It’s hard to believe that a month ago I was writing about all the upcoming club activities, such as our general meeting at the end of March, preparations for our Spring Flea Market, and upcoming volunteer opportunities at upcoming public service events.

In a little less than a month, events were cancelled, altered, and rescheduled. Many of our daily activities have been turned upside down by a viral pandemic that very few could imagine.

Our general meeting, instead of meeting at our usual location, took place over the air as a directed net on our main Calgary repeater, VE6RYC. The CARA Spring Flea Market was cancelled, and in its place, club members are organizing an on-line technical conference to take its place. The Rocky Mountain Rally, scheduled for May, has been rescheduled to the fall, and will take place in Kananaskis.

We continue to navigate this new world together altering our plans on a daily and weekly basis. I hope many of you have found our hobby as ways to communicate and socialize from a safe physical distance, and that the days that are passing by aren’t too lonely.

I look forward to the day we can re-group in physical proximity and forge a new way forward in what will undoubtedly be a new normal.

73 de VE6NR

Stephane Raimbault

CARA President