We continue to be in need of additional communications volunteers for the event on Saturday December 10 only. This is a one-day event only for Ham Radio volunteers this year (2022).
Details can be found on www.bigwhiterally.com or by contacting our volunteer coordinator at amandasrallyemail@gmail.com.
Those who wish to volunteer may sign up on the website at https://bigwhiterally.com/volunteers/sign-form/.
We will be meeting in person at the main firehall on Enterprise Way at 1900 hours
Images from the KF Aerospace Tour
The Jamboree on the Air, or JOTA, is an annual Scouting event that uses amateur radio to link Scouts around the world, around Canada, and in our own community.
On the weekend, a few of our members were working on the amateur radio session for the Scouts. There were many contacts, with the farthest being southern California. Watching the kids' eyes light up while talking with someone on the radio is always exciting.
Thank you to Paul Meise VE7TKC, Mike Fleming VE7FI, Tom Apps VE7ENP, John Clarke VE7JXC, and Doug Wirsz VE7VZ.
JOTA on the NEWS
A tour of the KF Aerospace (Kelowna Flightcraft Ltd.) has been arranged for OCARC members, watch your email for details or attend the next general meeting.
There are two major new additions to our spectrum:
So far approximately half of the membership have renewed. A BIG THANK YOU for your continued support of OCARC and its ongoing work to develop and maintain our repeater and digital network in the Okanagan.
For those who have not yet renewed it is not too late.
Membership dues at OCARC have not increased.
Dues Categories are as follows:
Regular membership $51.00
Regular membership with the RAC insurance discount $40.00
Family member/Student membership $21.00
Family membership with the RAC insurance discount $10.00
Your options for renewing your membership are as follows:
You can renew online.
Just follow this link http://www.ocarc.ca/form/registration and you will be taken to our registration form where you can update your membership information and at the end you will be directed to our Paypal account. In order to get the RAC membership discount make certain that you put your RAC number into the form.
You can renew by mail. Just send your cheque/money order to:
OCARC
PO Box 21126 Orchard Park
Kelowna BC V1Y 9N8
You can also renew in person. During the summer, we are not holding regular club meetings but the breakfast meetings are still going on. In Kelowna we meet on Tuesday at Smittys at 9:00am and on the Westside we meet at the Cherry Pit on Thursday at 8:00am.
In person renewals can be paid by cash or cheque and can be given to Bob Meldrum (VA7RGM), Chris Walter (VE7EQN) or John Clarke (VE7JXC)
Club member Tom (VE7ENP) needed a ramp built, so after morning breakfast on Thursday members John (VE7JXC), Chris (VE7EQN), and Doug (VE7VZ) visited Tom and built two ramps, one leading to the living room and another from the back deck to the back yard.
Greetings;
For those of you that were out with me yesterday driving up to the OCARC repeater site at the top of Okanagan Mountain, I have made a YouTube video of the drive. It starts at the locked gate at the bottom and goes right to the summit.
If you've ever wondered what it would feel like being strapped to the hood of my Jeep as we made the drive to the repeater site, then this video is for you. Your eyeballs would be right about where the camera was mounted. Feel the wind in your hair (if you have any), listen to the crunch of the gravel, hear the engine knock as I lug the motor. I even stalled the engine once. Listen to us bottom out, twice. No tiresome narration. All in HD. There's even a SD version for those of you still on dial-up.
So grab a beverage, or light that hookah and sit back in front of your big screen smart TV for 37 minutes of bumpy road.
Or not;
Okanagan Mountain Park Jeep Ride long version
Okanagan Mountain Park Jeep Ride short version
Cheers
Thank you for the videos John VE7JWS
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