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About the Northern Alberta Radio Club

• Awards
• Become a NARC Member
• Board of Directors
• Bylaws (PDF version)
• Contact Us
• Email Reflectors
• History of NARC
• Map to VE6HM Repeater Site
• NARC Callsigns
• Policies and Procedures (PDF version)

The Northern Alberta Radio Club serves Edmonton, Alberta and area. Our repeater is VE6HM. Here is the map to the repeater site. We meet at the VE6HM trailer that you see in the picture each Tuesday during the VHF net. Come and join us, we would be delighted to have you drop in. There is coffee served and someone often brings some goodies.  We are very involved in Amateur Radio and would like to encourage you to join our organization. We have many projects on the go. We are very active in ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Services) and work with the police and other agencies in the Edmonton area in a very effective way.

Club meetings are held the third Wednesday of each month except July, August and December. Meetings are held at 19:30 hr. local time, check main site for location. The EMITTER is the club's newsletter and is published monthly. Mail may be sent to the editor at "emitter@narc.net".

NARC supports several repeater sites in the Edmonton area. The VE6HM repeater on 147.060- MHz (negative offset), in tandem with 444.100 MHz is named after C. Harris 4HM, VE4HM, VE6HM. The VE6JN repeater (to be back soon) on 147.240 MHz is a linked site to provide extended coverage in the North and West parts of Edmonton. VE6HM is also on 224.760 MHz and co-located at the VE6HM site. An ATV repeater is currently under development for this site.

We support a portable repeater on 147.015 MHz VE6NC and a 20-meter-high portable tower (NARCPAC), with an HF beam, HF dipoles, VHF and UHF antennas. It may be operated from Nife NiCad cells or from the portable generator.

We support several packet BBS's and NODE sites. VE6MC, VE6KM, VE6HM-0, VE6PLP, at Pigeon Lake. VE6YER at Evansburg is a APRS Digipeater providing mobile APRS coverage along highway 16 west of Edmonton.. VE6TNC is the packet node and the Internet Gateway site to which you are now connected, "narc.net".

We support an IARU Beacon in co-operation with The Northern California DX Foundation NCDXF and the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) IBP. The call for the site is VE8AT in Eureka Nunavut.

We give awards for an array of things. You check these out on the Awards webpage.

Would you like to become a Ham? Ham radio classes

We are looking for Electronic Projects to post in that section. If you have something please get in touch with the Webmaster or his able Assistant and we'll get something posted.