[XWARN] Debriefing from Abi Khan Horse Challenge

Bob Earthlink.net simmoh at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 31 14:13:25 CDT 2018


  
  


  
  
  
    
    	
    	I would have offered to help but I had trouble getting through from Alabama. Miss you guys a lot. There doesn’t seem to be any ham clubs around here that are really ‘active’ in public service events. Fortunately, there are active ham clubs where we’re building our new house in Tennessee. I’m already a member of the ARES unit there. 
    	

    	Bob Simmons
    
  




On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:36 PM -0500, "Jason Bowman" <jason.bowman.1971 at gmail.com> wrote:










Fellow XWARN'ers:
Having been in the military and now working for the military as a civilian, I'm a big fan of mission briefings and debriefings.  A couple of weekends ago, I was net control for the Saturday portion of Abi Khan Horse Challenge, and it was my first real net control not largely run by a script.  So putting my money where my mouth is, I put together a debriefing from the event:
http://bit.ly/2wtMYC4

Abi Khan is one of the more challenging events in the region because we don't just track the lead and tail participants rather ALL of the participants, and there were 60 some teams (riders + horses) participating.  Even under the best of circumstances this can be challenging.  But we were short on help, a radio failed forcing one of the volunteers and net control to setup a cell phone text messaging net, the course was vandalized ahead of the event requiring me to relay instructions out to the volunteers, maps were horrible, and the combination of the topography and location of the XWARN VHF repeater makes it so that HTs are borderline adequate.
Be looking for me to experiment with some of the things I recommend such as a cell phone location tracker app built specifically for events like these.  If anything comes of it, I'll be sure to share with the group at a meeting.

Jason Bowmanm: 937-260-2870WG8B






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