Coastal Ham Radio’s 2nd annual Repeater day is Saturday May 7. The idea of repeater day is to bring to life the far too many seldom used repeaters we have. The aim of repeater day is quite simple. Between 11:00-15:00 on May 7 were asking all hams to get onto their favorite repeater and make a contact or two. The link below will give you the details plus has links to repeater data pages for freq., offsets, tones etc. Any questions please email ve7hamradio@outlook.com
Hope to QSO with you on May 7 as we bring the repeaters back to life.

Details at Coastal Ham Radio…

Gord VE7FKY

If anyone is using RAC.ca to forward their callsigns to a Hotmail address, be warned, because Microsoft has blacklisted that domain.

Don (VA7IQ) has been investigating and discovered that the problem is caused by the spam filters for anyone using Microsoft accounts such as Hotmail, Outlook and Live.

Microsoft maintain list of domains that are accepted or rejected and drops any email received from a blacklisted domain. This is not an easy solution for RAC, but if you change to a non-Microsoft account in the short-term, such as Yahoo or Gmail, then the problem will be alleviated.

Delta ARS Annual General Meeting, February 18, the Public Safety Building at 1900

Delta ARS first meeting of the New Year, January 7 at the Public Safety Building, 11375 84 Ave., at 1900PST.

Delta ARS meeting tonight, 1900 at South Delta CoPS, 1108 56 St.

There will not be a meeting at the PSB Thursday evening.

Members who have signed-up for our bowling extravaganza can arrive at Scottsdale Lanes, 12033 84 Ave, Surrey for a 1900 start. We’ll have lanes until 2100. Snack bar, lounge and concourse are licenced.

Doug VA7DJ
Jeanne VA7QD
Dave VE7HR and guest
Rand VE7HRA
Dave VE7IDN
John VE7JNH and guest
Chris VE7QCS
Doug VE7WLF
Ted VE7ZZV
Darrel VE7CUS and guest

On Thursday at 10:15 a.m., millions around the world will be practicing their earthquake safety actions along with you! ShakeOutBC has grown only because of the actions you take which inspire others to get prepared. Participants in the Great British Columbia ShakeOut are part of more than 40 million worldwide.

Please take the time to check in from home or where-ever you are. The following members will checkin from these facilities. If you would like to be added to the list drop me an email with yournpreferrd location. If you have a change and can’t make it let me know.
Curtis VE7CQF will checkin from work
Darrel VE7CUS City Hall
Rand VE7HRA Hall 1
John VE7JNH Hall 2
Dave VE7 BGD Hall 4
Tom VE7DID Hall 5
Dave VE7HR Hall 6

October 15, no meeting. It is a social night, contact executive for details.

October 8 meeting will be 1900 at South Delta CoPS, 1108 56 St.

ComFest has come and gone, another successful event! Thank you to ALL who participated; those who wrestled tables, humped product in and out for the vendors, sold tickets, looked after the coffee shop, bought tables or came to visit. What a team! I was also pleased to see the commercial vendors continue to support us; Com-West, Fleetwood, Burnaby Radio (a first!) and Icom Canada who donated the V-80 major door prize. Fleetwood, Burnaby and Com-West also donated prizes.

Thursday evening agenda:
ComFest debrief
Oct 10: SET. I was on a conference call this evening, I expect to do a half-hour (+/-) briefing on SET Thursday evening. Those who intend to play should attend.
Those who have signed up; VA7QD (tentative), VE7HR, VE7QCS, VE7TJF, VE7WLF, VE7CUS
We are going to run two stations, North and South. Anyone else who would like to participate, please reply to this email and state which station you wish to operate from.
Those already signed, advise your station.
Oct 15: ShakeOut BC
Oct 15: Delta ARS Bowling

73

Doug

How the heck did that happen! It’s October!

October 1 meeting will be 1900 at the Public Safety Building, 11375 84 Ave.

I guess it is time to mount the wheel on ComFest so we can roll it out Sunday. Table sales look good, hoping for a great event!
Oct 4: ComFest (will be the priority item)
Oct 10: SET (Simulated Emergency test) The exercise will commence at 09:00 and run until14:00. SET will consist of up to four tasks. Initially I have told the organizers we will run two stations. VA7DEP and VE7SUN.
Oct 15: ShakeOut BC
Oct 15: Delta ARS Bowling

For SET, ShakeOut and Bowling, visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JlGO-UbM_E09k_-S0jx5pGlZuZoA4EQym7qkkzhVQmk/edit to sign up. If it doesn’t work, email me.

73

Doug