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…
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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…
2024-04-18 mk’s Word – Delayed by lazy editor
That crazy antenna (a follow up to homebrew knight) At one point in the process of getting VE3RHQ up and running we were looking at omnidirectional antennas for satellite work.…