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Arrl Field Day 2021
ARRL Field Day is the most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. On the fourth weekend of June, more than 35,000 radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups or simply with friends to operate from remote locations.
Information on Field Day can be found here.
For those who are new to Field Day, here is a video to familiarize yourself with the event.
Field Day on Social Media!
Click below to join the ARRL Field Day Facebook Group.
Share your plans, tips and tricks to a successful Field Day.
When posting content from Field Day, use hashtag #ARRLFD on all social media to receive 100 bonus points!
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Introducing the new LARC board for 2021 / 2022
Rick Brown - President
Carroll Leigh Cecile - Director
Mike Cook - Director
Doug Elliott - Director
Richard Finn - Secretary
Dave McCarter - Treasurer
Paul Picot - Vice President
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Detail of the meetings and links to the Videos can be found here.
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LARC Members
We are hosting Zoom meetings for all those members interested in:
Raspberry Pi
Electronic kit building
Antenna building
Other projects or
Experimenting with Ham Radio
We invite you to attend our Zoom meetings.
Just email to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Watch this page for information and topics that have been discussed in the group, as well as resource links etc.
The next meeting is on June 10, 2021 at 7:30 pm EDT.
No experience necessary!
Below is the link to register for the groups.io forum for the LARC builders group.
https://groups.io/g/LondonAmateurRadioClub
We are enhancing our group.io experience.
Check back here for further developments.
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Important information related to Covid-19 Vaccines
Mike Cook, VE3ZMC has passed along this inportant information related to the vaccine.
Please take a moment to read the attached document. The document is here.
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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.
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LARC Meeting Notification
the Elmer Net is 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.
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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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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.
NewsFeed
Amateur Radio Newsline - "Your independent source of Amateur Radio news for today's radio amateur."
eHam.net - "ham radio on the net'"
ARRL - "The national association for Amateur Radio - News and Features."
QRZ.com - A site to lookup Hams as well as information.
DX Daily - Site dedicated to the art/science of DX chasing
