[CQ] Elmer day for some midwives?

[Josh Myer]

http://www.sfarc.org/sfarnews.htm has all the details, following the
ham-standard web style guide (shared with geocities).

And, for the lulz, here it is, cut and paste in glorious HTML email:

*HEADLINE NEWS*



*2 Meter Critical Mass Amateur Radio Practice*

*What:*  An opportunity to practice Ham radio communications

*When:*  *Saturday, March 26, 2011.  1000 hours to 1200 hours*

*Where:*   *Spreckles* *Lake , Golden Gate Park*
*
*
--
/jbm KJ6ANM

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> somehow i completely missed noting the time and place of this. what
> are the details?
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
> > Just a quick reminder that this elmer day is tomorrow.
> > I'm planning on making it over, driving from the Mission.
> > Hope to see people there, and thanks again to Art for bringing it to
> my/our
> > attention!
> > --
> > /jbm KJ6ANM
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Art Peel <artpeel at glowingthings.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> http://www.sfarc.org/sfarnews.htm might be what you're looking for
> >> -- Art
> >> KJ6ANT
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 13, 2011, at 20:40, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> tl;dr: Please help teach some ticketed midwives how to use their HTs to
> >> coordinate in case of disaster.  Ping me if you want to be involved, and
> >> we'll coordinate off-list.
> >> We had our baby at home, with a midwife.  Things went great, etc, but
> they
> >> need to have two midwives at every birth: if something goes wrong with
> both
> >> mom and the baby... ugly triage situation.  Of course, births aren't
> exactly
> >> planned, so they need to do a lot of ad-hoc coordination.  These women
> still
> >> carry pagers, because They Will Work.
> >> Except when they don't.  Babies will be born after big earthquakes, when
> >> it's hard to get around town to ensure you have two midwives on hand.
>  And
> >> the hospitals will likely be packed, so they consider this situation
> >> particularly important. Many of them have their tickets, and little HTs,
> but
> >> they're not confident using them.  They just don't know how to work
> >> repeaters, what process/protocol is for using the radios, etc.  Our
> midwife
> >> specifically asked if I could "be their Elmer."  So they're not totally
> out
> >> of the loop.  Naomi bumped into another midwife at a cafe, who asked
> about
> >> the Elmer day.
> >> I'd love to do this for them, but, honestly, I'm not confident enough.
>  It
> >> seems like this is Important, and I should ask for help from real
> Elmers.
> >>  Would anyone here be willing to help run a small Elmer session?
> >> Alternately, what's the right organization in town to ask about this?
> >>  AERO?  Red Cross?
> >> Thanks so much, this is one of those things that amateur radio exists
> for!
> >> 73 KJ6ANM,
> >> --
> >> /jbm
> >>
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> > --
> > Josh Myer 415.230.9791 <-- NOTE: New number!
> >  josh at joshisanerd.com
> >
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Josh Myer 415.230.9791 <-- NOTE: New number!
 josh at joshisanerd.com
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