RAC Bulletin 2015-01-31

RAC Ontario Sections Bulletin for January 31, 2015

This is V__3____, Official Bulletin Station for Radio Amateurs of
Canada, with this week's bulletin

NATIONAL NEWS

1. Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Nominations

Nominations are now being accepted for the Canadian Amateur Radio Hall
of Fame.

An appointment as Member of the Hall, is made for outstanding
achievement and excellence
of the highest degree, for serious and sustained service to Amateur
Radio in Canada,
or to Amateur Radio at large.
RAC Membership is not mandatory for nomination or appointment.

All nominations for Member of the Hall must be received at RAC
Headquarters by the close of the last business
day of September. Late nominations will be considered in the following year.

For complete information see http://wp.rac.ca and scroll down to "recent
posts"

ONTARIO SECTIONS NEWS

ITEMS OF INTEREST

2. Winter Storm Report

Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES) teams and SKYWARN weather
observers along the US Eastern Seaboard
went on alert Monday, January 26, as a winter storm began working its
way into the Northeast.

Amateur Radio operators across Southern New England checked into SKYWARN
Nets, providing
situational awareness information for the National Weather Service, and
other agencies.

Elsewhere, ARES and SKYWARN volunteers relayed ground-level weather
conditions to NWS offices as the severe
storm continued its northeasterly trek. Ares Groups in Eastern New York
stood down at midday on January 27.

In Maine, where heavy snowfall and high winds battered eastern and
coastal communities, ARES bumped up its
alert status to standby. Maine ARES Section activated ARES Weather and
SKYWARN Net sessions on HF, but no
served agencies requested ARES communication support.

For the full write-up see http://www.arrl.org/ and scroll down to the
article of Jan 28th.

-- ARRL News

3. Changes to ARRL VHF Contesting Rules

The ARRL Board adopted changes at its annual meeting January 16-17 2015,
to the ARRL VHF/UHF
contest rules to encourage greater participation.

Rules now permit spotting assistance with no effect on entry category;
permit self-spotting for all operator categories;
and allow single operators to transmit on more than one band at a time.
The changes become effective with the 2015 June ARRL VHF Contest.

-- ARRL News

4. Where is that DX?

An Azimuthal map customized for your station location is available for
download at
http://ns6t.net/azimuth/azimuth.html
The map has many output options, e.g. save it as the desktop background
of your hamshack computer.

This concludes this week's bulletin. Does anyone require repeats or
clarifications?
Hearing none, This is V__3____ returning the frequency to net control.