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      SARA Red Deer Picnic June 13, 2026 McKenzie Shelter 10:00. Flea market, bunny hunt, FREE SARA Dogs at noon. AGM to follow. Directions 6932 40 Ave - From 55 Street, travel north on 45 Avenue until the road ends.  
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CAARC 2026 Field Day is almost here!

May 16th

Posted by VE6BLD in ARES

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Be Radio Active – Please plan on Attending the 2026 CAARC Field Day June 26th – 28th at the Hillcrest Community Hall west of Bowden

Bookmark this site for more information as Field Day approaches.

 

Your CAARC executive is currently conducting extensive planning for ARRL Field Day operations.

We invite all CAARC members and interested parties to attend and participate.

CAARC plans to have two (2) fully operational HF stations and MAYBE a VHF station dedicated for this ARRL contest.

The Hillcrest Community Hall venue location is excellent, within a short drive from Red Deer and has onsite camping and facilities available.

Thank you for your continued support of CAARC.

We look forward to seeing you at this event.

Click this link for driving directions 

73

Sandy VE6SND

CAARC President

We need volunteers to operate each of the two HF stations for the following 2 hour time slots. Click the link below to see the times available that have open operator time slots. We need 2 operators for each of the 2 stations for each time slot.

Saturday June 27

June 27 1200 -1400 h  VE6CIA Garry

June 27 1400 – 1600 h  VE6BLD Bob

June 27 1600 – 1800 h  VA6SGL Stephen

June 27 1800 – 2000 h

June 27 2000 – 2200 h  VA6MPM Paul

June 27 2200 – 2400 h

Sunday

June 28 0000 – 0200 h

June 28 0200 – 0400 h

June 28 0400 – 0600 h

June 28 0600 – 0800 h  VA6SGL Stephen

June 28 0800 – 1000 h

June 28 1000 – 1200 h  VE6WCE Gerald

PLEASE ONLY CHECK A MAXIMUM OF 2  TIMES YOU ARE VOLUNTEERING FOR SO WE CAN POST  AN OPERATOR SCHEDULE  ON THE WEB PAGE AS TO WHAT TIMES ARE STILL AVAILABLE. Thank you.

 Your participation is appreciated to help make our Field Day a success! 

Please click this  link to fill in the Goggle Form to volunteer your help operating a station for two hours at a time to make this years Field Day a success once again! 

Thanks in advance for your help to make this Field Day a success!

73 from your CAARC Executive

 

 

 

 

The next CAARC General meeting

May 12th

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CAARC Membership

NOTICE

The  CAARC next General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, May, 20 at 19:30 hours.

Meet after 19:00 hours at the Calder School at Sunnybrook Farm 2879 Botterill Crescent . 

The Calder School entrance is behind Sims Furniture just north of the Bower mall at the south end of Red Deer.

We have a number of things to discuss for the upcoming year 

The gates will be open at 1900 hrs. 

 

 

 

 

Visit John VE6HPY at Villa Marie #133 10 Carrington Dr. Red Deer

Apr 19th

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RAC Advanced Qualification Course for Maple Leaf Operators

Mar 25th

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RAC Advanced Qualification Course for Maple Leaf Operators

https://www.rac.ca/rac-advanced-course-for-maple-leaf-operators-spring-2026/

The Spring 2026 RAC Advanced Qualification course will be starting in a few weeks. Please register now!Radio Amateurs of Canada is once again offering an online Advanced Qualification Amateur Radio Course so that individuals can upgrade their qualifications.

With your Advanced Certificate, you can run higher power, operate a remotely-controlled station, obtain operating privileges when travelling overseas, set up repeaters, be the trustee for club stations and even become an Accredited Examiner (AE) if you have the Morse code qualification.

Course information:

The RAC Advanced Qualification Amateur Radio course is being offered at no charge to RAC Maple Leaf Operator Members. If you are not already a RAC Maple Leaf Operator Member, you can easily become one.

The course will be 10 sessions in length and each session will be two hours long.

In order to offer maximum flexibility, we will be running two Advanced courses so students will be able to choose one of the following two options:

Courses are offered on Sunday afternoons or Monday evenings and are two hours in duration.

Sunday afternoons:Sunday afternoons at 1 pm Eastern Time (10 am PT / 2:30 NT) starting on Sunday, April 12 and ending on Sunday, June 21

Or: 

Monday evenings:Monday evenings from 8:30 pm Eastern Time (5:30 pm PT / 10 pm NT) starting on Monday, April 13 and ending on Monday, June 22

Course instruction:

The course instructor is Dave Goodwin, VE3KG. Dave has been an Amateur since 1975, is an active HF Contester and DXer.

Dave has been a RAC volunteer for many years. He is currently RAC’s Regulatory Affairs Officer and previously served as Atlantic Director, RAC President and in other roles.

From 2015-2020, Dave taught both Basic and Advanced courses with the Fredericton (NB) Amateur Radio Club. He is an Accredited Examiner (AE) for ISED and gives many Basic, Advanced and Morse Code exams over the web.

Course material pertaining to all topics covered in the course syllabus which is available on the Advanced Course webpage and will be provided to all registered students.

