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Infrastructure and Technology Committee

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On April 13th, Region 7 Director Charles Land and RI Secretary Lee Besing, presented the 4th Radio Hero Award to USAF Sgt Daniel Gordon in Okalahoma City, Oklahoma. The local team, Oklahoma County REACT, made all the arrangements, coordinated by team president Bob Kaster and vice president Dale Ellis. The presentation was performed in the Memorial Room of the Oklahoma City Police Department, with members of the USAF and OCPD present. Two TV News Stations plus the local newspaper covered this event.

We’ll link to the videos below…

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New ‘Radio Hero Award’ recipient. New office location. New RI website.

There is lots to celebrate this REACT Month. Post links to the three great video clips of our ‘Radio Hero Award’ ceremony on your Team website, and perhaps your personal website too.

Check out the sharp new REACT website with its latest features. You can read ‘The REACTer’ online. You can download PR resources. You can update your radio skills and/or train others in the use of FRS radio. Help a new Team get started. You will find many other helpful tools there too, so take full advantage.

Let all on your Team know REACT has a new HQ office. Send all mail to the new address. All else remains unchanged. Visit when you are in the area.

All three give your Team special cause to celebrate REACT Month with gusto this year. Enjoy.

Radio Gram - April 2010

From the RI Secretary,

Lots of stuff happening that you need to know about within your organization!

• Renewals should be done,
• new board officers were elected, and
• we will soon have a new office location and office manager!

By now, all teams should have submitted at least their first round of renewal forms. If your team hasn’t done so, your team charter has been marked inactive and you can expect to have your regional director contact you in the very near future.

The Annual Board Meeting was held March 12-13th in Dallas, Texas, well actually we were in Irving, Texas just next door to the DFW Airport. We televised the entire meeting live on the web, using www.ustream.tv/reactsecretary as the means. In fact, you can still go there to that link and watch all 15+ hours of the meeting. We’re writing up a report for the REACTer about how we did this, what challenges we faced and overcame, and those that need improvement for next time. We had about 135 folks check in to watch us, usually about 18-24 online at any given time.

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Region 7 Director Charles Land and RI Secretary Lee Besing drove up to Oklahoma City from San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, April 12th to present the Radio Hero Award to USAF Sgt Daniel Gordon on Tuesday, April 13th, during a ceremony held at the Oklahoma City Police Department.  The ceremony was arranged by one of the local teams, Oklahoma County REACT, and coordinated by their vice president Dale and president Bob Kaster.

The ceremony was well attended with representatives from Sgt Gordon’s superior officers, his wife and child, and officers from the OCPD including the officer whom Sgt. Gordon helped rescue last August.   News media coverage was excellent with 2 TV stations and the local newspaper in attendance.

Channel 9 coverage here…
Channel 5 coverage here…
Oklahoman Newspaper coverage here…

Here are a few photos taken during the event.  We’re working on some of our own video footage, and will try to add descriptions to photos soon. – Lee

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You can watch it on your MyREACT page, under TRAINING.

Upload it to your Team’s website for visitors to view. Hurry, and you can have it up in time for REACT Month.

Sorry about the outage, MyREACT is back online after the server move.

Be part of REACT history in the making!

Attend your first-ever (likely) RI Board Meeting, right in the comfort of your home. Tune in anytime today. The meeting begins between 9:00 Central Time this morning (Saturday, March 13th).

Join the meeting or leave whenever you like. You won’t disturb anyone.  Bring your own snacks or drinks!

The address is below so you are all set.   Your browser will need to have Adobe Flash Player installed in order to play the video, but if you don’t have it, don’t worry.  Your browser ought to prompt you to install it when you get there if you don’t already have it.

Those who tuned in yesterday were very enthusiastic.

Here’s your chance.   Live Audio / Video (one-way) lets you have the viewpoint of that little fly in the corner of the room listening in while nobody knows you are there.

http://www.ustream.tv/reactsecretary

Ron McCracken,
Public Information

REACT Month will soon be upon us. Has your Team planned its events and media releases?

SOS Drills are ideal ways to mark REACT Month. Your Team can host one or several, depending on the area it serves. Safety displays are another event for malls, fairs, etc. Have you offered speakers on radio safety to service clubs, churches, schools, Scout groups, etc.?

Post your ideas for REACT Month here and on any of the REACT lists. Help to spark ideas in the minds of other Teams. Best wishes.

The REACT International Board of Directors will hold their Annual Board Meeting in the Dallas / Ft. Worth Texas area on March 12-13th.   Actual location will be the Drury Inn next to the DFW Airport.   Seating is limited due to the size of the meeting room, so we invite everyone who would like to attend, to RSVP so we can try to accommodate everyone possible.  Most directors / officers will be arriving on Thursday, March 11th or earlier, and departing on Sunday, March 14th. 

We anticipate the meetings to start Friday morning around 8:30am or so, running until 5-6pm in the evening.   The meeting will recess and resume Saturday morning before 9am.   There will likely be some sort of organized event / dinner on Friday and possibly Saturday evenings, but the hotel offers free food in the morning and evenings as well.  

We’re also looking into broadcasting the open portions of the Board meeting live, via http://www.ustream.tv/user/reactsecretary, using a new webcam with a built in microphone.  This will be a test of the method, the webcam and the available highspeed bandwidth, so we won’t promise it will work 100% as planned.  This will be a one-way broadcast that you can watch and listen to. 

We’re hoping that either the hotel’s Internet will handle the broadcast video load, or we can connect up my CLEAR 4G Wimax Wireless modem and try it instead.  Since the DFW area has been activated by CLEAR, we’ll have access to high speed wireless Internet even if the hotel’s Internet can’t handle the load.

If you want to attend this meeting in person or stay at the hotel to get the lower group rates, please RSVP to Chairman John Knott via email, j.knott@reactintl.org, for details.   You will be responsible for the cost of your own hotel room.