The 2015 Mattawa Canoe Race was held Saturday July 25th 2015. This was the 39th running of the event. At 64K long, it is the longest canoe race in Ontario and considered one of the premier events.

In attendance were; Chris VA3CMX, Howard VE3GMG, Paul VA3PC, Bruce VA3BDR, Bill VE3TGI, and Drew VE3MAF. As in other years there were 3 checkpoints as well as the Finish.  #2 checkpoint is water (canoe) access only. Chris transported in all his gear including batteries, radios and a tarp for shelter.

Approximately 50 contestants left Olmstead Beach to run the complete race and another approximate 12 family fun contestants entered at Champlain Park. Aside from a few rain showers the weather cooperated. There was a dinner at the Community Centre afterwards.

The event ran well and there were no unusual problems. Bill had rented a contractor type trailer for use at the finish. This was a very successful experiment. It provided a sheltered, stable platform, especially during the rain storms, upon which to set up chairs and a table. There was ample room for 2 or 3 to sit and work. Bill and I discussed scenarios for event setups using a trailer vs the pop up tent. We will have a full report at the September 9th meeting and are looking for discussion and input. The Run off the Grid is Septenber 19th and I recommend we rent the trailer again for that event.

73 Drew VE3MAF

Post-race Meal: gd2go [19] will be catering and serving a hearty and healthy post-race meal with as much food sourced locally as possible and with minimal to no waste.  Leisure Farms [20] also supplies corn for a post-race corn roast. Bring your own plates, cups and cutlery.

Time limit: 8 hours. Must make the first 25 km loop in under 4 hours to continue for the 50 km.

Opening times: Vendors: 0630 - 0830. General public is admitted to the indoor gathering area commencing at 0730. No more braving the elements while waiting for the event to open! Doors open to the vendor area at 0900.
Cost: $7.00 per person and this includes a door prize ticket. An “express lane” for those with exact change. Children twelve and under admitted free. Vendor tables are $33.00 each for a table eight feet long. Grand Prize tickets are $5.00 each, three for $10.00.
 
How To Get There:  http://www.markhamfair.ca/canadaslargest-4-day-agricultural-fair-6/greet... [21]
 
Webpage:  http://yrarc.org/index.php/our-hamfest [22]

Opening times: Doors open to general public at 9am and close at 1pm. Vendors may start setting up at 730am.
Cost: Admission is $7
http://www.durhamregionhamfest.com [24]

911A Gormanville Rd. North Bay.  Here is how to get there if you need it.  http://www.ve3nbc.ca/content/meeting-location-2013 [25].
 

Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 1800 UTC Saturday and running through 2059 UTC Sunday. Field Day 2015 is June 27-28.

We have now been requested.  Sign up on the webpage as usual. Thanks.
One wrinkle this year is that they would like a radio sitting about 300 yeards from the finish to call in the participant numbers to the announcer on the stage (therefore, 2 volunteers more than usual).
6-8 volunteers required.
 

Grenfell Community Centre / Arena
1989 Sunnidale Road, Grenfel, ON L0L 1Y0
 
Take Highway 400 Northbound to Dunlop Road West, Head 5km west on Dunlop Road West ( Hwy 90 )to Pinegrove Road, turn right proceed north 1 km to Sunnidale Road. Turn Right, proceed 500m . Grenfell Community centre on your right.
 
http://rac.eton.ca/events/detail.php?event_ID=1732 [26]
 
 

Field Day is approaching and we hope you’ll participate! Our goal is to have a successful (and fun) 24-hour exercise that tests our ability to operate under ‘adverse’ conditions. We will meet Saturday morning, June 28 at 9:30 at the top of the ski hill, 15 Janey Avenue, for a briefing before we begin setting up. The actual field day exercise begins at 2 p.m. Saturday and runs until 2 p.m. Sunday. We plan to have two stations in place, and will try to make as many North American contacts as we can.  If you are interested, please mark June 28 and 29 on your calendars.  For more information, please contact Lori at kethren2004@yahoo.ca [29] or (705) 474-5728.

