Once again a group of us gathered at the home of VE6KD to participate in the annual RAC Canada Day contest.  Thanks again to Dave Gervais for hosting us again this year and allowing us to use his shack and equipment for the contest.

From left to right: VA6AWS, VE6STE, VE6AQ, VE6OH, VE6KD, VE6IVN, VE6JY, VE6EC

We assembled a 6 meter antenna on the fly to make some 6M contacts.

Echolink is currently offline on the VE6LAW repeater.

The computer hosting this service has decided to pack it in.  We are in the process of looking for a replacement as it is not repairable.   Once the replacement computer is acquired there will be some setup time required as well as some tweaking required once it’s on the air.

Thanks for your patience while we work on getting Echolink back online.

Thanks everyone that came out and volunteered to support the RunWild Marathon.  We could not have done it without you.  We had our hiccups a long the way, but everything worked out in the end.

The Icom repeater was put back in as the primary repeater the Sunday before and the race and it performed flawlessly for the event.

This race was also the first opportunity to showcase our new trailer.  We received a lot of positive comments on it.  Thanks Gary, Steve, Tom, and Mark (and Me) for working so hard on the trailer to get it ready for this event.

NCAARC and NARC have partnered together to provide support for the RunWild Marathon in our back yard on May 5. We require a minimum of 35 radio operators to ensure we can provide the organizers adequate coverage of the route. This is a great opportunity for us to get out and show the St. Albert Community what HAM radio is all about.

Please let me (VA6AWS – Andrew) know ASAP if you can volunteer to help us out with this important event. You can send me an email at va6aws@ncaarc.ca and let me know if you can help out. IF you have not volunteered for an event don’t be shy – it’s not hard work. Basically we need volunteers that can operate a radio and report what you see.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or want any more information on this event.

Thanks,

Andrew