News
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MAARC will be having their flea market again this year on Sat., Sept. 15,2018 at the Riverview Lions Club at 701 Coverdale Road, Riverview, NB E1B 3L1.
The doors will open at 8 for sellers to set up and doors will open for buyers at 9am
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The Ledwidge Lookoff Car Rally is looking for radio operators to help with communications, more info can be found on the upcoming events events page here
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There is a plan to erect the antennas and feed lines on the tower Saturday August 11.
We will need volunteers who are registered with HRM EMO.
more info can be found on the upcoming events events page here
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The Parks & Historic Sites On The Air project is seeking help from a couple programmers
Parks & Historic Sites On The Air ( www.cnpota.ca ) is a brain child of several Hams in the Halifax area who want to duplicate the American Parks theme of two years ago, only for Canada. We need assistance of a couple programmers Below is a description of what is needed.
The division of programming labor they are looking for is
- Doug Grace will return to work on the web site to add support for ADIF file upload, update the logos, and assist with changes for bilingual translation.
- We’ll need to find (several?) others to help design and write the backend processes to confirm QSOs, compile statistics, maintain leader boards, track awards.
- We’ll need to figure out if we’re going to allow already uploaded logs to be deleted or edited. If we do, we’ll need to have a subsystem designed and written to do this.
- We’ll need specific computer skill sets. Experience in a UNIX/Linux environment, database design and SQL coding (MySQL or other database), Linux programming in Perl or PHP programming language.
Anyone interested, please contact Doug Grace VE1DFG by e-mail or by phone 902-456-0506. Thanks so much and look forward to hearing from interested people.
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The history of the Maritime Amateur website has recently passed its 10th anniversary and would like to thank all the amateurs for their input and support over the years.
http://www.maritimeamateur.ca/history-of-maritime-amateur
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Dalhousie has recently setup a web interface for the weather station on top of the Dunn building at Dal
Real time weather conditions can be observed at the following web page:
http://dal-weather.dynamic-dns.net
The project is in progress, so there might be some interruptions in the service.
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The 6M repeater is installed and now has a tone on the transmit for those who want to use tone squelch.
It is the same tone as on the receiver for access - 151.4 Hz.
There have been a few small problems noted and one is some of the audio files have become corrupt and I will need to reload those.
The audio levels on the 6M repeater transmit are low with the transmitted tone being somewhat high.
Another site visit with the test gear will be required to set those up properly.
If you hear an explosion on the repeaters that is a freezing road warning when the outside temperature is between +2 and -3 degrees C.
This is a tail message currently running after every tail drop but I plan to change that to probably every 5 tail drops.
During the Take-15 net all 3 repeaters are linked (VHF, UHF and 6M) and have a unique courtesy tone.
The link up is automatic at about 2029 and will unlink after 2 minutes of no activity.
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PLEASE NOTE: Work has almost now been completed on the VE1PSR repeater (147.270+). Bill (VE1MR) passes on the following information:
I managed to get up to the repeater site on the weekend and reinstated the tone on the TX of VE1PSR VHF repeater and adjusted the audio levels.
So folks can now use tone squelch to cut out the inter mod on the repeater in the city.
The 6M repeater was not installed but should be back in service soon - hopefully with the next site visit.
A copy of the 1959 edition of The Canadian Amateur was recently provided to HARC by Michel VE2TH; the whole of the edition was devoted to Amateur Radio in Nova Scotia. It is a big document so it has been posted in two parts.......to read the documents --- follow this link.....
HARC honours Win Hartlin (VE1WIN) with a special 2016 Amateur of the Year Award .......for more information on this announcement ----follow this link.....
President's 2016 Annual Report - HARC President Brian Allen (VE1AZV) has presented his 2016 Annual Report. Click here to see the report.
HARC Establishes a "Wireless Room" exhibit at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic .......for more information on this announcement ----follow this link.....
How Hams like HARC's Brit Fader (VE1FQ) made communication possible with the Joint Arctic Weather Stations in the early days of amateur radio .......for more information on this announcement ----follow this link.....
RAC Revised 0 – 30 MHz Band Plan - The revised RAC 0-30 MHz Band Plan has been released with the effective date of December 1, 2015. This replaces the January 1, 2015 Band Plan version. It incorporates several updates to reflect feedback received on the earlier version. The Band Plan graphics have also been changed to improve readability and make it easier to determine which segments are recommended for which modes.
The RAC 0-30 MHz Band Plan is available on the RAC web site; down-load a copy or print one off for use in the "shack": wp.rac.ca/rac-0-30-mhz-band-plan.
HARC members and former submariners donate two pair of dolphin to submarine museums.......for more information ----follow this link.....
HARC Repeater Use Policy
The HARC Repeater Use Policy is now being implemented. Click here for more info.
