WANTED,
WICEN Organising Team for Rally of Canberra 2025 !!
Hello everyone.
As hinted upon in the CRARC NEWS of 26th December 2024, I am needing to withdraw quite a bit from all the WICEN activities and we need a few people to stick their hands up to take on some of the coordination and organising activities.
Activities that need to be undertaken are as follows..
1. Attending Rally of Canberra Organising meetings (online or physical).
2. Investigating and documenting the manpower requirements to feed the Roster preparation.
3. Creating and populating the WICEN Operator & HQ Roster.
4. Driving the course to inspect nominated SOS locations and undertake radio coverage checks.
5. Designing the Amateur and Commercial Repeater networks and arranging installation on the hilltops (Including co-ordinating access to Kowen Fire Tower with ACT Rural Fire Service).
6. Preparation of equipment and installation of equipment into Rally HQ / Net Control
7. Preparation of BMSC Radio Fleet radio allocation, issuing, return & fault finding / rectification.
Now, some of the above listed activities can be combined (and some should be as they rely on each other) and please note I am not bowing out completely this year, it's just that I can't do it all due to other work and family commitments and so I will be around to assist / mentor / train people and introduce people to the local Rally Organiser fraternity.
The Rally of Canberra 2025 is scheduled for the weekend of 21st - 23rd March, so there is just on 2 months (9 weeks) til it's run, so things need to get going quickly.
If you can assist with any of the listed above activities then please let the WICEN team know by email to WICEN at CRARC dot ORG dot AU (Replace the obvious spelling with the standard email address formatting). Please DO NOT REPLY to this email or send to me direct at my home email address.
NOTE, this is not a call for Rally Volunteers in the field, that will be done in the coming week so please hold off til you see an email for that.
Thanks in advance, and I hope to see lots of emails !
Phillip Longworth VK1PL
Deputy State Coordinator, WICEN ACT
Life Member, Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club