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North Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club

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2012 Club Elections

Club Elections are coming up for 2012 and we need your help. If you would like to have your name stand as a board member, please let Dave GERVAIS (VE6KD) know.

2012 NCAARC Casio

NCAARC will be running their second fundraising casino on April 20-21, 2012 at the Apex Casino located at 24 Boudreau Road, St. Albert and are in need of volunteers. This is the club's primary fundraising event for 2012-2013 and the membership is requested to participate in the event. We need casino volunteer workers for various positions (Bankers, Cashiers, Chip Runners, Etc.). If you can assist with a shift during this two day event, please volunteer!! Contact Dave GERVAIS (VE6KD).

RAC 2011 Winter Contest

On December 17, 2011 nine members from NCAARC participated in the RAC 2011 Winter Contest. For some of the members, it was their first contest experience. The crew had a great time and appreciated the hospitality of Dave (VE6KD) allowing them to use his equipment.

RAC SUMMARY SHEET

Contest Date : 17-Dec-11

Callsign Used : VE6KD
Operators : VA6YB, VE6STE, VA6GCT, VE6KSW, VA6AWS, VE6BHO, VE6EFR, VE6KCF, VE6KD

Category : MULTI-MULTI

Default Exchange : 59 AB

Name : David Gervais
Address : Site 17 Box 4 RR1
City/State/Zip : Morinville Alberta T8R 1P4
Country : Canada

Team/Club : VE6KD

BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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160SSB 17 17 146 4
80SSB 177 176 1502 12
40SSB 56 56 470 8
20SSB 421 420 2224 13
15SSB 269 268 1178 10
10SSB 257 256 1036 7
2SSB 13 13 140 1
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Totals 1210 1206 6696 55

Final Score = 368280 points.

Board Meeting Notes - 2012/01/14 (SECURE ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY) PDF

Board Meeting Notes - 2011/11/19 (SECURE ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY) PDF

Board Meeting Notes - 2011/10/22 (SECURE ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY) PDF

Board Meeting Notes - 2011/09/17 (SECURE ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY) PDF

Board Meeting Notes - 2011/08/20 (SECURE ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY) PDF

Board Meeting Notes - 2011/07/16 (SECURE ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY) PDF

Board Meeting Notes - 2011/06/11 (SECURE ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY) PDF

New Club Executive for 2011

AGM - Meeting Notes - 2011/03/19 (SECURE ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY) PDF

Board Meeting Notes - 2011/02/19 (SECURE ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY) PDF

Board Meeting Notes - 2011/01/15 (SECURE ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY) PDF

Chat With NCAARC Members & Visitors (You DO NOT require an Amateur Radio Licence For This Feature)

Instructions:

1) Enter your callsign or name for Nickname.

2) Please enter the words you see in the box, in order and separated by a space. Doing so helps prevent automated programs from abusing this service. If you are not sure what the words are, either enter your best guess or click the reload button next to the distorted words. Visually impaired users can click the audio button to hear a set of words that can be entered instead of the visual challenge.

3) No need to check the "Auth to Services" box.

4) Press the "Connect" button once everything is filled.

5) Once logged on, you type in the white box. Everyone that is listed on the right side is able to communicate in this window.

Tour de l'Alberta
On a warm sunny 25th of July, in an area surrounding Morinville Alberta, the North Central Alberta Radio Club for the second year provided the event communications. This event has approximately 800 cyclists and an additional 300 volunteers which encompasses 4 different tour lengths. (20 km's, 50 km's, 100 km's & 185 km's) The following is a collage from this event.

The club members enjoyed the event and felt they had provided a service necessary to all as well as having been most courteously and generously treated. In all the tour was a well attended event of which the organizers can be justly proud. For more information check the Tour de l'Alberta website.

Board Meeting Notes - 2010/06/12 (SECURE ACCESS TO MEMBERS ONLY) PDF

VE6LAW via APRS. To see more stations go to www.aprs.fi

VE6LAW VE6LAW

The VE6LAW Repeater has been moved to it's new home at the Fire Station #3, 100 Giroux Road, St. Albert (53.38.39N, 113.40.20W) and IS OPERATIONAL!! The frequency is located at 146.94 (-). Our testing from this site has provided some very good results with excellent coverage through out St. Albert and the Edmonton area.

VE6LAW is connected to EchoLink which allows licenced Amateur Radio stations to communicate with one another over the Internet, using voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology. The program allows worldwide connections to be made between stations, or from computer to station, greatly enhancing Amateur Radio's communications capabilities. There are more than 200,000 validated users worldwide - in 162 of the world's nations - with 4,000 online at any given time. NCAARC uses a Kenwood TM-V71A radio for this purpose.

Echolink Instructions:

Echolink DTMF Functions:

(Node#) - Connect to a station on the Internet, based on its node number

(00) - Selects an available node (of any type) at random, and tries to connect to it.

(01) - Selects an available link or repeater (-L or -R) at random, and tries to connect to it.

(02) - Selects a conference server at random, and tries to connect to it.

(03) - Selects an available single-user station at random, and tries to connect to it.

(#) - Disconnects the station that is currently connected. If more than one station is connected, disconnects the most recently connected station.

(##) - Disconnects all stations.

(09) - Re-connects to the station that most recently disconnected.

(*) - Plays a brief ID message.

(123) - Plays the current time.

(**1) - Plays the current temperature.

(**2 ) - Plays the local (St. Albert) weather forecast.

(**3) - Plays any weather warnings for the St. Alberta area.

There will be more DTMF functions added in the future.

Should any members have any difficulties operating EchoLink or if you have noticed a problem, please contact our VE6STE.

Enjoy!!

Steve - VE6STE