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RAC Ontario Sections Bulletin for January 28, 2023 - Richard VE3OZW - 2023-01-28 This is V_3___, Official Bulletin Station for Radio Amateurs of Canada with this week's bulletin. NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS 1. RAC alias email to Microsoft domains now fixed. As previously reported, the RAC email alias system was not working properly with Microsoft-based emails. We are pleased to report that our IT Team volunteers have been able to resolve this issue. Thank you once again for your patience. The RAC website is designed and maintained by a team of dedicated volunteers under the direction of the RAC Chief Information and Technology Officer. If you would like to volunteer please contact: -- Jeff Dale, VA3ISP, RAC Chief Information Technology Officer 2. British Columbia QSO Party 2023 Date/Time: 1600z Feb 4 to 0359z Feb 5 AND 1600z Feb 5 to 2359 Feb 5 Rules are available at: http://www.orcadxcc.org/bcqp.html The BC QSO Party counts for the QSO Party Challenge that kicks off the 2023 season on Feb 4th. -- Rebecca VA7BEC ONTARIO SECTION NEWS 3. London Amateur Radio Club sponsoring NVIS test. The London Amateur Radio Club and the London ARES team would like to invite you to participate in an NVIS exercise we are planning for Sunday Feb 5. We don’t use NVIS very often, and to verify you can operate successfully, you need some test stations within a couple of hundred miles. So we thought we’d invite Ontario Amateur Radio Clubs and ARES teams to participate in an exercise. We can all test out our NVIS configurations and get an idea of what the range of NVIS actually is. Feel free to invite others to join in. We will operate as a directed net with a net controller here in London. We plan on being on the air from 2 PM to 5 PM and our planned 40 meter phone frequencies are 7.225 MHz - primary 7.190 MHz - secondary 7.270 MHz - tertiary As part of the check-in process, we will ask for some information: 1. Your power level 2. Your rough assessment of net control’s transmission quality: Poor, OK, Good 3. Your location We hope to get this information onto a map somehow, and publish it on the LARC.ca website. ITEMS OF INTEREST 4. Proposals Sought to Host 2026 World Radiosport Team Championship -- WRTC The World Radiosport Team Championship Sanctioning Committee (WRTC-SC) is accepting proposals for hosting the 2026 WRTC event. The World Radiosport Team Championship is an on-site amateur radio competition, usually held every 4 years. WRTC 2022, delayed due to COVID-19, is scheduled to be held in Bologna, Italy, in July 2023. Teams of two operators representing a geographical region of the world come to the host site to compete using similar antennas and locations, overseen by on-site referees. The WRTC competition has typically been held as a contest-within-a-contest coincident with the IARU HF World Championship to capitalize on the high activity of a popular world-wide operating event. Groups interested in hosting WRTC 2026 should submit a Letter of Intent, with a summary proposal no later than March 31, 2023, to the Chairman of the WRTC Sanctioning Committee, Tine Brajnik, S50A, via email to tine.brajnik@gmail.com. -- WRTC Committee more info at https://wrtc.info/ 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 RE: RAC Ontario Sections Bulletin for January 28, 2023 - VE3WI Dave - 2023-02-05 Almost forgot about LARC's 40m NVIS test, didn't turn my rig on until 14:30. I found Brian VE3KLT on 7270 kHz. Still lots of folks checking in & giving signal reports. I heard him at about 5-7, he said I was 5-9+ 73 Dave, VE3WI |