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

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