After many years the North Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club has a new website.  Many thanks to Jeff (VE6EFR), Mark (VE6BHO), and Steve (VE6STE) for helping me get the site up and running.

There is still some work to do on the site.  I’m still working on adding some new features and tweaking what we have already setup.  If you have any suggestions you can drop me an email using the form on the contact us page – just select my call sign.  Also please let me know if you find something that isn’t working.

Enjoy the new site and keep checking back to see what we’ve added!

73,

Andrew – VA6AWS

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.

On October 1, 2011 the NCAARC hosted an open house and flea market at the Rendevous Centre in Morinville.  The event was a great success.

Morinville News sent  a reporter out to cover the story.

Morinville News » News Archive » Amateur radio hams work the bands in Morinville

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 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.

Below is a gallery of photos taken during the event.