SVARC Summer BBQ – Saturday, August 10, 2024.
See: Members Only Page
Next Meeting – The next meeting will be a hybrid Zoom / in-person session;
7:00 PM, Wednesday September 25th, 2024.
Location: Saunders Hydro Dam Visitor Centre
2500B Second Street West, Cornwall, ON K6H 5R6
The Agenda for the next meeting will be available on the Members Only Page,
and will also been emailed to the membership when it is finalized.
Guest speaker: To be announced.
- SVARC Biweekly Coffee Klatch / Breakfast 8:30 AM
Saturday, July 27th., 2024.
Every second and fourth Saturday of each month at:
Hops & Barley Restaurant, Best Western Parkway Inn,
1515 Vincent Massey Dr., Cornwall.
Ottawa (Carp) 2024 Hamfest – Saturday, September 7th, 2024.
Eastern Ontario Hamfest – St. Albert – Saturday, September 28, 2024.
https://hambone.ca/rac/events/detail.php?event_ID=2351 https://prarc.tech/hamfest/Other Upcoming Events: RAC Ham Events Database (hambone.ca)
Current and Scheduled Repeater Outages:
Current: None
Scheduled: None
User Guide [BrandMeister in Canada]-24.3.18-2 from René VE2RI
Amateur Radio Direction Finding Ottawa Group
ARDF Ottawa | Main / Welcome to ARDF Ottawa
What is a DMR Ham Radio-PR-SVARC
- Presentation to SVARC 2023 06 28
New Bands, New Callsign Proposal, CARAB Meeting
Dave Goodwin VE3KG – RAC Regulatory Affairs Officer - REPEATER STATUS:
For more information on “local” repeaters, click here.
The Seaway Valley Amateur Radio Club operates eight repeaters in Cornwall and area. VE3SVC is a VHF repeater operating on 147.180 + and a CTCSS tone of 110.9 Hz. Also on VHF is VA3SDG repeater on 145.570 – and a CTCSS tone of 110.9 Hz. Both repeaters are Yaesu Fusion digital C4FM and Analog FM, with permanent connectivity to the Yaesu Fusion network on 145.570. On UHF, VA3EDG 442.100 (CC1), a Motorola XPR-8400 MotoTrbo repeater connects to the Brandmeister DMR network. VE3PGC 443.650 + (110.9), now also a Yaesu C4FM digital / FM analog repeater, with wider area coverage and Allstar Net and EchoLink connectivity, is located near Bonville. For other repeaters, nine in all including APRS and 224 MHz., see the Repeater Page.
SVARC no longer operates any repeaters in the D-Star digital mode.
VA3SDG-C and VA3SDG-B no longer exist!
D-Star on VHF (VA3SDG-C) was discontinued in March 2021 and replaced with a Yaesu DR-2X System Fusion C4FM and analog repeater on 145.570 (-) 110.9 Hz.
D-Star on UHF (VA3SDG-B) was discontinued in November 2022 and replaced with a Motorola GR-1225 Analog FM repeater on 444.450(+) 110.9 Hz.
As of March 14, 2024 it is now a Yaesu DR-2X digital C4FM and analog FM repeater.
The Club has regular meetings on the last Thursday of each month except July, August and December.
Meetings start at 7:00pm, but most come at 6:30 for some socializing before the meeting.