Quarter Century Amateur Radio Club

Our friends at the Northern Alberta Radio Club will be hosting a Christmas dinner on December 10, 2025. The details can be found on their website here:

NARC 2025 Christmas dinner

It is once again time! You are invited to the upcoming Quarter Century Amateur Radio Club flea market.

Where: Canora Community League Hall, 10425 152 st NW, Edmonton, AB

Doors open: 1000h to 1200h, Saturday, October 11, 2025

Vendors only: set up is from 0900h to 1000h

There will be free coffee and snacks and a large and varied collection of ham radio related equipment offered by a variety of clubs and individuals. To reserve your table email mail@qcarc.net with the number of tables you would like. As always, tables are free of charge.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Since he passed, the QCARC has been helping the family with the estate of Sig Preuss, VE6SP. Thus far that includes the removal of four towers, several antennas and the sale of his amateur radio equipment.

There will be a sale of vintage AM BCB radio equipment dating from 1913 to 1939. This is scheduled for Saturday, September 27th rain or shine from 1000h to 1200h. The equipment includes over 100 radios in excellent condition as well as more than 30 project and/or parts radios.

More information on this event including a list of sale items, photos of some items and direction to the sale can be found on our “Events” page here:

A competitor to StarLink wants to acquire the 70cm and 33cm amateur radio bands for their use world-wide. Their intended use is satellite service to cellular devices.

Ham Radio Users Clash With Starlink Rival AST SpaceMobile Over Spectrum Use

This is just the latest case of commercial interests making a play for spectrum that is allocated to the Amateur Radio Service. As amateur radio operators we need to use the spectrum allocated to us and vigorously defend our allocations.

Our friends at the Northern Alberta Radio Club are hosting a tailgate flea market on Saturday, August 23. The flea market starts at 10:00. Sellers should show up at 9:30 to get set up. Free hot dogs will be available around noon. This event will be held at the VE6HM repeater site here.

Thanks to Lyle, VE6EMF, and Terry, VE6EM, the VE6OG WSPR beacon has been relocated to its’ new home on Lyle’s property.

Power is provided by a 12V lead-acid battery which is kept topped up by a solar panel and a charge controller.

There’s the WSPR hardware in it’s enclosure.

And there are the fellows who made it happen. Many thanks to Lyle for his kind donation of space at his QTH and to Terry for his assistance in the relocation effort!

Our friends at NARC are hosting a field day event. Field Days are always great fun in the great outdoors and everyone is welcome to attend!

More information on this event and all that it entails can be found here:

NARC Field Day activities

We hope you can make it!

It’s time for hams to get their portable radio stations ready for action on Field Day. Any band, any mode, any power source, any antenna. The objective is to get out there, go portable, get on the air and show off our hobby to folks that are not hams (not yet, anyway)!

This year Field Day will be on the weekend of June 28 and 29.

See RAC‘s page about Field Day 2025 here:

Also see the ARRL‘s Field Day 2025 page here:

ARRL’s Field Day page

We hope to hear you on the air from the field!