Members of the Shuswap Amateur Radio Club stepped up to support Spooktacular 2026, the popular annual Halloween event hosted at the R.J. Haney Heritage Village & Museum in Salmon Arm, British Columbia.
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Category Archives: Club History
Celebrating the Legacy of Marconi and Morse
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On April 25, 2026, the Shuswap Radio Club held a public presentation in recognition of the birthday of Guglielmo Marconi (April 25, 1874) and in remembrance of Samuel Morse (April 27, 1791).
Spooktacular Nights: Radio Volunteers Join the Halloween Fun – 2025
Date: October 25–26, 2025
Location: R.J. Haney Heritage Village and Museum, Salmon Arm
Rock Hound Race – Dirt Bike Event SARC Volunteering Report
VE7RSA Maintenance September 27th, 2025
Date: September 27, 2025
Time: 1:00–2:30 PM
Location: VE7RSA Repeater Site
Maintenance Report – VE7AHR Repeater – September 2025
Date of Visit: Saturday, September 13, 2025
Location: Adams Hill, at the extreme western end of Shuswap Lake
Repeater: VE7AHR – 147.140 MHz (+600 kHz offset)
Elevation: 1031 m (3382 ft)
SARC History 1976-2014
The history of the Shuswap Amateur Radio Club from its founding in 1976/77 through to 2014 is available for viewing or download. The history was compiled by Ron, VE7RLE as a spreadsheet and exported to a PDF document, allowing it to be searched in Adobe Acrobat using the FIND (Control-F) function. The file can be accessed at this link: SARC History
Cameo Appearance…. Werner VE7GWE
As luck would have it, I met Werner VE7GWE today in the library.
It will likely be the last time he graces us with his presence for several more years.
1983: Early Reception of Shuttle: newspaper article by Hans VE7BOD
OWEN GARRIOT W5LFL, SPACE-SHUTTLE COLUMBIA. “The whole family went outside on December 1, 1983 at approximately 6:30 local time to look in to the clear night sky to see if we could spot the Space-Shuttle Columbia. Being an amateur radio operator or (commonly known as a Ham) I took my 2 meter FM handheld transceiver with me. And to my surprise, heard somebody calling, “This is W5LFL in the Space-Shuttle Columbia calling the West Coast of North America.” My wife standing a little further away said, “who’s that ham driving around Salmon Arm?” Now this resulted in some head-shaking and lecturing by the ham operator standing next to her.
1978: First SARC Basic Qualification Course
Our records indicate that instructor Al Marr VE7CAL paid Eagle River School in Sicamous $5 to cover stencils and reproduction paper to reproduce materials related to the Basic Qualification Course held in that school.