. > I’m about to take part in an International camp for Guides and Scouts in the > UK, we will have 7000+ participants from all over the world. My bit is try to > present emergency radio communications to groups that will visit our special > event station (GB4WGS) throughout the week - by the end of 5 days, we should > have been able to talk to all 7000! > > I and a number of other amateurs want to get across to these youngster that > mobile phones etc. aren’t always the means of communicating and to explain > how valuable amateur radio is when you need it. > > I’m looking for information about recent disasters attended and help my the > amateur radio community. > > I thought there would be a lot of facts and photos for Haiti earthquake, > Boxing Day Tsunami and hurricane Katrina etc. on the Internet, but don’t seem > to be able to find much. Things like the number of operators who worked after > the disasters, how long for etc. > > Anything you could send in the next couple of days would be of great help. > Any personal stories you’re willing for me to share etc? > If it involves a K3, even better. > > Please don’t clutter the reflector with lots of mail - send direct to me > please. I’ll try to acknowledge everything, but if I get a lot (I hope I do), > it may take a couple of weeks before I can get back to you all. > > TIA > > 73 de David, M0XDF (K3 #174, P3 #108) ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
