LARC Board Election for Directors 2025/2026

Nominations are now closed.

 

To all members of the London Amateur Radio Club.

 

1. Nominations of candidates - Now closed. Details will be announced soon.

 

2. Voting period via Election Runner: Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 at 12:00 a.m. through to Monday, May 5th, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.

 

3. Announcement of the results: As close to Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 as possible (communicated at the LARC May club meeting, through e-mail and the LARC website.

 

Thank you for your attention and your cooperation.

 

Regards,

The LARC Elections committee.

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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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Emergency Preparedness Day

Emergency Preparedness Day is a London event that showcases our emergency responders and the preparations that Londoners can take to be ready to face any emergencies.

Recently this event has been held at the Byron Firehall, but this year it's been moved to Fanshawe College, and is bigger and better than ever. Contests, food, photobooth wall, along with lots of cool emergency vehicles and first responders to chat with. Fun for the whole family!

If you'd like to come out to the Ham Radio display and help tell the public about ham radio, please contact Doug Elliott. For event details, you can look at:

https://london.ca/government/calendar/emergency-preparedness-day-fanshawe-college-may-10-2025

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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

Flyer and Table Order information to follow

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SK Jim De Zorzi, VE3ZK

Jim De Zorzi, VE3ZK and once held the callsign VE3DIZ, passed on April 5th, 2025, at the age of 89.

 

Jim was very active in the establishment of SORT and was instrumental in getting access to the roof of the Canada Trust Building for VE3TTT and later SORT repeaters. 

Jim chaired the organizing committee for the very successful 1979 London RSO convention and the cropped organizing committee photo shows Jim in the centre, with Vic Govan VE3GRD on the left and a very young Dave VE3GSO to the right. 

Jim established the Lucan repeater VE3MCR and was very active with Packet Radio in its early days.  For the last 25 years Jim lived in Grand Bend and was not involved in Amateur Radio. 

His LondonFfree Press Death notice can be found here.

Dave McCarter VE3EI

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Announcing the Special event:  VC3EMS

The special callsign VC3EMS will be active from May 18 to May 24, 2025. 

 Many times First Responders come to our assistant and we are unable to thank them. The aim of this event is for club members to get on the air using the special callsign to thank and show our appreciation for all First Responders who do such a great job for us. 

The Club station will be open on Sunday May 18 from 9:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. and again with the same hours on Saturday May 24. Mike VE3ACW and David VE3KGK will be on hand to help any who might need help. 

If the interest in volunteering and operating warrants it, for those who want to get some time in working on HF SSB but do not have the requisite equipment or home station, and would like to join in the fun, the Club station can also be made available from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. during the evenings of the weekdays, May 19 to May 23. I hope some of you will take advantage of this opportunity. Please contact Doug, VE3IDT (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and request the day and time you would like to operate so he can organize the roster (it will be published  after the May Club Meeting) so that you can be assured there will be a time slot available to you when you show up. 

Volunteers are needed to make this Club event work well. Please consider supporting the event, whether you are an experienced operator, or someone who wants to learn how to become a proficient HF SSB operator, or you are just interested in what we are doing. All are welcome but we do need some organization beforehand to be able to accommodate those who might wish to actually operate.

 

Looking forward to seeing you during the event!

73,

David VE3KGK

Club Special Event Coordinator.

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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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Our digital experimenters net has now moved to 7pm on Mondays on VE3LON due to Wednesday night scheduling issues.

Please adjust your schedule or anyone who is interested please join along in the Net.