RAC Bulletin 120303

RAC Ontario Section Bulletin for March 3, 2012

NATIONAL NEWS

1. Volunteers needed for Dayton Hamvention.

RAC is returning to Dayton for 2012 and we are once again looking
for volunteers to operate the Booth over May 18 to 20th. Last year
we organized a single three hour slot for each volunteer. Your
availability will determine your slot and flexibility is the
watchword. If you can help, please forward your contact information
and availability by email to ve4baw (at) rac.ca, with a cc: to our
office at rachq (at) rac.ca.

-- Geoff Bawden, VE4BAW, RAC President

2. Earle Smith, Silent Key

It is with regret that Radio Amateurs of Canada has learned that
Earle Smith, VE6NM, passed away peacefully after an illness on
Friday, February 24th.

Earle served as President of RAC from late 2004 to the end of 2007.
All who knew Earle respected him as a leader, a friend and a force
for good in the amateur radio community. We will miss him. The
amateur community can post condolences which will be forwarded to
the family, online at earlesmith.rac.ca.

-- Geoff Bawden, VE4BAW, RAC President

ONTARIO SECTION NEWS

3. TPN Seeks Net Control Stations

The Trans-Provincial Net (TPN) meets daily from 7 am to 5 pm Eastern
Time on 7.055 MHz. The net currently needs more net control
stations. If you can help, please contact net manager Shawn, VE3PSV,
either directly on the TPN or via NTS message.

-- Shawn Gartley, VE3PSV

ITEMS OF INTEREST

4. Ham-Ex 2012

The Mississauga and Peel Amateur Radio Clubs will hold Ham-Ex 2012 on
Saturday, March 24, at the Brampton Fall Fair Grounds, Heart Lake
Road and Old School Road, north of Brampton. Exhibits and
demonstrations start 8 am, flea market 9 am. Talk-in on VE3PRC
146.880, no tone, and VE3MIS 145.430, 103.5 Hz tone. For more
information visit www.ham-ex.ca

-- RAC Events Database

5. New Sections in ARRL Contests

RAC's decision to split Ontario into four Sections will affect ARRL
contests and Field Day in the following ways:

For ARRL contests that use ARRL/RAC sections as multipliers there
will be an overall increase of three available multipliers.

ARRL contests that use US states and Canadian provinces as
multipliers, and the IARU HF Championships, are unaffected by this
change.

The first contest to be affected by the RAC administrative change
will be the 2012 ARRL November Sweepstakes, which will now require 83
multipliers to achieve a Clean Sweep.

ARRL Field Day does not use multipliers, but Ontario stations will
send new Section abbreviations as part of their exchanges.

-- ARRL Web