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MANITOBA: emergency systems as many Fred Lesnick, DEC for Amethyst DECs reporting:
areas of the north experienced reports: As of February 1, VA3s: PC
SM: Jan Schippers, VE4JS hydro outages. VE3ONN that used to reside at VE3s: LBX and FAL
STM: Jan Schippers, VE4JS Salvation Army Headquarters in
SEC: Vacant Now that spring is upon us I know Thunder Bay, Ontario is no more. ECs reporting:
DECs: Jeff Dovyak, VE4MBQ many ARES groups will start to get VA3s: AJV and SPT.
(Capital Region and CanWarn); busy with communications projects The station inside has been VE3s: LJM, SUT, RQR, JX and MXJ.
Gord Snarr, VE4GLS (South-East and events. Many are now gearing removed and all radio gear taken
Central Region / South-West Region); up for Field Day. I encourage all down with the exception of the ONTARIO SOUTH:
Wayne Warren, VE4WR (North Region groups to try and operate at a Field antennas that will wait until spring.
and Special Projects); Vacant Day event near your area. This is The HQ is busting at the seams SM: Ian Snow, VA3QT
(North-Eastern Region); Vacant an excellent way to see how an and the room is needed by staff SEC: Vacant
(North-West Region); EC Ron there so the radio room is no more. SBM: Brad Rodriguez, VE3RHJ
Wlliscroft, VE4QE (Selkirk and emergency station works and it is This means the 24/7 RMS server
District); Bill Boskwick VE4BOZ for lots of fun to boot. I hope to hear that served two bands and many STM: James Davidson, VE3TPZ
RM of Grey, RM of Dufferin & Town you on the air that weekend. areas of North America has also Website: http://ontario.racares.ca
of Carman Don’t forget to send me an email been removed. The station was JANUARY-FEBRUARY
JANUARY-FEBRUARY for extra points. Good luck to started back in 2009 and had a SM REPORT:
SM REPORT: everyone and thanks again for all great run with SETS and other
the work you do for Amateur Radio exercises. Six members of the London ARC
Wow it has been cold here in and public service. completed the EMO IMS-100 and
Manitoba. It is defnitely a time to Many thanks to everyone who -200 courses. Congratulations to
volunteered helped set up and tear
stay indoors and operate Amateur ONN SEC Report down, as well as those who over Michael Watts, VE3ACW; Ansil
Radio. SEC ONN Dave Hayes, VE3JX the years helped with equipment Rock, VE3HDR; Ken Brightling,
There are plans underway in VE3ETP; Brett Gilbank, VE3ZBG;
We provided communications for various areas of the Section for needs and donations. Thanks to London EC Doug Elliott, VA3DAE;
the Salvation Army as well for the
the Klondike Derby on March 1-2 upgrading or adding to the repeater room and help over the years. Charles Moher, VA3XXZ; and club
at Camp Amisk. This event is for facilities that will be useful for President David Lambert, VE3KGK.
Boy Scouts, Cubs and Guides to ARES. In Sault Ste Marie, the local I’m not sure where or if we will
perform outdoor activities. Algoma Amateur Radio Club has fnd a new home but for now the Congratulations to Worth Chisholm,
Winnipeg ARES approved the further research and 55 Plus Centre at SAO looks like it VE3BTC, who has assumed the
will and could serve as an HF hub
role of President of the Elgin
Jeff Dovyak, VE4MBQ obtaining of necessary locations
and hardware to install a complete in the event that a station is Amateur Radio Society. The
William Franzin, VE4VR, provided D-Star repeater system with ARES required. Society has completed the build of
a very stimulating presentation as its primary customer. It will, of DEC for Killarney District, a mobile communications trailer
and discussion session on the new course, be available to all D-Star Stiig Larson, VE3LBX, includes and at time of writing were installing
digital network that he has users. in his report these comments from a 30-foot crank-up tower and
established in Winnipeg with On Manitoulin Island, one of their two areas: antennas. See page 51 for more
RAC Midwest Director Derek Hay, main repeaters, VE3RMI, will be information on the fnished project.
