News
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Upcoming ARISS events:
ARISS-Russia, in collaboration with the Southwest State University in Kursk, Russia, are developing a series of educational CubeSat satellites called Tanusha. Two Tanusha CubeSats were developed by students at Southwest State University and were hand-deployed by cosmonauts during an August 2017 extravehicular activity. These two CubeSats are performing cluster flight experiments through communications links. A second set of CubeSats, Tanusha 3 & 4 were launched earlier this year and are currently on-board ISS. Tanusha 3 & 4 are planned to be hand deployed by Cosmonauts in August. They will perform even more comprehensive cluster flight objectives than Tanusha 1 & 2.
More info can be found at the upcoming events page
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Rare IOTA Island Dx-pedition Announcement
Fred and Helen Archibald plan to be on Round Island (one of the Walrus Is.) from 5-10 July 2018 and operate as VE1FA/KL7 and VA1YL/KL7 respectively. Round Is. (N. Lat 58.6°, W. Long. 160.0°) is in Bristol Bay in the Bering Sea west of mainland Alaska.
More information can be found on the upcoming events page here
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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.
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HALIFAX AUXILIARY TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE (HATS). The first general membership meeting of the Halifax Auxiliary Telecommunications Service (HATS) was held on the evening of Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017.
.......More information on HATS.....
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.
