At 3/26/2008 16:54, you wrote: >Pardon me if this is blunt, but are these meetings really efficient for >training? Or, have they developed a reputation as a monthly "nerds night >out" for guys who like wearing pocketed orange vests in public, and a >waste of time for everyone else? > >If people can't or won't make room in their lives for more meetings, then >find ways to train them online, during nets and wherever you can find >them. The business and educational worlds do much now with >teleconferencing and distance learning. > >If someone checks into your net often enough to stay fresh on procedures, >and demonstrates the ability to handle formal traffic, how much >face-to-face training is really needed?
One of the things we do at our training meetings for the marathon is get everyone's radio programmed with the net frequencies (only HTs are used, as no one is allowed to park on the course). Kind of hard to do that over the radio or internet. One of the channels is an odd-split portable 2 meter repeater. It's a bit of a challenge to get that one but we manage to get almost everyone's radio programmed (we missed one last year, & had an unknown problem with one radio this year that I think was simply a defective radio). Bob NO6B
