AMPteam Outing - Monday June 16th 6pm to 9pm

[Jay]

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*** ARROW Mobile Portable Team ***
*** outing ***
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When: Monday, June 16th
       6:00 pm until 9:00 pm

Where: Prospect Park
Intersection of Prospect & Cross Street
Ypsilanti, MI 48198

NOTE: There is a small parking lot off Cross, next to the church


TRAINING!!! This month will begin our "fair weather" training
and presentation sessions.

A short presentation will be done on the topic of "RTTY" Radio
Teletype, first used in the mid-1800's. Using the BAUDOT
character set and a 20 milliamp "current loop" -or- MARK and
SPACE audio tones over radio, services such as "Telegrams" could
go almost anywhere in the world typed out on a "Teleprinter".

RTTY was instrumental in wartime, as well as in peacetime sending
News articles over HF Trans-Atlantic/Pacific HF circuits for the
"Associated Press" and other businesses and News services.

Come join us for a LIVE demonstration using modern-day equipment.



Purpose: AMPteam Outings take place once every month all year
long, rain or shine. We gather at a common location, set up and
operate portable HF, VHF, and Microwave stations. This provides
an opportunity to hone our skills in rapid and efficiant
deployment of Amateur Radio stations in the field in what are
oftentimes non-optimum conditions.

Readiness: Regular practice results in better preparedness to respond to
deployments in any times of emergency. By participating you
will improve your skills for events such as OHR, POTA, SOTA,
Red-Cross Shelters, SHTF, etc. And this better prepares us
for the annual "Field Day" event.

Go-Kits: Our "Go-Kits" get better and better each time we do an
   AMPteam Outing.  We get better at *not* leaving items
     behind and assuring we have everything we need to make a
deployment. A certain "competition" naturally occurs as
team members strive to create the best Go-Kit, ever! :)


Having something to set up is *NOT* a requirement.  Simply come on out to
mingle, exchange ideas, learn, and to just have FUN!!!  When 8pm rolls around,
we all check in to the ARROW Monday Night Net on the 146.96 MHz repeater.


--- Jay Nugent  WB8TKL
j...@nuge.com / wb8...@arrl.net
        (734)484-5105 /home
   (734)649-0850 /cell


P.S. County EC's please feel free to distribute this message to your
respective team members. Everyone is invited to participate.