I'd have to agree about the walkie-talkies. They do work well for knowing
what's going on but I do think the announcer does need to announce as if
they were using a PA system. It sorta sounded like, "I guess I'll keep
talking, someone's out there right?". Also I didn't hear announcements of
when the next run group should get to grid, etc. which would help things go
a little smoother for us rookies. It definitely worked much better than the
low power fm transmitter that I couldn't get on the radio except for when I
was at the start line. As you can imagine that wasn't very useful. I got
both radio stations on either side of the fm frequency just great tho. :) So
I think if we can't use a PA system for GGF, the walkie-talkies will work
great and it looked like alot of people had them.
Alberto
-----Original Message-----
From: Smokerbros@aol.com [mailto:Smokerbros@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 1:12 PM
To: kdub13@yahoo.com; ksoohoo@iresults.com; laddle@cwnet.com
Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Attendance
In a message dated 9/7/2000 12:52:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
kdub13@yahoo.com writes:
<< Also I don't think not having a PA system was that much of a problem.
Using one of those FRS walkie-talkies I was able to hear any
announcements being made from anywhere at the event. I think whoever
is doing the announcing just needed to be alittle more active. That's
all I've got. >>
Aha! See, it DOES work, we just need to pretend we can hear ourselves on a
PA system, and get more people to bring or get these if they want to know
what's going on @ GGF!
CHD
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