The City Council of Pitt Meadows recognized an amateur radio operator for his efforts in the amateur radio emergency service. To learn more go to

An honour for Ron!

The Hurricane Watch Net is active. Planned frequencies in use will be 14.325 and 7.268. Check the site noted below. Your usual cooperation in keep these frequencies clear is appreciated.

http://www.hwn.org/

This is an interesting event. To find out more go to

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1109843077277&ca=b54f353c-4692-4564-b79a-0059721f9206

Alex Schwarz, VE7DXW, continues to work on his correlation between earthquakes and HF Propagation. Below is his report regarding the recent California earthquakes.

http://www.arrl.org/news/report-california-earthquakes-disrupted-hf-propagation-on-west-coast

An earthquake struck just northwest of Seattle early this morning with the event being felt in southern BC. Are you prepared ????

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/4-6-earthquake-seattle-vancouver-bc-1.5209394

There are a lot of special event stations dealing with the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing. Below are a list of some of the stations. Activation dates vary. Good Hunting

http://www.arrl.org/news/view/special-event-stations-to-commemorate-50th-anniversary-of-the-apollo-moon-landing

The initial theft of the trailer and truck was reported on Facebook. It would appear the trailer has now been recovered.

https://mailchi.mp/e68779cb2f7b/2019-07-07m?fbclid=IwAR2LMByjq0p7DuonhrqViLfj9eWUOXocmyKIip3ISv1N5xjI39EOhM1vRTw

Call for Nominations of Candidates for Regional Directorhttps://wp.rac.ca/call-for-nominations-of-candidates-for-regional-director/
Notice to RAC Members Residing in the Alberta/NWT/NU, Ontario South and Quebec Regions
The Secretary of Radio Amateurs of Canada Inc. hereby solicits nominations for the positions of Director for the Regions of Alberta/NWT/NU, Ontario South (postal codes L, M and N) and Quebec.
As described below the deadline for all original nominations and supporting documentation, including a biographical sketch, must be received by the RAC Secretary at the address indicated below by 12 noon on Friday, September 20, 2019. If required, an election for these positions will be held in October 2019 to take office on January 1, 2020 for a two-year term.
Incumbents:

• Alberta/NT/NU: Ernest C. Clintberg, VE6EC
  
• Ontario South: Phil McBride, VA3QR
  
• Quebec: Guy Richard, VE2XTD

1. The Candidate:

• must be a Full Voting Member of RAC
  
• must have reached the legal age of majority
  
• must reside in the Region for which he or she is nominated
  

2. A candidate may not nominate himself/herself. 3. The nomination form will:

• be printed or typed
  
• clearly indicate the candidate’s name, call sign and RAC membership number
  
• clearly indicate the names, call signs, RAC membership numbers and original signatures of ten (10) or more full voting members of RAC
  

4. The nominators must have reached the legal age of majority and must reside in the same Region as the candidate whom they are nominating. 5. Each candidate must:

• sign the nomination form, indicating a willingness to be nominated
  
• include with the nomination a brief biographical sketch/CV limited to 500 words succinctly setting out his/her background and qualifications. A candidate choosing to submit a biographical sketch in both English and French languages will be allowed 500 words in each language. The biographical sketch will not include any campaign platform material.
  

6. Nominations must be sent to the following address: Secretary, Radio Amateurs of Canada720 Belfast Road, Suite 217Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z5 Note: Please clearly indicate on the mailing envelope that Nomination Documents are enclosed. 7. As indicated previously all original nominations and supporting documentation, including the biographical sketch, must be received by the RAC Secretary at the address indicated above by 12 noon on Friday, September 20, 2019. It is suggested (but not required) that the nomination forms be sent by registered mail. Faxed or emailed documents will not be accepted. The envelope will be held unopened until after the closing deadline of September 20, 2019. After this date, the Election Committee, under the supervision of the RAC Secretary, will open all submissions, review the documentation for accuracy, completeness and validity, and then announce the results of the Call for Nominations. The decision of the Election Committee is final. Should a balloted election be required, ballots will be mailed from RAC Headquarters on or before October 1, 2019.

Alan Griffin
RAC MarCom Director

Interested in Emergency Communications in BC Lower Mainland ?

Firstly, we wish to apologize to the membership for the delay in coming back online. We made a number of attempts to switch over to a new operating system and ran into a series of compatibility and file transfer glitches. We have reverted back to the version of the RAC website prior to starting this … Continue readingRAC Site – Back Online

ORIGINAL BULLETIN

The Radio Amateurs of Canada website will be shutting down as of 1700hrs (5:00pm) on Friday, July 5, 2019 to facilitate the switch over to a new server and operational software.

The outage is expected to run into mid Saturday afternoon as we transfer files and perform various tests. 

You will see a notice on the website indicating that we are in maintenance mode. Once the notice disappears the site should be operational.

In preparation, we will not be making any updates, posts, call sign or email alias changes to the site as of 1900 hrs (7:00pm) Thursday evening, July 4, 2019.

This outage will impact all aspects of the RAC site including online payments to “Join/Renew RAC” and the RAC email alias system.

If you wish to “Join/Renew membership”  or have questions please contact the RAC Office from 10:00am to 4:00pm on Friday, July 5th at racmanager@gmail.com or phone to (613)-244-4367 or 1-877-273-8304 

“Thank You” for your co-operation and patience while we make the change over to our new server.

Paul Burggraaf, VE3PRB

RAC Webmaster