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New Ham
It is a pleasure to announce that Chris Sakellis has passed with honours his amateur radio license.
His callsign is VE3XCS.
Welcome to the hobby Chis, we hope to hear you on the air soon.
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Special event for the Month of May.
For details and the final report for VB3COPS special event, please go here.
Archie van de Velde, VE3PTV, is an operator for the VB3EMS event with his wife looking on and his son logging.
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LARC Board Directors
The Board Positions have been determined.
Lee Cassar VA3XLC - Director
Alison Headland VE3ZAH - Director
Jay Knops VA3PRR - Director
To ensure the club's success, I encourage all members to get involved in various committees and events organized by the club.
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Get your certificate to commemorate the 2024th Edition of the 2 Meter Net:
Get your personalized certificate once you have made a successful contact with the Monday Night 2 Meter Net on April 1st. All you have to do is after completing your QSO enter your callsign below and click on submit. Please allow us until the next Tuesday to enter our logs. The certificate will be in PDF format. After the certificate is shown, you can print it, save it, e-mail it, frame it, etc.
Here is a sample of the certificate.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SSTV and DExNet to VE3LON
Due to issues with MGI the above mentioned Nets are moving to LON (147.060+ T 114.8)
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See you in 2024 for our very special HAMFEST.
Celebrating our 104th year!
Sunday September 15, 2024 at the Dorchester Fairgrounds 9:00 until 12:00.
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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 2021-2024 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.
