Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club
General News
Counting Your QSO Score
Jun 4th
CAARC Participation in 2020 ARRL Field Day
Counting Your QSO Score
We, as representatives of CAARC, encourage your participation in the 2020 ARRL Field Day on June 27 and 28, and your submission of your station score to the ARRL.
Which QSOs can you count?
Field Day QSOs take place on the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 Meter HF bands, as well as all authorized amateur radio bands 50 MHz and above. Field Day QSOs made using amateur radio satellites are also counted, record these as a separate “Satellite” band. These must be between two amateur stations on the earth. Only one contact may be counted on any single channel FM satellite. There is some more information about using satellites on Field Day at https://www.amsat.org/field-day/ . AMSAT is hosting a complementary Field Day during the same Field Day period.
QSOs are separately counted in each band for each of the three modes of voice, CW and data (AMTOR, D-STAR (Digital Data) point-to-point., Hellschreiber, MT63, FSK441, JT6M, JT65, .FT8, Olivia MFSK, Packet Radio if used point-to-point , PACTOR if used point-to-point, PSK31, QPSK31, PSK63, QPSK63, RTTY are a few examples of data).
Only one contact with any other amateur station is counted for each band-mode. Find another station, change your mode, or change your band.
Temporary Rule Waivers Announced for 2020 ARRL Field Day
Jun 1st
CAARC Participation in 2020 ARRL Field Day
We are interrupting the flow of our series about how to participate in Field Day because the ARRL has made an announcement specific to 2020 Field Day that effectively changes some of the rules. The original may be found at:
http://www.arrl.org/news/temporary-rule-waivers-announced-for-2020-arrl-field-day
We have repeated it here with permission of the ARRL:
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Temporary Rule Waivers Announced for 2020 ARRL Field Day
05/28/2020
Making a Field Day QSO that counts
May 26th
CAARC Participation in 2020 ARRL Field Day
First an amendment to the last post, the second participant in a Class B station would not have to be an amateur as long as he or she is supervised while making QSOs by the licensed amateur and the amateur is ready to take over to check for the existence of a third party agreement in case there is an answer to a CQ from beyond Canada and the United States. So, an interested family member could be your partner.
Making a Field Day QSO that counts
SOTA Activations and Outdoor Operations
May 22nd
For those interested in SOTA or outdoor portable operations, I am attaching some recent photos of recent operating locations from which I have been working. In addition to SOTA activations, I do some maintenance and custodial work for the Alpine Club of Canada so I have been operating from the ACC back-country huts. The video link below is a short tour of one of the huts I visit frequently which has a short clip of my operation within the hut.
Sota set-up on Allstones Ridge
sota activation in Japan as JJ1TLL
With Troy (VA6TNA) on a SOTA activation of Corkscrew Mountain
Great Cairn Hut, Selkirks.
Elizabeth Parker Hut, Yoho
Fryatt Hut, Jasper
Snow birds fly over VE6BLD in Lacombe
May 16th
The Canadian Snow birds flew over Lacombe in support of all the front line covid 19 workers.
Click the video below
Click the following link to watch full video from my YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeRi082bclQ
ARISS is live now: ISS Space Chat – Airdrie Space Science Camp 5-15-2020
May 15th
CHECK OUT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CONTACT WITH STUDENTS IN AIRDRIE ALBERTA
This will be the second test of the new-style radio contact, called Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio. The concept was developed for distance learning when schools closed worldwide due to COVID-19. The virus eliminated all opportunities for ARISS radio contacts at education organizations. A new ARISS telebridge radio ground station will be used this time, this operated by John Sygo, amateur radio call sign ZS6JON, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
Long-Lost U.S. Military Satellite Found By Amateur Radio Operator
Apr 24th
There are more than 2,000 active satellites orbiting Earth. At the end of their useful lives, many will simply burn up as they reenter the atmosphere. But some will continue circling as “zombie” satellites — neither alive nor quite dead.
“Most zombie satellites are satellites that are no longer under human control, or have failed to some degree,” says Scott Tilley.
Tilley, an amateur radio operator living in Canada, has a passion for hunting them down.
Click this link to read the complete story.
Bob VE6BLD
Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club Fathers Day June Picnic
Apr 12th
Please be advised, the Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club Fathers Day June Picnic has been cancelled till 2021 due to Covid-19.
Buy A Book Raffle
Apr 11th
SOLD OUT!! Thanks all who supported out cause…Garry VE6CIA
“Buy a Book Raffle”
Please be advised, the Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club Fathers Day June Picnic has been cancelled till 2021 due to Covid-19.
In order to proceed with the club raffle, which was already underway, we wish to appeal to Amateurs all over Alberta to help us continue with the raffle, without losing money, since we would normally sell most of the tickets at the picnic.
This is our “Buy a Book” bail us out offer.
The tickets are in books of 10 tickets @ $5.00 each, so a book is $50.00.
First prize is $500 and second prize is $200 for each ticket. Only 400 tickets available.
You can etransfer $50.00 to ve6cia@gmail.com. Be sure to put your email address and the name you want on the tickets, in the message of your etransfer, as it doesn’t always come automatically.
He will fill out your 10 tickets and email back a scan of them, all filled out, and they will, personally guaranteed, go in the draw. In the unlikely event they are sold out, we will immediately advertise the raffle is closed. Should we receive an etransfer after sellout, your money will be refunded. It will be open otherwise, till Sun. June 14, 2020 and the draw will be Sunday June 21, 2020 as advertised on the ticket. AGLC licence #555551.
The videotaped and publicly posted draw, will be held in the presence of 4-5 CAARC executive members that are 6′ apart (if that still applies by then).
The raffle is open ONLY to all Alberta residents over the age of majority. They need not be licenced radio amateurs.
