HAMR
New Club in Dominica!
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!
Rainbow Radio League: Emcomm Exercise 2018
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SLARC WARD event report
World Amateur Radio Day 2018
Celebrating Amateur Radio’s contribution to society
The Saint Lucia Amateur Radio Club (SLARC) celebrated World Amateur Radio Day under the theme Celebrating Amateur Radio’s contribution to society. As part of this year’s celebration the SLARC decided to introduce amateur radio to a few of the secondary schools in the north and South of the island. The event was well received by both the faculty and students.
Students listened to an address from former director of ECTEL Mr. Embert Charles via the radio on this year’s theme “Celebrating Amateur Radio’s contribution to society “. Students learned about the role amateur radio has played in the development of telecommunications and technology as a whole and also the importance of amateur radio in times of natural disasters when conventional means of communications are down.
The students also got the opportunity to ask questions and these ranged from, how one becomes an operator to questions on propagation of radio waves. The event was very successful and as a result the schools have asked that we repeat the sessions with the students. The St. Lucia Amateur Radio Club in order to continue this effort in bringing in fresh blood to the world of amateur radio will be conducting training sessions at the club’s headquarters with interested students eventually leading to a novice class license and the setup of amateur radio base stations at the schools.
The St. Lucia Amateur Radio Club would like to thank the National Emergency Management Organization, the administrators of the various secondary schools and the HAM operators for making this day possible.
Please see some pictures below of the day’s activities at the Participating schools: St. Mary’s College, St. Joseph’s Convent, Castries Comprehensive, Leon Hess Comprehensive, the Entrepot Secondary, Anse Ger Combined, and the Vieux Fort comprehensive.
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Terry Goodman, J66BP,
Tot Henry, J69MV,
SLARC.
ADRASEC – Public event a success also
ADRASEC together with the FMHAMRA club and the CB operators and the FRS operators held a successful event at Anse Figuier, Riviere Pilote this past Saturday the 24th as the following album shows. There was an excellent turnout by all the operator with many operating positions setup. It also got great media exposure on the TV channels and in print.