Amateur station VA3VGC, on board the SS Keewatin, will be active for
the Museum Ships Weekend Event (MSWE), June 1 and 2. Operation will be
from 8 am to 6 pm Eastern Time. Frequencies are listed on the event
web page, http://www.nj2bb.org/museum.

After decades in Michigan as a tourist attraction, the “Kee” returned
to its home port in Port McNicoll last year. Local hams are helping
to restore the original radio room, and will install a permanent
amateur station during this season. For more information about the
station visit tinyurl.com/keewatin; for ship information visit
http://www.sskeewatin.com.

– Dave Krull VA3DK

Oh and by the way, in (2), the part “or to transmit or receive voice communication on a two-way radio or a hand microphone or portable radio.”, which does *NOT* expire in 2013 clearly states pressing a button on a hand microphone attached to a hand-held or portable radio, SO LONG AS IT IS ATTACHED TO YOUR CLOTHING is LEGAL!!

Granted, I was planning on setting up a headset and having a PTT switch on the vehicle anyways, but then a bunch of jurisdictions ban headsets. You just can’t win.

I think the government should pony up some $ if they want us PRIVATE CITIZENS who are FEDERALLY LICENSED to let a PROVINCIAL authority whom we provide services to during emergencies AS A VOLUNTEER tell us we have 3 years to replace our gear since as far as I know, nobody makes a retrofit hands-free that works worth a bean. We aren’t a municipality, we don’t get government subsidies to upgrade our gear when things like this change, many of us are senior citizens on bare-bones budgets and so on.