Category Archives: WARA Club Activities and Events

News of Public Service Events, Education Courses and Programs, and other member activities.

ERTEX2019 Debrief – Guest Speakers for General Meeting Tuesday Nov. 19

15 Nov

Glenn Lindsay and Neil Townsend will give a debrief and Q & A at the Tuesday Nov. 19 WARA General Meeting regarding the recent emergency radio exercise ERTEX2019. This was a unique exercise that was structured to give WARA the opportunity to formally participate in a regional emergency communications exercise involving EMBC and several local authority emergency program radio teams, their Emergency Coordinators and other EOC staff and volunteers.

AGM 2019 Board of Directors

16 Oct

The annual general meeting of WARA was held on Tuesday October 15, 2019 at Red Cross House, Victoria. Results of elections for Board of Directors:

# Position Name Portfolio Term End
1 President Brent Besse VA7BNB 2020
2 Vice President Jon Jacox VA7WPT 2021
3 Secretary Dylan Dawson VA7BAE Privacy Officer 2021
4 Treasurer Brian SummersVE7JKZ 2021
5 Past President Al Muir VE7BEU Tech 2020
6 Director-at-Large Frank Andersen VE7GCO Field Day 2021
7 Director-at-Large David Black VA7LFT Membership 2020
8 Director-at-Large Chris Munz-Michielin VA7ALB Emergency Comms 2021 
9 Director-at-Large John Nemeth VAJMN 2020
10 Director-at-Large Baljit Atlas VA7BSS 2021
11 Director-at-Large Trevor Peirce VE7TAV Public Service Coord 2021
12 Director-at-Large Alan Mallett VA7AWM Examiner 2021

 

General Meeting Tuesday April 16, 2019

9 Apr

Please join us on Tuesday, April 16th for a talk by our own Larry Gagnon (VE7EA) entitled  Get Fit (or not), Have Fun, Play Radio! The Summits on the Air (SOTA) Program”. This is a fun and interesting part of ham radio and worth coming out the learn all about it. We will also have a business meeting to discuss a couple of items. Please join us at the Jewish Cultural Center at 3636 Shelbourne at 7:00PM, Tuesday Apr. 16, 2019. The board looks forward to seeing and talking with you.