| WARC |
| WESTCUMB AMATEUR RADIO CLUB |
| Westmorland County, NB & Cumberland County, NS |
| WARC February Meeting - 2008 |
| The WARC February 2008 meeting was held on the 7th. at the E.D. Fullerton Building in Amherst with 22 people in attendance. These included three guests: Jack Taylor, Brian MacDonald (VE1BSD) and Mike Roberts (VE1MJR). During the meeting it was announced that the Maritime Net will be returning to 3750 KHz as of this Friday, February 8th. Lloyd Smith, VA1MAB volunteered to be the 2008 Field Day Chairman - thanks Lloyd. It was noted that VE9BGC, Bernard Cormier recently became a club member. Welcome to the club, Bernie! Ron, VE1BIC, gave me copies of the minutes which are separate from the newsletter. All of the missing minutes from Ron are now posted on this website covering years 2001 until January 2008. Access is through the 'minutes' button on the home page. Why not see what we've been up to all these years? The NSARA Annual Picnic will be hosted by our club at Wentworth Park, NS on Saturday, July 26th starting at 10 am and running until 2 pm. The details have yet to be worked out. Last year during November 26-29, several of our club members helped the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Municipal Affairs - Fire and Emergency section during the 'Op-Comm Emergency' event. Jim, VE1AFH finally received the certificates of thanks from Fred Hollett, the fire commissioner and director for NLEMO. These were present to Brad VE1ZX, Jim VE1JBL, and Jim VE1AFH for their part in the operation. See the photos here. Brad VE1ZX reported that the VE1NET Repeater is undergoing tests in his basement and will be installed on Kirkhill in Parrsboro at a future date. The frequency is 146.745 MHz minus offset. Brad would like anyone to try accessing it and to report to him how it is working WARC President Jim Langille VE1JBL, will become the Maritime RAC section manager as of March 1st, 2008, taking over from Hugh Clark, VE9HC. Jim has produced his own website for the purpose of informing viewers about Maritime club activities. The website URL will not be officially announced until March 1st. Jack Taylor, one of our guests this evening, won the 50/50 draw and donated the winnings to the club's bursary fund. Thank you very much, Jack! After a lunch break, Jim VE1CHI, used his laptop and the room's projector to give a short demonstration of how he creates, edits and posts a webpage to the website. ~ VE1CHI, Jim C, WebGuy |
The VE1WRC web server has a high speed line provided by http://www.cumberlandcounty.ns.ca.
