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 50 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
January 23, 2012
Vernon Winter Carnival Parade needs volunteers for Saturday February 4th, 2011. Please contact Linda at 250-542-8385 if you can help.
Congratulations to Garry Garbutt for winning the Ham of the year award for 2011.
NORAC Memberships are due. Please click on the membership tab, and JOIN NORAC
to either pay by PayPal, or print off a completed membership form to send in
with your check. Memberships can be paid in person to any member of the NORAC executive attention Todd. Membership cards will be issued upon my
receiving payment. Any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at ve7mts@norac.bc.ca.
NORAC's next monthly meeting will be February 16th at 7:30pm at the Vernon Flying Club.
Join Blake from Mexico every Sunday after the NORAC net on 14.153 MHz at approximately 10:30am.
If anyone has any announcements they would like listed here, or sent out via the email list, please email me at ve7mts@norac.bc.ca and
I will post them ASAP.
Supporters of NORAC
Special thanks to Kent and Ian at Dargal Solutions
for sponsoring the Web space for this website!
NORAC Sunday Net
Tune in Sundays at 10 am on 146.880- T123.0
NORAC Saturday Breakfast
Come join us at 10am every Saturday morning for breakfast at the Red Barn Restaurant, in the Shops at Polson Place.