2025-06-20 mk’s Word – June

In this issue: Trouble-shooting and solving various challenges on the Pot Lid Net and Capital City Net, a few things to keep in mind for Field Day, and advice on…

2025-05-20 mk’s Word – May

In this issue: A bug for VE3RHQ, RAC antenna challenges, and information about the new ISED Basic Amateur Radio Exam effective July 15, 2025 RAC headquarters updates A bug for…

2025-04-15 mk’s Word – April

Annual Homebrew Night showed lots of imagination “To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk” -attributed to Tom Edison Not much junk at this year’s Homebrew…

2025-03-15 mk’s Word – Upbeat March meeting and successful Commonwealth Contest

Well, I was going to tell you all about how the Commonwealth Contest went.  But let’s preempt that for a bit about the March OARC meeting. March Meeting brought comments,…

2025-02-19 mk’s Word – February Frequencies

Too bad about the February monthly meeting being cancelled. I hope everybody got the word. I guess we will try again in March. It’s nice to hear the Canadian Ski…

2025-01-15 mk’s Word – And Pictures Too

Whipping up an antenna … Since there isn’t much going on here just now, I thought I’d let you see a few of the toys I’ve acquired recently. The first…

2024-12-19 mk’s Word – Winter Wonderings

I’m back … No, I didn’t really go anywhere, but haven’t put any words onto the OARC website since the weather was nice. Partly I was busy with the station…

2024-07-20 mk’s Word – Mid-summer Musings

What has happened? Here it is, half past summer already. Where did it go? Since my last report, at least two happenings happened – Field Day and Canada Day, which…

2024-06-17 mk’s Word – Examination and Rumination

Club examiner’s report … First, my year-end examiner report from June 1, 2023 to May 31 2024: Some of those who failed an exam subsequently re-wrote and passed. Two candidates…

2024-05-19 mk’s Word – Busy, busy, busy

Project plethora … It has been a busy month (again). Since homebrew night: Not much of all this had me sitting in front of a radio. Strangely, that’s OK. As…