Start planning now before it is too late. If you are planning on attending the Pacificon 2014 event go to the url below for the all the details.

http://www.pacificon.org/

August 2014 marks 100 years of Submarine service in the Royal Canadian Navy. To celebrate the event a special call sign has been issued.  For more information go to CF3NAVY on QRZ.

http://qrz.com/  query CF3NAVY

ARES and Emergency Planners should look at the attachment to confirm what we already know, social media will have an impact in times of crisis.  What the attachment shows is just how reliant a large portion of the population is on social media.  One VERY IMPORTANT issue still needs to be addressed; the reliability of the information on social media.   ARES Leadership and Emergency Planners need to address this issue in their planning.  We may not be able to fix, but we NEED to be able to deal with it.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/08/04/la-residents-call-11-to-complain-about-facebook-outage/?intcmp=latestnews

ARRL Awards Manager , Awards Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, was injured in a motor vehicle incident. He is currently recovering and away from his duties.  Go to the site noted below for more information should you have queries.

http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-dxcc-and-awards-manager-bill-moore-nc1l-recuperating-following-accident

If you would like to see a comprehensive review of Field Day activities by the Surrey Amateur Radio Club may I suggest their newsletter. It is a very interesting read.

http://tinyurl.com/Communicator0814

There are many places along the Canada US border where the US Coast Guard assists Canadian authorities.  In addition the Coast Guard works with ARES units in times of crisis.  Thanks for all you do and Happy Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY US COAST GUARD

http://www.military.com/coast-guard-birthday

W1AW will move to  Vermont and New Jersey on August 6th utc.  I hope you are having fun chasing this station around the United States.  Good luck and have fun.

Japanese students who came to Canada to help with debris clean up from the Japanese tsunami are on their way home – with some cargo.  This story reminds all of us we need to be prepared for an earthquake, Japan is probably the best prepared country in the woorld and they suffered with this earthquake. ARES folks have you reviewed your plans recently?

http://www.news1130.com/2014/08/03/vancouver-area-woman-reunites-japanese-fisherman-with-item-lost-in-2011-tsunami/

The Vancouver Emergency Community Telecommunications Organization ( VECTOR) had over 30 amateurs at work last night (August 2 2014) in downtown Vancouver assisting other emergency services during the third and final night of the Honda Celebration of Lights.  This event goes over a period of three nights and results in over three hundred thousand people in an around English Bay and over a thousand boats anchored to watch the fire works.  VECTOR assists with this and several other events in the City of Vancouver over the course of the year.  Thanks VECTOR for your efforts.