How To Get There: http://www.markhamfair.ca/canadas-largest-4-day-agricultural-fair-6/gree... [32]
 
Admission : $7:00 per person, with an “express lane” for those with exact change. Commencing at 0730 a covered indoor area opens for the general public, with free coffee and tea. Muffins, donuts are available for purchase! Doors open to the sales area for the general public at 0900.

Talk-in: VE3YRA 145.350 MHz(-) T: 103.5 Hz
D-STAR: 145.670 MHz Direct

Venue: Vendors galore in two separate halls, plus a separate hall for admissions and refreshments --- Wide aisles for scooters and wheelchairs --- Exhibits and demonstrations --- Lots of parking --- Great door prizes --- Grand Prizes --- DXCC, WAS & VUCC Card Checking --- Licensing Examinations (register with Hamfest Co-ordinator prior to Hamfest to ensure we bring enough exams.)

Electronic Waste Disposal: At our event the Maple Lions Club will be collecting electronic waste for recycling. Acceptable items are computers, laptops, computer accessories, printers & scanners, phones & fax machines, monitors and televisions, cell phones & digital cameras, security surveillance equipment, game systems & controllers, radios, hard drives, cables/wiring, small appliances, batteries, external storage media devices corded and cordless power tools, commercial & industrial electronic equipment, server racks, cages, rails

ADMISSION IS FREE!!
For more info visit their web page...   http://www.vhara.ca/swapmeet.html [33]
 
 

I've received an e-mail from Peter Kimbell of Environment Canada. The 2013 CANWARN training is tentatively scheduled for Friday, May 31st. Exact time and location (likely the Library or the OPP PCC) to be determined.Mr. Kimbell has a very full schedule this spring and is pretty much only available on the Friday evening. I'll post more when I know more.Thanks,BillVE3TGI

Field Day is fast approaching and we hope you’ll participate! Our goal is to have a successful (and fun) 24-hour exercise to practice our ability to operate under ‘adverse’ conditions. We will meet next Saturday morning at 9:00 at the top of the ski hill, 15 Janey Avenue, for a briefing before we begin setting up. The actual field day exercise begins at 2 p.m. Saturday and runs until 2 p.m. Sunday. Officials have been invited to drop in between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday. We will have two stations in place, and are looking for people to take two-hour shifts. The following are suggestions on what to bring:
• HT Radio FM Simplex 147.450 no tone (Local chat at the site. Please program radios prior to event.)
• Appropriate clothing for rain or sun
• Lawn chair
• Bug dope
• Personal hygiene kit (including any required medications)
• Travel mug
• Plate and cutlery (if staying for meals)
Speaking of meals, our famous chef, Bill, is looking for a rough idea of how many people will be there for meals, and especially how many people plan to eat supper on Saturday. Please email him at ve3tgi@gmail.com [36] to let him know.
Your field day planning team,
Lori Beckerton Bill Gibson Chris May

