VE5AAP at VE5EEE Club Station

VE5AAP visited VE5EEE Club Station this evening. The upper bands on HF were absolutely dead, but checked into Nets on 80 meters and 160 meters.

Highlights of October Club Meeting

NSARC Meeting - Oct.2, 2008
Present: VE5AAP Art Pederson (chair), VE5JOP Joe Pope, VE5PJP Walter Pope, VE5HAE Harry Enequist, VE5BCS Harold Slack, VE5ZC Blaine Witherow, and VE5HDP Helen Pope(upstairs).
Meeting was held at the home of VE5JOP/VE5HDP at 7pm.

Net Report (JOP 2 meters) - check-ins for each month on 2 meters: June - 91, July - 97, August - 112, Sept. - 127.

VE5EEE Access - PA Exhibition center. - ZC now has a key that opens the hallway so we can get to our room. AAP will make copies of that key for some of us this week. He still plans to talk to Jim Wilm.
VE5QU Randy Canning - Farewell supper Sept.5, Friday night at 6:30 at Country Kitchen was well attended. AAP was in attendance.

Health - wife of VE5PX (Dave) was visited by AAP and his wife. FMS was also seen by PJP and seemed to be doing fine.

Elections to be held at November meeting.
Dues are also due.

Ham Relations - We had cross-participation a few times recently with the other Ham groups in the area, and hopefully this will even increase.

Tech Report - BBI site - Tower still on hold on the property of PJP. He hopes to have the antenna for radio station soon, and must have tower fully up by Nov.5th, as stipulated in his tower permit. BBI repeater is still not repaired. - RPA - the previously mentioned repair was a corroded battery wire.- PA - has noise problems on the repeater was not evident in the last two days. PJP thinks it could be caused by a packet beacon, or someone generating noise. The interference is on the VHF of the PA repeater.

Historical Stuff - VE5YN John Schmidt, has photo album of historical stuff pertaining to our club that he wants to give us. We decided we would store it at EEE when we receive it. He also has an old radio to donate (we think still functional).

VE5WGN Walter Noble - Silent Key

Over the summer, members of the Ham community visited Walter VE5WGN in hospital to encourage him with his personal battle with Cancer. Before the summer was out, Walter Noble VE5WGN became a silent key. The large turnout of the Ham community at his memorial service at the Legion Hall was a witness to his involvement with us. We will miss him. Rest in peace, Walter.

Summer Events - Part 2

Frank Dunn Triathlon - Waskesiu, P.A.N.P.
Our Club participated in this Annual again this year. It was also a successful event, although the weather was a bit cool, especially in the morning. The National Park was celebrating its 80th Birthday that weekend, so vehicular traffic was a bit busier that day. We also benefitted with some volunteers from the Lakeland Radio Association for this event, as well.

Summer Events

Over the summer, our club participated in the Offroad Triathlon at McPhee Lake for the first time. It was a good event to work. There was only one position that we will have to plan to improve the radio strength. The organizer would like us to come back next year. We were able to involve some members in the Lakeland Radio Association in this event.

Ham Radio Christmas Supper 2007

The Northern Saskatchewan Amateur Radio Club invited the Lakeland Amateur Radio Association to join them at Chicken Chef Restaurant for a combined Christmas Supper. There was a good turnout by both groups resulting in a great night of food and fellowship. Some photos were forwarded to me which I will attempt to post to this blog.

First Club Meeting of the Year.

First Thursday of 2008 - Didn't happen. Walter VE5PJP and Art VE5PJP visited with Joe VE5JOP in the basement of VE5JOP and VE5HDP. Before I left, Walter and I hauled Joe's treadmill up from the basement to the office upstairs. Now Joe can exercise on the treadmill without playing himself out going down and up the basement stairs.