Technical Committee Reports – Westcoast Amateur Radio Association

Good News….WARA Salt Spring Island Repeater Repaired

13 May

May 12, 2019 – WARA’s Salt Spring Island Repeater (VA7VIC 146.660 MHz 100 Hz tone) has been repaired and is back in service. This has been a long slog for the Repeater Team.The repeater is co-located on Mt. Bruce with ... Read more »

The WARA APRS Upgrade – Dec.2018-Jan.2019

22 Jan

WARA’s old VE7VIC-14 APRS system was an RF receive-only iGate, which meant that it listened for RF traffic on 144.390 MHz and sent the received beacons to the APRS-IS internet servers. This was fine for getting local stations into the ... Read more »

DMR Repeater On The Air

8 Jan

DMR Repeater and System USER Dashboard (NEW January 2018) As of January, 2018, WARA is operating a UHF DMR repeater VE7VIC on 443.950 +5MHz. You will need a DMR Radio to take advantage of this repeater. Every DMR Radio needs ... Read more »

Progress on 10 metre Cross-band Repeater

9 Jan

We have more progress to report on this project (described below). About 30 additional hours have been invested in the project. The 224.94 MHz link receiver had died, and we received a donated Icom 3AT as a replacement receiver. We are adding ... Read more »

IRLP back up

13 Sep

The computer for IRLP had a memory failure. Computer is 15 years old. Fixed the problem. Cleared the junk out of the hard drive. Reset and is working now. We’re going to have to do an upgrade some time shortly. ... Read more »