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Stuff Day & the Raiders of The Lost Inventory @ West Kelowna

Stuff Day

Winter 2024 Course Accepting Registration

NORAC is pleased to offer the Basic Qualification course in-person at the People Place in Vernon running Tuesday and Sunday nights from 6pm - 9:15pm starting on February 13th ending with the exam on March 26th. Please note that there will be no class on February 18th for Family Day weekend. More information.

Ham Equipment Sale

Date: Sunday March 17 2024

Location: Pace E Waste 105 Martin Street Penticton

Time: 10 AM - 1 PM

Tables: 12 to 15 tables

Testing Station: with power supplies, antennas, dummy loads, etc.

Contact: Scott ve7 jke at gmail.com

OCARC Hamwan Highspeed Backbone

The Okanagan Hamwan Highspeed Backbone has been expanding. This last year (2023), the Okanagan to Campbell link was upgraded to being an backbone connection.

Also in 2023 the equipment for the Landmark to Westbank backbone was aquired, this will be installed as soon as the new tower is installed in West Kelowna.

The next phase will be the Campbell to Peachland to Kuipers with a another phase of Blacknight to Silverstar to Turtle. The added phases will add redundancy to the network.

Hamwan Backbone

CNIB Amateur Radio Program

CNIB is requesting a donation from our club. We are not in a place to respond directly to the request but we have in the past undertook to receive and forward donations from the membership. Without in person meetings the logistics of this are difficult.

If club members would like to donate to CNIB please visit their website and click on the Donate button in the upper right corner of their webpage.

Their Amateur Radio program provides:

assistance in obtaining equipment
helps to train new operators
helps prepare operators to pass the required Radio License exams

Little White Repeater Update #2

Another visit to the Little White repeater and the repeater/duplexer/cabinet was replaced. This was phase two of the updates to the location.

The replacement repeater runs with Access (Encode) Tone 88.5 and Optional Squelch Tone 88.5

Little White

Little White Repeater Update

We are testing the replacement repeater for the Little White repeater. Currently, the replacement repeater is at the valley bottom and the mountain top repeater is turned off. The plans are to have the replacement repeater at the mountain top site within the next week.

The replacement repeater runs with Access (Encode) Tone 88.5 and Optional Squelch Tone 88.5

We have replaced the batteries and this is stage two of the project.