2024-09-28, 18:52:21
This is V_3___, Official Bulletin Station for Radio Amateurs of Canada with
this week's bulletin.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. RAC Annual General Meeting 2024:
RAC members are encouraged to attend the Annual General Meeting which will be held online. Saturday, October 5.
Time: 3 pm (Eastern Time)
Agenda:
1) Report of the President
2) Review of the 2023 finances
3) Appointment of auditors for 2024
A Question and Answer period will follow the AGM proceedings. This is your opportunity to hear what your representatives have been doing over the past year, to raise questions, and to make suggestions about how RAC is managed and where it is going in the future. The meeting will be attended by members of the RAC Board of Directors and Executive and is open to everyone but only RAC members will be able to vote.
RAC Members can register for the meeting at:
https://ca01web.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Uqce6tpj8sGtdWOgThM-huZToAK59d2tHm
after registering you will receive a confirmation message with details on joining the meeting, and a zoom link.
The general public can watch the AGM streamed on the RAC YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@radioamateursofcanada
-- RAC website
2. RSGB to End Paper Based License Exams
Beginning January 1st, Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) will no longer offer paper based amateur radio licensing exams except for special educational needs. Already, 97% of all amateur license exams are conducted online remotely or within a club space. Additional costs and effort around paper based exams were cited
as reasons to move to an all digital format. Key dates:
-- Source: RSGB
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
3. Operating Patterns among Canadian Amateurs
Frank Howell K4FMH has released his last article on the analysis of the survey of Canadian Amateurs commissioned by RAC in 2021. This aricle concerns antennas. 62% use single element antennas on HF through 6m, 31% use beams, and the rest use a type of mag-loop. For VHF and higher 77% use a vertical antenna, 19% use a multi element array (either horizontal or vertical), the rest use a single element. Frank's full report (all topics) is available
on his website http://FoxMikeHotel.com
-- amateur radio weekly news
4. Raspberry Pi Becomes Secure VPN Router
OpenWRT is a powerful piece of open-source software that can turn plenty of computers into highly configurable and capable routers. That amount of versatility comes at a cost, though; OpenWRT can be difficult to configure outside of the most generic use cases. This latest project seeks to solve a single use case for routing network traffic, with a Raspberry Pi configured to act as a secure VPN-enabled router configurable with a smartphone.
The project is called PiFi and, while it’s a much more straightforward piece of software to configure, at its core it is still running OpenWRT. There’s built-in support for Wireguard-based VPNs as well which will automatically route all traffic through your VPN of choice. And, since no Pi router is complete without some amount of ad blocking, this router can also take care of removing most ads as well in a similar way that the popular Pi-hole does. More details can be found on the project’s GitHub page.
https://github.com/pifi-org/pifi-openwrt-raspberry-pi
-- Hackaday (Read More at the above URL)
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
this week's bulletin.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. RAC Annual General Meeting 2024:
RAC members are encouraged to attend the Annual General Meeting which will be held online. Saturday, October 5.
Time: 3 pm (Eastern Time)
Agenda:
1) Report of the President
2) Review of the 2023 finances
3) Appointment of auditors for 2024
A Question and Answer period will follow the AGM proceedings. This is your opportunity to hear what your representatives have been doing over the past year, to raise questions, and to make suggestions about how RAC is managed and where it is going in the future. The meeting will be attended by members of the RAC Board of Directors and Executive and is open to everyone but only RAC members will be able to vote.
RAC Members can register for the meeting at:
https://ca01web.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Uqce6tpj8sGtdWOgThM-huZToAK59d2tHm
after registering you will receive a confirmation message with details on joining the meeting, and a zoom link.
The general public can watch the AGM streamed on the RAC YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@radioamateursofcanada
-- RAC website
2. RSGB to End Paper Based License Exams
Beginning January 1st, Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) will no longer offer paper based amateur radio licensing exams except for special educational needs. Already, 97% of all amateur license exams are conducted online remotely or within a club space. Additional costs and effort around paper based exams were cited
as reasons to move to an all digital format. Key dates:
-- Source: RSGB
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
3. Operating Patterns among Canadian Amateurs
Frank Howell K4FMH has released his last article on the analysis of the survey of Canadian Amateurs commissioned by RAC in 2021. This aricle concerns antennas. 62% use single element antennas on HF through 6m, 31% use beams, and the rest use a type of mag-loop. For VHF and higher 77% use a vertical antenna, 19% use a multi element array (either horizontal or vertical), the rest use a single element. Frank's full report (all topics) is available
on his website http://FoxMikeHotel.com
-- amateur radio weekly news
4. Raspberry Pi Becomes Secure VPN Router
OpenWRT is a powerful piece of open-source software that can turn plenty of computers into highly configurable and capable routers. That amount of versatility comes at a cost, though; OpenWRT can be difficult to configure outside of the most generic use cases. This latest project seeks to solve a single use case for routing network traffic, with a Raspberry Pi configured to act as a secure VPN-enabled router configurable with a smartphone.
The project is called PiFi and, while it’s a much more straightforward piece of software to configure, at its core it is still running OpenWRT. There’s built-in support for Wireguard-based VPNs as well which will automatically route all traffic through your VPN of choice. And, since no Pi router is complete without some amount of ad blocking, this router can also take care of removing most ads as well in a similar way that the popular Pi-hole does. More details can be found on the project’s GitHub page.
https://github.com/pifi-org/pifi-openwrt-raspberry-pi
-- Hackaday (Read More at the above URL)
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