I think this is a great idea but I think it might be too late. I have a high enough of a HAM license to be an examiner (I am General) but, as I have yet to become one, I doubt I could do so before FFO. We need 3 General (I do not remember if one of the 3 needs to be Extra class) or above to do testing for Technician. I also do not remember if there are any other steps we would have to do to offer and how long those steps would take.
Can someone who knows all the requirements to offer the test provide the list of steps here and time to complete the steps so we can try to plan it for FFT and FFO19?
SANDARC, the San Diego Amateur Radio Council, offers free tests pretty much every weekend of the year, and are out of the Southwestern Division of HAM Radio operators and clubs. I'm thinking that it might be possible to hunt down which clubs are in the area for FFO to do so. Most HAM Radio clubs are more than happy to get people interested and suck in new people.
My suggestion would be, for anyone who has been to Malvern before (I've only been east of the Mississippi twice - once to Detroit, and once to Mooresville, NC), to try and contact one of the local clubs and see if they would be interested in coming out to help administer HAM Technician testing.
Maybe someone could try contacting one of these clubs? (Again, I have NO clue how close these cities are to Malvern; I'm going off of my Google Fu):
http://www.w8np.org/ - The Massillon Amateur Radio Club
, Massillon, Ohio
http://www.w8al.org/ - Canton Amateur Radio Club, Inc., Canton, Ohio
At the very least, someone could reach out to them and see if they could get together some officials to oversee a test or two, it'd go a long way in getting people legitimate.
