Westcoast Amateur Radio Association

Field Day 2007 Huge Success

8 Jul

Hello All – Field Day is over with for another year. It was a great success at the Saanich Historical Society site. Lots of Ham and general public visitors. A very large "thanks" goes to all of you that helped ... Read more »

Technical Committee Update

10 Jun

From Al VE7BEU, Technical Director D-Star 2-m is now on line – Jun. 18 The WARA D-Star 2-m system is now on-line with the other 40 stations around the world. Click on www.dstarusers.org for information. I will require your callsign, ... Read more »

Building Donation from Victoria Airport Authority

7 Jun

We moved the building from the Airport property to my house on Triangle Mountain (May 29, 2007) for storage and modifications. This is a temporary move. I would expect while at my place we can work on the interior wiring ... Read more »

Mt. McDonald Work Party

20 May

Work Party Sunday May 20: We had a work party in the rain! Added a new antenna, coax cable and connectors for packet radio repeater, VE7VIC 145.690 MHz, simplex. Connect to C(space) VIC to test it. Send a ? to ... Read more »

Friends of WARA Tower Fund

15 May

During the violent wind storm on the night of December 13/14, 2006, WARA’s repeater tower on Mount McDonald was badly damaged. Because of the tower’s precarious nature, and because another wind-storm was immanent, the tower had to be cut down ... Read more »