Welcome to the BRAG Planning Pages. These web pages offer planning information for the Bicycle Ride Across Georgia, including our Spring Tune Up. The intended audience includes the BRAG Organizing Team, the BRAG Communication Team and other BRAG planners, organizers and volunteers.

Our goal is to provide our audience with the latest BRAG planning information, at their convenience, 24 hours a day. While we expect no major changes, small details such as rest stop locations and specific road choices are not final. Most of the information here is specifically not for distribution to BRAG riders or to the general public. The detailed information here includes:

• dates and overnight stops
• overnight site maps
• textual course descriptions (known as cues or cue sheets)
• course maps
• a list of the standing BRAG Communication Team
• an explanation of how the BRAG Communication Team works
• a partial list of amateur (or ham) radio volunteers
• the radio frequencies BRAG will use

If you are an approved maintainer or user of this information, you know your login and password. You may use those credentials to enter the site at any time.

If you are new to these pages, thanks for your interest in BRAG. If you haven't yet, please read the published ride description. Then send a note to Phil Milazzo requesting a login and password. He will reply with those credentials, so that you can navigate from this page to the detailed information that you need. If you are leading a group of volunteers, you can share your login and password with the BRAG volunteers in your immediate circle.

We depend on local amateur (or ham) radio clubs, their service-oriented members and their repeaters. BRAG hams provide reliable communication during the ride, passing routine and priority messages, keeping BRAG fun and safe for everyone. The messages can include requests for mechanical assistance, reports of approximate rider count at a stop, requests for supplies or equipment for a rest stop, and other important information.

If you are a ham in our near one of our overnight stops, BRAG needs your help. Please refer you ham friends and, if possible, your entire club to this web site, and invite them to participate in BRAG as volunteer communicators. If you can turn out as a communicator at a camp or rest stop, that's great, too. The first thing we need is a ham in each overnight stop to recruit more help.

What's amateur radio all about? Amateur radio operators, or hams, are licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. These skilled communicators volunteer their time, skills, enthusiasm and the use of their equipment to BRAG. Watch for them at camp, at rest stops and in sag vehicles. If you'd like to learn more about amateur radio, visit some of these helpful web pages on the subject.

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