Saturday I attended the gwafd planning meeting. Turnout was small. We discussed the gota. They said we can or not. He said any station can be a gota. They can pause on contesting calls, and explain about the hobby and explain the benefits of ham radio and then let them sit down and try it. We talked about lunch. Suggestions were made but no decisions were made. We also discussed walk in traffic, it was explained not much random traffic., but it was said that in previous years that people came in from advertisements. They did say they needed some one in contact with media to help get the word out.
All through the meeting it was stressed this is an opportunity to draw new people into the hobby.
There was a discussion of possible activities and demonstrations. He asked that clubs take a topic as a committee, (ie. Warc could take food vfw arc take something) he felt that since we already knew each other we could get right down to work. This will be discussed further on the 27 @1pm.
He said one year they had the scouts there and introduced them to ham radio and allowed them to get their ham radio badge.
We also discussed contacting the space station.
It was made clear that he wants all clubs to participate that this is not just one club but all in Wichita
Michael Holmes
