RAC Bulletin 111022

RAC Ontario Section Bulletin for October 22, 2011
NATIONAL NEWS
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
1. NTS Discussion
On Saturday, October 29th, Shawn VE3PSV will lead an on-air
discussion immediately following the 6:45 pm Laurentian Net on 3.755
MHz. Topics will include NTS traffic handling. All are welcome to
participate.
-- Shawn Gartley, VE3PSV
ITEMS OF INTEREST
2. York Region Hamfest
The York Region Amateur Radio Club will hold its 35th annual hamfest
on Saturday, November 5, at the Markham Fair Grounds, 10801 McGowan
Road in Markham. This is on the North East corner of McCowan Road
and Elgin Mills Road. General admission at 9 a.m.; talk-in on VE3YRA
repeater, 145.350 (-). For more information visit www.yrarc.on.ca
-- RAC Events Database
3. Radio talk 2011
On Saturday, November 26, the West Island (Montreal) Amateur Radio
Club will sponsor a new event: Radio Talk 2011, at the Lakeside
Heights Baptist Church, 275 Braebrook, in Pointe-Claire, Quebec.
Radio of all types is being reinvented in these modern times. It is
a tool for communications, a means of entertainment, and a source of
information. Radio Talk 2011 will be a day of presentations,
demonstrations, and discussions about radio. For this first edition
of the event, sessions will be held in English. Future events will
be augmented with French sessions depending on demand and interest.
For more information visit radiotalk2011.wordpress.com
-- RAC Bulletin Service
4. New Toronto Repeater
On September 25th, "local area" repeater VA3XPR was activated in
Toronto. Its objectives are to create a sense of community and
promote diversity within the St. James Town and adjacent
neighborhoods of Toronto; to act as a catalyst for education and
learning promoting the growth of amateur radio; and to provide an
alternate means of communications in the event of an emergency or
natural disaster in the downtown Toronto area.
VA3XPR is on 441.950 MHz, positive offset, PL tone 100.0 Hz. It also
has IRLP and Echolink connectivity. For more information, visit
www.qrz.com/db/va3xpr
-- Amateur Radio Newsline
5. Asteroid-Bounce Attempt
On November 8 and 9, researchers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto
Rico and the Goldstone Deep Space Network facility in California will
be transmitting continuous radar signals at asteroid 2005 YU55 on
2380 and 8560 MHz, respectively. Hams with small dish antennas (less
than one square meter) should be able to monitor the reflections,
which should sound like slowly drifting narrowband signals of
approximately 1 Hz bandwidth, within a few kilohertz of those
frequencies. More information is available online at
tinyurl.com/5vk58xa (Five Victor Kilo Five Eight X-ray Alpha).
-- CQ News Service