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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RAC ONTARIO SECTION BULLETIN FOR WEEK JUNE 5
June 5, 2011Ontario Phone Controllers Wanted
June 2, 2011Greetings everyone from the James VE3TPZ/VA3WR
We are in need of Net Controllers on Wednesday’s and Saturday and also have the need for some backup net controllers who could assist when a regular net control operators are away on. If you wish to learn or be a regular or backup net control operator please contact myself or anyone of the net contollers on the OPN .
James Davidson VE3TPZ/VA3WR EMAIL ve3tpz@rac.ca
ONTARIO PHONE NET CONTROL SCHEDULE UPDATED
June 2, 2011Greetings Everyone.
This is VE3TPZ James I’m filling as the Temporary Manager for the Ontario Phone Net.
At this time there are no script changes or other changes other than an updated Net Controller Schedule.
The current Script that Our Last net manager Ian VE3HMS has written up is working fine so I will remain with it.
Our net controllers are as follows
Sunday VE3TPZ JAMES
Monday VE3RHJ Brad
Tuesday VE3PSV Shawn
Wednesday Open (VE3TPZ |filling in )
Thursday VE3WKJ George
Friday VA3PB PAUL
Saturday’s Open (VE3TPZ will fill in if Available)
If I have omitted someone please advised me ASAp by email AT ve3tpz@rac.ca
James Davidson VE3TPZ/VA3WR
Ontario Phone Net Contollers Schedule
June 2, 2011Greetings Everyone.
This is VE3TPZ James I’m filling as the Temporary Manager for the Ontario Phone Net.
At this time there are no script changes or other changes other than an updated Net Controller Schedule.
The current Script that Our Last net manager Ian VE3HMS has written up is working fine so I will remain with it.
Our net controllers are as follows
Sunday VE3TPZ JAMES
Monday VE3RHJ Brad
Tuesday VE3PSV Shawn
Wednesday Open (VE3TPZ |filling in )
Thursday VE3WKJ George
Friday OPEN
Saturday’s Open (VE3TPZ will fill in if Available)
If I have omitted someone please advised me ASAp by email AT ve3tpz@rac.ca
James Davidson VE3TPZ/VA3WR
SET Info
October 1, 2010Several ARES groups in New York State are having SET exercises tomorrow October 2, 2010. All groups will be originating traffic to be passed via NTS HF nets through the day. I would like to encourage any and all groups in Ontario to announce their exercises on the Ontario Phone Net by way of NTS messages to other groups both within and outside the province. By doing so you assist in training in traffic handling and keep our nets solvent. The province-wide SET date will be announced after October 23rd following a meeting between EMO and ARES and FS interests which is scheduled for that date in Toronto.
All ARES groups in Ontario which are holding local exercises are encouraged to utilize NTS to promote your local SET. It may be necessary, depending on the scenario of the exercise to require the use of non-local amateurs to relay exercise traffic, and by advising neighbouring groups of your plans, you increase the probability of having such assistance available.
73,
Glenn VE3GNA Temporary OPN Manager and STM
2010 SET Update
September 26, 2010To all Net Participants:
As mentioned in the previous post
“RAC Ontario Section Bulletin for September 25, 2010″
The Simulated Emergency Test (SET) is an annual emergency
communications exercise, administered by ARRL and RAC. Both the
Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) and the National Traffic
System (NTS) are involved. The SET gives communicators the
opportunity to focus on the emergency-communications capability
within your community, while interacting with NTS nets.
For Canada EXCEPT Ontario, the SET will be held October 16.
Ontario will be holding its provincial SET at a later date, to be
announced after October 23.
Individual ARES units and other groups
are free to conduct their SETs anytime between September 1 and
November 30 if an alternative date is preferred. The activity period
should not exceed 48 hours. For more information visit
tinyurl.com/3979kom (Three Nine Seven Nine Kilo Oscar Mike)
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At the time of posting this entry (Saturday September 25th at 1945hrs EDST) the Ontario Phone Net has not been notified by either EMO Ontario or the Ontario ARES group of any tasking for the Ontario SET.
As the SET exercise will occur after my resignation takes effect please look for a notice from the incoming Net Manager or the Ontario Section Traffic Manager concerning extra sessions of the net to support the SET.
.
73
Bob Sharp VA3QV
(outgoing) Net Manager Ontario Phone Net
From the OPN Net Manager
September 15, 2010To all Ontario Participants:
September 15 2010
This is to advise you that on September 14th 2010 I contacted the Section Traffic Manager for Ontario VE3GNA and advised him that I would be unable to continue on in my position of Net Manager- Ontario Phone Net. Glenn has replied and accepted my resignation.
I will be giving up my position effective at the end of the Net on September 30th but will gather Net Reports and submit the September Net Report to the STM.
If anyone needs more information please contact the STM
I thank everyone for their support and hard work in the last 16 months and know that they will support my successor in the same fashion.
73bob
Bob Sharp VA3QV (outgoing Net Manager- Ontario Phone Net)
Update from Net Manager
August 9, 2010August 9 2010.
As of todays date I am still off the air at home due to the failure of my autotuner. While trying to jury rig a temporary solution to the problem a support line for the W3EDP broke and now I have no antennas in the air. Testing of the radio and the tuner are planned for early this week…
I will try to get an antenna up and running for the Wednesday and Thursday Nets but no guarantees at this time and the station will also be QRP as the only working tuner I have at this time is a QRP Tuner.
Please hold all net reports for now as I will try to get them on Wednesday/Thursday if band conditions allow.
Hoping for the best…
73bob
Broken Links and missing pictures
July 4, 2010Today I was showing a friend the blog on his computer and suddenly noticed that there was a picture that should of been there… As it turns out I had uploaded directly from an email attachment and unless you had access to my email you would not see it… I quickly copied the picture to a public directory and re uploaded it and you can see it…
The moral of this story is…. I am human and often do make mistakes…. Sometimes something that looks like its in the right place on one of my 3 laptops might not look right on your monitor. Sometimes like the last goof up I upload a file from a private directory which means I can see it on line but you can’t… If you see a mistake please don’t assume I know its there and let me know so I can look into it and make any corrections that might be needed…
73bob
NTS, the OPN and the ISS
June 29, 2010The following is from my Personal Blog (VA3QV.wordpress.com) describing an interesting contact made early Sunday Morning during Field Day. Just a reminder that in this day and age the NTS can reach out…
The highlight of Field Day came much later but did involve the NTS when around 0100 local with a Carleton Student at the controls. There was a station calling CQ Field Day but every time they made the contact at the end the operator asked the contacted station if they could handle NTS Traffic for the bonus points and strange as it seems none of the contacted stations were willing to pick up the traffic. When we finally got through to the station I instucted my operator (I think her name was Maria from Carleton U) to accept the traffic and I would copy it. To be honest I was expecting the usual message to “Uncle Bill from your nephew at the Ham Radio Exibit at Field Day” but as the sending station was relaying the message you could hear a pin drop as the recipient was given:
