Public Service Events – Westcoast Amateur Radio Association

Message from our President – Meetings Cancelled

19 Mar

Hello all, In the midst of all the happenings with the Covid-19 virus, your board has agreed to cancel all board and members meetings until further notice. This follows the Provincial and Federal edicts for group meetings. Please note, this ... Read more »

CARHA Friday Jan 17 to Sunday Jan 19, 2020

7 Jan

The CARHA Hockey Tournament is coming up quickly, scheduled for Friday Jan 17 to Sunday Jan 20. Neil Townsend VE7NIL is the communications coordinator. Take a look on this website https://www.ve7vic.ca/carha-documents/ for all your radio volunteer information.

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.

TC10k Comments from VA7BNB

29 Apr

THANK YOU to more than 40 WARA members and friends who gave their time to support the our Public Service team at the April 28 TC10K run. There were 9000 plus runners, walkers, wheelers, teams and youth who came out ... Read more »

Notes from the February 19, 2019 General Meeting

24 Feb

At the February WARA membership meeting we had an online presentation from Michael Walker (VA3MW) from FlexRadio. We started the meeting with Mike’s presentation due to the three hour time difference. Mike talked about SDR in general and then dove ... Read more »