NARA Membership renewals are due 16 September 2010. The club year is from September to August. ... read more

There will be a meeting of the Emergency Communications Group on Thursday September 2nd, 2010 @ 1900 hrs @ the club station. ... read more

The Nanaimo Amateur Radio Association, VE7NA will host a 24 hour special events station VE7TUB http://members.shaw.ca/ve7na/tub/ beginning on July 24, 2010 to commemorate the annual running of the World Championship Bathtub Race to be held on 25 July 2010 in Nanaimo, British Columbia. ... read more

The 2010 World Championship Bathtub race will be held during the Nanaimo Marine Festival on Sunday, July 25th at 11 AM. ... read more

NARA's executive meeting will be held on Thursday, 15 July 2010 @ 1930 hours. All NARA members are welcome to attend the executive meeting.

The RAC Canada Day contest will be held on 01 July 2010 (UTC). NARA will be participating in the contest starting at 5 PM Wednesday until 5 PM Thursday. ... read more

NARA will again be participating in Field Day this year. It will be held at our usual location at Beban Park. Al, VA7ACL will be organizing the details this year. It is planned to have work party to test all equipment prior to Field Day. A work party is scheduled for Saturday, June 19th at the club station @ approximately 10:30 to prepare for field day. ... read more

NARA's regular monthly meeting will be held on Thursday, June 17th @ 19:30 hours at the club station. All NARA members are encouraged to attend. Elections will be held for the positions of President, Secretary and three (3) Directors. ... read more

The NARA ECG Net is held every Tuesday night on 146.64 MHz (no tone) at 19:00. The purpose of this net is to practice the handling of formal traffic using the NTS format.
As a challenge for the month of June I would like all ECG members to send a total of four or more messages. Messages can be as brief as you like, and any subject that is suitable for amateur radio is fine.

If you are not a member of the ECG please contact Matthew @ va7mjl@gmail.com. All Amateurs are welcome to take part in this net.

73 de VA7MJL

Recent discussions around the club station led me to contact Industry Canada about Amateur Radio volunteers and public events, whether non-profit or for profit events. ... read more

The British Columbia Boaters' Net will be held on the Island Trunk System daily, starting 04 June 2010. The net is scheduled to operate from approximately 17:00 to 18:00 local time. The ITS looks forward to hearing from all our friends from past years. For further information on the B. C. Boaters net, please see their web site @ www.bcbn.ca

ARRL June VHF QSO Party is the second full weekend in June. Begins 1800 UTC Saturday, ends 0300 UTC Monday (June 12-14, 2010). ... read more

QRZ is pleased to announce two major developments in its evolution. After many months of program and systems development, QRZ will shortly make available an online Logbook that will be accessible by all of its Ham users. In addition, we are announcing today that QRZ will begin issuing operating awards and certificates for all classes of on-air activities with direct coupling to our online Logbook and Callsign Database. ... read more

NARA wil be participating in the CQWW WPX contest on the 27th and 28th March 2010. Last year NARA was fortunate in placing 2nd in Canada in the Multi-Op single transmitter. The contest will run for 48 hours and should be a lot of fun. There is always a lot of great DX available during this contest. Please contact Matt VA7MJL at va7mjl@gmail.com

The WPX contest is based on an award offered by CQ Magazine for working all prefixes. Held on the last weekend of March (SSB) and May (CW), the contest draws thousands of entries from around the world.

NARA has applied and received permission to use a special call sign for the contest. VC7C will be used and should be a rare contact in the contest.

925 Contacts
443 Multipliers
QSO Points 2767
Final Score 1225781

Please familiarize yourself will the Kenwood TM-D710 radios. These radios are used at NARA Net Control, the Nanaimo EOC, RDN EOC, and at various reception centers.

If you would like some assistance and training please contact Matt Lewis va7mjl@gmail.com

On Tuesday, January 12 at 4:53 PM, Haiti time (2153) UTC a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit 15 kilometers west of Port-au-Prince, the nation's capital. Communications in and out of Haiti have been disrupted. The RAC requests that all Canadian Hams be aware of the emergency operations on the following frequencies: 7.045 3.720 MHz (IARU Region 2 ets), 14.265, 7.265 and 3.977 MHz (SATERN Nets), and 14.300 MHz (Intercontinental Assistance and Traffic Net). The International Radio Emergency Support Coalition (IRESC) is also active on EchoLink node 278173.

The Nanaimo Amateur Radio Association will be offering an amateur radio training course to the public beginning Wednesday February 3rd 2010. The course will teach all the necessary technical knowledge and required operating regulations to obtain an amateur radio certificate issued by Industry Canada. ... read more

Please check the attachment (electronic-devices-while-driving-info.pdf) for the latest news as of December 18, 2009.

I've scanned in and made into a pdf file the CQ magazine feature on the Nanaimo Amateur Radio Association and the Bath Tub event. Download and view in your favorite pdf viewer. [CQmagazine.pdf]