Calgary Amateur Radio Association - Presidents message

Calgary Amateur Radio Association

Enjoy Amateur Radio | Serve Our Community

I think many of you who attended the September CARA General Meeting will

agree with me that it was a wonderful presentation from the AlbertaSat team of

the University of Alberta. Many thanks to Callie and Katelyn who drove down

from Edmonton to give this great presentation on the Ex-Alta 1 and the

upcoming Ex-Alta 2 satellite. We were fortunate to see the team connect and

interact with the satellite during the presentation as the sattelite passed

overhead of their ground station located at the UofA in Edmonton.

The upcoming CARA General Meeting which will be October 23rd

at 7PM will begin with a presentation by David James, VA7VK/VK3IA titled

"Communications and life at Macquarie island 1901 to today." Please see the

event description on the CARA website for a summary of David’s talk. His

presentation will be followed by our Annual General Meeting where we will

review the club’s audited finances.

This past september several members of the amateur radio community

participated at the Edgemont Community Association event on Safety and

Preparedness. Amateur’s from several clubs presented the capabilities and

opportunities that amateur radio provides. Great work everyone on sharing

with the greater public what our hobby and what a vital service we can

provide.

At the end of October, CARA is supporting the Calgary Sports Car Club in their

annual Kananaskis Rally. If you are free on October 28th and would like to

volunteer as a radio operator for the event, please visit the posting on our

There has a been a lot of discussion and activity in relation to the CARA

Communications trailer. This is a trailer which can be utilized at a

variety of events

for establishing a communications link across amateur radio. Over the past

year, the trailer has been deployed at public service events and field day on

behalf of CARA and has even been used by the greater amateur radio

community to demonstrate the communication capabilities of amateur radio at

emergency preparedness events such as Disaster Alley and the Edgemont

Emergency Preparedness events. We continue to leverage this asset and

improve on its capabilities. If you are interested in the trailer’s capabilities and

are interested in helping the Communications Trailer Teams initiatives, please

reach out to the team by contacting participating in the Comm Trailer Forum on

Thank you,

Stephane Raimbault

CARA - President