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Membership fees increase January 1

4 Dec

The membership voted on October 17 to increase the membership fees to $40 for an individual and $55 for a couple, effective January 1. Membership for 2018 can be paid before January 1 at the old rate, $30 for an ... Read more »

Newcomer (“Newbie”) Net

25 Nov

The club has a number of nets on its repeater 146.840 MHz. The most recent is the Newcomer (“Newbie”) on Thursday evenings at 2000 hrs. Recent net controllers have been Trevor VE7TAV and Bailey VA7AIB. Both are self-study hams and ... Read more »

VE7VIC-10 Winlink node Restored Nov. 18

17 Nov

UPDATE: The VE7VIC-10 node is functioning again as of Saturday Nov. 19, 2017. The VE7VIC-10 Winlink node was offline pending PC repair/replacement. Cause of issue was failed power supply in the PC. You can check the status of this node and ... Read more »

Nobel Prize for Detecting Gravitational Waves

4 Oct

Three American physicists have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contribution to detecting gravitational waves. What are gravitational waves and how can they be detected? To explain this, here is a short presentation that I made for the ... Read more »

HF Remote Radio

3 Sep

Don’t have a home HF Station? There are other possibilities. Find out at our September 19 meeting when Mike Cavallin VA7XMC and Eric Manning VA7DZ present How to Use a Superstation from the Comfort of Your Own Home 7:00 pm ... Read more »