Activities

The Champlain Regional Repeater Association is not a “club” as such and limits activities to the following.

• Operating and maintaining amateur radio repeater VE3STP on Kennelly Mountain, at the East end of the Mt. St. Patrick range 
• Maintaining an executive committee and holding annual meetings of the membership
• Running the Mini-Net, a checkin net,  at 6:45 PM local time every evening. About 20 minutes.
• Hosting an Annual General Meeting for members in the spring. Newcomers may sign up at this time.
• Sponsoring a summer picnic – corn roast.
• Acknowledging a breakfast eyeball QSO at 9:00 AM each Wednesday, presently in Renfrew (The Rocky Mountain House restaurant across Bruce St. from the Wendy’s – Tim Horton’s). Occasionally other sites are selected. Listen to the mini-net Tuesday night for this week’s location.
• Suporting neighbouring ham radio groups and ARES activities
• maintaining a pool of amateur radio operators for civil emergencies where conventional communications may be inadequate or unavailable.

The Champlain Regional Repeater Association is incorporated as a not-for-profit organization  under the laws of the Province of Ontario.