VECTOR June 2022 News
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Previous newsletters can be found in the archive.
1. Coming Meeting | 2. News | 3. Learn | 4. On Air | 5. Notable | 6. Secondaries | 7. Meetings
1. Coming Meeting
Our next members' meeting will be held Wednesday, June 1, online using Zoom.
Detailed agenda included in e-mail to members.
2. Community News - What’s Coming
Planning Field Day 2022
Vision and direction for Field Day recovering from the pandemic.
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VECTOR COVID-19 Update - Week 112
Current update edited for latest information, 2022-04-28.
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2. Community News - What’s Coming
- LoRa APRS and Messaging Services Trial
- Making Field Day 2022 for Members
LoRa APRS and Messaging Services Trial
LoRa is a proprietary modulation technique for low power long range communications. VECTOR will conduct a trial from late June thru August 2022 to test the effectiveness of using LoRa for APRS and messaging services.
Members are invited to participate in the trial with VECTOR supplied LoRa devices and travel to various locations in Vancouver including the DSA’s, and to help set up an IGate (provide roof antenna and Internet access) at a location west of Granville Street.
Contact Anthony VE7XAK at [email protected] for details.
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Making Field Day 2022 for Members
Our challenge is to host a 1A site using a DSA Power Pack at a new location. Our reward: a Saturday afternoon barbecue.
How do you want to help?
Making sure Field Day works out
We have all the gear, a core group has started planning the bones, and we need to work out the nuances and make sure all the pieces land in their proper place.
Join the meeting on June 8. Sign up
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Preparing for Special Event Operations in July
We need 5 people to make sure we are set for civic events (COL, Pride, maybe more). How well does a meeting on June 15 work? Sign up (or Learn more).
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Making the CERV tent safe again
Until we can make the shelter over the CERV safe again, current plans must hold. We need 3 people to make sure it happens.
Meeting needed immediately once we have 3 people. Sign up
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Forming a regular crew for working on tech
Logistics needs to resume working on keeping the gear going. Watch for the special meeting.
- Resume work on the Microwave Link (High-speed Data) project
We have much of the gear, just need a few parts and three people to make it happen.
- Outfit Laptops for Deployment
The 2022 laptops await new operating system images and testing.
- Give as much commitment as fits your life as a helper to finish jobs
Get advice | Help a team | Get the code | Check our backlog
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3. Upcoming Training & Practice Opportunities
- Review Learning Program - New Schedule coming pending Volunteer Hosts
- Dive into Exercises - New Schedule coming pending new crew, meeting in April
- Radio Skills - Register now
- Net Control - Email Andrew VA7YAA
- Key Files
- EmComm Skills Notes
Holding for interest
- Tech Nights
- Voice Operator Practice
- Operator School in One Day
- Grab and Go Kit Hands On
- Data Setup, Get Started, and Play
- Radio Room Awareness
- DSA Awareness
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4. On Air Radio Activities
Local Nets | Program | Calendar | Jessé VE7DET | Team Page | Team Mail
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Connect Casually Any Night - 19:05 nightly on VE7RVF
Time Estimate: 30 minutes
- Members have run these nets for over 789 nights (since 2020-04-01) (except for 2021-07-25 when there was no net controller available)
- Please take your shot leading as net controller for one night
- Nightly Net Controller chooses a question or topic to inspire sharing (anything from radio to food to entertainment to no topic at all)
- Connect to around 15 fellow operators (from 8 to 35 people any day)
- Remember to identify your signal
- your call sign at both the beginning and end of each period of communication
- per RBR-4 — Standards for the Operation of Radio Stations in the Amateur Radio Service section 9.3
- even a casual net gives time to practice good procedures
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Practise with VECTOR Winlink Gateway - 441.025 MHz simplex
- Give it a shot Time Estimate: 15 minutes
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Keep Formal Net Skills Sharp on Weekly Net - 20:00 weekly on Wednesdays, VE7TEL
Time Estimate: 30 minutes
Checking in on Wednesdays stretches a few less-used skills. Details below in 6. Weekly Nets.
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How ready are you for a June drill?
Time Estimate: 1 hour
- Opportunity to do an exercise every third month on VECTOR gear
- VECTOR gear lives at 6 community centres, 6 DSAs, a few other places, and the radio room
- Updated schedule pattern and duration coming up
- How much would you like to cross-train with ESS or NEAT on a couple?
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5. Announcements, Notables, etc.
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VECTOR needs one more delegate to BCARCC
- Meeting Records and Coordinator’s Report
- Become a delegate: join the list of 5 delegates
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Kerrisdale Earthquake and Emergency Preparedness is ramping up again
- We have partnered with the Kerrisdale Community Centre Society’s efforts to outfit a Disaster Support Hub with a VECTOR Vision Grab and Go Kit
- We have local opportunities for outreach and advising coming up soon!
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UBC: advice to create a group like VECTOR
- UBC Emergency and Continuity Planning intends to revive its HAM radio program
- We may get to advise UBC and UBCARS on how volunteers and radio operators could integrate with the UBC emergency response
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VE7SAR Communicator - Amateur news edited by former VECTOR president John Schouten
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Get to know other members on air - Nightly Check in and Chat
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6. Weekly Net
Catch the weekly net at 20:00 every Wednesday on the VE7TEL repeater: VECTOR channel 2, 145.170 MHz -600 kHz.
Each week, a secondary net follows on a different frequency, providing opportunities for amateur radio operators to test radios using other bands and modes of operation.
Schedule for upcoming secondary net frequencies:
| Date | Channel | Frequency Information |
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| June 01 | 44 | 146.430 MHz |
| June 08 | 20 | 147.200 MHz +600 kHz T100.0 Hz |
| June 15 | 7 | 147.450 MHz T100.0 Hz simplex |
| June 22 | 4 | 146.580 MHz simplex |
| June 29 | 1 | 145.450 MHz -600 kHz T100.0 Hz |
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7. Monthly Members' Meetings
VECTOR gathers on the first Wednesday of the next 3 months to keep its operations flowing. Connect in our Zoom virtual space unless otherwise noted.
The next 3 Monthly Members' Meeting dates:
- July 06 - first Wednesday, 18:30 online
- August 03 - first Wednesday, 18:30 online
- September 07 - first Wednesday, 18:30 online
Connect with others before and after the main session:
- Join early (15 minutes) at 18:15
- Hang around after (20 minutes) until roughly 20:50
- We’ll have breakout areas available
Please find the link to the Zoom online conference room in your email edition of the newsletter for joining remotely or on your BetterImpact homepage. You can sign up for upcoming members' meetings in BetterImpact to log your meeting time automatically.
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Tnx es 73,
VE7DET || Jessé Neri, President (he|him)
[email protected]
VA7DPO || Darryl Pogue, Vice President (he|him)
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https://vectorradio.ca/members/discuss/
https://keybase.io/team/helpingvector
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