Hello Everyone,

It is time for me to start recruiting suckers..er I mean operators for the 2010 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo mountain bike event.

Amateur Radio has provided support for this event for the last 200 to 250 years and I hope to have many old and new faces help out again in 2010.

Ted, AA7XH, is looking for volunteers to provide communications at El Tour de Tucson. An application is attached.

I am in need of operators for The Light The Night® Walk on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at the Reid Park, Demeester OPC (Outdoor Performance Center) in Tucson. The walk is only 2 miles, and is both wheelchair and stroller accessible. Dogs are welcome as well. There will be a barbeque meal served beginning at 5:30 with a small presentation at 6:45. At 7:15 the walk will begin and the program ends around 9:30pm.

If you are in Arizona and would like to become an ARRL Official Observer, you are invited.

RST President Randy Malick testifies regarding HB2514.

The Southern Arizona Roadrunners, a 501(c)(3) running club, has requested ham radio support for two of their upcoming races.

For details on this important ham event:
http://pcraces.org/?q=node/52

The annual El Tour de Tucson event is coming up on November 22, 2008. Join us along with over 3000 volunteers to make this event a very special one.

RACES/ARES Teams are requesting that certain HF frequencies be kept clear for GUSTAV traffic.

The following was posted on the RST Reflector:

Could you post on your front page for folks to stay off of 7.285, 7.248, 3.873 & 3.975 For the duration of Gustav. These are the Texas ARES & RACES Frequencies.

The State of Texas RACES will commence operations on 01 SEP 09 at 12:00 Z

There is an upcoming training opportunity for anyone interested in emergency services. It's run by Tom Taylor of the Pantano Disaster Action Team (DAT), which is probably one of the most active CERT teams around (some of you may have met Tom when he gave a talk for RACES a few months back). The class itself is the basic CERT training and is sponsored by the Pima County Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.