VECTOR July 2024 News

Posted 3 July 2024 in newsletter

Our active season begins: several civic events!

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 is on Wednesday, July 3, in the E-COMM Media Room.

Detailed agenda included in e-mail to members.

2. Community News - What’s Coming

• Monthly Communications Test crew organized - Wednesday 10:00 - July 1
• Celebration of Lights This Month - help our community!
• Pride Run and Walk - July 28 early morning
• Pride Parade - August 4, 10 to 3

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• Notable Events for your calendar
• Wildfire season in Alberta and BC
• Scam alert: urgent gift card requests are frauds
• Saber radios for pickup at next meeting at ECOMM
• Kit Testing - HEMBC and Vision kits

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• Collect your Polo Shirt for your next civic event
• Field Day Photos folder has some pictures already
• City Hall Rooms Unavailable Without Staff Chaperone
• Missed Something?

Monthly Communications Test crew organized - Wednesday 10:00 - July 1

• July 3, 10:00, 1.5 hour or so
• Members testing the Radio Room, Fire DOC, and DSA1 (Nelson Park)
• Members learning what to do (always room for a learner)
• Sign Up

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Celebration of Lights This Month - help our community!

Your chance to use your radio skills to help people directly address individual emergencies. We will use our full stack from field observers through net control operators into the EOC.

Public Safety and VEMA need us in the field for this “controlled emergency.” Map.

Sign up here! Dates and times at the link.

1. Operate as a field observer (20 spots)
2. Support field observers walking the event (logistics bike teams) (4 spots)
3. Support field observers as one of two net control operators
4. Three chances only
5. EOC delegates already selected, backlog for next year started
6. we rotate members through the EOC who have both completed the EOC Essentials Course and served in the field

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Pride Run and Walk - July 28 early morning

Your chance to help run the most-fun runners' event of the year (map).

Sign up! Sunday, 7 to 12

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Pride Parade - August 4, 10 to 3

Your chance to help people during the most joyous parade of the year… and use the gear you have for high-noise environments. Route.

Sign-up (Sunday, 10 to 3)

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Wildfire season in Alberta and BC

• Wildfire Details
• Fire Status
• Smoke Forecast

Health care is circulating invitations for our annual immunization for Influenza and COVID-19.

• Monitoring Infection Levels in Wastewater

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Scam alert: urgent gift card requests are frauds

Be on the lookout for a thief pretending to be Jesse VE7DET or someone else you know to urgently request gift cards. The thief could pretend to be anyone you know.

Each person contacted Jesse VE7DET to confirm and averted financial distress.

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Saber radios for pickup at next meeting at ECOMM

To pick up the Saber radio you signed up for, please attend the next meeting.

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Kit Testing - HEMBC and Vision kits

Dual-band kits are available for testing now. Sign up

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Collect your Polo Shirt for your next civic event

Major civic events are the perfect chance for you to wear the polo shirt you earned last year! Available at the meeting this week.

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Field Day Photos folder has some pictures already

Scenes from Field Day

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City Hall Rooms Unavailable Without Staff Chaperone

Using a city hall room will require one of our city staff colleagues to attend the entire event. We are exploring other options (libraries, community centres, universities, colleges, and neighbourhood houses).

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Missed Something?

We intend that this news looks forward unless we wish to highlight accomplishments. I can only know about 20 - 50% of what’s going on. You can easily make sure we mention closer to 80% of what matters using our news form: Recommend Item.

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Help with, Work On, and Learn about

• Online Task Board shows things we are working on. Invitation Link. Cards on the board have checklists, conversations, and links to folders.
  • DSAs
  • Civic Events
  • Field Day
  • CERV
  • Maintain-Repair-Overhaul - take care of our stuff
  • Next Drill
  • High Speed Data
  • Board

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3. Upcoming Training & Practice Opportunities

• Net Control - Email Andrew VA7YAA
• Key Files
• EmComm Skills Notes
• “Must Learn” section in our “Resources” files
• Updating Learning Program - best learning at monthly drills, tests, and major civic events

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4. On Air Radio Activities

Local Nets | Program | Calendar | Jessé VE7DET | Team Page | Team Mail

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VECTOR Equipment Drills

• Described in Community News above.

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Get to know other members on air - Friday and Sunday Nights at 20:00 on VE7RVF

Time Estimate: 30 minutes

• Please take your shot leading as net controller for one night
• Connect to around 15 fellow operators (from 8 to 35 people any day)
• Origin
• Remember that we identify our 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

Get involved

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Practise with VECTOR Winlink Gateway - 441.025 MHz simplex

• Take your 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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5. Announcements, Notables, etc.

• Ham on a Bike demonstrates CW excitement. short video

• ISS Amateur Radio Systems Status. VA3DBJ’s summary

• Help with Better Impact (MyVolunteerPage). Handy “How To” instructions and videos - Learn here.

• Open Emergency Map. General reference for current conditions: Map

• DEEP’s Event recordings: Posted online each month

• SEPAR and SARC magazine: John VE7TI publishes latest issue right before our monthly Members session on a bi-monthly interval: VE7SAR

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6. Weekly Net

Catch the weekly net at 20:00 every Wednesday on the VE7RVF repeater: VECTOR channel 1, 145.450 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:

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7. Monthly Members' Meetings

VECTOR gathers on the first Wednesday of each month at the ECOMM meeting room to keep its operations flowing.

The next 4 Monthly Members' Meeting dates:

• July 3 - 18:30
• August 7 - 18:30
• September 4 - 18:30
• October 4 - 18:30

All at the E-COMM Media Room, with Zoom connection open.

Please find the link to the Zoom online conference room in your email edition of the newsletter so that you can join remotely. The link also lives on your MyVolunteerPage homepage online or in your MyImpact mobile app. 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)
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VA7DPO || Darryl Pogue, Vice President (he|him)

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