Welcome to the home of NORAC, the North Okanagan Radio Amateur Club
NORAC is centered in Vernon in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia's South Central Interior. With over 80 members, communications are provided for many events throughout the Okanagan. Some of the main community events in which NORAC participates are the Vernon Winter Carnival Parade, the Falkland Stampede Parade, and the Penticton Ironman Triathlon. Club members are active in Canada Day and Field Day contests, maintain several VHF & UHF repeaters, and operate IRLP nodes and APRS trackers / digipeaters. Past club activities have included the Falkland International Sled Dog Races as well as provided communications for the Funtastic slow pitch tournament.
NORAC Announcements
March 9, 2010
NORAC's next monthly meeting will be at 7:30 pm Thursday March 18, 2010 at the Vernon Flying Club.
If anyone has a presentation they would like to make during the next monthly meeting,
contact Jesse VE7LYD (ve7lyd@norac.bc.ca). Topics don't have to be amateur related; anything of interest would be just fine.
Join Blake VE7DO for his weekly net from Mexico, on 14.163 MHz or 14.158 MHz at 10:30 am.
Supporters of NORAC
Special thanks to Kent and Ian at Dargal Solutions
for sponsoring the Web space for this website!
NORAC Sunday Net
Listen for the Sunday Net at 10:00 AM on the 146.88- Silver Star repeater.
NORAC Saturday Breakfast
Come join us every Saturday at 10am for breakfast, at the Red Barn Restaurant in the Shops at Polson Place.
NORAC Happenings
The Commonage Mountain and Scaia Mountain webcams are currently off the air.The new 1050 nodes testing phase has been completed and is awaiting installation. Until it is installed, the old node will continue to operate for everyone's use.
Plans for the replacement of the Silver Star SIRG UHF hub repeater have been put on hold until after the snow melts
A trip to Thynne Mountain to install a notch filter on the repeater will be completed sometime this year.
