Westcoast Amateur Radio Association

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 »

Saltspring Repeater Maintenance

15 May

May 5, 2007 – VE7BEU reporting: Jim ve7gof and I (ve7beu) just got back for 12 hour trip to Saltspring Island va7vic site. There was a problem with the 224 MHz link back from Saltspring Island to ve7vic on 146.84. ... Read more »

New Repeater Call sign

11 May

Westcoast Amateur Radio Association New Call Sign The Westcoast Amateur Radio Association has applied for, and received the call sign VE7DSR for the DSTAR digital repeater to be installed on Saltspring Island. The site is under development ... Read more »