Reply To: 2025 Field Emcomm Station Meet

  • Jim

    Group organizer
    2025-10-13 at 10:58
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    To all who attended the 2025 Emcomm Station Meet at JHU/APL in Laurel, MD, thank you for coming out. For those who could not join us, you were missed.

    (INFORMAL) AFTER ACTION REPORT

    • The weather cooperated. The Tº was comfortably cool and the rain missed us.
    • The location was perfect; abundant open space for portable stations, great parking area for mobile units, and the geese gave us permission to set up and stay.
    • THANK YOU JHU/APL for your amazing hospitality. A special thank you to Javi W3JAV and the W3APL Club – and its members – for making the location happen.
    • Donuts were good; coffee was not hot; apologies.
    • Turnout was, considering the long weekend and change of date, very respectable; we had eight setups and about 80 people visited and engaged in in-depth conversations.
    • Though this was not a transmitting event per se, several HF and VHF/UHF contacts were made.
    • Thank you to the institutions that came out with large institutional vehicles. For such a small and new event, your presence was so very kind – Laurel, MCACS and Howard County, we’re talking about you.
    • A final thank you to the volunteers (several from W3APL) who helped us set up and, yes, tear down.

    Overall, the initiatives were very interesting. We saw a diversity of stations with a strong dose of ingenuity. In a real-world emergency, you would shine.

    On behalf of Al KN3U MCACS, Javi W3JAV, and Jim K3MRI, thank you all for joining us.

    Check out the photo gallery: https://ham.community/groups/emergency-communications-group/albums/8/

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    Albums – Emergency communications group – Page 8 – Ham Community

    Albums – Emergency communications group – Page 8 – Ham Community

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