Six of the Club’s members met at the Fas Gas station at the north end of the Squilax bridge at 1100 hours on Saturday, May23rd before heading up to our AHR repeater on the nearby Adams Hill. Phil/VE7BPH, Dave/VA7HDY, Mike/VA7MK, Bill/VA7WTT, Darrell/VE7IU, Richard/VE6DSF departed the service station for the trail head located at the intersection of the Loakin Bear Creek Road and Holding Road. We unloaded the quads, three of which were generously provided by Bill, and once all gear was loaded up we were on our way up the mountain. The ride was on an old, unmaintained access road so progress was cautious and took nearly an hour to reach the repeater at the top. We saw reasonably fresh bear tracks and scat on the way but felt we had safety in numbers.
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Ready for Sicamous Safety
On Thursday, May 28, David VA7HDY, Simon VE7SHG, and Ron VE7RLE
prepared the Shuswap Amateur Radio Club Emergency Communications Trailer
for its participation on Saturday May 30 at the Sicamous Safety Fair.
Trailer Report – April 2015
Hi,
This is being sent to those who may be interested in
the preparation being made to have the trailer taken out to the Sicamous
Safety Fair in the Askew’s lot on Saturday, May 30th.
Service Monitor at Meeting
The program at the Regular Monthly Meeting on February 12, 2015 in the Piccadilly Mall Board Room offered club members an interesting opportunity to test their rigs and their antennas for SWR, Actual Power output at different power settings and on different frequencies and bands, Sensitivity and so forth.
ANNUAL REINO KESKI-SALMI LOPPET
Since long before I became a ham in 1993, members of the Shuswap Amateur Radio Club have provided Emergency Communications for this major Salmon Arm cross-country skiing event in the Larch Hills.
Silent Key: Adrien Bouvier VA7ANB
Adrien Joseph Bouvier of Okanagan Falls passed away on Friday, January 9, 2015 after a lengthy courageous battle against cancer at the age of 83.
VE7RNH Repeater on the Move
On January 11, 2015, the components of the VE7RNH repeater after having been checked and tested by Robin VE7HMN at his Mount Ida QTH, were transported to a new location where they will stay until Granite Peak in the Fly Hills becomes weather-accessible in the spring and summer for relocation to the repeater shack at 5500 feet.
SOLD
SOLD:
Heathkit RF Signal Generator
Model 1G-102 with manual
$25.00
Ken Hoshowski VE7FP
Temporary RNH Repeater in Place
Patrick, VE7FAT has assembled and programmed some surplus Vella Radio equipment as a temporary replacement of the VE7RNH repeater and installed it at the Granite Peak site on Wednesday, July 16th. It has a bit of a de-sensing problem due to operating without a duplexer (it has a separate receiving antenna from the RNH collinear that is being used as the transmitting antenna).
Kault Hill Repeater VE7RSA Re-installed
The Salmon Arm Seniors Amateur Radio Club chat repeater VE7RSA on a frequency of 147.020 + 600 has been re-installed after its visit to Vella Radio where it was determined to have power-supply issues, feeding 22 volts in to the radio.