Good evening all, and apologies to the people who may get this numerous times.

With a week to go til the Rally of Canberra it's time to get the WICEN portable repeaters set-up and ready.

I'd like to do the installation at Kowen Fire Tower on Sunday and am looking for a few people to come along to help place the antenna's on the Fire Spotting Tower, run the coax cables, set-up the solar panels and connect and test the repeaters. We need 5 or 6 people with 3 on the tower itself and a few others on the ground to assist.

Now the 2 metre repeater needs to be collected from the Mt Mugga Scout hall at Red Hill, but with the Foundation Licence Course happening there this weekend we need to be as unobtrusive as possible. If we can get that collected around 8:00 AM we won't impact the course and can arrange to have everyone else meet at 8:30 out at Kowen Forest (Seven Mile Road gate off Sutton Road near the NSW / ACT Border at Wamboin) and hopefully have most of it finished before midday. The Fire Tower is accessible by normal road car and I will be in my wife Sally's Holden TRAX as Erica VK1ERL has taken my Ute to the coast full of Stand-Up Paddle Boards.

The erection of gear at Mt McDonald is planned for Tuesday next week because the trailer for that location is being used tomorrow for the CRACRC display at Southfest in Tuggeranong and we'd like to top-up the batteries before heading out to do that job.

Can you help on either day (Sunday or Tuesday) ? if so could you drop me an email to indicate your availability. We'll need sometools and you need to be self sufficient for food / drink / appropriate clothing / hats / gloves, etc.

Cheers,

Phil Longworth VK1PL

Deputy State Coordinator WICEN ACT.