Joint Canadian-American Amateur Radio Emergency Communication Event

A special events station will be set up at a date to be determined in early March 2007 to demonstrate co-operation between Canadian and American Ham Radio Operators for emergency communications preparedness.

This will be the first time such an official activity like this has been conducted and Hams from all across the US and Canada are urged to participate. It will feature virtually all transmission modes and operated over a two day weekend, with the exact date to be determined shortly.

This will be a joint effort between RAC (Radio Amateurs of Canada) and the ARRL (American Radio Relay League).

The site chosen is the historic Marconi Memorial station on Signal Hill, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, the site of the reception of the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission in 1901.

Upcoming issues of QST (ARRL) and TCA (RAC) will contain details on the event as well as how to obtain participation certificates

Source: Radio Amateurs of Canada

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