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Summerside Amateur Radio Club

Mon Aug 16, 2010

TRANSFORMING RADIO AMATEURS OF CANADA – INTRODUCTION

TRANSFORMING RADIO AMATEURS OF CANADA – INTRODUCTION

At the RAC Annual General Meeting in Halifax on 6 August, President Geoff Bawden, VE4BAW, officially launched RAC’s transformation process. The intent of which is to provide context and set the stage – specifically, the why, how and what of RAC’s transformation.

We hope that all Canadian amateur radio operators, members and future members, read the attached documents and reflect on the information they contain. Then we’d ask for your comments, suggestions and recommendations on how to transform Radio Amateurs of Canada.

Part One – Dinosaur Disease Transforming RAC – Part 1-1

Part Two – Dream Job Transforming RAC – Part 2

Part Three – Teams and Team Players Transforming RAC – Part 3

Part Four – Leadership Is Critical Transforming RAC – Part 4

Part Five – Being Effective Transforming RAC – Part 5

Part Six – Transformation isn’t Optional Transforming RAC – Part 6

Part Seven – Tearing Down the Status Quo Transforming RAC – Part 7

We look forward to hearing from you.

Peter West – VE3HG Vice-President of Public Relations Radio Amateurs of Canada

Posted by: VY2WRV - Richard on 16-08-10 | [0] comments (53 views) | 

Huge Groundswell of Hits on RAC Blog August 15, 2010 by Peter West

RAC Blog: http://racblog.wordpress.com/

Huge Groundswell of Hits on RAC Blog
August 15, 2010 by Peter West

The RAC Blog gets about 50 hits or views daily. That’s pretty good and I appreciate those of you who visit and I love those of you who leave comments but yesterday we hit a new high.

Yesterday over 350 of you came here to read about the RAC Transformation Change process that’s underway. That’s amazing.

I’m going to ask each of you who visits this blog site to do RAC and yourself a favour. Our official list of Canadian club email contacts is filled with errors. Even a list I handcrafted this week has many broken addresses. So if you are able, please alert the hams in your community (members and non-members alike) to this opportunity to help make Radio Amateurs of Canada more responsive to your needs and needs of all Canadian amateur radio operators and send us your comments.

So far, the only comment has been this one:

“The best thing that can happen to RAC is for it to fold up it’s (sic) tent and fade away. It is like an ‘old’ building…. tear it down and throw it away and then plant flowers, grass and trees to improve the area.”

Is this what you think? Is this what should happen to our national organization? What’s your comment?

Posted by: VY2WRV - Richard on 16-08-10 | [0] comments (29 views) | 

Tue Aug 03, 2010

Space Weather News for August 1, 2010


http://spaceweather.com

GLOBAL ERUPTION: During the early hours of August 1st, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a complex global disturbance on the Earth-facing side of the sun. Most of the sun's northern hemisphere was involved in the event, which included a long-duration C3-class solar flare, a "solar tsunami," and a massive filament eruption. As a result of these blasts, a coronal mass ejection (CME) is heading toward Earth. High-latitude geomagnetic storms and auroras are possible when the cloud arrives a few days hence. Check http://spaceweather.com for movies and updates.

Those Coronal Mass Ejections can really play havoc with HF communications. I remember when I was doing the "QSO a Day" thing back in 2006. We endured a few CMEs and I thought those were going to be "streak breakers" for me. Fortunately, by calling CQ long enough, I was able to establish communications via ground wave and was able to keep the streak intact.

In a day or so, HF conditions will probably deteriorate. However, aurora will probably be visible at the higher latitudes.

Posted by: VY2WRV - Richard on 03-08-10 | [0] comments (151 views) | 

Fri Jul 30, 2010

HAM RADIO IN SPACE: ISS TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF US SCOUTING WITH ISS CONTACT



A special Amateur Radio on the International Space Station contact with the 100th anniversary of Scouting Jamboree is scheduled to take place at about 18:20 UTC on Saturday, July 31st. At the time of the contact the I-S-S will be in a 56 degree elevation pass over the National Boy Scout Jamboree at Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia. That's where some 43,000 scouts and leaders will join 8,000 volunteers to celebrate this milestone event for the scouting movement. Amateur Radio Newsline's Mark Abramowicz, NT3V, is at the Jamboree and will have a report on ham radios part in this years Jamboree later on in this weeks Amateur Radio Newsline report.

Posted by: VY2WRV - Richard on 30-07-10 | [0] comments (116 views) | 
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