Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club
General News
2021 SIMULATED EMERGENCY TEST (SET)
Oct 25th
The 2021 SET will be held Saturday October 30, 2021 starting 9:00am MDT.
This year’s theme is “A High Impact, Low Frequency Event” as directed by RAC. Our scenario is based around disruption following wet snowfall.
A strong cold front passing through the Province has brought heavy, wet snowfall, this has brought down overhead power lines, leading to widespread power outages.
Rapidly falling temperatures following the cold front, have brought freezing conditions, with the power outages are bringing challenges to residents heating their homes.
The Canadian Red Cross has setup warming centres at major hubs across the Province. However, the power outages are causing a breakdown of the regular communication systems (landline, cellular); the Red Cross has called upon ARES to relay messages between Red Cross HQ, Operations Centres (Provincial) and the warming centres.
Respecting Provincial Covid-19 guidelines, the exercise will be a virtual response, no travel is required.
Make up your own challenges to pass along to other areas of what may be needed or what is happening at the time.
We forsee needing stations in the following locations:
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- Provincial Operations Centre
- Municipal Operations Centres
- Red Cross HQ
- Warming Centres
Let’s try sending formal messages via NBEMS / Winlink.
Tune to VE6QE Saturday morning and await further instructions.
Further information on the RAC website https://www.rac.ca/simulated-emergency-test/
Any questions, send me an email, text or call: stephen.lee at shaw dot ca; 403 three zero seven one six 43
73
Steve VA6SGL CEC
CAARC & Red Deer EC
VE6KN Estate
Oct 9th
| Flex 5000A HF/50 SDR transceiver | 1500 |
| Kenwood TH-D7 handheld, bad battery, no charger | 100 |
| Realistic PRO scanner | 50 |
| CDE rotor | 250 |
| Hygain rotor Tailtwister | 500 |
| Directional wattmeter RF-1000 | 200 |
| 6 slugs for wattmeter | 200 |
| MFJ-924 tuner 440MHz | 60 |
| MFJ-916 144/440 duplexer | 20 |
| Mirage D-1010 430-450 amp | 350 |
| FSK 1000 rtty | 0 |
| straight key x3 | 15 |
| B&W 5 pos. antenna switch | 50 |
| Micronta 22-8244 12v 3a power supply | 15 |
| RSO low pass filter | 15 |
| RSO low pass filter | 15 |
| Kantronics KPC-3+ data interface | 150 |
| Kantronics DVR-2 | ? |
| speaker | 10 |
| DCI 146-4H 2 meter band pass filter PENDING | 45 |
| Sopex 4D-10 10MHZ scope | 50 |
| Isopole vhf omni antenna | 45 |
| antennas | ? |
| coax RG-8 | .25/ft. |
| connectors PL259 or N – on various lengths of coax | 4 ea. |
| Kenwood HMC-3 headset | 15 |
| MAHA MH-800 spkr/mic | 5 |
| Pac Comm PSK-1 modem | 25 |
| Pac Comm Tiny-2 modem | 25 |
| 4CX-250 tubes | 200 |
| 4CX-350 tube | 100 |
| Icom phone patch (nice speaker) | 10 |
| AEA CK-2 contester | 30 |
| Mirage B-23 144-148 amp2w in/28Wout | 30 |
| Andrew L44N female conn | 30 |
| Andrew 45AU SO239 7/8″ conn x 4 | 80 |
| Shure CA9F mike | |
| Heathkit IM-4180 deviation meter | 30 |
| Big signal balun 1:1 | 20 |
| Radio Works T-4-500 line isolator | 20 |
| Alinco magnetic no.5 headphones | 5 |
| Kenwood PG-5H PC interface cable kit (new in the bag) | 35 |
| Lafa LR-20 10a power supply | 25 |
| AWT 1200 bps packet modem | 70 |
| Sencom TR115 transistor checker | 20 |
| Micronta CR sub box 15-10K, .00001-.22 | 10 |
| Kenwood TR-10 mike | 10 |
| Wire 22ga red75′, yellow50′ | 5 |
| Micronta 12 v 3a power supply | 10 |
| Icom IC-MB-12 mobile bracket | 15 |
| Belco audio generator TY-75 | 10 |
| American Standard wattmemter 250/500 | 20 |
| power bars x 6 | 30 |
| straight keys x3 | 30 |
| code practice osc. | 10 |
| MFJ-916 144/440 duplexer | 25 |
| Circuit Test VOM DMR-2250 | 15 |
| Digital Comm DCI-146-4H bandpass filter | 150 |
| Simpson 460 VOM | 20 |
| Treeplay solar, crank, usb am/fm/wb rx | 20 |
| intermatic ac timer | 5 |
| Archer 110v quiet fan | 10 |
| DSI 3600A freq. counter not working | 5 |
| IRL FSK-1000 rtty | 5 |
| Heathkist HD-16 code osc. | 5 |
| Untenna Hi-Rizer CR4010 | 10 |
| Hygain tail twister rotor | 500 |
| CDE Ham IV rotor | 300 |
| Hammond isolation transformer | 20 |
| BK Precision function generator 3010 | 20 |
| Sabtronics 2010A DMM | 5 |
| 2.4g yagi antenna x2 | 30 ea. |
| 1/4 wave vhf mag mount | 30 |
| 1/4 wave vhf mobile mount | 15 |
| 4 can reslok Q2220E duplexer | 200 |
| vhf bandpass cavity filter | 50 |
| Weller solder station WTCPT | 75 |
| misc. meter movements | 5 |
Contact Garry: ve6cia at gmail.com or 403-three four three-1930
SARA Flea Market
Sep 17th
The SARA Flea Market in Calgary this October has been postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Have you paid your dues and confirmed your RAC membership to the executive?
