Daylight Saving Time starts Sunday March 9th at 2am.  TURN YOUR CLOCKS AHEAD ON SATURDAY NIGHT.   Now is also a good time to check the batteries in the smoke detectors, check the inspection date on the fire extingusher(s) and have a general safety inspection around the house.   On Saturday night  sleep fast !

OnThursday March 6th 2014 Industry Canada rolled out the new question bank for Amateur Radio examination. For all the information go to

https://www.rac.ca/en/news/stories/2014/2014.03.06a   for the press release

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/025.nsf/eng/h_00040.html   for the Industry Canada site

Are you interesting in being part of Team Canada in the Commonwealth Contest?  For more information go to  http://www.beru.org.uk/news.html

The Tesla Memorial CW contest will be held the weekend of March 8&9, 2014 This is the first time this event has been held.  For all the information go to

http://www.radiosport.org.rs/HFTeslaMemorial/

Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) and RFinder are excited to announce a
new business partnership agreement effective March 1st. RAC endorses
RFinder as the official Worldwide Repeater Directory for all Canadian
amateur radio operators.

The RFinder is a steadily growing Continue reading Radio Amateurs of Canada partners up with RFinder – “The worldwide repeater directory”* 2014-03-03. →

The International Lighthouse and Lighthouse weekend will be held
August 16th 2014. It is now time to register.  For information on the history of the event and registration go to  http://www.illw.net/

Paul Peters, VE7BZ, will be presenting in Seattle at the Conference  For Volunteer Emergency Communicators on Saturday March 22,2014.  Paul’s presentation will cover the cross border exercise held in early January 2014.  This simulated emergency exercise was of the largest if not the largest amateur radio exercise held on the west coast of North America.   For more information on the conference go to

http://commacademy.org/

W1AW will move to  Idaho and Kentucky on March 5th.  This is part of the ARRL Centennial Party. For more info on the party go to

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

Health issues of a long time member of the AMSAT have forced changes to the board. For the full story go to

http://www.arrl.org/news/amsat-s-g-gould-smith-wa4sxm-steps-down-from-amsat-board

XM3C will be celebrating ARRL contests from 23 Feb until 25 March 2014.  The use of XL3A marking the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Ontario Museum will end March 7th 2014