The Victoria-Haliburton Amateur Radio Association serves the amateur radio needs of it's members and the City of Kawartha Lakes as well as Haliburton County.
The Association is open to all Amateur Radio operators and SWL's interested in promoting the Ham Radio hobby.
The Association owns and operates three 2 meter FM voice repeaters, VE3LNZ and VE3LNZ Fusion (located in Grasshill) and VA3MIN (located in Eagle Lake). In addition we offer a Packet Radio Node (VE3LNZ), APRS Station (VE3LNZ-3) and an IRLP Node.
General meetings are held once a month, on the last Tuesday of the month (excluding July, August and December). The monthly Club meetings are now being held using the Zoom video meetings. The Link to the VHARA Zoom meeting is emailed out to members ahead of time and posted on the vhara.ca webpage.
Guests are always welcome so drop by for one of our meetings and see what we're all about!
Social events are held throughout the year including Field Day, Fox Hunts and picnics. In the past, some of our community service events have included Talk To Santa By Ham Radio Day (in the Lindsay Square Mall), participation in the Lindsay Santa Clause parade, JOTA (Boy Scouts Jamboree On The Air) and school presentations to all ages on the hobby of Amateur Radio.
Note! Please use the official web page address, vhara.ca , to type in the address bar of your web browser, to bring up the correct vhara web page.
The VHARA web page is hosted at the QSL.net, web site
Repeaters:
VE3LNZ ( 147.195 MHz + , Tone 156.7 Hz ) With optional Linked Access to the COARC system
VE3LNZ Fusion ( 146.925 MHz - ), CTCSS Tone 156.7
VA3MIN (145.210 MHz -) With optional Linked Access to VE3LNZ
Packet Node:
VE3LNZ (145.050 MHz S) 1200 BAUD User Port linked to 19.2 Kb Back-Bone
APRS Station:
VE3LNZ-3
IRLP Node:
2870
EchoLink:
VE3LNZ-R Node 748673
Event Call Signs:
VA3LNZ
VA3VHA
New - To be able to operate on the VE3LNZ repeater, you will need to program the LNZ frequency on your transceiver with an input Tone of 156.7 Hz
Club Monthly Meeting, Jan. 28, 2025 Tuseday evening 6:30 pm. Location - Lindsay Library, Kent St., downstairs. 6:30 to 7:30 pm
Merry Christmas everyone!
VHARA Fox Hunt - TBD
VHARA Field Day 2024 - A VHARA Club Field Day will not be held at the Grasshill site this year. For those members who do participate in Field Day as an individual, you can put down the VHARA Club in your results, submitted to the ARRL.
Link To VHARA Membership Registration - Cash donations are greatfully accepted, to help maintain the Club repeater and equipment. Please email
Bill VE3WAH, VHARA President, ve3wah_at_gmail.com ( replace the _at_ with @ ) for the VHARA Club etransfer email address.
Virtual Basic Amateur Radio trianing Cousre - starts Jan 2, 2025
Oshawa
The North Shore Amateur Radio Club, Inc. located in Oshawa, Ontario will be hosting a virtual Basic training course this fall. The first class will start on Thursday, January 2, 2025.
The course consists of 13 evening classes approximately 2 to 2-1/2 hours long starting at 7 pm on Thursday evenings. The final exam is given on the 13th evening by an ISED Accredited Examiner.
The total cost is $65 which does not include the latest Basic Qualification Study Guide from Coax Publications. Students will be required to purchase this study guide from a dealer of Coax Publications.
Those who successfully pass the exam and receive a call sign will also receive a limited full year membership in the North Shore Amateur Radio Club for one year.
The course will be held on Zoom video conferencing. Upon successful course registration, an email with the Zoom link will be sent.
Check the club webpage for further details and a copy of the course information.
Contact: Derek Christian, VE3TKE
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.ve3osh.com/
CONTESTS AHEAD -
New ARRL portal website for contests - http://contests.arrl.org/
From the Archives:
2019 VHARA Swap Meet Photos
Indoor Vendors
Outdoor Tailgaters
Free Door Prizes
Paid Draw Prizes
RadioWorld Gift Cards, Canadian Tire Lindsay, Home Hardware Lindsay
Food Basics Lindsay gift card, Neabors Restaurant Lindsay Mall meal certificate, Swiss Chalet Lindsay food cards, etc.
Items of Interest:
School Boys Who Cracked The Soviet Secret - an excellent Nova episode, found on YouTube, that shows how, in the 1960's, a British science school teacher and another teacher who was an Amateur Radio operator and their students, found out the Soviet space satellites were spying on North America by taking satellite photos.
The teachers and students cobbled together, amateur radio receivers to listen in on the radio signals from the Soviet satellites. From the charcteristics of these radio signals, the group was able to deduce that the Soviet satellites were probably taking photos of the United States and also that the Soviets had begun using a new launch site for their satellites.
Do a search on the YouTube website, to find the video.
Remote HF Vertical Antenna - A new remote hf vertical antennae has been installed at the Grasshill repeater site.
Thank you to Doug VE3ATP and Vic VE3JAR for providing the antenna and doing the install!!!
VE3LNZ Antenna Change Out, Grasshill Repeater Site, Sept. 24, 2016 - Tower climbers, Martin VE3PWR and Doug VE3ATP. Ground crew, Mark VE3LJQ and Bill VE3WAH
Nuts and Volts - website/magazine for the electronics hobbyist. This is a terrific website/magazine
VHARA Contact Information:
Mailing Address:
VHARA
PO Box 321
Bobcaygeon, Ontario
K0M 1A0
Webmaster:
Bill VE3WAH
email ve3wah_at_gmail.com (replace _at_, with @ )
photos, information, etc, for posting on the vhara webpage, are always welcome
RAC Region:
Ontario East (ONE)
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