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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…
2025-02-01 The Prez Sez – February
Opening words … Hello OARC members and subscribers. Time is flying by and I want to update you about a number of things. February Member’s Meeting Small Group Discussions about…
2025-01-15 Weird Stuff – Spurious Experiments
[Wayne Stacey VE3QO shares some of his “Sixty Years of Weird Stuff in Radio”.] My friend Jon and I learned Morse code in the late 1950s, when we were about…
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…
2024-12-06 The Prez Sez – December
Bylaws and memberships … The OARC management team has been working hard in the last few weeks to finalize our new ONCA (Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act) compliant bylaws, which will be…
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…