{"id":11,"date":"2024-10-30T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:35:55","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ian Burn, VE6OB, and Peter Morrison, VE6PM, <strong>founded<\/strong> the Quarter Century Amateur Radio Club in <strong>February 1984<\/strong>. It has been a registered non-profit society in Alberta since 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary objective of the QCARC is to <strong>provide long-range VHF repeater service<\/strong> to Edmonton and the surrounding area. The revenue required to maintain these repeaters is received from membership dues, cash donations and the sale of donated items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can <strong>help<\/strong> any amateur, whether a club member or not, with putting up or taking down towers and antennas whether it is for station upgrades, downsizing or the dispersal of an estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can also <strong>assist<\/strong> with setting up stations for new hams or hams getting back into the hobby after being out of it for a while. We can provide advice and answer questions that pertain to any aspect of our hobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have questions for us or need assistance please <a href=\"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/contact\">contact us<\/a> and we will try to help you out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Burn, VE6OB, and Peter Morrison, VE6PM, founded the Quarter Century Amateur Radio Club in February 1984. It has been a registered non-profit society in Alberta since 1985. The primary objective of the QCARC is to provide long-range VHF repeater &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}