For those not at the meeting last night we had an interesting discussion on HF remote control radio. Is it the future of HF for hams. Lots of interesting discussion of who and who wouldn’t use this way of HF. Thanks to everyone but especially Don and Dave you had interesting comments about use.
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Probably our furthest member, Eric VE3EI was in town and was able to attend. We found out what’s new in ICOM’s world for VHF/UHF/HF that we could be seeing or hearing about in the next few months.
Just a reminder for our out of town members that if you are visiting the Greater Vancouver area by all means stop by a meeting and say HI. Were always wondering what our members who can’t attend regularly are up to.
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I sent out a request for operators for the barn raising event in Ladner this Sunday. Although we have nothing firm in place, if you are planning on going, take a handheld with you and maybe you can help out. Officially DARS is not involved but some of our members will be there in other capacities and will have radios with them.
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September 1 & 2 is the Free Star DSTAR Contest. VA7DEP will be one of the message stations. We need a few operators to man the radio. If you can spare a few hours email and let me know. At next Thursday’s meeting Doug (VE7WLF) will spend a little time showing how to use the ARRL Radiogram. For those of our members who have been asking about being involved in the emergency side of things both Doug’s presentation and being involved in the message part of the contest will be good experience. Besides ourselves we have the Salvation Army, SEPAR & Toronto on board with stations.
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DARS Nets to Keep in mind
- Tuesdays…. DSTAR net 6:45pm for early checkins and 7:00 start of net heard on VE7SUN UHF DSTAR and VE7RAG locally. If your travelling and in range of a DSTAR repeater you can try to bring up XRF 021C as this is the reflector we use for the net.
- Thursdays at 20:30 (8:30pm) DARS checkins for all our out of town members (in town also if you can connect with us)
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Have a great safe week everyone.
