The Annual CAARC Christmas Pot Luck Supper will be held on Saturday December 6th in east Red Deer at the Eastview Community Center .The address is 120 Ellenwood Drive west of 30 Ave and north of 39 Street  Please bring a food item dish and or dessert. The club will provide the turkey, ham and other fixings. If possible please bring a cash donation for the Salvation Army. We meet at the h...

I received some nice DX today on JT65B! Check out the pictures.  

The Annual General meeting of CAARC was held on Tuesday November 18th at the new Red Deer County Search and Rescue building. Ric Henderson VA6RIC ( Director of Community and Protective Services) gave everyone a tour of the new facility and equipment. The new executive for the 2014-2015 year is as listed below. Thanks to everyone who attended and congratulations to the new executive. I look forward to...

Last night, Sunday September 21, 2014, at approx. 21:00hrs PST VY1MAP (Terry) called on our local repeater-146.880-looking for VY1RF (Ray). Terry wanted Ray to make a phone call for him as he was not in cell phone range. The situation was that Terry is a member of our Search and Rescue team and they were on a search for a missing teenager. The command center they had setup was approx 35kms north of Whitehorse at...

Why Amateur Radio is Important Roger Hunt, K7MEX A version of this story appeared in the March 2014 edition of All Ears, the newsletter published by the Escondido Amateur Radio Society (EARS) in California. I spoke with the primary person involved in this incident, got some corrections to the original version of the story, and the corrected version appears below. There is a large off-road 4WD event in the...