The Border
City Radio Club
Windsor Ontario Canada
(In the Sun Parlour of Canada)
MEETINGS
Our meetings are on the Third Monday
of the month at 7:25pm except July, August, December and holidays
[Windsor Family Credit Union, Tecumseh East and Drouillard (northeast corner
(beside BK) - rear single door)]
Upcoming Meetings:
NEXT MEETING
November 16th, 2009
(No meeting in December)
FIELD DAY !
June 2010
To contact the club, write: Border City Radio Club, P.O.Box 1171, Windsor, Ontario N9A 6P8
Email the web-meister. (Change the AT to an @)
BCRC Ham Radio Course
Click here for information
(No course pending at this time)
The Border City Radio Nets
Except holidays and July and August
As always, we are always looking for volunteer Net Control stations and of course check-ins!!!
If you would like to take on the task of Net Coordinator - - please contact us.
Six Meter
Sunday Night at 7:30 p.m. on 53.030 MHz (VE3SMR)
Choice of
inputs: 52.030 OR the new downtown receiver at 52.050 MHz.
Two Meter
Sunday Night at 8:00 p.m. on 147.000 MHz (VE3WIN) - PL 118.8.
(Due to technical problems, you may find
the net on VE3BBB)
Click here for the BCRC SWAP Directory
(Adobe Reader required)
Feel free to read it on the net(s).
To obtain the FREE reader, click here
NEW!
The Newsletter Archive (aka the
rag)
(You'll need Adobe Reader.)
Click here for the current
issue.
Click here to see the archive of past
newsletters.
2009-2010 Membership Form
http://home.cogeco.ca/~bcrc/BCRCMemform2009-10.pdf
APRS
a talk by Dave VA3XJ - info coming soon
Lightning and
your Shack/Abode
How would your electronic gear - Radio or otherwise stand up to a lightning
strike?
Art VE3AKJ gave a short talk on his 'enlightening' experiences with lightning.
For tips on protection from Lightning, please go to
http://www.arrl.org and use the Search
Site box on the main page to do a search under the heading,"Lightning
Protection".
The following articles should show up in the search results:
Lightning Protection for the Amateur Radio Station (3 parts) from QST June through August 2002
Lab Notes -Lightning Protection (2 parts) from QST October and December 1994
B.P.L.
Proposed changes are coming to the communications world. One such
change that may affect us negatively is Broadband over Power Lines.
For information on this medium please click here.
I.R.L.P.
The Internet Radio Link Program is a network of (currently) hundreds of amateur radio stations around the world interconnected via the internet. By using a set of access codes, the local repeater can be used in 'normal' local mode or it can be used to access any repeater node in the world.
Click here for connect/disconnect information.
For more information on the IRLP
network, please go to www.irlp.net
For even more information, also go to http://www.eham.net/newham/irlp
For a live demonstration (listen only) of the IRLP system, please go to http://live.irlp.net:8000/listen.pls
(Use Winamp or Quicktime, but Media Player, Real Audio, ITune should also work)
Time Signal
Stations
Additional BCRC WEB services:
Other area radio related sites on
the 'net'......
Sun Parlour Retirees Amateur Radio Club
Kitchener-Waterloo Amateur Radio Club
London Amateur Radio Club
For other Radio Clubs, check the club link at www.rac.ca
This page was updated on Nov 08, 2009