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Meet at 12 noon at Burger King I75/39th Avenue for lunch & go over project
OR go straight to Gordon's house at 1 PM
EIGHT persons signed up ; signup is now closed
14 Boards to be Built -- using 56 MOSFETS -- all parts ordered (China, USA)

Drawn From The Google Registration Form Above.
We will try to put badged volunteers with access cards inside, next badged volunteers, and un-badged volunteers outside to keep the authorities happy. We can use LOTS of people, more than one at each station for each slot!! -- y'all choose among yourselves who operates, who logs, what modes, switch it up and HAVE FUN!!
Just a few minutes up Waldo road from the EOC & you can operate the GARS station also
(Updated as of Thursday 5/20/2021).

UPDATED 6/13/2021

Expect the PIO - 6 Meter operation to be most active from 5PM-8PM Saturday, with possible additional activity earlier in the afternoon -- "sporadic" E means UNPREDICTABLE

We can ALWAYS Flex to accomodate visiting Boy or Girl Scouts and students from
Bob Lightner's contest-savvy club!
Contact Gordon Gibby to make suitable arrangements

THU JUNE 24 7 PM	Zoom Tabletop Review by OPERATIONS -- all Invited
FRI JUN 25 10 AM onward	Live Radio Training - EOC, by Leland Gallup / OPERATIONS
FRI EVENING JUN 25	Copy the Field Day Bulletin (pubished in digital, cw & voice -- see ICS201 for details.

* = Specifically requesting mentoring
Leland Gallup: able to fill in anywhere
** Will move into the overnight hours as the daylight hours get filled up by other volunteersGordon Gibby: available as long as I get some SLEEP

Hooray for Col. Huckstep!!
Strong-backed Volunteers Requested.....
CONTACT COL DAVID HUCKSTEP TO VOLUNTEER
Contact Col. David Huckstep W4JIR to volunteer -- you can borrow my Cosco upright/horizontal dolly if you would like.

Largest Volunteer Communications Exercise In Florida
Whirlwind Boom 2021 huge success thanks to 85+ participants, >>400 messages transferred.
After Action Report/Improvement Plan is Published
(And an error corrected on page 11 & Republished)

PROCEDURAL WORDS OF INTEREST

Handling Back and Forth:
• “Over” A reply is expected, “go ahead.”
• “Out” No reply is expected. Do not respond (like “hanging up” the phone).
• “Roger” Received and Understood (NOT “Yes”)
• “Affirmative” Yes
• “Negative” No
• “Clear” Same as “Out.” No reply is expected.
• “Say Again” Repeat

Getting A Message Across
I SPELL
INITIAL (or INITIALS, as the case may be)
FIGURES (zip codes, telephone numbers, zip codes, or combinations of numbers )
MIXED GROUP (figures and letters)
BREAK (what you say between sections; except Shannon has concluded we should use PAUSE on local vhf repeaters)
AMATEUR CALL SIGN

145.030 (Port 6)			W4DFU-8 GARC2			KX4Z-7 JNVILL KX4Z-10 GNVWLK
145.070 (Port 7) "GAINESVILLE"		K4ZSW-7 EARL K4ZSW-10 EARWL			N5CBP-7 N5CBP-10	KX4Z-7 JNVILL KX4Z-10 GNVWLK	(NEWB has been removed; land was sold.)	W4DAK-7 DARK
145.770 (Port 8) SEDAN			W4DFU-8 GARC2	K4MVR-7 K4MVR-10 (mike ridlon)
145.670	most ocala stations- no node broadcasts