RAC Ontario Sections Bulletin for July 27, 2024
Official Bulletin Station for Radio Amateurs of Canada with this week’s bulletin.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Ham Radio During Hurricane Season
ARRL encourages all amateur stations to prepare for what the
National Hurricane Center has predicted will be a busy hurricane season.
Amateur radio plays a critical role in the warning and recovery
process of hurricanes. From providing surface observations which
give forecasters at the National Hurricane Center ground truth,
to providing communications when infrastructure is damaged,
ham radio is as vital as ever.
Nets – HF/VHF/VoIP/Winlink/Digital Radio/Echolink/IRLP
are all ways to communicate with the NHC.
Please see the full article on the arrl website for more info.
— Sierra Harrop, W5DX
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
2. Parry Sound Hamfest
Sponsor: Parry Sound Amateur Radio Club
Date: Saturday, August 17, 2024
Times: Vendors 7:30am, public 9:00am
Location: Foley Community Hall, 60 Rankin Lake Road
Cost: donation to Harvest Share Food Bank
Talk-in: VE3RPL 145.49 – (pl 156.7)
Info: www.hamfest.ve3rpl.com and Facebook
Email: PSARC @ VE3RPL.COM
— PSARC
3. 2024 Ontario QSO Party Results Posted
Head over to http://www.va3cco.com/oqp to check out the results
and to download your certificate if you qualified for one. High scores
in each multiplier area within Ontario, Canadian Provinces, U.S.
States and DX Countries qualify for a certificate.
Thanks to all those who participated.
— OQP Committee.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
4. First M17 Based Radios Begin Shipping
Connect Systems has begun shipping the first radios that operate
M17 “out of the box.” The M17 project is an open source digital
alternative using the Codec 2 voice encoder to modes such as DSTAR
and System Fusion which rely on proprietary encoding and decoding
hardware and software.
The CS7000 M17 is an HT transceiver running M17 described as
“4FSK modulation with an open source Protocol and Vocoder.”
A “PLUS” version of the HT with additional memory and processing
power will also be available.
Info about the M17 Project at https://m17project.org/
Info about the CS7000 at https://www.connectsystems.com/amateur.html
— M17 Users Group
This concludes this week’s bulletin.
Bulletin sent from Official Bulletin Manager VA3PC
RAC Ontario Sections Bulletin for July 27, 2024
