Thanks to VE3YO Gerry for all his help this past weekend in anchoring the staffing with me in the mall. We had several dozen people stop to visit and talk about Ham radio.
Also thanks to others who volunteered to look after things over the time for a few hours or an afternoon. I include Bill VA3WFS, and Ev VE3MAA who assisted with enthusiasm, as well as Howard VE3GMG, who would have been with us Friday night until a family emergency arose. Also, thanks to Drew for the work in keeping us all posted on the club website.
We set up a temporary 2 meter station inside the mall and made contacts with a number of local stations over the two days, as well as brief IRLP connections with Mike VE3MW in Toronto, VE3CFR repeater Summerside, PEI when I tried to reach VY2WB, plus Dan VE3YUI mobile from Simcoe, ON. All of this, of course, once again proved our ability to communicate worldwide using the internet VOIP connections with our local repeater, VE3ERX.
Again thanks to all for supporting the Emergency Preparedness Week events.
Doug
VA3DLJ
Links
[1] http://www.ve3nbc.ca/category/newsletter/nbarc-news