| WARC |
| WESTCUMB AMATEUR RADIO CLUB |
| Westmorland County, NB & Cumberland County, NS |
| Miscellaneous Photos & Notes from Club Functions |
| Club Member Earle Smith, VE6NM addresses the WARC May 2010 Meeting with an interesting update as to what is happening out in VE6-Land (Grand Prairie) |
| L to R: Jim Hannon VE1AFH, Cumberland County EMO Coordinator, Earle Smith VE6NM, former RAC President and Jim Langille VE1JBL, President of WARC and RAC Maritime Section Manager |
Bruce Robinson, VE9QRP at left, was the guest speaker at our June 2010
meeting. He is an avid chaser of satellites and brought all sorts of antennas,
several of which he made himself, to the meeting.
Bruce originally intended to give a power point presentation to our club but
the equipment table was missing from the room so Bruce quickly improvised
and presented a great overview of the satellite-chasing aspect of our hobby
which fascinated all who were there. A fine job indeed, Bruce, and thank
you for enlightening us about working the satellites!
To find out more about this, here are some websites from Bruce to check:
www.heavens-above.com / www.amsat.org / http://oscar.dcarr.org /
and also Google Bruce's callsign, VE9QRP in order to find his YouTube
videos. Had a look this morning - great stuff Bruce!
~ VE1CHI, Jim with photo by VE9PKV, Pravin.
meeting. He is an avid chaser of satellites and brought all sorts of antennas,
several of which he made himself, to the meeting.
Bruce originally intended to give a power point presentation to our club but
the equipment table was missing from the room so Bruce quickly improvised
and presented a great overview of the satellite-chasing aspect of our hobby
which fascinated all who were there. A fine job indeed, Bruce, and thank
you for enlightening us about working the satellites!
To find out more about this, here are some websites from Bruce to check:
www.heavens-above.com / www.amsat.org / http://oscar.dcarr.org /
and also Google Bruce's callsign, VE9QRP in order to find his YouTube
videos. Had a look this morning - great stuff Bruce!
~ VE1CHI, Jim with photo by VE9PKV, Pravin.
| WARC 2010-2011 Executive L to R: VP-VE1MY-Mike; Pres-VE1JBL-Jim; Sect-VE1BIC-Ron and Tres-VE1KEV-Kevin |
| The new executive getting right down to business during the September 2010 General Meeting which immediately followed the AGM. |
| Bob Robichaud VE1MBR during his CANWARN presentation to interested club members on Monday, September 27th, 2010 |
| Some of the dozen or so club members showing interest in Bob's discussion |
| Spotters should report this information via email to the Atlantic Storm Prediction Centre |
| CANWARN WX to be reported |
| WARC Life Member Bill Wheaton VE1CFK, celebrates his 90th Birthday |
| WARC Life member Bill Wheaton, VE1CFK celebrated his 90th birthday with family and friends in Parrsboro on Sunday afternoon, the 5th of December, 2010 at his home on Queen Street. Bill will be ninety years young on his actual birthday - the 6th of December. Lots of sandwiches and two cakes no less were enjoyed by all in attendance. No one went away hungry and everyone brought best wishes to Bill on this special occasion. Congratulations Bill and Happy Birthday from the WARC membership! (Photos by VE1CHI, Jim) |
| On Tuesday evening, November 30th, 2010, Jim Hannon VE1AFH presented the operators of Exercise Handshake with a 2nd. Anniversary cake. Fortunately the above photo was snapped before the jaws were snapped! (Photo VE1AFH) |
Jim VE1CHI, visited Ron VE1BIC, at Ron's QTH in Amherst on the morning of Saturday, January 22nd for the purpose of getting Ron set up as the backup webmaster for the WARC website. Program applications were installed by Ron on his computer as well as the current website folders and files. Ron accessed each application and created a 'test file' so that he was familiar with what Jim does during site updates, linking and page creation. The test page was FTPed to the server in Amherst at the E.D. Fullerton Building and later deleted. |
| Additionally, Ron now has the ability to update the backup WARC website at Byethost. Jim left Ron with a CD of all installation files and password information just in case they are needed in the future. At the February 2nd WARC meeting, Jim will be asking the membership to approve the move of the website to the HFRadio.net hosting service which already hosts such websites as the Ontario Swapshop, ONTARS, the Trans Provincial Net, Toronto EOC and the Canadian Ladies Amateur Radio Association (CLARA). This is a free service. ~73 de VE1CHI, Jim C |
| L to R: VE1CHI Jim, VE1BIC Ron |
| VE1BIC,Ron Bickle, becomes Backup Webmaster for WARC |
| Members... I just received this note and photo from club member VE1JSG, Jon Gordon on the occasion of his 45th birthday! Happy Birthday Jon! Some radios "take the cake" but this one "IS the cake"! Here is Jon's note: "I wanted to send a picture of the birthday cake Susie made for me. Taylor also helped. She made it in the shape of my Radio Shack VHF Radio with fondant icing. It took a long time to make and thought maybe you would post it on the Westcumb Website. It also tasted great as well." |
| Happy 45th Birthday to VE1JSG, Jon |
WARC Club member VA1SAM, Sam is shown here on the right, face painting Holly Berry during the recent Winter Carnival held at the Advocate Fire Hall. This photo appeared in the Saturday, March 19th, 2011 edition of "The Citizen" newspaper with photo by Dave Mathieson. |
| L to R: VE1AFH, Jim Hannon presents a Certificate of Appreciation to VE1BIC, Ron Bickle for his continued support of Exercise Handshake. The presentation took place April 6th, 2011 during the WARC regular monthly meeting. Congratulations Ron! |
