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Ottawa Amateur Radio Club
March 2026 Newsletter
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In this newsletter ...
- Join the OARC today
- Upcoming activities
- OARC Monthly Meeting – March 11 2026 (MS Teams link below)
- OARC Soldering Skills workshop (Winter 2026) – March 26 2026
- OARC Monthly Meeting – April 8 2026 (Homebrew Night)
- World Amateur Radio Day 2026 – April 18 2026
- Latest posts
- mk's Words – March 2026
- Ralph's Technical Trawl – March 2026
- Review of Propagation: a ham-radio tabletop game
- OARC Monthly Meeting – February 2026 – Report
- Canadian Ski Marathon 2026 - Community Event – Report
- OARC Basic Course – Fall 2025 – Report
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Details and links below ...
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OARC Monthly Meeting - March 2026
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The OARC Monthly Meeting will be on March 11, 2026 at 6:45pm. All Amateur Radio enthusiasts are welcome.
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Feature Presentation: Meshtastic and MeshCore.
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Attend in person at 1345 Baseline Road (free parking) or attend online using MS Teams.
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Attend online using Microsoft Teams.
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Join the meeting now [expired]
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OARC Soldering Skills Workshop (Winter 2026)
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Join us for the OARC Soldering Skills workshop (Winter 2026)!
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Three, fun, hands-on sessions where you will develop soldering skills for antenna and coax cable assembly. It is designed to complement the upcoming antenna-building workshop(s).
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Three Sundays (29 March, 26 April, 3 May) from 1:00pm to 4:00pm
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Cost: $25 for OARC members / $35 for non-members
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OARC Monthly Meeting – April 2026 (Homebrew Night)
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The OARC Monthly Meeting on April 8, 2026 at 6:45pm will be Homebrew Night, our annual show-and-tell evening.
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Bring your “homebrewed” hardware / software Amateur Radio projects, DIY apparatus, and home-made gear.
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Attend in person at 1345 Baseline Road. Free parking.
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Attend online using Microsoft Teams.
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World Amateur Radio Day 2026
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Get involved with World Amateur Radio Day 2026!
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Ottawa Amateur Radio operators will join others worldwide, taking to the airwaves in celebration of amateur radio and commemorating the formation of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) on April 18, 1925.
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Details about specific OARC activities will be available closer to the time.
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I should have known better. Its not the first time. I have a power supply. It has one of those switches with a neon lamp inside, to let you know that it is on and has power. Like many of these things, the neon lamp failed long before the switch was ready to quit. I like the power supply, but …
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Ralph's Technical Trawl - March 2026
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AI Noise Filtering — A New Frontier in Amateur Radio Audio.
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For decades, Amateur Radio operators have relied on traditional analog and more lately Digital Signal Processing (DSP) tools to tame some of the noise that creeps into their transceivers. AI-based filtering takes a different approach.
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Review of Propagation: A ham-radio tabletop game
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I recently had the opportunity to review a tabletop game with an Amateur Radio theme. Simply named "Propagation," it's a card- and dice-based game. The goal of the game is simple: to gain points by making QSOs.
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Monthly Meeting - February 2026 - Report
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The February Monthly Meeting featured a presentation on D-STAR (Digital Smart Technology for Amateur Radio) by Allan Boyd VE3AJB/ VE3EM, President of Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC).
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Canadian Ski Marathon 2026 - Community Event - Report
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A big thank you to the 20+ Ottawa-area radio operators who ran a controlled net on commercial digital radios for health, safety, and logistics traffic at the 2026 Canadian Ski Marathon (CSM).
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OARC Basic Course - Fall 2025 - Report
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The fall 2025 OARC Basic Amateur Radio course ran from late October until the end of January, 2026. So far, 26 of our students passed the ISED exam (most with honours). In addition, six of them also passed the Advanced. A hearty welcome to all these new hams!
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