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Major Update on the ARES > AuxComm Transition
If you're wondering what the heck is going on with the long anticipated arrival of the new AuxComm organization, here's your chance to get the full story. Al Boyd VE3AJB, President of RAC, will be giving a detailed update in a Zoom call which will take the place of the ARES net on Tuesday June 24. Mark your calendar and prepare your questions. Zoom session available at 7:30, meeting starts at 8:00. Zoom connection link is: Here
Group POTA Event
We've had some interest from people who would like to attend a POTA event to see how it's set up and how everything works. On Tuesday July 1, Al McRorie VE3GAM will be activating Jonas Park in St. Thomas, and he'll be glad to provide explanations for newcomers. Set up starts at 1 PM, and details are in his Groups.io post on May 28.
The 2025 ARRL Field Day is June 28-29, beginning at 1800 UTC (2:00pm)
The location will be at the LARC Club station, located at
427 (London) RCAF Wing
2155B Crumlin Road North
London, Ontario
(43.033766, -81.1589447)
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The Special Event held during Emergency Medical Services Week in North America was concluded on the evening of May 24, 2025.
The event was used to bring attention to all First Responders in any emergency, as we used HF SSB to spread the message that we need to thank all our First Responders as publicly as we can, and to let them know how much we appreciate what they do when we most need them. Many times we get their help but circumstances preclude our being able to thank them at the time. With that week being EMS Week, the Special Event using VC3EMS was our way of bringing attention to the great job the First Responders do.
The event started a couple of years ago when W4GJ, Dr. Bob Lightner, in Gainesville Florida contacted me. Bob wanted a partner station to operate during EMS Week when he had the callsign N4E. The station is at the W T Loften High School Amateur Radio Club in Gainesville. I suggested to the then President of LARC, Rick, IMG, that it would be a great opportunity to get involved and use the equipment and antennas that are at the Wing. Rick agreed, and the event was started as part of the Club's Special Events other operation, VE3FIRE, run during Fire Prevention Week in October each year.
During this event we made 644 contacts on HF SSB and were able to say thank you to our First Responders for their work under tough circumstances. They look after us when we most need it. During these events we, as a Club whose members volunteered to operate, got a lot of thanks for putting the event on, and conducting a much appreciated effort to let our First Responders know we appreciate and thank them for their selfless service.
The following Club members offered to help, and from the Club Station at the Wing the following members volunteered to operate:
VE3RBO, Ruth who came out on two different occasions and topped the list with the most contacts made, at 164 contacts!
VE3PTV, Archie
VA3XLS, Luke
VE3NRR, Nathan
VE3FLK, Joshua
VE3NIS, Corbin
VE3IMG, Rick
VE3ACW, Mike who helped with the logging as well as making many contacts.
VA3CBN Greg who operated from his home station
Gianna, SWL who came out for three hours on the first day to see what we were doing. She got a short course from Mike ACW on how to operate and she got on the air and made some contacts. Great!
I did some operations from home between my daily trips to the Wing so Mike and I were there keeping the Club open in case anyone who had not volunteered previously, showed up unannounced.
A big thank you to Corbin, VE3NIS who came to the Club station on Saturday after his Wing breakfast and made some contacts.
I would be remiss if I did not thank Doug, VE3IDT who was so helpful setting up the roster and helping me with the amalgamation of all the various logs into one main ADIF document so it could be posted to the eQSL site. Also thanks to John VA3MSV for his help with bringing Ruth out to operate, and combining the two Club station position logs into one file for VE3IDT.
Thank you Jim, VA3AHQ for posting the report to the LARC website.
The band conditions were not perfect, but we persevered and were able to put a reasonable number of contacts in our final log.
I can only try to encourage more members to support the efforts being made to get the Club station equipment on the air, or to volunteer to help out by getting on the air from your home station if you have one.
A big 'thank you' to those who helped. It was very much appreciated.
Respectfully submitted by:
David VE3KGK
Special Callsign Events Coordinator for LARC
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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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Wires-X
The WIRES-X Node/Room at the LARC Club Station is now operational.
It is registered under the call sign VE3LAC and is Room # 82355. This node is connected to a FTM-200 radio which is acting as a link radio to the VA3MGI repeater.
A document for connecting will be found here.
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Fox Box Talks
In order to keep our Fox hunts going, we need some hams who are willing and able to fill in as an alternate Fox when Doug isn't available. To train these brave people, Doug is going to give a couple of training sessions on how to use the gear that does the Fox transmissions, known as the "Fox Box".
This is a preconfigured self-contained setup that's actually quite easy to use.
The first of these Fox Box Talks will be at the Wing on Thursday April 17 around 7:30 PM, coinciding with the builders group get together.
If you'd like to attend, but can't make that date, contact Doug, and we'll try to accommodate you for the next session.
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LONDON AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
ANNUAL HAMFEST 2025
SATURDAY AUGUST 30, 2025
9am – 12 pm
Vendors: 8am
Admission: $8.00 (Age 10 & UP)
DORCHESTER FAIRGROUNDS
4939 Hamilton Rd. Dorchester, ON
For more information click here
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Congratulations to the New Hams in the Club!
Saturday Dec 7 was the last day of our Ham course, and the following people passed the exam and are now part of our ham radio family. More recently three new hams have passed their qualifications ( Top of list):
David Bovingdon VA3DAL
William Francis VE3ZWF
Rick McClentic VA3BIA
Mel Sheehan VA3FDG
Adam Tapp VE3WKI
Nick Phoenix VA3PHX
Helen Klus VA3UCW
Daniel Fenton VA3FNT
Daniel Hart VA3DJH
Robert Snyder VA3WTK
Marc Stahl VA3FUT
James Richardson VE3FBV
Gidd Ray Bruzo VA3GID
Please give these new folks a warm LARC welcome if you run into them on the air or at the Wing.
There are going to be additional exam sessions in the coming weeks, so keep an eye out for additions to this list.
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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 2021-2025 can be found here.
Past Meeting Videos for the club Centennial 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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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
