Community Involvement

Field Day 2010 Report
Field Day 2009 Safety Briefing
Field Day 2008 Submission VE8RAC
Field Day 2008 Rules
Field Day 2008 YARS Planning
Field Day 2007 IR Report

WEATHER REPEATER
The link below is a 72 hour trend, but other timeframes can be selected. Of interest is that the barometric pressure leads the temperature quite accurately, so we know when the cold weather is coming.
The wind direction is quite patchy due to the location of other buildings surrounding the wind-vane. Thanks to VE8SS (Sam)for the 2m antenna, and VE8GS(Gabe) for the contruction of a battery box.
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=VE8WD-1&units=metric&last=72

VE8WD-2 weather from Prelude is currently failed. Station still reporting APRS position data, but no weather data. Will have to strap on the snowshoes for this repair.

73's, Chris - VE8WD

CANADIAN COAST GUARD AUXILIARY - Wx Station at Inner Whalebacks
YARS works with CCGA to maintain the Weather Repeater at the Inner Whalebacks on Great Slave Lake.

MUNICIPAL AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS - Emergency Measures
MOU has been under consideration by the various MACA employees and YARS since 2000.

YELLOWKNIFE SKI CLUB and NORTHWESTEL - annual Ski Loppet
Since the 1990's YARS has provided communications across the 25km's of rugged terrain, where neither cell phones nor FRS radios work.

CONTESTING:
QRP Amateur Radio Club International Spring CW contest
Annually, first weekend in April, 5a.m. Saturday to 5p.m. Sunday (MT).
Most participants operate with 5W or less, hopefully slow enough to copy. 
For anyone interested in monitoring or participating, more information is
available on their website www.qrparci.org.

QRP CW operations are usually centered higher up in the CW portion of 
the band. The contest activity should be centered around these frequencies:

1810 KHz
3560 KHz
7030 KHz and 7040 KHz
14060 KHz
21060 KHz, and
28060 KHz