Amateur Radio Emergency Services
Ontario Section
Magnetawan Sector Activity Report
Sent: 2013-08-07 18:12 for the Month of August
Sent by: Paul Caccamo, Callsign: VA3PC
Email : paul@ciinet.org [39]
On behalf of : North Bay A.R.E.S.
Nature of this Activity Report: --> Special Event <--
Brief Description of Activity : 2013 Summer in the Park Festival
Places or Area Involved : Nipissing Waterfront & Amelia Park, North Bay
Numbers of Amateurs Participating : 5
Numbers of Other Communication Volunteers : 0
Event Start : Friday Aug 2nd 0900
Event Finish : Sunday Aug 4th 2330
Hours Spent Planning and Setup : 12
Event Duration : 45 Hrs
Total Person-Hours : 225
Number of Repeaters Used : 1
Number of Portables Used : 45
Number of Mobiles Used : 0
Number of Bases Used : 2
Number of km driven by Comms Personnel : 60
Person-Power Cost : $ 2250
Equipment Used Cost : $ 14950
Transportation Cost : $ 21
Total Estimated Cost of Service : $ 17221
Nets or Frequencies Used (including Repeater Callsigns):
This event used commercial UHF equipment, one duplex and three simplex frequencies.
The ARES/NBARC manned the command post and coordinated occurrence response with the various groups: Services, First Aid, Security, and Operations.
We also contacted Police and Ambulance when requested by festival personnel.
The use of a custom designed PHP/MySQL program was used to track occurrence information and resource deployment.
Number of Messaages Passed : 90
Names of Agencies receiving communications support:
North Bay "Summer in the Park" Committee.
North Bay Parks and Recreation Department.
St. John's Ambulance
McLaren Security
Call Sign List of Amateurs who were major participants: VA3PC, VA3BDR, VA3CMX, VE3GMG, VE3YUI
Other Comments: The ARES/North Bay Amateur Radio Club with occasional help from non-amateurs have organised and run the Command Post for Summer in the Park (and previously Heritage Festival),for over 20 years.
The peak activity was about 12 years ago, with a 5th frequency assigned to Transportation
(Golf Cart Dispatch) and a total of 80 UHF portables.
Signature Block:
Paul Caccamo, VA3PC DEC 705-840-6577 cell

200 Doug Duncan Drive.
Newmarket, ON
 
See attached flyer.

This is just a quick reminder about Field Day this weekend June 22/23 2013. Meet at the top of the ski hill off Janey about 0900ET for set-up.
For more info check the website ve3nbc.ca or contact Lori Beckerton VE3LOR, Chris May VA3CMX, or Bill Gibson VE3TGI.
Come on out and have some fun. It is a great way to see what goes on and enjoy some good fellowship. You might even learn something. I know scary thought.
73/Drew. VE3MAF

HAM-Ex 2013 in Brampton is this coming Saturday, March 23. VE3YO, VE3GMG, VA3BDR and I are headed down. There are 2 spots available if anyone wants to come. I leave my place about 0400ET, pick up Howard and Bruce at Howard's place 0435ET-0440ET and then on to Timmy's, Lakeshore and Marshall to pick up Gerry and grab coffee/breakfast. We leave Timmy's 0500ET. If you would like to join us, drop me a line and I'll reserve a seat or, meet us at Timmy's. There is an eyeball lunch at Swiss Chalet after the hamfest and we should be back in the Bay by 1600ET (+/-). It is a lot of fun and you don't have to buy anything to have a good time. 73/Drew VE3MAF ve3maf@gmail.com [43]

Times approximate. More info to follow.

Well our annual multi-day event is over!
Thanks to Bruce VA3BDR, Chris VA3CMX, Howard VE3GMG, Drew VE3MAF, and Dan VE3YUI we had all the help we needed for the three days of the festival. Also to Wanda VE3KOJ for the use of her cellphone, and Evelyn VE3MAA who assisted with the setup earlier in the week.
Friday was a typical festival day with minor issues and lots of traffic back and forth between all parties.
Saturday was the busiest, with heat issues taking a toll on the attendees after noon, then an hour or so of weather that evening when a front came out of nowhere to drown the Meatloaf (and it didn't use gravy).
On Sunday we had an hour or so with no power, but the UPS kept the server operating, and the radio laptop's battery hung in there so we could enter information. We had 4 portable radios operating the command post during the outage.
The club's tower trailer behaved well during the storm, and made the journey both ways from Drew's place after the tire was pumped up. It held air for a couple days, but the slow leak is still there.
Till next year..
73
Paul, VA3PC

The York Regional Hamfest is this coming Saturday November 3rd 2012. Bruce, Howard and myself are still going. Bill VA3SPT is still a tentative (let me know Bill). I have 2 possibly 3 seats available. If you are interested drop me a line ve3maf@gmail.com [43] OR show up at Timmy's Lakeshore and Marshall at 0500 and we will be glad to have you. We stop for lunch on the way home and are usually back in town by 1600.
We have a great time.
Bruce; I'll pick you up at Howards 0430-0445ish.
73/Drew VE3MAF

[RAC-Bulletin]

Bedford NS ARISS contact live on CBC

CBC News is planning to broadcast live an ARISS contact between Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, aboard the ISS, and the students at the Charles P. Allen High School, Bedford, NS, on Saturday Jan 5, 2013, at 18:54 UTC. See the CBC NS Web site www.cbc.ca/ns [61] for details.

