Westcoast Amateur Radio Association
Website of the Westcoast Amateur Radio Association, Victoria BC
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Field Day 2026 will be held on June 27-June 28, 2026. It is always the 4th weekend June. This year it will be at Luxton Fairgrounds, a new location for us. We usually start with breakfast at the Appletree Restaurant and … Read More »
Hi everyone, The University of Victoria Propagation Laboratory, in partnership with the University of Victoria Centre for Aerospace Research and UVic Satellite Design, is organizing another Amateur radio examination opportunity, which is open to students and the members of the … Read More »
In June we released a Discord Server for our community. Discord is a service for hosting chat sessions about our hobby and our club. Sadly, things have slowed down after the initial release. We want to make it flourish and … Read More »
12 March 2020 – Until further notice all WARA General Meetings and Board Meetings are cancelled because of health concerns. The Board will make decisions regarding an alternate location or deferred meeting schedule.
WARA’s old VE7VIC-14 APRS system was an RF receive-only iGate, which meant that it listened for RF traffic on 144.390 MHz and sent the received beacons to the APRS-IS internet servers. This was fine for getting local stations into the … Read More »