Dominica

New Club in Dominica!

Published 2019-05-28 | By J69DS _Admin

the Common Wealth of Dominica has seen the birth of a new club: WARA [ Waitukubuli Amateur Radio Association inc.]
The founding members are J73CI Clem, J73MH John and J73WA Wayne.
The website for the club is at https://warainc.org/ they are also on facebook https://www.facebook.com/WARAInc/ and on the air with a UHF repeater at 444.700 +5.000 tone 103.5
We wish the club good luck and look forward to hearing great things from WARA!

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DARCI Field Day Update!

Published 2018-09-03 | By J69DS _Admin

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On Saturday June 23, 2018, the DARCI, under the stewardship of the Field Day chairman John Mitchel (J73MH), held its second post Hurricane Maria field day at the Marigot Fisheries complex located in the north east of the island (near to the Douglas-Charles airport).

The field day was well attended with over 30 persons present, the majority of whom were student hams. They got a chance to design and build a 80m OCF dipole, assemble and get a station on air (there were 2 HF stations present). Regional and International contacts were made on various HF bands (20m, 40m, 80m) as well as VHF/UHF with other local hams elsewhere on the island.

Some of the digital modes were explained with FT8 highlighted. The practicality of Winlink over HF was also exhibited.

The day culminated with a mass check-in on the DMR TG91 Worldwide Net (held every Saturday). The mass check-in caught the attention of the DMR net controllers.

The day was a grand success with persons calling for a follow up event. J73MH advised that the next field day event would take place somewhere in the north of the island.

Thank you.

Hilkiah / J73HGL

Secretary , DARCI

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Orginal article here: http://cewn.org/darci-field-day-2018/

DARCI Field Day 2018

Published 2018-06-22 | By J69DS _Admin

Dominica Amateur Radio Club Inc [DARCI] will be having a Field Day exercise tomorrow Saturday 23rd June, 2018. The group will meet in Roseau and go to Marigot where they will setup for the day.
They will be active on VHF/UHF and on HF. On VHF UHF will be on the local repeater of 442.100 +5 tone 103.5 and HF they will be on 80 meters 3.800 Mhz Lsb, on 40 meters 7.210 Mhz Lsb and on 20 meters 14.200 Mhz USB.
They will be on air from Marigot from 8:30 am, look and listen out for them. Call them let them know they are getting out!

The CEWN wishes the DARCI a successful Field Day 2018!

Edit: Also active on DMR TalkGroup 969 [Dmr Caribbean]

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J73CI Clem on Canada Am live!

Published 2015-09-01 | By J69DS _Admin

J73CI Clem was interviewed by Canada Am:
See it here