Daniel A. Lamoureux, VE2KA
ARISS Canada

The date of our Christmas party was decided at our meeting tonght.
Our get together will be at King's Buffet on December 6th at 6:00 p.m.
Donations for the Santa Fund will be accepted.
Hope to see you there.
Please indicate your attendance via the "attend" button on the website,
and please let us know of any extras via a comment.
Friends and Family welcome.
Cheers All.

The 2012 Patrick4Life Walk/Run is this coming Sunday June 10th. The 1/2 marathon walkers start about 0730ET with the 1/2 marathon runners starting about 0830. Bill would like those volunteering to show up about 0730ET. This gives us time to get set-up and pick up a coffee etc before the traffic starts. I plan to be there between 0700 and 0715 to get a good parking spot.
See you there.
73/Drew VE3MAF

Patrick4Life event was held June 10th, 2012. The day started out mainly cloudy with a few rain showers but cleared up and the sun came out at the end. There were approximately 915 runners/walkers registered.

NBARC provided health and welfare communications. In attendance were Bill VA3SPT, Gerry VE3YO, Howard VE3GMG, Doug VA3DLJ, Paul VA3PC, Lori VE3LOR and yours truly. Things went well with routine communications. The 1/2 marathon was 21.1K and started at 0800ET. The first runners were back by 0920ET and it was all over by 1100ET. It was a great morning's outing.

73/Drew VE3MAF

The van is full for this years York Regional Hamfest this coming Saturday November 3rd 2012. Going are VE3MAF, VA3BDR, VE3GMG, VE3XKB, vA3WAC, VA3PC.
Don't forget to set your clocks BACK Saturday before you go to bed or you will be an hour early for church or work as the case may be.
73/Drew

NBARC's annual Christmas get together. Meet at the King's Buffet shortly after 6 p.m. for a meet and greet, dinner commences about 6:30.
Once again we will be taking up a collection for the Santa Fund.
Maybe Bill will be in the elf outfit this year?  See you there.
Please sign in and indicate your attendance.

Field Day this year is June 25th and 26th. As luck would have it we don't have anything else scheduled so we are looking to try Field Day. We are looking for a site that doesn't have any cost or permits associated as time is very limited. So far the suggestions are Temagami Fire Tower and Callandar Park. We also need participation. If you would be interested in taking part in Field Day indicate so on the website or drop Doug VA3DLJ a note at va3dlj@yahoo.ca [71] . If you have any site suggestions let Doug know as well. Time is short so please let Doug know by Sunday so he has time to work on it. This is fun but we need people.
73/Drew
 

The Northern Ontario Hamfest is this coming Saturday September 24th 2011 in Garson. I have 2 spare seats in my vehicle if anyone wants a ride over. We would be leaving from the McKeown-Goremanville Rd area at 0700ET. If you want a ride drop me a line at nbarc@ciinet.org [72] or ve3maf@gmail.com [43] .
73 Drew VE3MAF

 Hi Folks
 I know that we have not finished with the Lost in the Rocks and Trees yet, but we have another event on the horizon.
 The Mattawa River Canoe race is the following weekend July 24th.
 
I will need volunteers for this event as well  8-)
So far on the list: VA3DLJ, VE3GMG, VA3BDR, VE3YUI andVA3SPT
 
This is a very challenging and fun event (What other event have we had to stop 3 speeding police cars with lights flashing in split seconds.... 8-)   )
If you are interested in finding out more or would like to volunteer blindly please let me know.... or sign up on the web site under events.
 
