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Third Meeting for the Year

LARC Centennial, A meeting dedicated to Remembrance Day

November 5th is the next Zoom meeting for LARC members and course students. 

Details to follow as they become available 

  If you were unable to attend any of the meetings you can see the recorded event and interviews Here.

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2020-2021 Year for LARC is Coming

What's ahead for the year for LARC members.

 

The 2020-2021 year will be another exciting time for LARC members. Here is a brief list of things to keep members busy in the new year

• Kit building group has started back up, held at the club station every Wednesday evening.
• CW course being held starting August 27th.
• Centennial Corner, A look back at the clubs history  with interviews from people of the past.
• Basic Ham course, allowing any licensed member of LARC to audit the course for no charge ( sit in on the Zoom Session)
• Special callsign for the month of September to celebrate our 100th anniversary, VE3LON100.
• Monday night Net to keep you up-to-date on club happenings.
• October special meeting dedicated to antennas. 
• Special projects, such as the remote station and LIPO battery projects.
• A place to meet on Saturdays, though limited at this time at the club station.
• Soon to be announced a committee dedicated to contesting.

 

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It is time to renew your membership and support LARC. Through these difficult times of the Covid-19 Pandemic, your club executive continues to provide an active club venue to it's members. To continue to provide these services to the membership, we need your support and to renew your membership. To renew your member ship place go to the membership page and follow the instructions.

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 Want to become part of this great hobby!

From the Saturday after Labour day to early December, excluding the Thanksgiving weekend, we present the Basic Ham license course.

Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for details.

How to become an Amateur Radio Operator (Ham), for more detail go here.

Do you need an examiner to provide a test for your license, a list can be found here.

Register now for the upcoming basic course here.

Resources on getting your ham license are available here.

  

 

 Once again LARC ( VE3FIRE) operated the special event for Fire Prevention Week

We had a great showing, details in the near future. Thanks to all those who particpated.

 

  

 

 

 LARC Meeting Notification

the Elmer Net is starting up again - Tuesdays at 8 PM on the VE3OME repeater.

There's a social net Tuesday mornings at 10 on the GYQ repeater that's replacing the face to face meeting at Cherryhill mall.

And wash your hands!

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Special Announcement and Request

 

LARC is celebrating its centennial this year and we want to have lots of photographs of past events and gatherings to illustrate our recent and more distant past. Please look back in your collections and let us have the files or borrow any prints you might have which show the people and places important in the club’s life. If you have electronic files we would appreciate your attaching them to an email which  explains who is in the photo and where it was taken.

If you send prints we will scan them and get the original back to you. Please pencil the names and event on the back along with your name and call.

Thank you for helping LARC celebrate 100 years!

  

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Antennas and More Antennas

The April LARC meeting was very well attended and there was significant interest in the antenna information presented.

There were requests for further information on these antennas. Here is a page of resources.

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Interesting Articles  

Get your club Lanyard by coming to any meeting and asking an executive, more details here.

Past Interesting Articles are here.

 

Upcoming Events and Calendar

The calendar for meetings and events can be viewed here.

 

September through June, LARC meetings are held on the first Thursday of the month ( note this is a change from previous years, which were held on the Second Thursday of the month). The meetings start at 19:30. Location of meetings is LARC Club station, 427 Wing, 2155B Crumlin Road North London, Ontario (43.033766, -81.1589447) There are a variety of guest speakers, and you will have a chance to meet other hams to discuss your interests in amateur radio. All hams, SWL’s and interested individuals are welcome.

 Grid Square information can be viewed here.

The LARC Club station is located at, 427 Wing, 2155B Crumlin Road North London, Ontario (43.033766, -81.1589447) 

If an individual or group wish to have a tour of the club station, they can drop by any Saturday between 10am and 12:00 noon. Generally on Fridays members come to the club station around 11:00 and stay until 2:00. The 427 Wing has a lunch special every Friday at a nominal charge of $10.00.

It would be suggested that you email the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in advance to make us aware of your interest in the tour.

Notes from our meetings

Presentations from our meetings will be posted here

Do you have a project you want funding for that will benefit the club!

See the guidelines for LARC Projects here and submit to the president, for executive review.  

Canadian Ham-Radio Callsign Database:  Search for the callsign information of Canadian Ham Radio operators (optimized for cell phones) 

 

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The club's logging software and a contributor to our HAMFEST door prizes offerings is N3FJP.

 

 

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