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 hosted a group of Girl Guides this year for their thinking day. The event took place in the Centennial Arena again this year. The girls attended an info session presented by Ralph and then split into three groups which rotated through three activity areas. This year the hand-held task

Club members participated in the annual BC QSO Party again this year. For the event we operated with Konstantin's K3s and 500 watt amplifier through the Windom installed at the arena. We used Ralph's notebook computer for logging. In the end we made around 35 SSB contacts, not a high number but then

Club members and partners gathered for a lovely dinner down at the beach in White Rock at Jans on the Beach. It was our second time to this restaurant and we had another very nice meal and even some fine company and conversation.

Club Members participated in the ARRL Phone Sweepstakes for the first time this year. For the activity club members used Ralph's IC-7300 radio with the Carolina Windom Antenna installed at the arena. We also had Konsta's K3S radio brought into compare the two . We noticed that the spectrum displays

Club members gathered at the lounge to work the California contest this year. We met at 9am and got Konstatin's portable high-power radio setup and running. Eric brought a notebook for logging and soon we were ready to make some contacts. The 500 watts and the Windom antenna pointed at California

Once again this year members of the White Rock Club provided technical assistance to the Tour de White Rock. As in previous years, it was our responsibility to site and manage a commercial repeater provided by a third party for the event.Prior to our involvement the communications between the

Club Members set up for the annual Field Day event at the beach in White Rock. We began setting up our equipment at 9:30am and were on the air at the start of the event at 11am. This year we operated two HF stations and a 2m VHF radio. Club members operated with and IC-7000 with an Hi-Q antenna on

Club members got together for a practice field day on Saturday May 6th. This event was chosen to coincide with the 7QP contest in the Pacific North-West in the hopes that we would have lots of contacts. Members arrived at the parking lot in Centennial; Park shortly before 9am and began dragging

The club had the privilege of hearing a presentation by Stan Williams (VA7NF) on the topic of Software Defined Radio (SDR). Stan had a power point presentation followed by a live demo of his Flex 6700 SDR. He began with an overview of the evolution of radio receivers starting with the original

Club members hosted several Girl Guide groups for the first time this year in their annual Guides on the Air (GOTA) event. This year we used the two largest rooms in Centennial Arena and set up four activities. We had 25 girls in attendance plus their leaders. Everyone seemed to have a fun time at

Subscribe to Club Sponsored Activities