2025-11-29, 11:28:25
This is V_3___, Official Bulletin Station for Radio Amateurs of Canada with this week's bulletin.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
1. RAC Winter Contest - Saturday Dec 20, 2025
Radio Amateurs of Canada sponsors a celebration of the winter holiday season with the
Canada Winter Contest.
Bands and Modes: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6 and 2 metres, CW and phone (SSB, FM, AM, etc.)
Exchange: Stations in Canada send RS(T) and province or territory. VEØs and stations outside Canada
send RS(T) and a serial number.
QSOs: Contacts with stations in Canada or VEØs (maritime mobile Canadian stations) are worth
10 points. Contacts with stations outside Canada are worth 2 points. Contacts with RAC official
stations are worth 20 points. RAC official stations are: VA2RAC, VA3RAC, VE1RAC, VE3RHQ,
VE4RAC, VE5RAC, VE6RAC, VE7RAC, VE8RAC, VE9RAC, VO1RAC, VO2RAC, VY0RAC, VY1RAC and VY2RAC.
You may work any station once on each of the two modes, on each of the eight contest bands.
Contacts in the RAC Canada Contests also count towards the RAC Canadian Portable Operations
Challenge Award.
Multipliers: Thirteen in total, Canada’s 10 provinces and three territories. Each multiplier may be
counted once on each mode on each of the eight contest bands.
Final Score: The total sum of QSO points (2, 10 and 20-point QSOs) from all bands multiplied by the
total number of multipliers from all bands.
See the RAC website for full details on the RAC Winter Contest.
-- Sam Ferris, VE5SF at canadawinter @ rac.ca for the Canada Winter Contest
ITEMS OF INTEREST
2. EvoHam Provides Resources for Digital Voice Operators
EvoHam.com recently launched as a resource for amateur radio operators interested in digital voice
modes. The new site focuses on DMR, D-STAR, Yaesu Fusion, P25, NXDN, M17, and FreeDV with
how-to guides, reviews, and tutorials.
Whether you’re a beginner exploring your first DMR handheld or an experienced operator
experimenting with M17 or FreeDV, EvoHam brings everything together in one place – guides,
reviews, tutorials, tools, resources, and news.
You can find the site here https://evoham.com/
-- Source: daily.hamweekly.com
3. ARRL SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE APPROACHES
Applicants have until noon on December 30th, 2025 to apply.
The ARRL Foundation makes more than 150 scholarships available in amounts ranging from $500 to
$25,000. Recipients must be active, FCC-licensed young radio operators.
Different scholarships have different criteria, however, and some awards, such as the Amateur Radio
Digital Communications scholarships, are available to active licensed hams outside of the US.
There are also three 10-10 Scholarships available to all radio amateurs who are not necessarily US citizens,
residents nor holders of a US license.
For descriptions of all the scholarships and an online application form,
visit: https://www.arrl.org/scholarship-program
-- ARRL (via amateur radio newsline)
4. ANNUAL 'AM NIGHT' REKINDLES HISTORY FOR CINCINNATI HAMS
History itself will be getting on the air soon when the Greater Cincinnati Amateur Radio Association
hosts its annual AM night.
Rigs of every vintage - and quite a few new ones - will be tuned to 1.936 MHz on December 18th for
pre-net check-ins at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. This will be a very special edition of the Greater Cincinnati
Amateur Radio Association 1936 Net. It was, in fact, October of 1936 when the then-newly-formed
association started hosting this regular net.
This special net is expected to last two hours. After check-ins, the net iself gets going at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Hams are invited to fire up their rigs - any rigs. hear some classic AM rigs, heavy metal, military,
broadcast AM transmitters, state of the art software-defined radio...and virtually any ham radio
capable of AM mode.
-- Paul Braun WD9GCO. (full article on amateur radio newsline)
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
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
1. RAC Winter Contest - Saturday Dec 20, 2025
Radio Amateurs of Canada sponsors a celebration of the winter holiday season with the
Canada Winter Contest.
Bands and Modes: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6 and 2 metres, CW and phone (SSB, FM, AM, etc.)
Exchange: Stations in Canada send RS(T) and province or territory. VEØs and stations outside Canada
send RS(T) and a serial number.
QSOs: Contacts with stations in Canada or VEØs (maritime mobile Canadian stations) are worth
10 points. Contacts with stations outside Canada are worth 2 points. Contacts with RAC official
stations are worth 20 points. RAC official stations are: VA2RAC, VA3RAC, VE1RAC, VE3RHQ,
VE4RAC, VE5RAC, VE6RAC, VE7RAC, VE8RAC, VE9RAC, VO1RAC, VO2RAC, VY0RAC, VY1RAC and VY2RAC.
You may work any station once on each of the two modes, on each of the eight contest bands.
Contacts in the RAC Canada Contests also count towards the RAC Canadian Portable Operations
Challenge Award.
Multipliers: Thirteen in total, Canada’s 10 provinces and three territories. Each multiplier may be
counted once on each mode on each of the eight contest bands.
Final Score: The total sum of QSO points (2, 10 and 20-point QSOs) from all bands multiplied by the
total number of multipliers from all bands.
See the RAC website for full details on the RAC Winter Contest.
-- Sam Ferris, VE5SF at canadawinter @ rac.ca for the Canada Winter Contest
ITEMS OF INTEREST
2. EvoHam Provides Resources for Digital Voice Operators
EvoHam.com recently launched as a resource for amateur radio operators interested in digital voice
modes. The new site focuses on DMR, D-STAR, Yaesu Fusion, P25, NXDN, M17, and FreeDV with
how-to guides, reviews, and tutorials.
Whether you’re a beginner exploring your first DMR handheld or an experienced operator
experimenting with M17 or FreeDV, EvoHam brings everything together in one place – guides,
reviews, tutorials, tools, resources, and news.
You can find the site here https://evoham.com/
-- Source: daily.hamweekly.com
3. ARRL SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE APPROACHES
Applicants have until noon on December 30th, 2025 to apply.
The ARRL Foundation makes more than 150 scholarships available in amounts ranging from $500 to
$25,000. Recipients must be active, FCC-licensed young radio operators.
Different scholarships have different criteria, however, and some awards, such as the Amateur Radio
Digital Communications scholarships, are available to active licensed hams outside of the US.
There are also three 10-10 Scholarships available to all radio amateurs who are not necessarily US citizens,
residents nor holders of a US license.
For descriptions of all the scholarships and an online application form,
visit: https://www.arrl.org/scholarship-program
-- ARRL (via amateur radio newsline)
4. ANNUAL 'AM NIGHT' REKINDLES HISTORY FOR CINCINNATI HAMS
History itself will be getting on the air soon when the Greater Cincinnati Amateur Radio Association
hosts its annual AM night.
Rigs of every vintage - and quite a few new ones - will be tuned to 1.936 MHz on December 18th for
pre-net check-ins at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. This will be a very special edition of the Greater Cincinnati
Amateur Radio Association 1936 Net. It was, in fact, October of 1936 when the then-newly-formed
association started hosting this regular net.
This special net is expected to last two hours. After check-ins, the net iself gets going at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Hams are invited to fire up their rigs - any rigs. hear some classic AM rigs, heavy metal, military,
broadcast AM transmitters, state of the art software-defined radio...and virtually any ham radio
capable of AM mode.
-- Paul Braun WD9GCO. (full article on amateur radio newsline)
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