November Club Meeting

Hi All! Sorry for the late notice.

The November monthly meeting of the Yarmouth Amateur Radio Club is tomorrow evening at 7pm. As always, the meeting will be held at the EMO building (behind the Fire Hall) on Pleasant St.

All members, and those interested, are encouraged to attend.

73 de VE1XT

2016 - 2017 Club Executive

At Tuesday's meeting we elected the club executive for 2016 - 2017. The executive remains the same as last year.

• President - Max Stulberger VE1IC
• Vice President - Bernie Bonnar VE1UT
• Treasurer - David Vail VE1GM
• Secretary - Dennis d'Entremont VE1XT

73 de VE1XT

Annual General Meeting

Hello All,

The Annual General Meeting will be held this Tuesday (Oct 18th) at 7pm. The meeting will be held at the EMO building on Pleasant St as usual.

All members, and those interested, are encourage to attend.

73
VE1XT

September Club Meeting

Hello All,

Just a reminder that the summer break is over and club meetings will be starting up again this month.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday Sept 20th at 7pm. As always, it will be held at the EMO building on Pleasant St (behind the fire hall).

All members are encouraged to attend. We also welcome visitors who may be interested in learning more about the hobby and our club.

73,
VE1XT

Tower Work - August 10th 2016

On August 10th, We had some new gear installed by Xplornet on the tower and in the building at the VE1YAR site. While they were up there we had a new 4 pole installed for the VHF repeater.

73, de VE1XT

Repeater Maintenance on August 10th

Hello All, The VE1YAR VHF repeater (146.730) will be offline at 8am on Wednesday (August 10) and will remain so for most of the day. Due to this, the Captain's Net will be held on VE1EKV (147.105+) that morning. This will be due to some work that will be performed on the tower that day. Regular operations will resume once the tower work has been completed. 73 for now VE1XT

June 2016 Club Meeting

The June meeting of the Yarmouth Amateur Radio Club will be held tomorrow night (June 21st) at 7pm at the Yarmouth EMO building behind the fire hall on Pleasant St.

This will be the last meeting before the summer break. All members and visitors are welcome to attend.

73 de VE1XT
Club Secretary

Ham Radio on CBC Radio Maritime Noon

Maritime Noon, the regional phone in show, is doing a show on Ham radio on Thursday, June 23.

George Dewar, VY2GF will be on the air with our host, Norma Lee MacLeod, as well as Brian Allen from the Halifax Amateur Radio Club.

The phone-in section will last about 35 minutes, and they will be interacting with callers as well as chatting with Norma Lee and Brian about ham radio.

73 de VE1XT

Looking for a place to mount a 2-meter mobile?  If your car has a compartment like this, it might be your answer.  I call it my Stealthy Installation.

S.M.A.R.T - Symposium of Maritime Amateur Radio Techs

The Symposium held in Amherst on April 30th turned out to be a great success. Bernie, Sheldon, and I (Dennis) ventured up there for a day trip. We left Yarmouth about 3 AM and made it up there just in time.

I've heard from a couple of the organizers, that they are already planning to put the event on again next year. It's looking like it might be a two day event.

VE1JBL (Jim) has posted a picture and some more information on The Maritime Amateur Website (scroll down the page a bit).

73!
VE1XT

May Monthly Meeting

Hello All!

The regular monthly meeting is Tuesday May 17th. 

As usual it will be held at the EMO building, behind the fire hall, on Pleasant St at 7 pm.

We only have one meeting left, after this one, before the summer break!

All members are encouraged to attend and visitors interested in amateur radio are also welcome!

73 de VE1XT

April Monthly Meeting

Hello All!

The regular monthly meeting is Tuesday April 19th. As usual it will be held at the EMO building, behind the fire hall, on Pleasant St at 7pm.

All members are encouraged to attend and visitors interested in amateur radio are also welcome!

73 de VE1XT

Happy Birthay Jim (VE1RB)!

Happy birthday to our friend and long time club member Jim Harris (VE1RB). Since we hadn't planned very, well we ended up with two cakes!

The 2016 Atlantic White Cane Contest, hosted by the Yarmouth Amateur Radio Club, was held on February 7th.   All entries entries received have been checked and the First Place Winners were:

White Caner Category - Normand Richard - VY2NR

Sighted Category - Charlotte Ward - VE1XYL

Congratulations and thank you to all who took part in the contest.

