{"id":686,"date":"2025-04-30T16:19:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/?page_id=686"},"modified":"2025-04-30T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:26:08","slug":"rac","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/rac\/","title":{"rendered":"RAC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Radio Amateurs of Canada <\/strong>is the national association for Amateur Radio in Canada and represents all Canadian Amateurs at all levels of government. Speaking on behalf of Canadian Radio Amateurs, <strong>RAC<\/strong> provides <strong>liaison with government agencies<\/strong> and carries the Amateur voice about <strong>regulatory and spectrum issues<\/strong> to the discussion table with <strong>government and industry leaders<\/strong>, nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RAC is the Canadian voting member society of the <strong>International Amateur Radio Union<\/strong>. RAC\u2019s membership journal, <strong>The Canadian Amateur<\/strong> magazine, Canada\u2019s premiere national magazine devoted to Amateur Radio, is published six times per year and is available in both print and digital formats as a benefit to RAC members.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you do not have be a licensed amateur radio operator to join RAC. Everyone is welcome to join. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a<strong> plethora of information<\/strong> for all Canadian hams at the <strong>RAC website<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rac.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio Amateurs of Canada website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is a nice summary of <strong>what RAC is and does<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AboutRAC_November2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RAC is all about Amateur Radio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is a video from <strong>Stuart, VE9CF<\/strong>, on some very good reasons to join RAC:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Join Radio Amateurs Of Canada (RAC)?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tAWtvIj9OO0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Amateurs of Canada is the national association for Amateur Radio in Canada and represents all Canadian Amateurs at all levels of government. Speaking on behalf of Canadian Radio Amateurs, RAC provides liaison with government agencies and carries the Amateur &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/rac\/\">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-686","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/686\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}