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You do not need to be a RARS member to volunteer! |
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HINT: Instead of getting your own table, use the RARSfest Consignment Table to free up time to volunteer. Schedule your time here RARS members can register consignment items here. Volunteers who are not RARS members can bring their consignment items to the RARS Consignment Table at the back of the Jim Graham Building when they come in. |
RARSfest Staffing Requirements
Read the descriptions below, pick the areas you would like to work in.
| Security Tony O’Connor - K1OC Schedule your time |
This is the largest crew. We need volunteers to staff 46 “shift slots” on Friday from noon until 8:00 pm and on Saturday from 6:00 am until 4:00 pm.
Each shift is two hours long. You can sign up for more than one shift. Please sign up for more than one shift!
Security’s main jobs are to provide information and assistance to those attending RARSfest, monitor the entrances to the event floor, politely steer people to the ticket sellers, and generally keep the traffic moving during setup and tear-down. You will need a VHF HT and a Technician class or higher amateur radio license. The Fairgrounds will also provide a uniformed security officer throughout the event. |
| Admissions Billy Janke - KE4VNC Schedule your time |
Another big crew, second only to Security. We need to staff about 20 shifts to sell admission tickets
on Friday from noon until 8:00 pm at the flea market entrance (west overhead door),
and on Saturday from 5:30 am until 3:00 pm at the flea market entrance
and from 7:30 am until 3:00 pm at the main entrances.
This is a sit down job that sees a lot of faces. As attendees come in, we greet them and provide tickets. It is busiest on Saturday morning when the doors first open and those early shifts will require 2 people at each table, so why not get your buddy to sign up to work with you. |
| Flea Market Jeremy Lindsley - K2HJX |
Flea Market duty is at the west overhead door, checking folks in, assigning tables, etc. We need volunteers to assist from 6:00 am until noon on Saturday. |
| Stage (Comm Center) John Honeycutt - N8ZU Schedule your time |
Several workers are needed on Saturday to make announcements over PA, field questions, tend to the ticket barrel, and work the help desk, etc. This has always been an "all day" job for a few people instead of a 2-hour shift, but there's plenty of opportunity to get away one at a time to roam the fest. The Stage is open on Saturday from 7:00 am until just after the 'fest closes. | Talk-In Chuck Till - K4RGN Schedule your time |
Talk-In operates on Friday from 11:00 am until about 7:00 pm and on Saturday from 5:30 am until about 1:30 pm. You don't actually need to be at RARSfest to do Talk-In. You just need to be within your radio's range of the W4DW 146.64 MHz repeater. |
| Teardown Dave Thomas - K4SAN Schedule your time |
This crew is also known as the Dumpster Divers. When everyone else clears out, there may be some tables that need to be moved around to help dealers get out of the building. Then comes the Dumpster Diver fun. The teardown crew gets to clean up and dispose of any spoils that are left behind as they see fit. |
| Project Table Alan Pitegoff - AB4OZ Schedule your time |
Project building has been a popular part of RARSFest in recent years. Several folks are needed to assist our guests as they assemble antennas or other projects. |
| Member Sales Tables Tom Lewis - N4TL Schedule your time |
To make it easier for club members to work at the hamfest, they can leave items here to be sold while they work.
Starting on Friday morning this crew tags and inventories items as they are brought in.
The table is manned for sales all day Saturday.
Members are asked to pre-register their items for sale. |
| RARSfest Chair Nancy Torborg - KB2TNR |
Can't seem to figure out what you want to do? Can't get hold of the guy that runs the crew you want to help with? Can't find what you're looking for? Can't ........whatever... Fear Not - - We have other jobs available. We WILL find a way for you to help. |