Club Sponsored Activities

These activities are attended by multiple members of the club. Generally they are also sponsored by the club but may involve outside orgainzations.

Club Members, Jim Wilkins, Ralph Web, Don & Pam Hamilton and Eric Kehler met at Blackie Spit to activate the park in the Parks on the Air Program. This would be the first club activation for the White Rock club in the POTA program. The special feature for today’s activation was the use of Don’s

The quad folded dipole antenna in use by the club was thought to be faulty and so a replacement antenna needed to be installed. The repeater is located at Eric’s home and so on Saturday Feb 11 a few members of the club met at the site to help Eric replace the antenna. Eric had prepared the new cross

Club members gathered at the lounge in Centennial arena for the annual BC QSO Party contest. This is one of the events we regularly participate in as a club as it builds some team work, develops radio skills,  and supports our local ham community. Several members came out for the 9:30 am start of

Several members gathered in the lounge at the arena to participate in the annual RAC Winter contest. This year we operated using Ralph's IC-7000 radio exclusively. Ralph operated CW and the other members were on phone. Initially Ralph started off our activity on the 40m band where he completed

Members of the club gathered at the arena on Saturday Oct 1 to operate in the California QSO Party Contest. Members arrived at the arena a bit before 10 am and the first task was to reconnect the long wire HF antenna that is located outside the arena. It had been disconnected due to roof work. Once

Club members met at Kwomais Point Park to exercise their go kits. Members took turns using the kits to make contacts in the parks on the air program. Bands were in good condition and 30 contacts were logged over a 90 minute period most were on 15m but a few were successful on 10m where stations in

This year the club activated for Field Day in the grass area of the Semiahmoo Fish and Game Club. It was a lovely spot for the event. We had some trees for the antennas and open grass for spreading out. One just had to avoid the path of the archery area. This day coincided with the fish club's

Several members gathered at the Lounge to use the main OCF antenna to participate in the annual BC QSO Party.

This year we mainly used Ralph's IC-7000 radio and a bit on Eric's KX3 with amp. Ralph managed over 80 CW contacts over the few hours we were active. Eric made around 10 SSB contacts

Club members gathered at the Lounge in the Centennial Arena for this year’s annual winter contest. For this event we would be using various HF radios that members brought and wanted to test. Ralph brought his Icom IC-7000, Hugh brought his older Icom IC-745 with a manual tuner, Eric brought his KX3

Club members gathered at the home of fellow club member Eric (VA7NX) to set up and work the ARRL Field Day event.  First on site were club president Jim and then Ralph. Tables and day tents were set up and then work began on the main OCF antenna. For this year’s event we opted for the inverted V

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