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Amateur Radio Village

2020-03-01T20:40:24Z

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== About Us ==

The Amateur Radio Village is a very welcoming set of radio nerds who are at EMFCamp to demonstrate radio to people. If you are also a radio nerd and want to camp in a village to be sociable, feel free to pitch your tent near us. It would be helpful if you could add your name to the list below so we know if we need to request a larger village area from the organisers. Even if you're not camping with us, drop by for a chat and see what we're doing.

== Who is coming? ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Callsign (if you have one) !! Name
|-
| M0PLL || Paul
|-
| please add || your details here
|}

== Collaboration with other Radio related Villages ==

We aren't the only people with an interest in radio who are coming to EMFCamp. In previous years there have been several independent villages each with their own goals. For 2020 it would be nice if we could co-ordinate our activities and maybe pool resources.

AMSAT-UK are much more organised than us and already have GB4EMF special event call assigned for the weekend for a scheduled contact with the International Space Station. Unfortunately, due to the unique requirements the space station contact has, we won't be able to share that call and so have been allocated GB1EMF for our use. If any other radio amateurs who are coming to EMF and are intending to make contacts outside the site are interested in using our special event call, do get in touch.

If anyone else from other villages is reading this and knows they will be doing amateur radio related things, please get in touch to see if we can help each other.

== What are we doing? ==

TODO: Add to this list and give more detail on these items:

* 70cms analogue voice repeater GB3MF (Being organised by M0TRY [https://www.ukrepeater.net/my_vetting.php?id=4163 application has been made] for for a frequency allocation, we're waiting for a response)
* Minimum Viable QO100 narrowband station (if M0PLL finishes it in time, it will be a small and cheap way to have a station capable of a voice contact via QO100, to demonstrate that you don't need dishes the size of Goonhilly for it)
* NVIS (or better) HF
* EMFHub
* Foundation Exams (we are hoping to run Foundation exams from a tent at EMF Camp. Watch this space for more information if you have always intended on getting an amateur radio licence but have never got around to it)
* APRS igate and digipeater (being organised by M0PLL, the same setup as was at EMF Camp 2018)

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Amateur Radio Village

2020-02-23T21:10:16Z

Plett:

== About Us ==

The Amateur Radio Village is a very welcoming set of radio nerds who are at EMFCamp to demonstrate radio to people. If you are also a radio nerd and want to camp in a village to be sociable, feel free to pitch your tent near us. It would be helpful if you could add your name to the list below so we know if we need to request a larger village area from the organisers. Even if you're not camping with us, drop by for a chat and see what we're doing.

== Who is coming? ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Callsign (if you have one) !! Name
|-
| M0PLL || Paul
|-
| please add || your details here
|}

== Collaboration with other Radio related Villages ==

We aren't the only people with an interest in radio who are coming to EMFCamp. In previous years there have been several independent villages each with their own goals. For 2020 it would be nice if we could co-ordinate our activities and maybe pool resources.

AMSAT-UK are much more organised than us and already have GB4EMF special event call assigned for the weekend for a scheduled contact with the International Space Station. Unfortunately, due to the unique requirements the space station contact has, we won't be able to share that call and have applied for our own, hopefully the same GB2EMF which we had last time.

If anyone else from other villages is reading this and knows they will be doing amateur radio related things, please get in touch to see if we can help each other.

== What are we doing? ==

TODO: Add to this list and give more detail on these items:

* 70cms analogue voice repeater GB3MF (Being organised by M0TRY [https://www.ukrepeater.net/my_vetting.php?id=4163 application has been made] for for a frequency allocation, we're waiting for a response)
* Minimum Viable QO100 narrowband station (if M0PLL finishes it in time, it will be a small and cheap way to have a station capable of a voice contact via QO100, to demonstrate that you don't need dishes the size of Goonhilly for it)
* NVIS (or better) HF
* EMFHub
* Foundation Exams (we are hoping to run Foundation exams from a tent at EMF Camp. Watch this space for more information if you have always intended on getting an amateur radio licence but have never got around to it)
* APRS igate and digipeater (being organised by M0PLL, the same setup as was at EMF Camp 2018)

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Good Village Guide

2020-02-21T16:10:26Z

Plett:

== Information Coordination ==

[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page#From_the_search_box Make a page on the wiki] and ensure it is in the villages category using this tag at the bottom:

<nowiki>[[Category:Villages]]</nowiki>.

Please note that having a wiki page doesn't guarantee you a space - be sure to [https://www.emfcamp.org/villages/register register] on the website to be included in our mapping.

==What should we bring?==

=== Cooking Equipment & Food ===

While EMF provides a great set of food vendors, it may be easier or cheaper for you to get together and cook. Some villages cook for upwards of 100 people each meal, but there’s no reason it can’t just be 5 people.
Think about the things you’ll need - a stove, pots & pans, plates/bowls, cutlery and food.
We’d really appreciate it if you brought reusable plates and cutlery, and low-packaging food. This helps reduce our waste footprint and helps the environment.

Learn more about onsite food [[Food|here]]

== Public/Shared Area ==

You will want somewhere to work together, to show off your toys, to run workshops and more. What you’ll need is a ‘village square’. This can be a few tables and chairs, all the way up to a geodesic dome!

With the unreliability of British weather, we recommend that this area is covered - it can get really sunny and really wet at our site. We’d rather neither you were sunburned nor your laptop flooded.

The village team would really appreciate it if you planned this ahead of the event and could tell us the area in m2, so we can layout the site and get you the best location possible!

EMF are happy for you to bring your own tents and furniture for being social in and cooking in, but you can also rent them for us for the event. We ask that you remove all tents and furniture that you’ve brought at the end of the event - it’s not fair on our volunteers to have to tidy them up, and it’s also bad for the environment.

== What makes a good neighbour? ==

A good neighbour works with those around them so everyone has the best possible event. This includes understanding the area you are camping in and compromising with those nearby! We have both quiet and noisy camping areas. If you intend to have friends over working, partying and enjoying each other’s company until the wee hours, we’d ask that you place yourself in the noisy area.

It’s great if you can share with your neighbours too - maybe you want to group 3-4 villages together into a common theme, and share resources. This could be cooking, hardware or other items. You can get in touch with your neighbours ahead of the event and see if they want to do anything with you - it could be a shared event, or helping with their cooking in exchange for food!

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Amateur Radio Village

2020-02-20T17:11:43Z

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