Sep 17th
CAARC Membership
Club memberships are due in November. Please submit your dues as shown below.
Club memberships are $25.00 each or $30.00 for a family and are due now. You must be a paid-up member to be eligible to vote at the Annual General meeting in November. Cheques may be mailed to Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club, Box 1103, Red Deer, AB, T4N 6S5. If you prefer, Garry VE6CIA has also agreed to accept e-transfers for club memberships at ve6cia at gmail dot com. This is what we did for the club raffle earlier this year.
Club insurance is due. Please also confirm your RAC membership by email ( ve6cia at gmail dot com ) so we can get the best rate for the club.
can also download the CAARC membership and renewal form under the “Site tools” tab and send your dues by snail mail to the listed address on the bottom of the form or bring it to the meeting. Your support helps keep your repeaters operating and your club active.
Thank you from your executive
73 CAARC Executive
Silent Key VE6BJK
Sep 12th
On Monday September 6th, 2021, Louis (Lou) William Maga, loving husband, devoted father, passed away at age 83.
Louie was a very important member of the Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club (CARL originally) for many years. I remember helping him install his tower on the west side of the house and he always had a big smile and wonderful laugh. He was always helping with all club activities for many years. I was so glad I had an hour visit with him on his porch just a few weeks ago when I bought some new RV batteries. I know he will be sadly missed.
CAARC Social – August 28
Aug 3rd
Hi Everyone,
At the last club meeting way back in May, it was suggested that we have a late summer get together. Saturday, August 28 seems to work for many people and John VE6HPY has offered to host it at his place.
We are planning a low key event from 6 – 8 pm. Please bring your lawn chairs, a beverage of your choice and whatever snacks you may wish to bring. We are planning a fire and John does have extra weenie sticks. Because of Covid, the club executive felt it was best to keep things simple for this get together. In the event of rain we could go into one of John’s sheds. Please RSVP to either myself or to John to give us an idea of numbers.
John’s cell is 403 304 3963 and his address is 39126 RR 280, HWY 11A, Red Deer County. From Red Deer, go west on Hwy 11A and turn right at RR280, go north until you see a long lane lined with trees on the west side.
This will give us all a chance to have a visit and enjoy an evening together. Hope to see you there!
Sandy Jacobs,
VE6SND
CAARC Club President
DF Loop Construction Project
Jul 17th
I have been having issues with RFI across the HF spectrum at my QTH, and having killed the house power at the main breaker, the RFI was still present, so I decided to build a direction-finding (DF) antenna to attempt to locate the source.
A quick web search yielded a link to the ARRL, with design notes to build such an antenna.
I used what parts I found in the junkbox, and it took 2-3 hours to build. The tuning is quite sharp, so I may add a slow motion drive to make tuning easier.
The next step will be to wander the neighbourhood, waving the DF loop around, and likely get some odd looks from the neighbours.
DF loop antenna
Tuning unit with variable and fixed capacitors
Field Day Pictures 2021
Jul 5th
Thanks to everyone who submitted these pictures. Be sure to check all four pages at the bottom of the first page for all the pictures.
These are the field day results as submitted to ARRL (Thanks VA6SGL ) Great job everyone!
Provinces and states worked.