Thanks
 
Bill
 

Emergency Preparedness Week runs May 3rd through May 8th. NBARC is going to have a display table set up in Northgate Square Friday/Saturday May 7th/8th. We need people to staff it for a few hours each and this is a good way to bring ham radio into public attention. Unfortunately my boss wants my body at work.  Doug VA3DLJ   is organizing it. He is looking for volunteers for Friday afternoon/evening and Saturday. He will be setting up Friday morning and taking it down Saturday afternoon. You will meet the public and answer questions about amateur radio. Doug is going to be bringing some equipment which he is hoping to demonstrate. If you have equipment or a computer with an amateur radio related program feel free to bring it along and then take it home with you. no equipment will be left unattended at the display. If you can help please drop Doug a line at va3dlj@yahoo.ca [71] and let him know when you would be available and for how long. He will do up a mini schedule and then confirm with you.
73/Drew VE3MAF

One of the better hamfests. We have a van load going.

Hello everyone;
This year I am happy to report that no one got lost for long. There was a report of several bikes heading the wrong way between CP1 and CP3, but they were chased down and turned around quite quickly.
Approximately 74 riders took part this year - 8 in the long race and the rest in the 61k. Start times were 09:00 long race, and 10:00 for short race.
There was a little confusion at the pre-race, and not all the lunches made it out by lunch time, but all in all the new start/finish venue worked very well. The rain made an appearance in Mattawa, but further out on the course it stayed dry (and sandy). I should also report that Bruce was right, there are no shortcuts to CP2 via the hydro line.
Thanks to Howard VE3GMG and Lori VE3LOR for the start/finish, Bruce VA3BDR and Chris at CP1, Ken VA3SK, Keegan and Trevor at CP3, Henry KD8LWV at CP4 and Keeling VE3XKB at CP5. Bill VE3TGI also floated near the triangle (optional hill detour) and was our designated rover.
Thanks to Chris VE3CEA for making the Mattawa repeater available, it worked well.  Now if we could get rid of some of the hills to eliminate the multi-path fades, everything would be perfect. ;-)
73 Paul VA3PC (aka CP2)

Hello Volunteers;
The trailer was relocated to Lee Park today, and I have picked up the portable radios. The city hopes to have the power connected tomorrow. I have Spectrum tentatively scheduled for Wednesday afternoon to connect the base stations.
Keeling and I dropped off some furniture on Sunday and placed it in the trailer, so most of it should be there now. We did notice some water damage from ceiling leaks.  I also picked up the computers from Keeling that will be used for the terminals. 
If possible I would like to get a few people to help out tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon around 4:30 for an hour or so to sweep out the trailer and rearrange the furniture.
If you have any questions, give me a call on my cell 840-6577.
Thanks
Paul, VA3PC

Thanks to Keeling VE3XKB for the help leading up to the event.
73, Paul, VA3PC

As Bill will be away enjoying(?) his family wedding, I have updated the map with what I believe are the checkpoint lats/longs.
I have printed out 6 of them and will bring them to Mattawa for Saturday. If we get any additional volunteers, I'll print out a
few more. (Let me know if you will be attending)  The map is in archive/documentation/2010 Lost etc.
The long course race (112km) gets underway at 09:00 and the short course (61km) gets underway at 10:00 -
that means we don't have to get up really early.
So far on the list is VA3PC, VE3GMG, VA3BDR, KD8LWV, VA3SK, Keegan & Trevor, and VE3XKB.
I propose we get together at 08:00 at the start/finish (off Hwy533) in order to confirm coverage into the repeater.
(It should be good based on the tests Bill, Betty and I did last week).
That should leave us enough time to get to the checkpoints for the 09:00 start.
Bring Drinks & Eats, Chairs, Clipboard, Sunscreen, Flystuff, Umbrella? - something to read, etc.
Any other suggestions, please fire them my way.
73 and see you on Saturday.  -- Paul, VA3PC

