RAC/ARRL Field Day 2025 is rapidly approaching.  Last year, the Society did not participate although some local amateur radio operators may have.  Our last station was in 2023, pictured above, two months before the wildfire evacuations.  Field Day is an opportunity for local amateur radio operators to become "radioactive" and test and experiment with old and new equipment and try out experiments. It is also a chance to exercise emergency preparedness skills.  We are there independent of government and of the regular infrastructure of a modern society.  The technology we use is modern but build upon technology that is considered by many to be obsolete.  But it is resilient to natural and man-made disasters.  We are not dependent on StarLink... Details follow (from ARRL https://www.arrl.org/field-day#rules )

The After Action Review Northwest Territories 2023 Wildfire Season:  Final Report produced by Transitional Solutions Inc. is now available online at:  https://www.maca.gov.nt.ca/sites/maca/files/resources/nwt_after-action_review_-_bilingual.pdf .  The report is 164 pages.  There is significant discussion of the role of the Incident Command System (ICS).  

The Society has no comments in respect of this or previous reports.  The amateur radio community was active in maintaining radio communications locally and globally for the entire period from about May to October 2023.  Local amateur radio operators maintain their stations which are capable of running on emergency power and independent of infrastructure (whether hydro, phone lines, fibre optic cable or satellites).  The troposphere is generally always there (and if it is not, well...that would be the end of the Anthropocene epoch). The Society also continued to operate its repeater network based in Yellowknife and Behchokǫ̀ with coverage 40 km outside of Behchokǫ̀ all the way to Tibbet Lake and well into Great Slave Lake (Inner Whalebacks).