Cowtown 2012

http://www.cowtownmarathon.org/

Communicators,

The Cowtown 2012 is “just around the corner” on 25 and 26 Feburary and will be in the same general format as last year.  The headquarters location will be the Will Rogers Complex, the courses have changed a little, and it is still a two day event.  The short events – 5K and 10K – are on Saturday and the Marathon events – ½ Marathon, Marathon, and Ultra Marathon – are on Sunday.  We will not need as many operators on each day as we did for the old one day format but the total will be at least as large.  Some jobs will be the same both days but others will be different.  We will definitely need more operators on Sunday for the longer events.  The Saturday assignments should last from about 5:00 AM until about Noon.  The Sunday assignments will go from about 5:00 AM until about 3:00 PM.  As in years past, your assignment may not last for the whole period.  Of course you can work both days if you want to.

When you see this notice, please go ahead and sign up if you have not already done so and help spread the word that we need more operators.  We will need approximately 75 operators total.  So far, we are 10 to 15 operators short.  When you sign up, it would be very helpful if you would send me an e-mail listing the following information:

1. Your Name

2. Callsign

3. Telephone Number

4. E-mail address

5. Day(s) available

6. Assignment Preference – if you have one

7. Equipment available.  We are especially interested in knowing if you have 440 capability or only 2 Meter capability.  It is also helpful to know if you only have HTs or if you have Mobile/Portable capability

8. If you have any physical limitations.

9.     T-Shirt Size.

We will use the First Monday RACES Net on 6 February for initial training and announcements.  We had a couple of “rough spots” that we need to iron out so there probably will be at two more training nets held before the event.  Information about event times, course maps, etc. is available in the URL at the start of this note.

I can be reached at 817-292-5633 or w5iu@swbell.net.  We’re looking at another record year.  Initial estimates indicate that there will be 25,000 runners this year.  Let’s do our part to make this another great year.

73 – Keith, W5IU

Cowtown Communications Coordinator