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RAC Ontario Sections Bulletin for Jul 06, 2024 - Richard VE3OZW - 2024-07-06
This is V_3___, Official Bulletin Station for Radio Amateurs of Canada with this week's bulletin.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. RAC Grants and Scholarships Available!
The RAC Foundation is now accepting Scholastic Grant applications from eligible Amateurs for the 2024-2025 school year. The application deadline is October 31.
Eligible candidates must be in full-time attendance at an educational institution such as a university or community college. Candidates must be a certified Canadian amateur at time of the grant application. Scholastic grants will have a maximum value of $1,000. Decisions on grant eligibility and size will be at the sole discretion of the RAC Directors or their designees. Grant applications should be submitted to the RAC Foundation for processing and recommendation by October 31.
For more information please see the RAC Scholarship and Grant Program on the RAC website
Al Eros, VE4ZB – RAC Scholarship and Grants Coordinator – grants@rac.ca
2. HAMS STEP UP AS HURRICANE BERYL ROLLS IN
Hurricane Beryl hit the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico after causing severe damage to the Windward Islands in the Atlantic, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Within the next couple of days, high winds and heavy rain are expected for south Texas as the storm is expected to turn to the northwest.
Bobby Graves, KB5HAV, net manager for the Hurricane Watch Net, reported that the net was activated for each of the storm’s predicted landfalls, collecting
reports from the affected areas for the National Hurricane Center in Florida.
Carlos González, CO2JC, IARU Region 2 Emergency Coordinator, reported from Cuba that communication was maintained through WhatsApp and amateur radio frequencies for countries in or near the affected areas.
From the very beginning, Beryl was making history. Early in its rampage on Monday night, Beryl became the season's earliest Category 5 storm, with 165 mph winds, the strongest July Hurricane on record.
-- Randy Sly W4XJ for amateur radio newsline
3. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN: WELL-ATTENDED EVENT IN GERMANY
Europe's biggest Ham gathering welcomed around 13,000 paying attendees from all over the world. Three of the 13 Zeppelin-size halls held traders, exhibitors and flea markets. In the conference centre presentation streams ran and private IARU meetings with national societies took place.
ICOM, Yaesu and JVC-Kenwood were there and Flex and Elecraft had joint stands with their European distributors. There were no new radios announced at the show but from talking to these companies, it seems that the parts shortages that they and smaller companies have faced, is now becoming a thing of the past.
For those living in Germany a new feature was a job market with representation from several hi-tech companies hoping to find skilled people.
-- Ed Durrant DD5LP (Amateur Radio Newsline)
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
4. ARRL Logbook of The World Returns to Service
ARRL Logbook of The World® (LoTW®) returned to service July 1, 2024. It had been offline as part of a systems service disruption.
As work progressed on the network, some users encountered LoTW opening briefly during which some 6600 logs were uploaded. The logs were not processed until this weekend as we tested that the interfaces to LoTW were functioning properly.
We are taking steps to help manage what will likely be a huge influx of logs. We are requesting that if you have large uploads, perhaps from contests or from a DXpedition, please wait a week or two before uploading to give LoTW a chance to catch up. We have also implemented a process to reject logs with excessive duplicates. Please do not upload your entire log to “ensure” your contacts are in LoTW as they will be rejected.
Lastly, please do not call ARRL Headquarters to report issues you are having with LoTW. You can contact support at LoTW-help@arrl.org.
We know the importance of LoTW to our members, and to the tens of thousands of LoTW users who are not ARRL members. LoTW, just behind QST, is our second most popular ARRL benefit.
-- full article on arrl website.
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