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.
Meetings start at 7:30 PM. 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.
Do not depend on using a bookmark/favourite from your browser, to get to the correct web page.
We host our own club web page and because of outages at the physical site, the vhara web page has to be served from an alternate site, until the outage at the main physical site has been restored.
Repeaters:
VE3LNZ ( 147.195 MHz + ) 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
The next VHARA monthly club meeting, will be Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023.
Location of the VHARA meeting/dinner will be the Bistro Restaurant on Queen St, Lindsay. Meeting will start at 7 pm. I would suggest if you want to buy a dinner, that you come at 5:30 to 6 pm. The restaurant closes at 8 pm.
Please let one of the Executive know, shortly, if you will be attending, so that we can advise the restaurant of the number of seats required.
October AGM Election of the VHARA Executive for 2023/2024
President - Bill VE3WAH
Vice President - Doug VE3ATP
Secretary - Grant VA3GBJ
Treasurer - Tom VE3KZJ
Member At Large - vacant
VHARA Fox Hunt - TBD
VHARA Field Day 2023 - No Club Field day was held this year due to not enough members being able to attend.
Thursday evening VHARA Net, on repeater VE3LNZ. The 8 pm Thursday evening net Controller is Bill, VE3WAH. Please consider serving as Net Controller, once or twice a month, thanks.
Link To VHARA Membership Registration
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.
Copy and paste the following into your computer browser, address bar, to see the video on YouTube -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRo9grlZT5Q
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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