Club Sponsored Activities

Club members Jim and Joe met at Eric's home to upgrade the club repeater. The new configuration will use a 34 foot mast, a Comet GP-9 colinear antenna, and a 117 foot length of half inch heliax. The actual repeater will be also moved from Eric's house to his workshop.

Prior to the tower work day

For this year’s Canada Day contest club members met at Kwomais Point Park. Once on site we explored the open spaces for a suitable location to deploy our station. A large open grassy area between the buildings and viewing area was deemed the best location for the day.  We returned to our cars and

Club members gathered on the front lawn of fellow club member Eric to operate in the annual ARRL Field Day event. This event occurs in late June and is promoted as an opportunity to get out of the shack and set up equipment in an emergency like basis. The goal is to keep one’s equipment and skills

Several club members met at the Lounge on Saturday to hear a presentation by Dave Jewers (VE7DJ) on using FT8 in POTA. Dave shared from his extensive experience doing hundreds of FT8 activations in the region. Dave offered many tips on equipment and set up that will make activating in a park go

Club members gathered at the arena again this year to participate in the annual BC QSO Party contest. Setting up went smoothly but as expected the noise level from the arena was quite high. Ralph began with some CW contacts which were not as affected by the noise level but one we switched to SSB

Several club members met at the arena for participating in the annual RAC Winter Contest. A low key contest which is ideal for those who are not avid contesters. We had several of our newer members out to watch and to try their luck making calls. This time the antenna was fully operational but the

Members and guests gathered at the Roadhouse Restaurant on Dec 4th for a lively time of eating and talking. Everyone enjoyed the food and the opportunity to spend time with those one sees less often. One even found time to talk about radio topics between solving the world's problems.

A large turn-out of members arrived at the Lounge this Saturday to participate in the QSO Party. For this event we brought a number of different radios so members could see them and try out some variations of HF operating. First on-line was Jim’s older radio. He was able to hear a few stations but