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

The walk was a success this year with about 250 walkers participating.  They were a little late getting started, and the sweep forgot to sweep, but we persevered.  Weather was great with no cases of over or underheating. Thanks to Norm VE3NLH, Bruce VA3BDR, Jerry VE3YO, Howard VE3GMG, and Pam H. (who kept me focused) for the assistance.
73, Paul VA3PC

 HI Folks
 
Mattawa River Canoe Race is this weekend.
So far on the list of volunteers are:
Paul VA3PC, Doug VA3DLJ, Howard VE3GMG, Bill VA3SPT, Betty Silver, Bruce VA3BDR, Dan VE3YUI and Henry KD8LWV.
We could use a few more volunteers if you are available.
I would like to have 2 people at each check point and the start / finish.
Betty and I will be paddling into check point # 2 again this year.
If you have a preferred check point you would like to work at please let me know. I will try to assign you to that check point but cannot promise that it will happen.  8-)
 
I may be in the need for a UHF radio for check point 2. I will have to cross band repeat from Cp2.
If you have a radio that I can borrow please let me know...Portable or mobile, BNC or PL
 I will have to do an equipment inventory to see what I have available it has been a hard year on equipment.
 
If you have any questions or comments please let me know.
 
silver@onlink.net [75]  476-4752
 
Thanks
 
Bill VA3SPT
 

*** Note: We (NBARC) have now (Saturday, Sep 11th) been requested by Harmony Haven to provide communications for their event.
Please sign up on the event page to indicate your interest.   Thanks..  Paul, VA3PC  ***
As a followup to an issue was raised at the meeting last night; whether there is sufficient interest in attending the first running of the Nature's Harmony Eco Race in Mattawa three Saturdays from now, September 25th.
From the information posted at the website, there will be aid stations every 5 km, and those runners doing 50 km will be looping the course, so it would appear that we'll need at least 5 radio operators out there to have a radio at each checkpoint to cover everything (assuming the repeater is available and the course is similar to the Lost in the Rocks course...).
If you are available and interested in attending, please do sign up using the "will attend" button on the NBARC website event posting.
Regards,
Henry,KD8LWV
Here is a link to the Nature's Harmony Ecolodge race website [76].
 

The race starts at 8 AM, so if we meet up at Tim Horton's on Seymour
St. in North Bay, between 6:15-6:30 we should have plenty of time to
get breakfast and get over to the site (Google Maps has 1 h 8 min to
the Ecolodge).

-Repeater access into 147.15+ is spotty at the site;
primary simplex on 147.420, backup 146.520
-Car access to 3 out of 4 checkpoints confirmed (I will bring a mobile
radio/booster battery setup in case driving is impossible to the
fourth- KD8LWV)
-Tarps will be set up at the aid stations.
-The organizers asked that we bring our own chairs if possible.
-No lunches provided as far as I know, but there will be a barbecue
after the race (~4:30).

va3dlj
va3bdr
va3cmx
Ve3YO (Doug has spoken to Gerry, he sounds like he's also confirmed)
Enclosed are two attachments - a png of the route and a google earth kml file, just remove the txt suffix to use it.
These are also saved on the website. 

73 Henry kd8lwv
 

Patrick4Life walk/run was held in the morning of Sunday June 13, 2010. It was a great day. Overcast with a bit of a breeze to keep the participants cool. I don't have any firm numbers but there were over 900 participants registered. This is a fun event consisting of a 1//2 marathon (21.1K) a 10K, 5K and 2K event. The 1/2 marathon left the gate at 0830. They run out to Cranberry Rd and the Kate Pace Way and turn around. The 1st runner was back about 0925. The 5K & 10K started at 0815 and the 2K started at 0930. The last runner was in at 1120. There was burgers, wraps and salad at the finish. Unfortunately Howard couldn't join us for a snack. Howard.. Give our best to Joan and tell her to take it easy and get better soon. We were cleaned up and headed home by noon. Thanks to Bruce VA3BDR at checkpoint 2, Gerry VA3YO at checkpoint 3, Doug VA3DLJ at checkpoint 4, Howard VE3GMG at the turn around on Cranberry Rd. Howard then got double dutied to checkpoint 1 for the returning tired runners. Bill VA3SPT kept us all in line. He was at the start during the set-up and then went around the course checking it out. Hopefully the pictures he took will get posted on the website. Thanks to Tim Silver who acted as my runner at the Start/Finish. Best of luck in your Australia enveavors Tim.
This is a great event for a great cause and we had lotsa fun.
73/Drew VE3MAF

