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Club Events
Current / Recent Events
Waco
Wild
West
Century
Bike Ride
HOTARC provides radio communications in support of this annual event that involves several hundred participants and volunteers. This year's WWWC occurred on September 26, 2009 at Indian Springs Park in downtown Waco, starting at 8:00 am. This day-long event accommodated 1300 riders of many abilities with courses of varied lengths: 10 miles, 25 miles, 50 miles, 65 miles, and 100 miles—all of which are supported by rest stops, SAG vehicles, and, of course, radio communications.
 This event requires many volunteers in the pace cars and at the many rest stops around the course. Amateur radio operators at the rest stops permit relaying of timely progress information as well as break-downs and injuries, need for supplies, and so forth. APRS trackers sending GPS-derived location data back
to the trailer allows us to see the current location of significant vehicles, such as the various pace cars and SAG vehicles.
Although this event is quite "planned," there are still plenty of surprises for us every year, and it is an excellent training opportunity for a real disaster that would require radio communications from remote locations—all reporting back to and coordinating with a Net Control. These events use the skills we learn on the weekly ARES Nets. Here are the 2009 assignments.
| Links to Official Course Maps (pdf) |
| 10-mile |
26-mile |
50-mile |
65-mile |
100-mile* |
*Portion of route down to Mother Neff Park (Rest Stop 11) was eliminated
due to road construction, thus shortening the 100-mile route this year. |
Past Events
HOTARC Field Day Archive (including *PSA's)
A collection of info and photos from Field Days gone by...
Special Events Archive
A collection of info and photos from some other special events we've done.
Boy Scout Radio Merit Badge
Materials we have used to help young Scouts earn their Radio merit badge.
*Public Service Announcements: We provide these via CD to local broadcast radio stations who play the announcements at no cost to our Club. The HOTARC version is specific for our Club, while we make available to anyone the Generic versions—usable in any city. You have permission to use these files, or create your own using ours as a pattern. Visit our Field Day Archive to listen to these PSAs created by
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