RAC Ontario Sections Bulletin for September 28, 2024
Official Bulletin Station for Radio Amateurs of Canada with
this week’s bulletin.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. RAC Annual General Meeting 2024:
RAC members are encouraged to attend the Annual General Meeting
which will be held online. Saturday, October 5.
Time: 3 pm (Eastern Time)
Agenda:
1) Report of the President
2) Review of the 2023 finances
3) Appointment of auditors for 2024
A Question and Answer period will follow the AGM proceedings.
This is your opportunity to hear what your representatives have
been doing over the past year, to raise questions, and to make
suggestions about how RAC is managed and where it is going
in the future.
The meeting will be attended by members of the RAC Board
of Directors and Executive and is open to everyone but only RAC
members will be able to vote.
RAC Members can register for the meeting at:
https://ca01web.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Uqce6tpj8sGtdWOgThM-huZToAK59d2tHm
after registering you will receive a confirmation message
with details on joining the meeting, and a zoom link.
The general public can watch the AGM streamed on the RAC YouTube
channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@radioamateursofcanada
— RAC website
2. RSGB to End Paper Based License Exams
Beginning January 1st, Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) will
no longer offer paper based amateur radio licensing exams except
for special educational needs. Already, 97% of all amateur license
exams are conducted online remotely or within a club space.
Additional costs and effort around paper based exams were cited
as reasons to move to an all digital format. Key dates:
— Source: RSGB
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
3. Operating Patterns among Canadian Amateurs
Frank Howell K4FMH has released his last article on the analysis
of the survey of Canadian Amateurs commissioned by RAC in 2021.
This aricle concerns antennas. 62% use single element antennas
on HF through 6m, 31% use beams, and the rest use a type of
mag-loop. For VHF and higher 77% use a vertical antenna, 19%
use a multi element array (either horizontal or vertical), the rest
use a single element. Frank’s full report (all topics) is available
on his website http://FoxMikeHotel.com
— amateur radio weekly news
4. Raspberry Pi Becomes Secure VPN Router
OpenWRT is a powerful piece of open-source software that can
turn plenty of computers into highly configurable and capable
routers. That amount of versatility comes at a cost, though;
OpenWRT can be difficult to configure outside of the most generic
use cases. This latest project seeks to solve a single use case for
routing network traffic, with a Raspberry Pi configured to act as
a secure VPN-enabled router configurable with a smartphone.
The project is called PiFi and, while it’s a much more straightforward
piece of software to configure, at its core it is still running OpenWRT.
There’s built-in support for Wireguard-based VPNs as well which will
automatically route all traffic through your VPN of choice. And, since
no Pi router is complete without some amount of ad blocking, this
router can also take care of removing most ads as well in a similar
way that the popular Pi-hole does. More details can be found on the
project’s GitHub page.
https://github.com/pifi-org/pifi-openwrt-raspberry-pi
— Hackaday (Read More at the above URL)
Bulletin sent from Official Bulletin Manager VA3PC
RAC Ontario Sections Bulletin for September 28, 2024