VE4HAY, at our January General replaced with an ICOM IDAS Alan Viitala, VA3AJV, EC for Digital communication is becoming
Meeting. repeater system, which allows for Sudbury offers his thanks to the more important in EmComm
City of Greater Sudbury IT
both analog and digital mixed
Welcome to Peter Toth, VE4TTH, usage. While the old repeater is Department for graciously operations every day. The Winlink
who joined Winnipeg ARES in putting out 25W, the new system donating fve Dell laptops to our Hybrid Radio Email Network is
January. In late January, Harm will include an amp to boost output ARES unit! These will be used for increasingly the choice of
Hazeu, VE4HAZ and Mark to 160-200W. They anticipate their digital modes with our feld kits and government and non-government
Havens, VE4MBH (I still always current excellent coverage to training will begin soon. Thanks to agencies (see www.winlink.org).
want to say KB7REU) completed actually double, though only time AEC Wayne, VE3THN, for picking It is an integrated system with HF,
the Winnipeg Emergency and testing will tell. them up and loading them with packet radio, MESH and several
software so they are ready to go!
Management (WEM) Course put other options from creating a local
on by the City of Winnipeg In the meantime, Thunder Bay has Jim McLean, VE3LJM, EC for area network to sending email over
Emergency Preparedness been working with Winlink to great Manitoulin Island & North Shore hundreds of miles. System and
success. A wrinkle in the works is
Program. the closure of the Salvation Army reports that preparations and point-to-point capabilities are
At our February General Meeting, radio room which included the 24/7 agenda were prepared in February included. The RMS Express user
for the ARES group commitments,
application is simple to set up; the
Bob Poole, VE4MAQ and Richard RMS server that served two bands parades and CanWarn training. instructions can be found on the
Kazuk, VE4KAZ, provided us with and many areas of North America. Recruiting has started for Winlink home page. Any KISS
an excellent primer on the No doubt, they will fnd a new additional ARES members in the capable TNC is suitable and the
Klondike Derby and ARES home for it. Manitoulin area. WINMOR sound-card virtual
operations during the event. By the time this report is read, A new repeater, being set up and modem is available for a small
spring should be here (sure doesn’t
– Jan Schippers, VE4JS look like it now) and with it comes adjusted for installation, should donation. Check it out.
give a boost to our coverage area.
Traffc Totals antenna maintenance and installation It is to replace the almost 20 year ACTIVITY REPORTS
January: 9 time. (I’m told real men only work old veteran VE3RMI unit that has Unusually heavy winter weather
February: 2 on antennas in the dead of winter, served us well but is starting to this year has had its effect, forcing
but I doubt that.) And so, all ARES show her age. It needs constant
ONTARIO NORTH: groups will be checking their attention so we decided to bite the Bruce County DEC Brad
facilities to make sure everything Rodríguez, VE3RHJ, to cancel a
SM: Al Boyd, VE3AJB survived. Have a great time! bullet and purchase a new one. visit to the Georgian Bay ARC at
Email: ve3ajb@vianet.ca The new repeater is an Icom Owen Sound where he was to
STM: Pat Dopson, VE3HZQ DEC for Albany reports: IC-FR500 VHF (147,270+ MHz) speak on the ARES program. This
Email: dopsonp@vianet.ca We are saddened to report the
SEC: Dave Hayes, VE3JX passing of one of our ARES with extra channels to run IDAS event will be rescheduled. In the
Email: ve3jx@bell.net members. Robert (Bob) Rollins, Digital on the same frequency and meantime Brad is scheduled to
OBM: Paul Caccamo VA3PC VA3RRN, died on December 29 at another channel to run FM analog give a similar briefng to the Guelph
Email: va3pc@ciinet.org the local Hospice. Bob served our and digital at the same time, club in March. Thank you Brad for
Website: http://ontario.racares.ca interfaced with an S-Com 7330 this support.
local ARES group as AEC as well controller with voice announcements
JANUARY-FEBRUARY as ADEC for Albany in the past. coupled to a TE Systems Amp, EC Worth Chisholm, VE3BTC,
SM REPORT: He will be sadly missed by his Mod #1412RA w/160 -200W output reports on several meetings with
family and all his friends, and by
I hope everyone made it through his fellow ARES members. with min 25W input. local CEMCs and the Offcer
that extremely cold winter. I know Rest in peace, my friend. – Allan Boyd, VE3AJB Commanding the 31st Combat
it was a good time to test Engineer Regiment based at
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