RAC Ontario Section Bulletin for June 4, 2011 This is V__3____, Official Bulletin Station for Radio Amateurs of Canada, with this week's bulletin NATIONAL NEWS ONTARIO SECTION NEWS 1. OPN Interim Manager James Davidson, VE3TPZ, has offered his services as a temporary Net Manager for the Ontario Phone Net, effective June 1. James will continue in this role until a permanent successor is appointed. Please join me in welcoming James to this post. -- Glenn Killam VE3GNA, Ontario Section Traffic Manager ITEMS OF INTEREST 2. AMSAT Field Day Field Day 2011 runs from 1800 UTC June 25 to 2100 UTC June 26. The AMSAT Field Day competiton encourages the use of analog and digital amateur satellites to make contacts. The exchange is the same as for regular Field Day contacts. Note that only ONE contact is allowed on each single channel FM satellite. This restriction includes the International Space Station. A PDF of the complete rules, including scoring information, is at tinyurl.com/amsatfd2011 -- AMSAT News Service 3. The Adventures of Zack and Max Icom America has produced a series of comic books based on amateur radio for youngsters. Titled "The Adventures of Zack and Max," they follow the adventures of the two teen hams with stories designed to provide the reader with some basic information about ham radio, its history, its applications, and its relevance in the world today. So far there are seven issues, along with matching coloring books for the younger set. They can be downloaded in PDF format at tinyurl.com/hamcomics -- Amateur Radio Newsline 4. FEMA Administrator Calls Amateur Radio "The Last Line of Defense" In an FCC forum on earthquake communications preparedness, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate praised Amateur Radio, saying: "During the initial communications out of Haiti, volunteers using assigned frequencies that they are allocated, their own equipment, their own money, nobody pays them, were the first ones oftentimes getting word out in the critical first hours and first days as the rest of the systems came back up ... I think that there is a tendency because we have done so much to build infrastructure and resiliency in all our other systems, we have tended to dismiss that role 'When Everything Else Fails.' Amateur Radio oftentimes is our last line of defense." Fugate observed that despite all efforts, public service communications will fail, and a strong Amateur Radio community is essential. In his words, "most of the time they're going be bored ... But when you need Amateur Radio, you really need them." -- ARRL Web This concludes this week's bulletin. Does anyone require repeats or clarifications? Hearing none, This is V__3____ returning the frequency to net control. ===================================================================== Bulletin sent from Official Bulletin Manager Brad Rodriguez, VE3RHJ.
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