Good evening all, at this stage, this may be the only fully WICEN supported event for the end of this year,, so if you need your WICEN fix, get in on the action for Fitz's challenge.

The Fitz Challenge is a long distance cycling event (sub rides between 50km and 255km) where we provide communications for safety monitoring at checkpoints at various locations along the course. The course will be through Namadgi National Park and Paddy's River Rd Tidbinbilla.

The course is mostly the same as previous years although there have been a couple of changes due to the closure of Orroral Rd. This year we anticipate that there will be checkpoints at Tharwa Village, Rendezvous Creek, Honeysuckle Creek U-turn, Smokers Trail (near Corin Forest recreation facility), Corin Dam, Blue Range and possibly Uriarra Homestead plus the Gravel Pit. We believe the Orroral Valley U-turn and Kangaroo Creek U-turn checkpoints are not being used this year. One WICEN operator will be needed at each of the checkpoints, but happy to have extras if we have them as some checkpoints may need to be open for long periods of time.

HQ at Stromlo cycle park will run two networks, one on 2m amateur band and one on an 80MHz WICEN allocation and we will need at least two operators on each of the two planned shifts. Further information about the Fitz Challenge is at http://www.fitzs.com.au/

We will need approximately 12 operators (possibility of some other checkpoints being manned in addition to the above), so please let us know if you are available or not via the registration form at the below link. Any questions, please email us on wicen@crarc.org.au, but please use the link below to advise us if you are available or not.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4whFlSQmUV-iuUxGRQ30Zm57Ma6nHH5-L f4IsbpyjpgE5QA/viewform?usp=sharing

Matt

VK1MA

WICEN ACT