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
The WARA Saltspring 146.66 VA7VIC Repeater is temporarily off the air, due to long-standing interference issues with VE7RSI repeater that we have been unable to resolve. The new set of filters we recently added did not help. I will keep … Read More »
Westcoast Amateur Radio Association provides race communications for the Victoria Marathon (a Boston Marathon qualifier), held on Thanksgiving Sunday, and the Times-Colonist 10k Run in April. A roster of 46+ members, municipal emergency program radio groups and area hams provide … Read More »
Field Day 2013 Report While the numbers were down a bit right across the board, the weather was good and everyone enjoyed themselves. Hans VE7OES and Myself (Jim, VE7GOF) as co-chairs for field day received numerous comments after the … Read More »
Submitted by Alan Mallett VA7AWM VX9GJG – In July 2012, I applied for and was issued a special “Developmental Licence” Callsign VX9GJG permitting me to operate in the brand new, not yet Amateur approved, 60-metre band, along with approximately 30 … Read More »
There is lots happening with the DStar system, particularly related to gateway operation. This web space will incorporate comments from Hans ve7oes and other WARA DStar operators.