RAC Bulletin 2015-03-14

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

NATIONAL NEWS

1. RAC Bulletin Outage

Attention RAC Members,
Our provider at eton.ca that handles RAC bulletins, RARAN, and ARES had
its internet service changed on Friday Feb 27, 2015
and all of these applicable mail servers were down for a period of time
between 12 noon and 5 PM.

This affected RAC bulletins, RARAN, and ARES reflectors and any of the
affiliated information pages for those services.
However, it did not impact the RAC email alias service.

Paul Burggraaf VO1PRB
RAC Chief Information and Technology Officer

PROVINCIAL NEWS

OTHER NEWS

2. MARCONI AND THE POLDHU MARCONI CENTER

An article published in "The Register" about inventor Guglielmo Marconi
and his Poldhu radio laboratory contains
an interview with radio amateur David Barlow, G3PLE. Barlow is an
administrator at the Poldhu Marconi Center
that these days houses modern radio equipment, which can be used by
licensed amateur operators.
The complete article can be found by using the search feature at
www.theregister.co.uk

from southgatearc.org

3. NASA RELEASES SOUNDS OF SPACE RINGTONES

NASA has released a set of sound files suitable for use as ringtones or
computer notifications.
One of them is one of the Morse code "HI" messages picked up from the
Juno instrument during the earth flyby in 2013.
Other tones include the roar of a space shuttle launch or Neil Armstrong's
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" audio clip.

The tones are available in both MP3 as well as M4R format for iPhone users.
The MP3's are at tinyurl.com/space-ringtones.
The M4R files must be downloaded and imported via iTunes.

Item Submitted by KD0L

4. BEARTOOTH ADDS VHF AND UHF COMMUNICATION CAPABILITY TO SMARTPHONES

You have all heard of Bluetooth and some of you may be familiar with
goTenna.
Now a new communications device called Beartooth adds analog VHF and UHF
voice and data communications
capability to smartphones.

Beartooth can operate anywhere in the 137 to 174 MHz and 400 to 470 MHz
bands with an ERP of two watts of
amplitude or phase modulation - transmitting voice, data and telegraphy.

The Beartooth unit is described as a software-defined analog radio
receiver and transmitter that interfaces
with supported devices and includes a battery to double a smartphone's
battery life. Uses include personal,
industrial, and public safety communications.

Beartooth was introduced at the recent Techcrunch gathering looking at
new and future communications devices.
More on is at www.beartooth.com.

5. SPACEWEATHER AND RADIO PROPAGATION FORECASTS

This web site offers regularly updated reports that are both
entertaining and give good clues as to what
radio conditions will be like in the short term.

check out http://spaceweather.tv

submitted by John, VE3EJ

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