Westcoast Amateur Radio Association
Website of the Westcoast Amateur Radio Association, Victoria BC
Content from various WARA Departments such as ECT, Training, Nets, Technical, Sales
Each year the students in the WARA ham class get introduced to using mobile radios in vehicles by volunteers from our club. This takes a couple of hours on a Saturday morning, during which we drive around town contacting each … Read More »
We now have the maximum number of students enrolled in the 2016 course and we have a long waiting list. We are not currently planning another course until January 2017. If you are interested in being placed on the list for … Read More »
A new Executive committee was elected at the AGM on November 17. See here. Al Muir is our new President (in addition to Technical Director) and we welcome new Directors John Brent (VA7WPN), Mitch McKay (VA7KMN) and Glenn Lindsey (VE7GRQ).
Thanks to the over 50 radio operations volunteers who helped out at the Victoria Marathon on October 11, 2015. One of our main goals is to provide support to tired and injured runners by notifying net control of situations requiring … Read More »
Thanks to all that helped with new antenna installs today. It will take another week to install the coax jumpers and get the antennas on line. Looking forward to seeing how UHF repeaters work on new antennas. Al Muir VE7BEU