Photo Album
Provincial Regional Emergency Operations Center
The regular February meeting coincided with the tour of the Provincial Regional Emergency Operations Center (PRREOC) at Green Timbers.
James Longley, VE7JMS, who is the station manger at the
PREOC, gave a very informative and complete tour of the
amateur radio equipment and its capability. The ham station is
well situated with good
propagation and an adequate
size operating room.
The communications
equipment includes state of
the art Winlink capabilities
which can connect to the
Personal Mail Box Office
(PMBO) located at Simon
Fraser University on Burnaby mountain. The station is
operated each Wednesday checking into the PEP net 3.735MHz and
the BC Public Service Net (BCPSN) 3.729MHz.
James Longley, VE7JMS, explaining the operation of Winlink
The group picture of the visit
Radio Amateurs of Canada Presentation
Ed Frazer VE7EF(RAC Director for BC and the Yukon) and assistant, Lou Beaubien, VE7CGE attended our January metting and gave an excellent
presentation on both Radio Amateurs of Canada and
also his report on local 2005 Field Day operations.
Ed Frazer VE7EF, giving a presentation
On behalf of the RAC Director group, Ed presented an award certificate to our
COMMUNICATOR editor, Fred Orsetti, VE7IO for his excellent 5-year service as RAC BC Section
Manager.
Christmas Brunch Pictures
The Surrey Club held a Christmas Brunch on December 10th, 2005.
SHOW PICTURES
PSK Workshop November 2, 2005
A PSK Workshop held at Surrey No. 9 Firehall Training Centre was attended by 35 participants comprised of 9 SARC members and 26 visitors from other clubs including a several from the US. John VE7JBB opened the meeting at 1930 by introducing speaker Clint Hurd KK7UQ and reviewing his lifelong career in digital design and engineering.
Clint began his presentation with a slide showing the basic equipment needed: an ordinary transceiver, a PC, a simple interface and software which is available free. Clint reviewed the circuitry of PC/radio interfaces and IMD measuring instruments, reviewed the capabilities of software packages such as Digipan and MixW, characteristics of good and poor signals in terms of inter-modulation distortion (IMD), requirements for achieving proper signal levels, the principles and relative advantages of various digital modes including BPSK31, BPSK63, QPSK31, RTTY, Helleschreiber and Olivia. He also dealt with common problems in receiving and transmitting digital signals, and provided some pointers on the effective use of macros. A commentary on the meaning and measurement of “RST” signal reports for digital signals provoked some interesting discussion. The presentation concluded at approximately 2130 following a question and answer period.
Those who wish more information including a copy of Clint’s Powerpoint material and/or ordering information for instrumentation available from Clint should visit his website at http://kk7uq.hfradio.org/ .
SARC President, Anton VE7SSD thanked Clint for his enlightening presentation and on behalf of SARC and guests presented Clint with a token of appreciation consisting of BC wines.
Anton went on to draw tickets for door prizes and concluded with a ticket draw of $43.00 for the 50/50 raffle. Guest Tom Robson VE7DID, was the lucky winner. Tom generously donated his winnings to SARC. Thank you Tom!
Thanks also to Bob VE7FWZ and Eileen VE7IRK for handling the registrations and 50/50 draw, Anton for the refreshments and windup duties, and Fred for his assistance with A/V equipment an provision of the talk-in radio. The evening was declared a success with participants indicating that they would like further workshops and presentations of this nature.
Snap shot of the participants
Another snap shot of the participants
John Brodie VE7JBB introduces speaker Clint Hurd KK7UQ to the participants
Clint Hurd on presentation
Clint Hurd on presentation
Question and answer period
SARC President, Anton VE7SSD thanked Clint for his enlightening presentation
A token of appreciation consisting of BC wines to Clint
Clint draws tickets for door prizes
Guest Tom Robson VE7DID, was the lucky winner
Clint with the Surrey Club's executives
W/VE Islands QSO Party
The club set up two stations at Deas Island (BC045) to participate in this annual event, from approx. 0900 PST October 22nd to 1700 PST October 23rd.
Jamboree on the Air (JOTA)
SARC was operating a station VE7SAR, from the LDS Church at 10122 – 140th Street, Surrey between approximately 1000 PST and 1700 PST October 15th in cooperation with several local scout troops, who attempted to make contact with other scouts across the world.
Here are the Club's 2005 Filed Day pictures.
All pictures are provided by Fred Orsetti VE7IO.
Tower Take-Down at VE7IWA (silent key)-an unhappy task
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The Snowbirds performed at White Rock while the work was in progress
Rotary Club of Vancouver 20th Annual Bike-a-thon
