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For immediate release | June 15, 2026
Canada’s radio regulator, Innovation, Science and Development Canada (ISED), released a consultation on their proposals for changes to their policy on antennas and towers.
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The Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society bylaws date from 1997 and may be found at: Download YARS Constitution 1997 . They are out of date and do not reflect current Society procedures or aspects of the current Societies Act under which the Society is incorporated. The GNWT Societies Registry has some public resources about amending bylaws. This will cost the Society $20. While the file name says Constitution, the title of the document is Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society Bylaws. Therefore this is a bylaws project.
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Area of Repeater Coverage from VE8YK (146.940MHz with -600 Hz Offset)
The Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society has two VHF FM operational repeaters in regular service:
- VE8YK/R (146.940 MHz with -600 kHz offset with a 100 Hz sub-audible tone) based in Yellowknife (IRLP was verified as functional as of 2023-08-02 by VE8IR and M0XWS and VE8RT); and
- VE8RAE/R (145.150 MHz with -600 kHz offset) based in Behchokǫ̀ (formerly Rae).
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The following prompt was entered into MS Copilot (ChatGPT): "What are the implications of the tariff trade war between Canada and USA re: amateur radio?"
The Society does not necessarily agree with this response. We think there is a likelihood that Canadian radio amateurs will simply go to off-shore suppliers of amateur radio equipment, perhaps even directly from Japan, China or Europe. This is probably going to hit hard amateur radio suppliers in the United States. The Society also notes that there will be a strong incentive for radio amateurs to return to fixing radio equipment themselves. Ironically this may result in a boost of those with the advanced amateur radio qualification.
Read more: Implications of Trade/Tariff War With United States on Canadian Amateur Radio Operators
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The 2026 Annual General Meeting is coming up:
- Javaroma Northwest Tower 50th Avenue
- 9:00 AM
- Sunday, 30 August 2026
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This website is being re constructed. We have upgraded to Joomla 6.1.2 largely as a result of a failure of the dropdown menu system. The site is more or less operational and we have changed the masthead. The menus continue to be sorted. The website is generally structured on the Incident Command System. Submissions are welcome. If you have a submission please contact Ian Rennie (VE8IR). If you are interested in sponsoring the site or having an advertising banner set up, again let us know. The site will continue to evolve.