VECTOR April 2023 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, April 5, at City Hall and online using Zoom. Special guest Jordan Myers returns to update us on major complex special events this year. We need to go upstairs to the Cascadia Room.

Detailed agenda included in e-mail to members.

2. Community News - What’s Coming

  • Sun Run Coming Up 2023-04-16
  • Completing Annual Volunteer Form Key to Getting Announcements
  • Member Phone List Option Needs Updates
  • DEEP: Physicians on Climate Impacts to Health
  • Civic Events Core Crew for 2023
  • April Multi-Site Drill at Sunset and Kerrisdale, 2023-04-22?
  • Multi-DSA Drill and Social - 2023-05-27
  • Known Events for Summer: Celebration of Light and Pride Parade
  • Bi-weekly Open Coffee - April 8, City Square Food Court, 10:30
  • Help pick which Sunday for Monthly Radio Room Sunday Mornings
  • Check-in and Chat hosts needed
  • Field Day Crew Planning Our Addition to the Coquitlam-Burnaby-NewWest Event
  • NEAT Town Hall Update
  • Learn to diagnose radio station issues?
  • Growing Pains using Shared Drive
  • Launching Shared Meeting Agenda for Future Meetings
  • City News invited all organizations for live interview 2023-03-29

Sun Run Coming Up 2023-04-16

  • Valuable experience on directed nets used for route-based event
  • Paul VA7XP pairs new operators with experienced ones
  • Refer to message sent 2023-03-19 (Sun Run needs Radio Volunteers)
  • Register on RaceReach

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Completing Annual Volunteer Form Key to Getting Announcements

  • VECTOR only sends announcements to active volunteers
  • Annual Volunteer Form (in My Volunteer Impact) a key part of staying on the active list
  • Check it out

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Member Phone List Option Needs Updates

  • Only 24 of our 108 members have marked whether or not open to getting included in members-only phone list
  • Member phone list will have limited usefulness at drills with only 24 people on it
  • Under your “Other” Additional Info in VECTOR’s My Volunteer Impact

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DEEP: Physicians On Climate Change Impacts to Health

  • Presentation at 19:00 Wednesday - recording will be available
  • Register

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Civic Events Core Crew for 2023

  • Opportunities beyond the four Celebration of Light events and Pride in 2023 - details in the meeting
  • At least one route-based event
  • Opportunity to shadow Jordan during a major route-based event to gather notes on what he needs for future years
  • Sign Up

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April Multi-Site Drill at Sunset and Kerrisdale, 2023-04-22?

  • 2023-04-22 morning
  • Details in the meeting
  • Sign Up

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Multi-DSA Drill and Social - 2023-05-27

  • Objective: Activate all six DSAs in one day, in two evolutions
  • Some prep work coming up in April and May
  • Open Member Social also on 2023-05-27
  • Sign Up

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Known Events for Summer: Celebration of Light and Pride Parade

Celebration of Light dates for 2023 give us a rest before we tackle Pride this year!

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Bi-weekly Open Coffee - April 8, City Square Food Court, 10:30

  • First re-assess coming up soon – may make this monthly instead
  • Casual meetup to get to know each other, others in the local radio community, and what each crew’s working on
  • Refer to Saturday mornings in our calendar

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Help pick which Sunday for Monthly Radio Room Sunday Mornings

We can choose to start on any of the Sundays in March. Which is best for you?

Help Anthony VE7XAK and a few others tackle maintenance and improvements to systems in the radio room once a month on a Sunday Morning. Which week do you recommend?

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Check-in and Chat hosts needed

Reg VA7ZEB has take over as currently key contact for the nightly check-in and chat. Over the next few weeks, the current hosts have too many other commitments to give around 3 nights a week as net control. Help Reg.

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Field Day Crew Planning Our Addition to the Coquitlam-Burnaby-NewWest Event

  • Field Day crew meets again 2023-04-12 at City Hall and Zoom
  • Coquitlam working through getting the location at Blue Mountain Park booked
  • Crew to assemble VECTOR logistics spreadsheet for sharing with Coquitlam
  • Ongoing dialogue in Loomio, we can get you into it at the next meeting
  • Join in

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NEAT Town Hall Update

  • Neighbourhood Emergency Assistance Team preparing to resume
  • Opportunities coming up for VECTOR activities with NEAT
  • Background

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Learn to diagnose radio station issues?

You can learn how to debug your station. Let’s start a hands-on workshop!.

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Changes to Local Crew meetups - Kitsilano Feedback Required

  • Kitsilano Local Crew seems unable to attend monthly meetup
  • Which Goto Centre has an interested Local Crew?
  • Have your say (form)

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Growing Pains using Shared Drive

  • We now have a “Shared Drive” to make updating the group access easier and to improve the filing
  • Your primary email in My Volunteer Impact profile will get access to the “Shared Drive”
  • Your access to 2022 (and older) folders remains the same
  • Access coming soon – what do you think?

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Launching Shared Meeting Agenda for Future Meetings

  • To improve how well we cover emergent items each month, we will start using a shared agenda for each monthly session
  • Add a headline and speaker to the highlighted cells in the sheet
  • Coming Agendas

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City News invited all organizations for live interview 2023-03-29

You never know when we get a chance to raise awareness about what we do. Sarah Chew emailed VECTOR an hour before she needed to meet for an interview. Coquitlam managed to have someone available.

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How do you want to help?

  • Radio Room Sunday Mornings

    Come help with, work on, and learn about the radios, feedlines, antennas, and on-air testing that keep our radio room ready. Express interest.

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  • 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. Involves HamWAN, AREDN and dish antennas. Express interest.

  • 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

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4. On Air Radio Activities

Local Nets | Program | Calendar | Jessé VE7DET | Team Page | [Team Mail][mailRocky]

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April Multi-site Drill - 2023-04-22

Time Estimate: 1.5 hours

  • Sunset and Kerrisdale
  • 09:00 to 11:00
  • Sign up: Google Form

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Get to know other members on air - 19:05 nightly on VE7RVF

Time Estimate: 30 minutes

  • Members have run these nets since 2020-04-01
  • 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)
  • About the check-in and chat: origin
  • Remember to identify your signal

Email Jesse VE7DET

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Practise with VECTOR Winlink Gateway - 441.025 MHz simplex

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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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5. Announcements, Notables, etc.

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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
April 05 44 146.430 MHz
April 12 20 147.200 MHz +600 kHz T100.0 Hz
April 19 7 147.450 MHz T100.0 Hz simplex
April 26 4 146.580 MHz simplex
May 03 1 145.450 MHz -600 kHz T100.0 Hz

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7. Monthly Members' Meetings

VECTOR gathers on the first Wednesday of each month to keep its operations flowing. Connect in our Zoom virtual space unless otherwise noted.

Add to your calendar

The next 4 Monthly Members' Meeting dates:
  • April 5 - first Wednesday, 18:30 (City Hall third floor)
  • May 3 - 18:30 (City Hall)
  • June 7 - 18:30 (ECOMM)
  • July 5 - 18:30 (location pending)

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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