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Welcome New Hams to Amateur Radio!
From Dave McCarter VE3EI
Saturday morning, December 6th, sixteen of our Basic Course students, slightly over half of those registered for the course, wrote the Basic Course Exam. I am pleased to announce that eleven passed, eight with Honours.
Our new hams (with callsigns if known) are:
Donna Frezell, VA3VDF who won the VHF/UHF handheld for highest mark.
Dylan Heil VA3DYH
Joseph Heil VE3OFA
Angela Danchuk VA3TGE
Timothy Organ VE3OAI
Mark Peesker VE3WPT
John Cooke VA3ZZO
Jennifer Potts VE3FHU
Adam Okonowski VA3OKI
Anthony Penninga VE3FWN
John Schaap VA3XJQ
Our latest newly licensed amateur on Dec. 13th
Steve Patterson VA3SDP
Jorge Forero donated a Baofung dual band handheld and it was won by the second highest mark, Dylan Heil.
Michael Cook and I extend our thanks to Gianna Pratten who helped with ISED data entry, allowing us to give our attention to marking, and to Jazz Knops who assisted with callsign acquisition.
I hope the rest of the class, and those who didn't quite make it today, will write in mid January, along with a few Western Engineering students.
Dave McCarter VE3EI
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LARC Holiday Potluck Dinner
December 3rd, 2025
A large crowd of LARC members, spouses and family attended and gobbled up the wonderful potluck cornucopia.
Congratulations to
Ham of the Year Jorge - VE3EAD
and
New Ham of the Year Gianna VA3FZY
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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 one of the largest)
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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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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 : 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
