Activities
- Dec
- 07
- Posted by Jim Hutchison
- Posted in Activities, Corn Boils, Courses, Field Day
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.