Course requirements:

Participants in the course will need to meet all of the following requirements:

  1. Participants must already have the Canadian Basic Amateur Radio Qualification and a Canadian call sign.
  2. Participants must already be a RAC Maple Leaf Operator Member or become one by joining RAC at the Maple Leaf Operator level or upgrading to that level.
  3. Participants must have a copy of the Canadian Amateur Radio Advanced Qualification Study Guide provided by Coax Publications. For more information please visit the RAC Study Guides webpage.
  4. Participants must have a computer and Internet connection capable of using the Zoom conference platform. You do not need your own account on Zoom to take part in this course, but you may have to download a Zoom applet to participate.
  5. Participants must have a working email address to receive course materials and links to the sessions.

There is room on the conference server for 200 participants in each session. Auditors are welcome to attend on a space-available basis, provided they are RAC Maple Leaf Operator members.

Course registration:

Please visit the Advanced Course webpage for information on how to register for the course.
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Other Amateur Radio Courses:

Amateur Radio Basic and Advanced Qualification courses are also now being provided both online and in person by Canadian Amateur Radio Clubs and organizations. Please visit the Amateur Radio Courses webpage for more information at the link provided below.

https://www.rac.ca/amateur-radio-courses/

Allan Boyd, VE3AJB/VE3EM
RAC President
Alan Griffin
RAC MarCom Director

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SARA Red Deer Picnic 2026

Mar 24th

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SARA Red Deer Picnic June 13, 2026 McKenzie Shelter 10:00. Flea market, bunny hunt, FREE SARA Dogs at noon. AGM to follow.

Directions

6932 40 Ave – From 55 Street, travel north on 45 Avenue until the road ends.

 

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QCARC Flea Market and AGM

Mar 24th

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AGM, spring social and flea market: April 25, 2026

The Annual General Meeting of the Quarter Century Amateur Radio Club will be held at the High Park Community League Hall at 11032 154 Street NW in  Edmonton.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT OUR REGULAR FLEA MARKET OR MEETING  LOCATION. Our regular location is under renovation and is not available to us. The AGM will be held from 11:00 AM to noon. The meeting, as in past years, will be held after the flea market.

A reminder that memberships expire on April 30 so we will be accepting memberships at this event.

The schedule for the day is a bit different than usual due to the change in venue:

  • 0900 – 1100: Doors open for vendor set up, flea market and social
  • 1100 – 1200: AGM

Radio World has generously provided two gift certificates in the amounts of $100 and $50 that will be door prizes for this event. We are fortunate and grateful to have such generous sponsorship of our club events. A big thank you to Radio World and all their staff!

If you want a table at the flea market please contact Neil, VE6TCK/VE6JW, at 780-818-1975 or VE6TCK@gmail.com to reserve one. Tables will be limited at this location.

Please contact any member of executive with any questions you may have.

Radio install workshop

Mar 16th

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The mobile radio installation workshop will be at Tiny VE6TIP’s place Saturday March 21, 2026 at 1:00 pm.

We will be demonstrating how to install a mobile radio in different vehicles. If you are interested in putting a radio in your car but need a few pointers, this is the event for you!
Please park over by Tiny’s workshop (the south driveway) and bring a lawn chair.  There will be coffee and treats.

Contact any club member on VE6QE for location details.

CARA Spring 2026 Flea Market

Mar 8th

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VE6HPY downsizing sale

Feb 5th

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Item price estimate
Yeasu FT-2400 200
Kenwood TS-850s SOLD
Kenwood PS-52 SOLD
Samlex SEC-1223 100
Pyramid 3a P/S 25
Genius GB70 booster 125
Garmin GPSMap 62s SOLD
Garmin GPSMap 60cx 50
Garmin GPS ll plus SOLD
Armaco SWR meter 10
Micronta SWR meter 10
Micronta SWR meter 10
Micronta 22-204 VOM SOLD
Micronta 22-201B VOM 10
Equus DVM 20
12v test light 5
power bar 5
power bar 2
speaker SOLD
speaker SOLD
speaker 3
dual band mag mount SOLD
vhf mag mount SOLD
vhf mag mount SOLD
mag mount SOLD
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SuitSat-1

Feb 4th

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This is SuitSat-1 Amateur Radio Station RS0RS!

WOW!!  It has been 20 years ago today that I had the most fun I have ever experienced since getting my ham license in 1977! 

I received 14 sstv pictures and 90 audio clips from the space suit as it orbited the globe every 90 minutes for two weeks.

Here is one of the audio clips

On February 3, 2006 a decommissioned Olan Russian space suit was placed in orbit around the earth. The Expedition 12 International Space Station crew Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev and Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR launched the space suit by pushing it into orbit at the beginning of their space walk to repair outside equipment on the ISS. The space suit had been fitted with an amateur radio transmitter. The Suit Sat-1, as it is now being called, was designed to send telemetry from the space suit as well as pre-recorded audio by students from around the world. Special greetings in German and Spanish, Russian, French, Japanese, and English had been pre-recorded by these students from different countries. A Slow Scan Television Picture (SSTV) in Robot 36 second format was also included in the Suit Sat-1 microchip to be received and decoded by amateur radio operators and students around the globe. The transmission was to state the elapsed mission time, the suit’s internal temperature, and finally the battery voltage.

The sequence of the transmission was a voice ID (5 seconds), an international voice message, telemetry data or a SSTV Image (15-45 seconds), and then a 30 second pause.

 

VE6BLDs antannas in TCA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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