Good Morning Wings Over Houston Communicators!

This Year’s Wings Over Houston Air Show will be held on October 19 (Special Air Show), with the Main Public Show being held on October 20-21, 2018.

We require your Ham Radio Communication Skills once again for this amazing air show. Wings Over Houston is an “Air-Show-Major”. It is one of the top 4 most prestigious air shows in the country along with: SUN ‘n FUN International Fly-In & Expo in Lakeland, Florida, the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach in Wantagh, New York, and the Cleveland National Air Show in Cleveland, Ohio!

WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please contact me as soon as you can as I begin compiling this year’s Communicator Roster. I’ll need to know all the important bits and pieces of contact information about you. Especially what days you are available. Remember, this is a HUGE 2-day event, and we’d prefer to have you for both Saturday and Sunday. The Special Air Show on Friday is a greatly trimmed version of Saturday and Sunday. We’ll need 10-15 Communicators for this event on Friday.

This year’s show again features the United States Navy, Blue Angels. You know what that means…Weather permitting, we break attendance records each year “The Blues” are here, and flying over Houston, Texas’ October Blue Skies.

Please pass this opportunity to serve our communities, and this Great American Airshow with the dates, along to your clubs, to your friends, and circles of influence.

Remember, use the KD5AYF@Reagan.com and GEORGE@HOHI.NET for replies please.

Thanks to All! Please call me if you have any questions.

Office: (713) 266-6464    Cell: (832) 723-4760

Sincerely Yours,

George Levandoski

Wings Over Houston,

Staff Coordinator,

Amateur Radio Communications

We need a few more KARS members to help with the Boy Scout Radio Merit Badge class on Sat 3 Nov.

It is an all day event (8-5), held at Holy Covenant Methodist Church on Morton Road. You could be a part of starting a lifelong hobby for a young person. It is also a great opportunity to work with and get to know some of the KARS members. If you can’t help all day, we also need a KARS member to operate from home, 3 hrs in the morning and 3 hrs in the afternoon to be on the other end of a QSO, as part of the class.

If interested, please contact Jack Philley, wb5kvv jackphilley@consolidated.net,

73 and Thanks

Volunteers Needed

Katy Area Safety Fest in coordination with local law enforcement, emergency services and non-profit agencies, invites you to join us for the 3rd Annual Katy Area Safety Fest.

The Katy Area Safety Fest’s purpose is to familiarize residents with useful safety information, as well as the daily responsibilities of your local Fire, EMS, and Law Enforcement agencies through a variety of fun and high energy activities.

Fest activities will include:

• Fire Truck and ambulance tours
• Fire, EMS, and Law Enforcement exhibits
• Life Flight and Law Enforcement helicopter viewing
• Inflatable play area (Kid Zone)
• Food and refreshment vendors
• Live demonstrations
• Live entertainment
• Free Safety Raffle Challenge
• Citizen Recognition Awards

The event is April 14^th, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Typhoon Texas. We are happy to announce that we’ll also have a Fun Run for the National Stroke Association on the same day and location from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

If you are 16 or older and want volunteer hours, what a great place to earn them, learning about safety awareness! An Event Volunteer and Waiver of Liability form must be filled out and returned by March 9^th, 2018. Please send email to Katyareacert@gmail.com if you are interested.

Thank you!

For those of you who have already signed up. Thank you.

For those of you who haven’t signed up yet, we’re still needing volunteers. We have 39 so far and need about 5-10 more to have everything work as well as it should. If you can assist, please signup.

Here’s who has signed up so far: AD5CQ, AE5EO, AE5MZ, AE5PA, AF5DR, K5DLF, K5HWA, K5KGH, K5PRS, K5WEL, KB5JTJ, KB5PGY, KC5LAA, KD5LOC, KE5STL, KF5ETG, KF5FNH, KF5IMW, KF5LXC, KF5QNS, KF5SDK, KF5UKF, KF5VIK, KG5FFX, KG5QLA , KG5TYM, KG5U, KG5VLY, KT5SR, KW5GIZ, KW5PA, N5CAS, N5KWD, N5TQ, N5VEV, WB5UZZ, WD5JRD and WD8RZA.

If your Ham buddy hasn’t signed up and you have, give them call and encourage them to sign up and join us.

If you thought you had signed up but don’t see your callsign, please sign-up again here: https://goo.gl/forms/Ly9xzylFePL1Br723

Quick details about the event: Sat 2/10/2018 in Humble TX 6-3pm. Only HT with headset needed. Most fun and interesting public service event in the Houston area. Volunteers receive a T-shit and a patch.

The CERT Rodeo 2018 EAP including the detailed site maps and ICS-205 (frequency list) will go out today. Assignments will be delivered Saturday morning.

Thank you for all you do,

Alfred Perez – N5VEV EC-001, AUXCOMM, ARRL-VE

CERT Rodeo 2018 Communications Team, COML

Cell: 281-919-9877 Voice/SMS – Text Messages

GV: 832-380-5867 24/7 Emergency Contact Voice/SMS – Text Messages

If you are an ARES member…
We need a few more hands to help with the Simulated Emergency Test this Saturday, it will only take half a day of your time. Please look at the IAP and look at the available locations.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1h35npbNC3IPKYCcYNIOuLE0tDcw349Wl5Ryqihw4dgI
If you can lend a hand please contact Jeff Walter, jawalter6@comcast.net
281-467-8595 Cell
Thank you
Sid Sherwood – n5zkd@sbcglobal.net
N5ZKD
EC NW Unit

Volunteers are needed for several upcoming events.
The Tour de Cure, October 1st needs communicators and a few more SAG drivers.
To volunteer as a communicator please contact Rick Broussard N5KJN n5kjn@brsd.com
To volunteer as a SAG please contact Robin Marsh, KF5MNB jmorob@gmail.com

Other events looking for help in the not too distant future…
10 for Texas, October 8th, go to WWW.woodlands-events-comms.info
Oktoberfest Triathlon, October 9th, Contact me at n5zkd@sbcglobal.net
Mammoth Lake Triathlon, October 23rd, Contact me at n5zkd@sbcglobal.net
Wings over Houston, October 21st through 23rd, Contact George Levandowski at kd5afy@sbgglobal.net
Please come out and put your license to good use.
Thank you,
Sid Sherwood
EC NW Unit, District 14