VE1YAR UHF Tone Configured to Reduce Digital "Noise"

We now have the VE1YAR UHF repeater set up with a Tone of 67 Hz. For those that don’t want to hear the digital noise going on, but still want to be able to listen to analog FM signals, set your rig to RX Tone 67Hz on 444.700 MHz.

73 de VE1XT

February Monthly Meeting

Hello All!

The regular monthly meeting is Tuesday February 16th. As usual it will be held at the EMO building, behind the fire hall, on Pleasant St at 7pm.

All members are encouraged to attend and visitors interested in amateur radio are also welcome!

73

Symposium for Maritime Amateur Radio Techs

The WestCumb Amateur Radio Club will be hosting Symposium for Maritime Amateur Techs (S.M.A.R.T.) on Apr.30th, 2016 at the ED Fullerton Building in Amherst.

The day long event will have different technical classes at the top of each hour with question periods to follow. The radio room will be available with HF, VHF, Packet and other Digital modes available to test during the day.

Classes will begin at 9am and run until 5pm with a lunch hour at noon.

There will be a small fee to be determined. More details to follow.

If interested in attending or presenting a topic please contact George Dewar VY2GF via the WestCumb Amateur Radio Club Website. 

If anyone is interested in traveling from Yarmouth (and surrounding areas) to attend this, please me know (maybe we can arrange to travel together). My email is VE1XT [at] ve1yar [dot] com or by phone at 902-746-3366. 

73 de VE1XT

Helping VE1ALG to celebrate his birthday at the EMO...

January Monthly Meeting

***MEETING POSTPONED UNTIL TOMORROW EVENING*** - Same time and place.

Hello All!

The regular monthly meeting is Tuesday January 19th. As usual it will be held at the EMO building, behind the fire hall, on Pleasant St at 7pm.

All members are encouraged to attend and visitors interested in amateur radio are also welcome!

73

RULES FOR THE 2016 ATLANTIC WHITE CANE CONTEST

 THE YARMOUTH AMATEUR RADIO CLUB IS PROUD TO ONCE AGAIN SPONSOR THE ANNUAL WHITE CANE CONTEST WHICH WILL BE HELD ON SUNDAY FEBRUARY 7^th, 2016 ON THE 80 METER BAND USING LOWER SIDEBAND FROM 7:30 UNTIL 9:30 AM AND FROM 3:00 UNTIL 6:00 PM ATLANTIC STANDARD TIME.

ONLY CONTACTS WITH AMATEURS IN THE FOUR ATLANTIC PROVINCES WILL COUNT FOR POINTS AND IF A PERSON HOLDS MORE THAN ONE CALL SIGN, ONLY ONE CONTACT WITH THAT PERSON WILL COUNT.

CONTEST LOGS:

CONTEST LOGS SHALL CONTAIN THE CALL-SIGN, NAME AND STATUS OF EACH CONTACT.  STATUS IS WC FOR A WHITE CANER AND NWC FOR A NON-WHITE CANER.  WHITE CANERS NEED NOT ENTER THE TIMES OF EACH CONTACT BUT NON-WHITE CANERS MUST ENTER THE TIMES.

SCORING:

A CONTACT WITH A WHITE CANER WILL COUNT FOR TWO POINTS AND A CONTACT WITH A NON-WHITE CANER WILL COUNT FOR ONE POINT.  FINAL SCORE WILL BE THE TOTAL OF YOUR POINTS

HOW TO ENTER:

LOGS MAY BE MAILED TO DAVID VAIL AT 50 PORTER ST. YARMOUTH, N.S.  B5A 2Y9  IN PRINT, IN BRAILLE OR ON CASSETTE TAPE, OR BY E-MAIL TO ve1gm@rac.ca TO BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 28, 2016.

FIRST PLACE CERTIFICATES WILL BE SENT TO THE TOP SCORERS IN BOTH THE WHITE CANE AND NON-WHITE CANE CATEGORIES AND A CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION WILL BE SENT TO ANY STATION THAT MAKES 20 OR MORE VALID CONTACTS.