Saturday August 15 2009

Red Hot Chili Pepper Bike Ride

The Dallas ARC is providing radio communications support for this Red Hot Chili Pepper Bike Ride to support the Calumet Community Center. The ride is August 15th 2009 and will start and end at the Calumet Center (MAPSCO 52H). The ride has routes for 20, 40, and 60 miles. The routes will travel southwest out of Dallas and will journey through the Joe Pool Lake area. The rally will start an 7:30 am. For more information or to sign up for this event please contact Kevin Harkins, at w5djk1+gmail.com.

Monday September 7 2009

Blacklands Triathlon

This is the second Annual Blacklands Triathlon. Last year they had nearly 500 participants for the first year. This year they hope to be better organized, an have more people. Radio operators are needed from about 6:00 a.m. until Noon. We will know more as the event gets closer, but we need about 6 shadows, 18 on the course, and 2 for net control. Reserve the date. Contact Kipton Moravec - AE5IB at email or 214-929-8121

Saturday September 12 2009	Tour De Cure 2009 Bike Ride
	The Tour De Cure Bike Ride benefits American Diabetes Association and its research. The ride will be held at Texas Motor Speedway on September 12, 2009. The event website is here: tour.diabetes.org/site/TR/TourdeCure/. HAM ops interested can contact Greg Evans at kd5mno+yahoo.com. Thanks Greg, n5aor

Saturday September 26 2009

Junior Diabetes Expanded 3 Walk Event

2009 Junior Diabetes Expanded 3 Walk Event –September 26th 2009 (One Day - 3 Walks – 3 Locations – Simultaneously!) Thanks to the great job the Amateur Radio Community has done supporting the Dallas JDRF walk in the past few years, we have been asked this year to expand our involvement and provide communications for all the Dallas and Collin County JDRF Walks! In addition, the Dallas walk has outgrown the AA Center and is being split into two walks, one along the Katy Trail starting at the AA Center and another larger walk at a second location in Los Colinas on the combined Birds Fort Trail and Spring Trail Parks. The Collin County Walk starts at the Granite Park location near HWY 121 and the Toll way. All three walks are 5K in length. As two of the walks are on trails, this will present some new challenges and opportunities for the operators, one example are the possible uses of bicycles or foot operators for lead and tail positions on the trail courses. Each walk will have between 3-4 rest stops to man and numerous shadow positions. It’s too early to tell for sure but we hope most all positions can use HT’s. We are in need of a lot more volunteers this year to cover all three simultaneous s walks, the AA center walk has needed about 16-18 operators each year and it’s likely the two additional walks will need close to those numbers as well. Each walk will require a site communications coordinator and net control so if you have an interest in helping to assist with the planning and execution of these events or filling a net control position please let me know as soon as possible. For more information please contact John Will at w5ej+arrl.net or call me at 214-316-5563.

Sunday December 13 2009

Dallas White Rock Marathon

Save the date. More detail information coming soon. If you want to reserve your position from 2008, sign up on our Marathon Yahoo Group page and email Bob Jones, W5BJ at w5bj+arrl.net. You can also use the web sign up form. As this event grows we most definately need more communicators each year. At minimum you need to be a Communications Resource Function S. (See Communicator Information Tab at left) All current and prospective Marathon Communicators can stay up to date, post activity reports, download files and ask questions regarding any aspect of Marathon Communications via our Yahoo Group.

email addresses for current and past event coordinators.
Note; Substitute "@" for "+" in each email address.
Richard Bartlett, KE6LOU - ke6lou+arrl.net
Bob Jones, W5BJ - w5bj+arrl.net
Clay Orchard, KC5MXN - kc5mxn+verizon.net
Doug Kilgore KD5OUG - kd5oug+arrl.net
John Galvin, N5TIM - n5tim+arrl.net
James Marple, KB5ZDG - j.marple+verizon.net
Bob Ashmore, KA5SNM - robertashmore+sbcglobal.net
Jim Dye, N5JZ - N5jz+aol.com
Jonathan Sennetti, K5VX - sennetti+nortelnetworks.com
Scott Hammond,KK5PP - kk5pp+arrl.net
Jim Shultz, W5OMG - W5OMG+arrl.net
John Beadles, N5OOM - n5oom+arrl.net
Tony Campbell, W5ADC - tony+w5adc.com
Gregory Evans, KD5MNO - kd5mno-+yahoo.com
Bill Westphal, AD5CC, - ad5cc+tx.rr.com
Bob Ski, K5WOJ - K5woj+aol.com
John Will, W5EJ - w5ej+arrl.net
Chadwick Stelzl - KD5UMO+arrl.net