| Long time club member, Rick Sullivan, VE9RWS was presented with a Life Membership to the WARC for his many and varied contributions to our club over the years. Several photos here show Rick's surprise at this announcement, the round of applause from the members and the presentation of the framed certificate to Rick by club president, Jim Langille, VE1JBL. The presentation took place during the regular WARC monthly club meeting on April 6th, 2011. Congratulations Rick! |
| VE1KW, Jerry Hannah gave a 10 minute enlightening presentation on the 'why' and the 'how' of side band generation in SSB radios after the regular April 2011 meeting, and complete with nifty whiteboard graphics. Well done, Jerry! |
| The photos below were taken by VE1BIC, Ron during "Exercise Handshake" on Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 using his camera phone. Great resolution Ron and thanks for sending these along. |
| A different 'slant' on our executive! Hi |
| Ron Bickle, VE1BIC beginning his presentation on the new Tantramar Community Radio Station - 107.9 FM |
| All photos here taken during the May 2011 Monthly Meeting of the WARC - photos by VE1CHI, Jim C. |
| Some of the members present at the June 2011 WARC meeting. |
| VE1ZX, Brad Ross on the right being presented with a Lifetime Membership in the club by WARC President VE1JBL, Jim Langille. |
| The beautifully decorated cake presented to the club by VE1EDP, Bob Perry. Thanks Bob! |
| The two most recent Life Members of the club, VE9RWS Rick on the left and VE1ZX Brad on the right, cutting Bob's cake. |
Photo Credit to VE1BIC, Ron Bickle
| Some Photos taken at the WARC Booth during the Amherst Community Fair on Saturday, June 18th, 2011 |
| VE1XTL Crystal (coral jacket), VE1GK Glenn (ARMY), and VE1JSG Jon (ball cap) |
| Hi Jim -- came across these pics today...they may already be in the archives... The group shot was taken following an Annual Meeting at the Air Force Wing on Havelock St. - probably mid-90's. We met at the old ARHS, then the Deaf School before we went to the Wing. Might be fun to post it on the webpage and see if anyone can ID the folks in the pic. The other shot is of the VE1SPR repeater when it was moved from the Bragg/Eastlink tower to Lynn Mtn at the sugar camp...before we got space on the MT&T tower. Looks like Jack McGee. We got kicked off the Bragg tower because of CH18 interference with CNN during the Gulf War which was from Aug 02, 1990 to Feb 28, 1991. Probably around 1996-97. My kids were just little.. 4 or 5. They were in another pic taken the same day. I was trying out some "new-fangled" C-41 process B&W film. It could be developed in color film machines. The group shot was regular B&W Tri-X that I developed in my own darkroom. 73, Ron |
| A completely different slant on our executive in action! |
| Left is Len Morgan VE9MY, RAC Deputy Director - Atlantic Region and right is Ian MacFarquhar VE9IM, RAC Vice President who gave a presentation on RAC Insurance. |
| VE9RWS Rick won the 50-50 draw for the first time after all the years of meetings he has attended! VE1ADV Randy presents Rick with his winnings. We thought this auspicious moment should be captured for posterity.Gas money for the new truck perhaps? :-) |
| Rick's Winnings! Congratulations Rick! |
| VE9NEL Nelson won the draw for the Tim Horton's Gift Certificate. Nelson, left, is presented with the card by WARC Treasurer VE1KEV Kevin. Congratulations Nelson! |
| VE9IM, Ian making his presentation on RAC Insurance |
| VE1AFH Jim presented club crests and EMO toques to our guests Ian and Len. As it was unusually cold and wet tonight, perhaps they wore the toques on the way home? |
| RAC Vice-President Ian MacFquhar VE9IM and Deputy Director for Atlantic Len Morgan VE9MY attended the meeting to give us a presentation on the new RAC Insurance Program. |
| WARC October 2011 Meeting (October 5th, 2011) |
| Lorne VE1BXK giving a presentation on repeaters and duplexers during the regular monthly meeting of the WARC on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011. Lorne was assisted by Brad VE1ZX in answering questions from club members. A round of applause showed appreciation from the members. The black repeater in the photo is one that Lorne and Brad recently removed from the VE1PAR (Parrsboro) Repeater site for the winter. It will be placed back in service there in the spring of 2012. |
| Above:The New Tower at the QTH of VE1XDT, Mike Masters - Mike's Note: Here are a couple pictures of the recent tower installation at my home QTH. First picture shows VE1ZX on the tower and second picture show Brad on the tower and Lorne off to the right in front of Brad’s truck. 73, Mike |
VE1GK Glenn Wallis, left, is shown here receiving his EMO Jacket for participating in 10 Exercise Handshakes. Presenting the jacket to Glenn is WARC President VE1JBL Jim Langille. The presentation was made on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 at the EOC in the Amherst E.D. Fullerton Building. Photo by VE1EDP, Bob Perry. |
| Greetings all WARC members, I would like to thank all of you who came out to the Christmas Pot Luck supper last night at the ED Fullerton Building. Thanks to Jim Cleveland VE1CHI who has written up a article with pictures on the club website www.westcumb.ca From my family to yours, a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and will see you in 2012. James (Jim) Langille VE1JBL RAC Section Manager: Maritimes President: WestCumb ARC (VE1JBL Jim, left and Wendy, right. Their other dog must be taking the photo! :-) ) |
| On the right is the 2011-2012 Executive of the WARC hard at work during the recent January 2012 meeting held on the 5th. Guest speaker was VE9BGC, Bernie Cormier who appears here in the additional photos during his presentation on "Antennas and Antenna Modeling". Bernie also joined our club during this meeting. |