The Cowichan Valley Amateur Radio Society will hold a basic radio course starting in mid September 2014. For  more information go to

http://www.cvars.com/

W1AW continues their rounds with the second visit to states.  The next move is August 27th, 2014.  Remember you can make a second contact with the state, check the rules (last paragraph)

http://www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party

“The Secretary of Radio Amateurs of Canada Inc, hereby solicits nominations for the positions of Director for the Regions of Atlantic, BC/Yukon, Midwest and Ontario North/East (postal codes K and P). Elections for these positions will be held in October 2014 to take office January 1, 2015 for a two year term.”

Nominations and brief biographical sketch/CV must be received by the Secretary of RAC by Sept 2nd 2014:

Secretary -RAC

720 Belfast Rd. Unit 217

Ottawa ON K1G 0Z5

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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To all radio amateurs

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ARLS004 Chasqui-1 Amateur Radio CubeSat Deployed from ISS

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