RAC Bulletin 111203

RAC Ontario Section Bulletin for December 3, 2011

NATIONAL NEWS

1. Radio Amateurs of Canada Executive for 2012-2013

RAC's incoming Executive members for 2012-2013 are:

RAC President - Geoff Bawden, VE4BAW
First Vice President - Ian MacFarquhar, VE9IM
Chief Field Services Officer - Doug Mercer, VO1DM
Chief Information and Technology Officer - James Hay, VE2VE
International Affairs Officer - George Gorsline, VE3YV
Regulatory Affairs Officer - Bill Gade, VE4WO
RABC Representative Officer - Norm Rashleigh, VE3LC
Honourary Legal Counsel - Marcel Mongeon, VA3DDD
Corporate Secretary - Paul Burggraaf, VO1PRB

There were no candidates for the positions of Treasurer, Public
Information Officer or Member Services Officer.

-- RAC Bulletin Service

2. Notice to TELUS e-mail users

Starting on November 23 there has been a significant increase in
junk e-mail arriving for @rac.ca e-mail addresses. Normally we
simply mark these as possible spam and forward them to our users.
However, TELUS chose to stop accepting messages after only a short
period each day, resulting in most @rac.ca aliases destined for TELUS
customers being significantly delayed.

Messages are again being accepted by TELUS. We now have our e-mail
server block any messages for TELUS customers which would normally be
marked as spam. It's possible that this will block some legitimate
messages. Those who are not TELUS customers will not be affected.

-- RAC Bulletin Service

ONTARIO SECTION NEWS

3. New TPN Manager

Effective immediately, Shawn VE3PSV is the net manager of the
Trans-Provincial Net. TPN meets daily from 7 am to 5 pm Eastern Time
on 7.055 MHz. Amateurs from all areas are invited to check in.

-- Shawn Gartley, VE3PSV

ITEMS OF INTEREST

4. AO-51 End Of Mission

Amateur satellite AO-51 has ceased transmission and is not responding
to commands. The last telemetry data indicated that the third of six
batteries was approaching failure to short, and observations indicate
the voltage from three cells is insufficient to power the UHF
transmitters. The command team will regularly attempt communications
with the satellite over the coming months (and years), on the chance
that a shorted cell will open and transmissions resume.

-- AMSAT News Service

5. 70cm Packet Active from ISS

The amateur radio station located in the Columbus module of the
International Space Station is currently operational with the UHF
transceiver and packet system using the frequency of 437.550 MHz. For
digi relay, set the UNPROTO path to ARISS (the id is RS0ISS). To
connect to the BBS, use the callsign RS0ISS-1. The packet beacon is
set for 2 minute intervals so it may not appear to be active over
many parts of the world but keep listening and mind the Doppler shift
(+ or - 10 KHz).

-- AMSAT News Service

6. OpenQRP Project

The OpenQRP project is an attempt to design "open source" amateur
radio equipment. The first project, contributed by organizer Steve
Elliott, K1EL, is a microprocessor controlled QRP transceiver. For
more information, or to participate in the project, visit
www.openqrp.org.

-- OpenQRP Web Site