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Time to renew your membership
Please go to our membership page to renew.
Thank you for supporting LARC, one of the best Amateur Radio Clubs in Canada (and the largest))
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Sorry to inform that LARC Member
Wayne Draper, VE3WXD became a Silent Key on August 29th.
1948 - 2025
Wayne's obituary and funeral arrangements can be found here.
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Want to become part of this great hobby?
From the Saturday after Labour day to early December, we present the Basic Ham license course.
Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for details.
How to become an Amateur Radio Operator (Ham), for more detail go here.
Do you need an examiner to provide a test for your license, a list can be found here.
Register now for the upcoming basic course here.
Resources on getting your ham license are available here.
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LONDON AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
ANNUAL HAMFEST 2025
was held on
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Thanks to all the vendors, volunteers and visitors to our event.
It was a great success!
See you next year.
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ARRL Field Day 2025 "Radio Connects"
We had a great time this year! Our four battery powered field stations hosted thirty operators, who made 174 contacts on phone, and 45 contacts on CW - earning us a total of 1320 points, plus 950 bonus points! We were also delighted to share a meal with a nice big crowd of hams and SWLs alike, and a few of those SWLs even took the plunge to join us in the hobby, very exciting.
We thank everyone who joined us at the table and on the air for helping make LARC's field day a complete success this year. If you didn't get your fill of HF fun, please stay tuned for some upcoming fun events!
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Here are the LARC Board Directors for 2025/2026
President: Jasmine Llamarr - VA3PRR
Vice-President: Paul Picot - VE3PIK
Secretary: Tom Hart - VA3TFH
Treasurer: Dave McCarter - VE3GSO / VE3EI
Director: Rick Brown - VE3IMG
Director: Lee Cassar - VA3XLC
Director: Corrie Van Amelsfort - VE3CVL
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Update on the ARES > AuxComm Transition
Al Boyd VE3AJB gave a detailed description of the new AuxComm organization. In fact, it may have been too detailed - he's asked me to NOT publish the Zoom recording to avoid conflicts with an announcement from the Ontario government in the next couple of months. So stand by for that announcement, and in the meantime, if you desperately need an answer to a question, contact Doug Elliott.
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Order your Custom LARC Clothing now!
Custom LARC T-Shirts, Short Sleeve Polo Shirts and Hooded Sweatshirts in all colours and sizes are now available. The LARC Logo, your call sign and name are included.
A new catalog is coming soon.
In the meantime,
contact Lee Cassar VA3XLC via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to order.
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Special Group : PI and Kit Builders
Previous Meetings of LARC held on Zoom for 2021-2026 can be found here.
Past Meeting Videos for the club Centennial can be found here.
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Interesting Articles
Get your club Lanyard by coming to any meeting and asking an executive, more details here.
Past Interesting Articles are here.
The LARC Club station is located at, 427 Wing, 2155B Crumlin Road North London, Ontario (43.033766, -81.1589447)
If an individual or group wish to have a tour of the club station, they can drop by any Saturday between 10am and 12:00 noon. Generally on Fridays members come to the club station around 11:00 and stay until 2:00. The 427 Wing has a lunch special every Friday at a nominal charge of $15.00.
It would be suggested that you email the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in advance to make us aware of your interest in the tour.
Notes from our meetings
Presentations from our meetings will be posted here
Do you have a project you want funding for that will benefit the club!
See the guidelines for LARC Projects here and submit to the president, for executive review.
Canadian Ham-Radio Callsign Database: Search for the callsign information of Canadian Ham Radio operators (optimized for cell phones)
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The club's logging software and a contributor to our HAMFEST door prizes offerings is N3FJP.
NewsFeed
Amateur Radio Newsline - "Your independent source of Amateur Radio news for today's radio amateur."
eHam.net - "ham radio on the net'"
ARRL - "The national association for Amateur Radio - News and Features."
QRZ.com - A site to lookup Hams as well as information.
DX Daily - Site dedicated to the art/science of DX chasing
