2024-02-14 February Meeting is Cancelled

NO Meeting on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 @ 7:30 PM ET Meeting details Because our February 2024 meeting falls on Valentine’s day, the executive decided to cancel it. But we…

2024-01-27 Winter Field Day

Details Winter Field Day is a communications exercise. WFD is held on the last full weekend in January. WFD can be worked from the comfort of your home or in…

2024-01-27 Weird Stuff – Ya want fries with that QRM?

[Wayne Stacey VE3QO shares some of his “Sixty Years of Weird Stuff in Radio”.] In the early 1960’s, when gas cost a mere 35 cents per gallon, many teenagers in…

2024-01-16 mk’s Word – Snow Fun, Is it?

What to do in the dead of winter January, and real winter has arrived, just in time for Winter Field Day and the Canadian Ski Marathon. At this point, it…

2024-01-10 Rod VE3RXN – My WSPR Experiments

Zoom-only Meeting! on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 @ 7:30 PM ET Meeting details Join Rod VE3RXN as he describes his QRP WSPR experiments. How low could I go? As a…

2024-01-05 Operation High Tower

Harrie VE3HYS found a video showing the installation of the original tower and buildings at Camp Fortune, where the VE2CRA repeaters live. Jump down to view the video (13:49). We…

2023-12-17 mk’s Word – Power to the People

Portable power purchase I recently bought a power station, not the one at Fitzroy, or Darlington, but a battery packaged with an inverter and DC-DC converter. It’s called the Ecoflow…

2023-12-13 OARC Pre-Christmas Meeting

In-Person Meeting on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 @ 7:30 PM ET Meeting invitation from the OARC president Well we are almost at holiday season and there is snow on the…

2023-11-24 Rally of the Tall Pines

Friday and Saturday, November 24-25, 2023 About the event Possibly the most exciting public service event you could volunteer for, the Lincoln Electric Rally of the Tall Pines, is now…

2023-11-17 mk’s Word – November Noise

Tricks of the trade? I’ve started to wonder, in a way I haven’s since I was about ten, what does everybody else know that I don’t. For example, something everybody…