Regular Monthly Meetings

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Regular monthly meetings at 7 PM on the last Thursday of each month at Room 129, St. Patrick's High School - entrance under the overhead walkway.  This is also a chance to see the HF radio station on site.

Emergency Plan

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The Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society has produced a draft Emergency Plan.  This plan is not final and it is still open for revision.  Please send us any comments or suggestions that you may have.  

Repeaters in Service

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There is a new repeater in service in Yellowknife.  It is a UHF repeater with receive at 444.000 MHz and transmit at 449.000 MHz.  It is being operated by the Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society.  Everyone is asked to use it.  It is one of the YAESU Fusion Repeaters and it is undergoing tests but it is in analog mode at the moment...stay tuned to AMS mode...   

Also, effective immediately, the VE8RAE repeater is now fully operational thanks to VE8MT, VE8WD, VE8CB and VE8IR.  You may hear it at 145.150 MHz with a -600 Hz offset and with 100 Hz PL tone.  We now have continuous VHF coverage from Tibbet Lake to 40 km outside of Rae (so the higway between Yellowknife and Rae has continuous coverage in addition to most of the Ingram Trail).  

A reminder that the VE8YK repeater is also in service in Yellowknife -146.940 MHz with a -600 Hz offset and with 100 Hz PL tone. This repeater is linked to VE8RAE and it is also linked to the IRLP node 1642. This repeater is the main repeater in town and usually there are stations monitoring it.

Membership Reminder

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If you have not already done so, please pay your membership dues ($40 per person).  There is a discount for family members. 

If you are a member of Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC), please let us know.  This is important as the Society gets a bit of a discount on RAC liability insurance for each member of the Society who is a member of RAC.  

Your membership dues are also a form of revenue for the Society to help pay off costs of events, insurance, food, fuel, repeaters etc. The dues also help to subsidize the rejuvenation of the local amateur radio service by subsidizing the Basic Amateur Qualification course.

The membership form is available for download. Please make your cheque out to:  Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society.

You can fill it out in PDF and send it in.  Alternatively you can just approach VE8WD at coffee or at any meeting or event and submit your dues.