Hello all.
The next CAARC monthly meeting will be on Wednesday September 20 at 19:30. Meet at the Calder School at Sunnybrook Farm. The gates will be open for 1900. The Calder School entrance is behind Sims Furniture. Unfortunately there will be no Zoom option this month as I recently learned our Zoom account has expired. Renewal discussion is on the agenda.
Hope to see you at the meeting!
Don VA6DFR
Don – VA6DFR
Please mark your calendar for the CAARC End of Summer Social SATURDAY, September 9, 2023 16:00 – 20:00. This year Tiny (VE6TIP) and Agnes have generously offered to host this event at their place. Please bring your significant other, lawn chairs and a potluck item. The club is providing hot dogs and buns and Tiny is providing the fire! Hope to see you there! Tiny and Agnes live at 39053 Range Road 280, Red Deer County. Coming from Red Deer on hwy 11a west, go 1km. west of Bluegrass greenhouses, then turn north on RR280. They are the 1st. place on the right. (This is the same road that John Malinic lives on)
Please click on the blue Directions arrow below for driving directions from your location.
Welcome to Field Day
Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club will be hosting a Field Day Station. Please come and
join the fun.
When: All day, Saturday, and Sunday 24 – 25 June
Where: Hillcrest Community Hall, Township Road 342, Bowden (AB)
Bring your lawn chairs, lunch, drinks, sunscreen and be ready to help our station
make contacts around the world. Club members and non-members are welcome.
Non licensed operators are also welcome to operate under supervision. Invite
your friends, it is a great time to get to know what the hobby is all about. If you
would like to camp, you are welcome to do so for a small donation to the club.
Set-up: We will begin setting up the station from noon on Friday, 23 June. Those
of you that have assignments to bring equipment for the event, please plan to
bring it on Friday afternoon. If you brought radio items last year, please bring the
same equipment this year. Your help in setting up on Friday afternoon and taking
down on Sunday is highly appreciated.
Please see the next item for driving directions and the location.
Hope to see you there. Don VA6DFR
Your field day 2023 committee.
The Field Day planning committee just met for a brief progress meeting. The following issues came up
Thank you to all the hams for offering your help to participate in another field day the last weekend of June. Brian VE6CKC has booked Hill Crest community center SW of Innisfail for the last weekend of June. Some of us met at the hall and we all agreed it is a great place for field day as it has a hall and an outdoor covered operating area and lots of room for antenna separation.
Here is the link for directions
Exit off QEII just south of the refinery at Exit 357 and take the first ramp on your right. Turn left at the Stop sign. (Hwy 587 west). Go approximately 7 miles to RR22 South
Turn South on RR 22 ( there is a Hillcrest Hall sign ) and turn right at the Stop sign. The Hall is on your right. The address is 2206 TWP342.
Please note that you are responsible for providing your own meals , lawn chairs, mosquito spray, and any other personal items you will need during field day operation.
Invitation to come and camp for the weekend for a small donation to the club.
Bring your own food and drinks.
Maybe a photo from last year for attention.
Field day will be a great opportunity to gather and work together as hams to communicate around the world. If we all do a small part to help field day will be a great experience for everyone involved as well as learning some new skills and getting more operating experience.
We look forward to a great couple of days working together!
Please let us know by e-mail of any ideas or additions you can think of to help us plan this field day.
Please e-mail Paul VA6MPM
paul@sweetgrassltd.com
Please watch here for more ongoing info.
73 Paul VA6MPM
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It’s been 40 years since the first astronaut called an amateur radio operator on Earth. Now the moon is in the community’s sights.
Most of the astronauts aboard the Artemis 2 mission, which will send a quartet of people around the moon in late 2024, are certified ham radio (amateur radio) operators. There’s high hopes in the community that the astronauts may call home from deep space, the president of Radio Amateurs of Canada told Space.com.
NASA astronaut Owen Garriott made the first amateur radio call from space in 1983. (Image credit: NASA)
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The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications is a library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early communications. The DLARC is funded by a significant grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications, a private foundation, to create a digital library that documents, preserves, and provides open access to the history of this community.
This free resource combines archived digitized print materials, born-digital content, websites, oral histories, personal collections, and other related records and publications. The goals of the DLARC are both to document the history of amateur radio and to provide freely available educational resources for researchers, students, and the general public.
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Ham radio operator jumps in to help woman in Florida during Hurricane Ian
From hundreds of miles away, a ham radio operator helped first responders find people stranded on a Florida island after Hurricane Ian hit.
The age-old communication made a difference for a woman who has family in the Susquehanna Valley.
With a language all their own, ham radio operators converse with people all over the world.
Dale Klonin, with the call sign KC3TAU, got into the hobby about a year ago.
“I found the fun aspect of it being talking to people in other countries, even people in the United States at some activities that ham radio operators do,” he said.
During the height of Hurricane Ian, his hobby became lifesaving work.
“Ham radio operators in particular are here to help out when all other means of communication just don’t work,” Klonin said.
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