Hello all!

In a few weeks, this July, there is a unique opportunity to be involved in a brand new public service event!
The Ride of Courage is a three day cycling tour – the next evolution of the Kids Cancer Care Cycle Challenge. For those familiar with the previous event, Tour 4 Kids, this is a new approach to their cycling fundraiser.

As radio operators, our mandate from the event is to support road safety and to ensure communications coverage. Your expertise is invaluable in meeting this mission and ensuring the smooth flow on the course during the days of the event.

We have some secondary objectives in supporting the cyclists themselves, looking after the volunteer teams, and providing situational awareness for the Ride Manager.
We are expecting to pair the radio operator volunteers with other event volunteers – either as a rover team, or as part of a critical intersection team.

The event occurs on 14, 15, 16 (Fri, Sat, Sun) July 2023 –  starting and finishing in Water Valley, AB each day, with overnight stays in Camp Kindle on Friday and Saturday nights.

We understand that being available for all three days is a significant time commitment. If you are only able to help for one or two days, we will do our best to work with your availability.

This event is a fundraiser
Event information: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/peer-to-peer/6e3b5571-aff8-4840-bde0-11770677c91f

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If you’ve been waiting for your floor pump to make you a new best friend, this is one of the only ways that it could happen!

As of 27 June – currently needing about  7 more amateur radio volunteers.
The organisation and their volunteers are a really friendly group of people to hang out with – and it’s a handy reason to get out of Calgary for the last weekend of Stampede.

While it is based on a past event, this one is a serial number 1 event – there are some pretty ambitious routes (up to 170 km in a day, on a road bike!).
That means some higher uncertainty up front.  It also means we have the chance to, and are aiming to accomplish making a strong showing for amateur radio.

No prior experience needed –  let us know about yourself and your equipment.

With the ongoing planning effort, and several items still in flux, it is difficult to provide a complete brief at this time.
However, it is also important to us that our volunteers are able to make an informed decision about whether this is for you.  We want you to know what you are getting into as best we can, up front.

I know there are a lot of details that aren’t here, send your questions!

We are keeping public postings about this here:  https://caraham.org/Public-Service-&-Ham-Events-&-Blog
Our emails are there, and you can respond to me here if you’d like.

73,

Dana Harding, VA6DJH
Garry Spicer, VE6GDS