General Membership Meeting

1930 EST, Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Room 2 – Terry Miller Recreation Centre
1295 Williams Pkwy, Brampton, ON L6S 3J8

NOTICE OF MEETING
PEEL AMATEUR RADIO CLUB INC.

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the members of the Peel Amateur Radio Club, Inc. will be held on Tuesday May 7th 2024 in Room 2 at the Terry Miller Recreation Centre, 1295 Williams Pkwy, Brampton ON. The meeting will commence at 19:30 EDT.

This notice is issued in accordance with PARC Bylaw 2, section 9.01 and 9.03, and the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act.

The meeting is called for the following purposes:

(1) receiving the financial statements of the year ended August 31, 2023, and
(2) consideration of the audit or review requirement for the current year, and
(3) election of Directors to hold office until the next Annual General Meeting

Members of the Peel Amateur Radio Club who are in good standing as of April 9th, 2024 will be entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting.

Following the meeting, a review of Club activities will take place.

Given in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the Province of Ontario this 10th day of April, 2024.

Andrew Dunn VE3XAD
Chair of the Board of Directors

Wednesday Evening Net

Join us every Wednesday Evening at 8 PM for our regular Wednesday Evening Net.

Until further notice due to problems with the VE3PRC repeaters, the net will be on VE3ADT 444.125+ (131.8 Hz).

As well as an ARES Exercise, the net is a social gathering, and most evenings we join in to discuss our “Topic of Interest”. Visit the PARC calendar for Net Control details HERE

Field Day 2023

Thanks to Vic VE3FOX for supplying these images of our recent Field Day event.

Groups.io and
callsign@rac.ca

As many of you know, RAC changed their @rac.ca email policy. The @rac.ca emails are now reserved for RAC staff only, and members who used a callsign@rac.ca email have been changed to callsign@myrac.ca.

Many members of the Peel ARC club reflector, hosted at groups.io, registered with their callsign@rac.ca membership, and their emails from the reflector are now bouncing back.

We ask all members to check their groups.io account and update their email address if they are still using a callsign@rac.ca address.

Ham-Ex 2024 Cancelled

Due to circumstances outside of our control, Hame-Ex 2023 has been cancelled. We hope to be back in March 2025.

Friday Net and Breakfast

Our Breakfast Net runs every Thursday from 8 am to 9:00 am on VE3ADT 444.125+ (131.8 Hz) repeater, located in Milton.

New Location!

Many of us meet at John’s Family Restaurant,
1 Fisherman Dr, Brampton, ON L7A 2X9, every Friday at about 9 AM.

Anyone with an interest in Ham Radio is welcome.

Repeater Status

Both the 2 m repeater, VE3PRC, 146.880- (103.5 Hz) and the 70 cm repeater VE3PRC, 443.550+ (103.5 Hz) are now up an running at their new site, on the Rogers Tower adjacent to the Terry Millar Recreation Centre. Due to technical issues, the repeaters have limited range. We would love to hear your signal reports!

Our second 70 cm repeater, VE3UPR 443.600+ (103.5 Hz) Covering Caledon and Northern Brampton, was not affected by the outage and is still up and running well.

A revised version of the PARC Bylaws has been posted under the “About Us” page on this site, or access the PDF direclty HERE

IMPORTANT!!! A 103.5 Hz Tone is REQUIRED to access all of the club’s repeater’s (both VHF and UHF)! Don’t forget to save the change in memory on your transceivers (some rigs will forget the change on power down if you don’t save).

If you live in the Brampton/Caledon neighborhood and have an interest in Amateur Radio, you’ve come to the right place. You’re sure to find activities of interest to you, and a great bunch of fellow radio enthusiasts.

Joining PARC is Easy

Download our membership form which is in PDF format. After you have printed it out and filled it in, either mail it or, better yet bring it in person to the next meeting! Membership types and fees can be found on the form.

If you want to get your license, we can help! Why not come on out to one of our meetings and meet the gang? You will be most welcome.

The club meets on the first Tuesday of every month, except for July and August.

Keep in touch here on the website and on the club repeaters.

Join PARC Special Interest Groups on Yahoo Groups

(These links take you to Club-sponsored Yahoo Groups. To have full access you will have to register with groups.io. All these links open a new Tab)

PARC eGroup – This is a Yahoo eGroup for PARC members & friends. (send an email to parc+subscribe@parc.groups.io to subscribe).

Brampton-Caledon ARES – facilitates communications between the Club’s ARES members. Send an email to parc-ares+subscribe@parc.groups.io to subscribe.

PARC Homebrew – a forum to discuss project ideas, homebrew techniques, etc. Send an email to parc-homebrew+subscribe@parc.groups.io to subscribe.

Pi Guys – a group for folks interested in using the Raspberry pi mini computer. Send and email to PARCPiGuys+subscribe@groups.io to subscribe.

HF Special Interest Group – a group to support members in all facets of HF. Send an email to parc-hf+subscribe@parc.groups.io to subscribe.

Feel free to explore this site to discover more about the history of the club, activities, interest groups, and current news. If you would like to learn more about the club or about amateur radio, please contact us. We would like to hear from you!