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BRAINERD
AREA AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
CALL SIGN,
WØUJ
Club
Events for 2003
Public
Service Events
Highlighted
and Described
1.
Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza; Gull Lake, benefit
fund raiser for community non-profit organizations, including Confidence
Learning Center (Camp Confidence) attracts 8-10,000 participants on two
square miles of ice; annually, the radio club provides about a dozen
operators, an enclosed command and control center, for a 6-hour period, to
handle requests for public safety services (primarily medical but some law
enforcement) and administrative communications for the event organizers
(shadowing officials); January 18, 2003.
2.
Club Dinner Meeting (annual winter, club members and guests,
program of general interest); January 30, 2003; (monthly club meeting).
3.
Ham Training Classes (annual, course offerings through the
Community Education Department, ISD #181; including VE testing in April);
February 11, 2003.
4.
Monthly club meeting and program; February 27, 2003.
5.
Club Special Event Station (promotion of a local outstanding,
historical or significant community event worth noting, by broadcasting a
description on ham radio, and awarding a special certificate to other
stations contacted; and, a special time where all hams of any license
class and non-hams, club members or not, may be apart of two-way radio
communications, all over the world, from the club station located at
Mississippi Horizons Magnet Technology School in Brainerd); March 8, 2003
6.
St. Patrick's Day Parade, Brainerd, local community
event; up to 6 members provide logistic support for parade
organizers to help assure a smooth flow of vehicular traffic and monitor
public activity for public safety requests for service; March 15,
2003.
7.
Monthly club meeting and program, March 27, 2003.
8.
Monthly club meeting and program, April 27, 2003
9.
FCC license testing by club volunteer examiners; also at the
conclusion of the club sponsored ham radio training classes; April 29,
2003.
10.
March of Dimes Walkathon, Brainerd, local community
fund raising event; up to 6 members provide logistic support for
organizers to help a smooth flow of foot traffic and monitor public
activity for public safety requests for service; May 3, 2003.
11.
Memorial Day Parade, Brainerd, local community event;
up to 6 members provide logistic support for parade organizers to
help assure a smooth flow of vehicular traffic and monitor public activity
for public safety requests for service; May 26, 2003.
12.
Club Dinner Meeting (annual spring, club members and guests,
program of general interest); May 29, 2003; (monthly club meeting).
13.
Tour of the Lakes Bike Ride; Crow Wing county-wide
annual event, some dozen members provide communications services for
a 10-hour event stretching over a 35 and 65-mile courses, attracting from
700 to 1,200 participants; operators provide a command and control center
using voice and data to monitor biking activity for logistic and public
safety support to organizers and participants; June 7, 2003.
14.
Monthly club meeting and program, June 26, 2003.
15.
Field Day, within the club's local service area;
national activity annually; up to 15 members set-up several radio
stations at a remote location and under emergency conditions, operating
for a 24-hour period contacting other stations under the same emergency
conditions, to test capabilities of operators and equipment; June
28 - 29, 2003.
16.
Trithlon, Baxter, an annual local community race
event, co-sponsored by the City of Baxter; up to 6 members provide
logistic support for race organizers to help assure a smooth flow of
several hundred persons performing as swimmers, runners and bikers, over a
15-mile course, monitoring the participants and the public spectators for
public safety needs; July 5, 2003.
17.
Hamfest, Brainerd, a BAARC club sponsored annual event; members
organize and operate a 'flea market' (of unique sorts) for the benefit of
other ham radio operators and persons of allied electronics interest; a
club fund raiser; July 19, 2003.
18.
Relay For Life, American Cancer Society,
Crow Wing county-wide, annual community fund raising event attracting over
800 participants; up to 10 members participate in this 12-hour event
providing logistic support to event organizers and monitoring participants
for public safety requests for service; July 25 - 26, 2003.
19.
Monthly club meeting and program; July 31, 2003.
20.
Fishing Has No Boundaries, an annual local community
event affording over a hundred disabled persons an opportunity to spend a
day fishing with professional guides on two of the area lakes, Sylvan and
Gull; up to 15 operators provide a command and control center and
operate land and marine mobile radios in support of the organizer's
logistics and the health and welfare of the participants; August 2
- 3, 2003.
21.
Monthly club meeting and program; August 24, 2003; (this meeting
time is often changed to a club-family picnic, with a hidden-transmitter
and geo-cache hunt for fun).
22.
Monthly club meeting and program; September 24, 2003.
23.
Monthly club meeting and program; October 30, 2003.
24.
Goblin Watch, an annual Crow Wing county-wide
Halloween public safety event; up to 15 members participate in
patrolling the streets and observing activity in and around public
buildings, monuments, etc., for vandalism or attempted mischief, command
and control is provided in the law enforcement dispatch center to enable
quick involvement and intervention by public safety personnel in the event
of a ham operator - reported incident; October 31, 2003.
25.
Monthly club meeting and program; November 20, 2003.
26.
Club Special Event (same as, see #5 above); December 6, 2003.
27.
Monthly club meeting and program; December 18, 2003.
Note:
Other public service activities include; on-call Skywarn
weather watch, organized by the National Weather Service from Duluth, up
to 20 members identify and track threatening and/or severe weather through
our area; the Mid-Minnesota 150, an annual 12-hour
dog sled race through back-woods courses covering two counties; up
to 15 members support race organizers with logistics in the management of
up to 35 teams, and assure public safety needs are reported; several
area hospitals ask for on-call Communications, and depend
upon up to 6 to 8 members to
communicate within a ham radio regional network for healthcare related
messages; and the Crow Wing County Emergency Management office
maintains a ham radio station for members to operate, on-call, for many
different types of public safety emergencies.
John
Luce, WØJGY
and Steve
Weber, WØTNT
, BAARC Public Service
Coordinators
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