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From:
ve6afo@3web.net To:
ve6afo@3web.net Cc:
ve3bdb@sympatico.ca Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:38 AM
Subject: RAC National Emergency Database
April 12, 2008
Lady and Gentlemen:
By now you have all read in the latest "The Canadian Amateur" of the news in where RAC has created a national programme to enhance the already extensive RAC Amateur Radio Emergency Service and National Traffic System. The announced team is here to assist you, the Section Manager, to help RAC bring about a national team for the sake of mutual aid during national disasters. This team could very well be asked to help other RAC and or ARRL Sections during a major disaster.
Now - let us all get down to the business of making this happen in Canada. First - as Section Manager it will be your responsibility to disseminate as widely as possible the word about this programme. By working with your respective SEC and STM, who can involve all DECs, ECs and NMs, to bring interested members in becoming part of this national database. Further - we know this programme will not be for everyone.
While you are giving thought of how you will go about doing this - I will be establishing what credentials and other criteria the members should have in order to be accepted for the RAC national database. In that the database is national in scope - it is beneficial that RAC's criteria be closely tied to that of the ARRL. My ARRL counterpart (his title is Emergency Preparedness and Response Manager), Dennis Dura, K2DCD, has been extremely busy on road trips telling Amateurs about ARRL's programme. He has been hard to track down but, I plan to talk with him soon and after doing so, I will have a better idea of what the minimum criteria should be for RAC registrants to our database. In fact - I invite you as the Section Manager to give me your thoughts on what you feel should be the minimum criteria for registrants to the Canadian Amateur Radio Emergency Database. I am not saying we can use all the suggestions we receive but, it does give us some guidance and direction to this end.
In the meantime - stay tuned for further information on this front. If any of you have questions - please do not hesitate to ask. I/we are here to help you. Remember - we are a team. We all have a vested interest in this programme which belongs to all of us and our respective communities. Let us all work toward this end to make the RAC Amateur Radio Emergency Service a proud entity, which it is.
73,
Ken Oelke - VE6AFO
RAC National Emergency Coordinator
