Official Bulletin, RAC Ontario Section
RAC Ontario Section Bulletin for July 2, 2011 This is V__3____, Official Bulletin Station for Radio Amateurs of Canada, with this week's bulletin NATIONAL NEWS 1. RAC Annual General Meeting The RAC Annual General Meeting (AGM) has been scheduled for Saturday, July 30 at 1:30 pm. For the first time in RAC's history the AGM will be held in historic St. John's, Newfoundland and will be held in conjunction with Hamfest NL 2011 hosted by the Society of Newfoundland Radio Amateurs. The event will be at The Battery Hotel & Conference Center on historic Signal Hill. All RAC members are encouraged to attend the Annual General Meeting. For more information visit www.sonra.ca and click the Hamfest 2011 link. -- The RAC Report ONTARIO SECTION NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST 2. Submit Your Field Day Logs! The report submission deadline for 2011 ARRL Field Day is 11:59 PM EDT on Tuesday, July 26. Participants are encouraged to submit their required summary sheet using the online submission application found at www.b4h.net/cabforms. This web form allows you to submit the summary sheet directly to the ARRL. -- ARRL Web 3. The "Night of Nights," July 12 On July 12th every year, from 3 p.m. to midnight, the historic Morse code radio station KPH returns to the air in commemoration of the closing of commercial Morse operation in the USA. Frequency and reception report information for KPH and other participating stations can be found at the Maritime Radio Historical Society web site, www.radiomarine.org. -- via Glenn Killam, VE3GNA 4. New SATERN Director Named Salvation Army Major Richard Shirran, VE3NUZ, has been appointed as the new head of SATERN, the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network. He succeeds Major Pat McPherson, WW9E, who retires with the new appointment, 23 years and one day after the first SATERN net was held. -- CQ News Service 5. New Access Rules for QRZ.com Users of the QRZ.com callsign database must now be registered and sign in before getting access to any name or address data. Owner Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ, explained that the system was being slowed down automated systems trying to harvest massive amounts of data. Registration is free. -- CQ News Service 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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