Free entrance to the show, parking, hat, pancake breakfast, lunch, and all the water and soft drinks you can drink
Bring your HT, headset/earpiece, yellow shirt, communications vest (if you have one) hat, sunscreen, water, etc
If you somehow end up at the top-level public landing page
https://woc.volunteerlocal.com click on the "Sign up now" link, which will take you to the signup form, then
enter
ham73 in the password field and click Submit
Please do not share the password publicly as there are lots of nasty disruptive people out there :-(
But do feel free to forward this to any ham operator club or group
The instructions on the signup site are "generic", most do not apply to us, so p
lease follow these instructions to sign up:
1- MAKE SURE to click on the "view description" as there are important assignment notes in there!
2- Check off your desired assignment (or assignments, as long as they are not both AM or PM shifts, note that I disabled "overlap check" since schedules do overlap by an hour, you may still sign up for both AM and PM shifts)
NOTE: only the currently AVAILABLE assignments are shown by the system, if you do not see a desired assignment, it means that it is taken
If you cannot sign up for any other time slot/assignment, please contact me, and I'll see if I can arrange a swap.
NOTE: the "gate" position can be an "add on" assignment for a color or a rover, it entails coming in early and sitting at Gate 7 for about two hours to check-in ham volunteers, then over to the comm trailer for the briefing and to your primary assignment, or as another rover/floater/standby
NOTE: new to this year is a show director shadow, which should be a very exciting close-up assignment, you will have two radios: a commercial show radio and your ham radio. The Shadow will follow the show director and provide communication support. you are welcome to sign up for two consecutive Shadow shifts and stay with the show director for the entire day.
3- Scroll down to the bottom or the form
4- Fill in your email, name, phone
5- Select "Avi Carmi K6AVI" for CWA Job Captain and "Ham Radio Operators" for the CWA Group from the respective pulldown lists
6- Skip the CAF/AAF fields, fill in your birthdate if under 18 (don't you wish?)
7- Don't forget your call sign at the bottom
8- Then check the box and fill your name under the waiver
9- And finally, click the "Sign Up To Volunteer" button
you should receive a confirmation email, unfortunately, it will come from Stephen, the show's volunteer coordinator, not me. (also I do not get any notification that anyone signed up, only he does...)
a generic map, our sector map, and the parking permit are available on your volunteer profile page, accessible by clicking the "Check your status here" button on
https://woc.volunteerlocal.com
I will send more detailed directions/instructions prior to the show, but if you have any questions/concerns/comments, please let me know
73,
-avi