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RAC Ontario Sections Bulletin for October 21, 2023 - Richard VE3OZW - 2023-10-21
This is V_3___, Official Bulletin Station for Radio Amateurs of Canada
with this week's bulletin.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Hurricane Watch Net Activates for Hurricanes Tammy and Norma
In an e-mail sent on the morning of Friday, October 20, 2023, HWN Net
Manager
Bobby Graves, KB5HAV, wrote:
This morning, we have 2 Hurricanes threatening landfall.
In the Atlantic, we have Tammy which strengthened into a Cat 1 Hurricane
overnight.
In the Eastern Pacific, we have Hurricane Norma. Once a Cat 4 Hurricane,
it is now a Cat 3 storm, threatening Cabo San Lucas at the southern tip of
Baja California.
On Saturday, we will activate on 14.325 MHz (USB) at 8:00 AM EDT (1200 UTC)
and remain active until no longer required. If propagation dictates, we
will utilize
operations on 7.268.00 MHz (LSB)
-- arrl news
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
2. Amateur Radio Supports 2023 Chicago Marathon
On October 8, 2023, more than 140 amateur radio operators from five
Midwest states
assisted 2,000 volunteer medical personnel at the Bank of America
Chicago Marathon.
This is the 15th consecutive year that amateur radio operators have
helped coordinate
medical responses and arrange for medical resupplies.
About 49,000 runners entered this year’s event.
The event uses six main repeater channels and deploys four temporary
repeaters.
New this year was official use of the Automatic Packet Reporting System
(APRS) after
organizers trialed the system at their other events, including the Bank
of America
Shamrock Shuffle and the Chicago 13.1. APRS radios were deployed to amateur
communication teams in Chicago’s Grant Park after the race was finished.
A total of 30 radio operators worked in various capacities before and
after the race.
Also, there were 100 ham radio operators stationed at each of the 20
course medical
tents and the medical hub. In Forward Command, 10 amateur radio
operators served
as net controls, traffic handlers, logging specialists, and expediters.
-- full article at arrl news
3. A POTA Book for Park Activators and Hunters
The Parks on the Air book gives you a look at the setups and processes
of 14 operators
from a variety of skill levels and backgrounds and offers advice and
motivation for taking
your radio out to a park. Each chapter includes a detailed gear list so
you can see exactly
what your fellow operators are using, whether they’re leaders of the
pack or folks just getting
started with Parks on the Air. Setups cover satellite operating, QRP,
urban backpack
portable, activating tailgate-style, wire antennas for POTA, and more.
The Parks on the Air Book may be purchased from the ARRL Store
https://home.arrl.org/action/Store/Product-Details/productId/2013464221
4. Using Amateur Radio to Play Chess
Playing chess using amateur radio? The concept may have begun in 1912
when a group
of college students from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) wanted
to challenge
chess players at The Ohio State University (OSU). Though the official
origin is still being
debated, clippings from a 1912 issue of The Case Tech, one of CWRU's
former student
newspapers, reveal that the challenge was made when the CWRU Wireless
Club procured
a Morse code transceiver.
Nowadays, chess moves are relayed over the air by voice using EchoLink
through a
Cleveland, Ohio, repeater with algebraic chess notation relayed by
voice. In the future,
each chess team will determine what method works best for them based on
skill level and
participation.
HAMCHESS is a great way to reenergize amateur radio clubs and involve
other college
organizations. In 1945, the United States and the USSR squared off in a
radio chess
tournament using CW. In the 1980s, Chess and Amateur Radio
International, a club with
more than 200 members, used 20-meter SSB in a match between five US
players and five
players in Oceania, a geographical region spanning the Eastern and
Western hemispheres.
-- full story at arrl news
This concludes this week's bulletin. Does anyone require repeats or
clarifications?
Hearing none, This is V_3___ returning the frequency to net control.
Bulletin sent from Official Bulletin Manager VA3PC