Halifax Amateur Radio Club

News

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The HARC Christmas Party will be held at Swiss Chalet, Lacewood Drive, (same place as last year), on Wednesday, December 18, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. If you plan to attend please e-mail Betty Caithness at bettycaithness@icloud.com or telephone her at 902-477-7081 as soon as possible. I will need to give the restaurant final numbers by December 16.

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Official Amateur Radio week Proclamation for the week of June 17th-23rd 2019 in the HRM can be found Here.

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The HARC FD press release for May 30th can be found Here.

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The HARC FD press release for May 21st can be found 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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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.

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.....

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HARC Establishes a "Wireless Room" exhibit at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic .......for more information on this announcement ----follow this link.....

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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.....

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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.

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HARC members and former submariners donate two pair of dolphin to submarine museums.......for more information ----follow this link.....

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HARC Repeater Use Policy

The HARC Repeater Use Policy is now being implemented. Click here for more info.