Gentlemen,
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1: As you may be aware, the Olympic Torch passes through Maidstone on Thursday 19th July. As it goes around the UK, the WAB Group (Worked All Britain) are holding special event stations in the area through which it passes, and hope to cover as much of the route as possible.
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2: Several members of the club have shown interest in participating in this, so I have registered our Club with the WAB group to take part on the day using the call sign G3WM. I have received official notification and the call log-book to confirm our registration. I have spoken to Leslee and booked the hut for the day, so no problems there!
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3: Ideally, at least 6 members are required, bearing in mind the operators, loggers, rest periods etc. I already have 4 people who wish to take part, although one is subject to being able to get the day off work (no problem for those of us who are retired!). However, the more the better, but we only have 6 weeks to get prepared!
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4: Remember, this event is not until Thursday 19th July, so you have plenty of time to sort-out your diary’s!
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5: These are highly-prestigious stations; having listened (and made contact with) several stations, they are very busy indeed – usually lots of pile-ups - because people actually want to log a contact with the operating stations each day.
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6: If you are interested, will you please let me know so I can ensure we will do our club proud on the day. Because the stations can get very busy, if we’re not prepared, it can cause problems in dealing with the amount of traffic generated; we will need to keep calm at all times and ensure we are in control rather than letting aggressive callers dictate the running. Consequently, I hope to use a few of our meetings as training evenings at the hut in order to ensure we are up-to-speed with our operation procedures.
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7: We will need HF and VHF radios (2 mtrs), so its a good excuse to get our all our equipment back in the hut and ensure its all working OK.
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8: Please do think about joining us on the day – most of us will never get this chance again, will we? It will be an invaluable experience for some of the newer members to experience.
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9: Please let me know in the next week or so if you’re interested, as I need to know that we have enough members to host this interesting Special Event Station.
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10: Unfortunately, I will not be at the club next Monday, but should be able to make the meeting after.
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73
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Geoff G7NJB
