RAC Bulletin 110319

RAC Ontario Section Bulletin for March 19, 2011
NATIONAL NEWS
1. Ontario South Director's Election
Two nominations have been received and are in order for the position
of RAC Ontario South Director, to complete the 2010-2011 term:
Jeffrey Stewart, VA3WXM, and Nelson D.H. Jenking, VA3NDJ.  The
election will be conducted by mail.  Ballots will be mailed to the
applicable postal codes from the RAC Office in the near future.
-- RAC Bulletin Service
2. HF World Championship Results
The results of the 2010 IARU HF World Championship are availlable at
www.iaru.org/contest.html.  Thanks to Dave Sumner, K1ZZ for the
information.
-- Daniel Lamoureux, VE2KA, RAC VP International Affairs

ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
3. Sudbury ARES Activity
Alan, VA3AJV, Sudbury's new EC, reports that Sudbury's IRLP repeater
is back on line. Thanks to VE3's BEK, MND, KBU, HZQ, WVA, AJB for
their many hours spent installing a replacement machine, and to VA3RQ
for his insight and assistance.
Alan was also invited to give a presentation about ARES to the
Greater Sudbury Emergency Management Advisory Panel. It was a great
opportunity to educate community leaders about ARES, and generated
more interest about emergency communications.
-- Stiig Larsen, VE3LBX, DEC Killarney District

ITEMS OF INTEREST
4. ISS offers APRS Support for Japan
Following the earthquake in Japan, the International Space Station
Amateur Radio Station Digipeater has been operational on 145.825 MHz
to handle APRS traffic in the disaster area.  A widespread power
outage has disabled many land-based APRS nodes in northeast Japan.
The ISS is coming over Japan about six times a day. Bob Bruninga,
WB4APR hopes that "stations NOT in the disaster area monitor the ISS
downlink for emergency traffic and can IGATE the downlink into the
APRS Internet System."
-- CQ News Service
5. Glory Launch Failure
The March 4 launch carrying the Glory Satellite Mission and three
student cubesats -- the University of Kentucky's KySat-1, the
University of Montana's Explorer-1, and University of Colorado's
Hermes -- failed to reach orbit. Telemetry indicated the fairing,
the protective shell atop the Taurus XL rocket, did not separate as
expected about three minutes after launch.
-- AMSAT News Service