Monday's forcast shows 20% chance of showers, so I propose getting together at 1:00 pm to try and finish off
the building and provide further mouse resistance.
We have to cut and put up sheeting on the interior walls, and stuff a bit of insulation on the wall where the
coax/power enters the building, then close off that wall as well. Sheeting/insulation is stored at the site.
Gerry said he will bring a skill saw and sawhorses, and there is power available, so any hand or power tools that you
think might be helpful feel free to bring along.  There is power available, so that should not be an issue.
I will bring my small trailer to carry away any refuse that we don't anticipate needing after the construction phase.
I also have a shop vac to remove some of the smaller bits (lets leave it at that) so we have a clean floor to walk on.
Most of the cutting will take place outside, so crowding should not be an issue.  In fact, I propose that the first thing
we do is empty the shack to give us some room to work.
If you can attend, please let me know by e-mail what you are bringing, and I'll post a followup tomorrow morning.
Thanks in advance & 73 - Paul, VA3PC

I just got this from Bill VA3SPT. Please reply directly to Bill silver@ontera.net [93] or (705) 476-4752 as I am leaving town tomorrow Friday, until Wednesday Oct 21 and won't be able to help. This is a fun event that usually doesn't take too long. Hi Drew Please send out the following to the group. Hi Folks The fourth annual North Bay General Hospital Walk/Run happens Sunday October 18th at Lee Park. They have requested our help again this year. So I am looking for volunteers to help with safety communications. So if you can help please let me know. I will out of town in Massey attending a fundraising dinner for Sam’s Great Australian Adventure so I will be looking for someone to help coordinate the event. Thanks Bill VA3SPT. Re VE3URU 146.97 (100.0HZ tone) the new repeater in South River. Take a look at http://VE3URU.com [94] for more info. 73/DREW VE3MAF VHF NET - Monday Morning 0700L - 0800L. VE3ERX/VE3NFM. Net controller - DAVE VE3GTM HF NET - Sunday Morning 0900L - ??. 3.768MHz LSB (+/- QRM). Net controller - Paul VA3PC COFFEE - Saturdays at NorthGate Square. 1000L-1100L (+/-). In front of A & W VE3ERX 147.030 (+) (PL 107.2) POWASSAN {N46 03.767 W079 26.133} (IRLP/2649 ECHOLINK/239683) VE3NFM 147.300 (+) (PL 107.2) North Bay {N46 21.107 W079 22.197} VE3NFM-15 144.390 APRS VE3NBC@rac.ca [95] or nbarc@ontera.net [96] http://ciinet.org/nbarc [97] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NBARC [98]

It was a tad cool this morning, but fortified by hot java (the liquid stuff not the programming language) Henry KD8LWV, Gerry VE3YO, Mike VA3MPR, Bruce VA3BDR, Dan VE3YUI and I ran communications for the event.
Doug VA3DLJ stayed warm at home and ran the HF net for me, and then stood by in case we needed a message passed.
We ran the comms on 146.52 and except for a little doubling had no issues.
No incidents. The only confusion came when we were trying to find out who the sweep was. (Lady on 10 speed with green jacket).
According to Vicki it was a success raising a nice sum for the hospital.
We were on site from about 08:30 to approximately 11:45.
Thanks to all that helped out.
I'll post the route maps in the archive for next year.
73
Paul, VA3PC

I missed VE3OZ in the attendance list. He was on my list but got missed in the hard copy. Sorry John.
Drew VE3MAF