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| A major restructuring plan
at RAC, leading to an operating expense reduction of $80,000 to be realized mainly through
reductions in paid staff, decrease in office floor space rental and costs of publishing
TCA is under preparation. As a first step in this process, RAC's Directors have approved
passing along part of these operating cost savings to members by rescinding the $10.00
membership fee increase. This will reestablish cost of membership at $39.95 and make it
more affordable for Canadian Radio Amateurs to belong to their national organization. The $10.00 membership fee increase is rescinded immediately and any members who paid the at the $49.95 rate will be compensated by an extension in their present membership.
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| RS-18 to be launched from MIR Guy Charron VA3FZA RAC Bulletin Editor |
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| Members of the
team preparing for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, recently received the
following message from Sergej Samburov RV3DR, Russian member of the ARISS team. On Nov 6 1988, amateur radio transmitting and receiving equipment first in history of astronautics started functioning on board "MIR" Russian orbital station. Within the past decade, more than 60 cosmonauts and astronauts have made thousands of radio contacts with radio amateurs of the earth. A mockup of the first artificial earth satellite (RS-18) is scheduled to be launched from OS "MIR" on November 11 1998. The radio amateurs are requested to receive the voice messages on frequency 145.815 MHz. Many thanks to those who promoted and participated in amateur radio communications with "MIR" OS. RV3DR
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On October 27th, we set up a form asking for more information about your priorities for RAC. The answers are shown below. The table has the same format as in previous months, i.e. the questions on the left, and the percentage of respondents who rate their importance as, High, Medium or Low on the right. (Some readers don't answer all questions, so the totals do not necessarily add to 100%) The questions are sorted in descending order of rating. TCA is highest at 77.1 % RAC Awards is lowest at 19.1 %On average, 46 % of topics are rated High, 33 % rated Medium and only 21 % rated Low. There is considerable agreement on the importance of TCA, and there is almost no agreement on the topic of the Affiliated club program.
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