RAC Bulletin 2015-04-18

RAC Ontario Sections Bulletin for April 18, 2015

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

NATIONAL NEWS

1. Incident Command System Training

ARES under direction from their respective SMs, offers support to
municipalities across Canada
in providing a back-up communications capability for the municipal
emergency management team.
Some of these municipalities or served agencies use ICS and where that
exists,
there could be a request that ARES radio operators be trained at least
to the ICS-100 / 200 levels
in order to be familiar with its concepts.
RAC does not have the resources nor is it structured to offer in-house
ICS training.

In Ontario, there is online training available at the
emergencymanagementontario.ca website
for IMS100 which is functionally equivalent to the ICS-100 course
mentioned above.

ONTARIO SECTIONS NEWS

2. Canwarn training - Week of May 3rd to May 9th.

May 4 – 6 PM – Kingston – City Library ; 935 Gardiners Road
May 6 – 6:30 PM – Ottawa – Greenboro Community Centre ; 363 Lorry
Greenberg Drive
May 7 – 7 PM – Waterloo – Adult Recreation Centre ; 185 King St South
May 9 – 9 AM – Hamilton – Nash Auditorium, Wilcox Building, Chedoke
Hospital,
Sanatorium Road in Hamilton, free parking across from Wilcox building
May 9 – 9 AM – Frontenac County – Frontenac County Building ; Frontenac
Room, 2069 Battersea Road, Glenburnie
please RSVP to canwarn.ontario @ ec.gc.ca if you plan to attend these
sessions.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

3. SOUTH AFRICA HAMS GAIN FULL KILOWATT PRIVLEGE

Hams in South Africa have been granted a transmit power increase to a
full kilowatt.

For decades the maximum South Africa output power was limited to 400
watts peak envelope.
A workgroup was established to campaign for higher power. After
negotiating for several years,
South African telecommunications authorities were satisfied that the
call was well motivated.

The updated regulation was then published in the South African
Government Gazette and the
new 1 kilowatt output power privilege became effective on April 1st.
(ZS6FDX)

4. FOUR DAYS IN MAY QRP CONFERENCE IN OHIO

Four Days in May is the annual conference of the QRP Amateur Radio Club
International
that takes place May 14th through the 16th in parallel with the Dayton
Hamvention.

This gathering is open to everyone and should appeal to anyone
interested in home brewed
antennas, portable operation, Arduino and more. Seminars begin on
Thursday May 14th.
Friday May 15th features a late afternoon Build-a-thon this year
constructing four pieces of test gear.
Saturday May 16th will host the Four Days In May Grand Banquet with
awards and prizes being given.
Bus service to and from the Hamvention will be available.

The venue this year is the in Holiday Inn Fairborn just to the East of
Dayton Ohio.
Details are on the web at www.qrparci.org/fdim

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