Monthly Archives: January 2012

OARC Sunday Meeting

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

Here’s a shot of some of the guys at the Sunday night Oakville ARC meeting. The revitalized club is making plans for 2012. Tonight the club had a presentation from Eric, VE3EI, from ICOM on D-Star digital communications. Eric’s presentation … Continue reading →

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Saturday Breakfast

Posted on January 7, 2012 by

Morning All. Here’s what the members of OARC do at 6:30 on Saturdays. Come to Cora’s at the Dorval mall.

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The Importance of Services, Programs and Projects

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

Thanks to all who attended the December Club meeting in the Community Room of the Oakville Police Station. At that meeting we did a “Brainstorm / Sort” of ideas and activities for the club – this gives us some direction … Continue reading →

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The Orange Box Challenge 2.0

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

Announcing the ARES “Orange Box Challenge” for 2012! This is the second annual ARES challenge event, open to all challengers, is to produce a functional VHF or dual band transportable station suitable for EMCOMM deployment. The Catch? it has to … Continue reading →

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What’s With Contesting?

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

Just about any weekend you can hear someone working a contest on the high-frequency bands. There are local, regional, national and international contests. CW, SSB, RTTY, digital signals abound and can be heard coming from around the world. Contests can … Continue reading →

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Q Signals

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

Ham radio operators have used Q signals to help clarify messages since the beginning of radio but we didn’t invent them. Q signals started back in 1909 with commercial radiotelegraph communications who called the Q signals the brevity code. Hams … Continue reading →

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