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VE6EI (Silent Key)

VE6BLD — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:49:00 +0000

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Gordon Crayford VE6EI
from Lacombe became a Silent Key on
February 11thÂ 2007Â after a lengthy illness. Gordon was one of the founding members of the Central Alberta Radio League (now CAARC). He was born in Cowley AB. In 1917 his father was a building contractor doing construction in the town of Frank when the slide occurred. Gordon was always very interested in the causes and effects of the Frank Slide and wrote a book in 1987 called [/html]

More Weak Signal Activity This Weekend

VE6BLD — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:33:55 +0000

[html] This weekend brought a lot of people out of the weeds on VHF/UHF/ and above because of the contest that was being held… I missed the Sunday morning group but Sunday evening brought a lot of us together and Bob, VE6BLD, and myself worked a lot of stations mainly north of us on these bands…The biggest thrill for me was working Grant, VE6TA on 1296.100 Mhz who lives approximately 100 miles north of me….My equipment is mainly setup for satellite uplink operation and doesnt have a Tx/Rx relay so I hade to swap the 7/8 hardline back and forth to work him totally on this band…We used CW at first and then switched to SSB and had a short QSO which was actually quite strong in signal stength…Grant is using a 18 foot dish right on the ground with about 600 watts looking through trees (EME setup) but I was only running about 30 watts into a 25 turn helical which has a bad SWR at this freq and is about 45 feet high and also looking right through a bunch of trees…Skip [/html]
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2 meter SSB NET and long distance signal report..

VE6BLD — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:57:28 +0000

[html] There has been a new Net created to spark more activity on the higher bandsï¿½ like VHF and UHF…Every Sunday morning at 10AM we meet on 144.200 and see who can work who on USB….Some of us run high power and large ant arrays and others run smaller equipment, it’s all open for the experiment…Then we also meet Sunday evening at 8 PM local time to try it again as some of us can’t make the morning get together…

I made a schedule with Doug, VE5UF who lives by Saskatoon to see if we could make the connection…The first night I got the freq we were going to meet on mixed up so we missed each other and the rest of us continued on..The following day (Monday) we rescheduled by e-mail and tried it again…I had everything all set up and was working on something else when I heard him tune up just before the scheduled time….So I called him and we had a good QSO for about 15 minutes, this is a distance of just around 300 miles… Doug was able to record the audio from me and send it around to the SSB group…The signal was moderate and then become very strong then faded again a little but we were able to hear each other fine the whole QSO…In the recording you can only hear me as his audio is not connected to the computer to be recorded…
This is the farthest I have worked with using meteor scatter etc….We are going to do it on a regular basis to see if it was just conditions or see if this path is possible regularily…..Skip, VE6BGT
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CAARC Saturday Morning Coffee Meeting Location

VE6BLD — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:33:11 +0000

[html] Saturday Morning Coffee and/or Breakfast – If you’re in the Red Deer Area – Hams meet at the North Hill A&W – Village Mall at Gaetz Avenue and 67th Street, Red Deer at around 10:00 am Saturday mornings. VE6QE is the best repeater to check – 147.150 +600

Also check out the North Hill A&W – Village Mall at Gaetz Avenue and 67th Street, Red Deer for the daily gathering of Hams between 10:30 and 11:00 am.

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CAARC Member Wins Award

VE6BLD — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:26:41 +0000

[html] Hello all, I was very excited today when Sarina brought home a parcel from the post office…It was from AMSAT —The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation…I had no idea what it could be!! Inside was…

Merry Christmas

VE6ATO — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:41:51 +0000

[html] Merry Christmas everyone and a HappÂ NeÂ Year!

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