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2022-23 Year End Nets Report
Greetings to all OVMRC members and participants in our weekly nets. I'm happy to say that attendance at the HF and VHF nets has continued to do well over the past season now that we're getting over the COVID hiatus.
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Silent Key, Gordon Grant VE3DY, Charter Member of the OVMRC
Gordon Grant VE3DY was a founding member of the OVMRC and became a Silent Key on May 18 at the grand old age of 104. He passed away peacefully at the home he designed and build in 1962. Gord became a ham at the age of 15 in 1934.
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June 3-4 OVMRC activation for the POTA Plaque Weekend
00:00 UTC 3rd June to 23:59 UTC 4th June 2023 Local Ottawa time: 8pm Friday 2nd June to 8pm Sunday 4th June Choose your own park! Over 30 in the Ottawa/Gatineau area
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Meshtastic: An “appliance” operator’s foray into off-grid messaging
Meshtastic is a platform agnostic software application that is an “..open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices.”
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General Links of Interest:
YOTA Camp on the RAC, Volunteer opportunities, and various local amateur radio related information.
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Spotlight on Amateur Radio Explorations:
Welcome to a spotlight on various project and explorations that local amateurs have come across or are engaged with which might serve as conversation starters for on-air nets or eye-ball QSOs.