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, our Radio Amateur Club provides communications 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. Radio Amateur 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
August 29, 2010
NORAC's next monthly meeting will be Thursday September 16, 2010 at the Vernon Flying Club at 7:30pm.
If anyone has a presentation they would like to make during any of the monthly meetings,
contact Jesse VE7LYD (ve7lyd@norac.bc.ca). Topics don't have to be amateur related; anything of interest
would be just fine.
All amateurs are invited to attend the 32nd Annual Shuswap Mini Hamfest, being held at the Sunnybrae Community
Centre, Tappen, British Columbia on September 17th through the 19th. Registration is $10.00 for adults,
$5.00 for children; kids under 6 years of age are free. Door prizes, games, a pot luck supper, and a short
seminar on NTS traffic handling will be featured, along with a corn roast, Swap and shop tables, and Sunday
breakfast, all free with registration. RV parking is available, without hook ups on a first come basis.
Two Meter Talk-in frequency is 146.760 -600 Hz with no tone.We look forward to seeing as many amateurs as possible,
so book that date and please plan to attend. Further details will follow as we get closer to September.
NORAC Memberships can now be paid via PayPal. On the NORAC home page, click
the PayPal button. Simply fill out the form and click the "Proceed to
Checkout" button. A PayPal account is not necessary to make a payment.
Payments via the major credit cards are also accepted.
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. We are still searching for volunteers that would be willing to host the NORAC Sunday net 1 weekend per month. If you are interested, please contact Todd at ve7mts@gmail.com. The more people interested the easier it is on us all.
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
A trip to the Thynne Mountain repeater site to replace the Silver Star link antenna was a success. Special thanks to Fred VA7UN for donating the antenna as well as Simon VE7RIZ and Mike VE7SMU who assisted Jesse with the installation.The 1050 node is back online! Special thanks to Jesse VE7LYD for making this happen!
On Wednesday July 21st Jesse made a trip to Silver Star to repair the fan noise problem on 147.06 as well as install the SIRG hub replacement repeater. The new hub repeater is now in use and seems to be working well.
Plans to replace the Scaia Mtn VHF and UHF repeaters are on track for completion before summers end. The repeater is nearing completion and will be installed at the Commonage for a couple weeks before it is taken to Scaia sometime in September. If anyone is interested in tagging along for a trip to Scaia e-mail Jesse VE7LYD (ve7lyd@norac.bc.ca) or contact Todd VE7MTS (ve7mts@gmail.com).
