The Nanaimo Amateur Radio Club will hold a basic course starting Sept 27th 2014. For more information go to

http://www.ve7na.ca/cms/

Did you know that

BC covers just about 10% of Canada’s surface area.

Less than 2% of the Provinces’s 364,764 square miles are covered by lakes and rivers

Only one US state, Alaska, is larger in surface area

and

Vancouver Island is about the size of Holland.

This should give you an idea of the size of BC.

There are over two million people living in the Lower Mainland (that’s about half the Province’s population ).

The entire BC coast is vulnerable to earthquakes.   That’s one of the reasons why ARES is frequently mentioned on this site

The Abbotsford Amateur Radio Club will be offering a basic radio course at the end of Sept 2014. For more information go to

http://www.abbyarc.ca/

Sydney Jameson  VE7BOP   passed away last week in Nelson BC.For several years Syd was the Regional Amateur Radio Representative for the Southeast Region of the Provincial Emergency Program.  In addition he was a member of the Nelson Amateur Radio Club.

Some ARRL websites will be down this weekend for maintenance.  For dates times etc go to

http://www.arrl.org/news/some-arrl-website-services-to-be-down-for-maintenance

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ARLS004 Chasqui-1 Amateur Radio CubeSat Deployed from ISS

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From ARRL Headquarters  Newington, CT  August 19, 2014
To all radio amateurs

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ARLS004 Chasqui-1 Amateur Radio CubeSat Deployed from ISS

A team of Russian cosmonauts has deployed the Peruvian Chasqui-1
Amateur Radio CubeSat into orbit during a spacewalk from the
International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 40 Continue reading ARRL BULLETIN ON A NEW CUBE SAT LAUNCHED FROM THE ISS →

BC’s annual earthquake exercise will be held on October 16th 2014 this year.  The drill will commence at 1016 am.  This is a good time for ARES units to test their plans, let the public know you are around and learn how things may shakeout if an event occurs during the week…. whi will be available etc.  Lets see if we can register more amateurs this year than last year.  For more information go to

http://shakeoutbc.ca/

PD0ARI  is a special event station commemorating pirate radio station Radio Veronica.  Radio Veronica operated from a ship in the North Sea. The special event  station will be active between the dates noted above. For more information go to

http://www.arrl.org/news/pirate-radio-ship-redux-radio-caroline-returns-radio-veronica-northsea-special-event-set

The party goes on and W1AW continues to move.  Aug 20 2014 utc is the next stop….Aug 20 214.  Remember you can work a state twice….. check the rules