Passing the torch from generation to generation

MAARC is happy to announce VE9MTV's son Sam wrote his amateur radio exam and passed with 90% giving him a pass with honors. He chose the callsign VE9SV.

Sam is the 4th amateur radio operator in Mike's family. VE9TV (Omer, Mike's father), VE9MTV (Mike), VE9MV (Matt), and now VE9SV (Sam).

Matt and Sam are 3rd generation amateurs in the family.

Congratulations to sam from a proud and happy father and from the MAARC members. We'll listen for him on the air!

New DMR repeater is on air!

The Shediac Bay DMR Repeater VE9SDR is officially on the air.

Call: VE9SDR

Mode: DMR

Frequency: 145.490 -

Location: 46.2183571 -64.4978107

Colour Code 1

Talkgroup Statics on the Repeater:

Time Slot One (1)

Talkgroup 302 Canada Wide

Talkgroup 3023 Ontario

Time Slot Two (2)

Talkgroup 3029 New Brunswick

Talkgroup 30205 Atlantic Canada

The Repeater is Clustered:

In the New Brunswick Cluster

Time Slot One (1) Talkgroup eight (

(VE9BNI VE9DDR VE9FTN VE9MDR)

The Sorel - Lanaudiere Cluster

Time Slot two (2) Talk group eight (

(VA2DGR VA2DWE VA2HOM VA2RIU VA2VDC VE2AUB VE2IBN VE2ISM VE2PUK VE2RBS VE2RRC VE2RRY VE2SPY)

There is a timed talkgoup on Time Slot One (1) Talkgroup Two (2) The Quebec Tec Net TG 30227 every second Wednesday at 18:30 hrs local time. This is a full bilingual net and all are welcome.

Also the Atlantic Canada DMR Net is every Saturday at 20:00 hrs, on Time Slot two (2) Talkgroup 30205 all are welcome

Amateur Radio Call Plates Update

For a while we did not have up-to-date information on how to contact Fred LeBlanc (VE9UN) who takes care of the New Brunswick Amateur Radio Vehicle Call Plates.

We now have confirmation that Fred is still responsible for processing call plate requests.

If you wish to obtain Call Plates for your vehicle, please contact Fred at wilfredleblanc@msn.com for instructions on how to proceed.

Shediac Bay Repeater back to full power!

We have done the necessary work to change the coax to 1/2" 50 ohms Heliax with an SWR reading of 1.2 The VE9SBR repeater is back to full power at 20 watts.

We also had an issue with the UHF Yagi for the link to VE9SHM. There was water leaking into the Yagi antenna and had water at the connection to the 1/2" 50 ohms Heliax. We changed the UHF Yagi for the link to VE9SHM and measured SWR of 1.4.

I would like to extend my thanks to the following amateurs who participated in the work being done:

Rod VE9HV was the man in the lift and doing most of the antenna work.
Ground crew was VE9CAM, VE9LEN, VE9JCT, VE9OSK, VE9MTV, VE9MWB and VE9WCL.

Michael Caissie, VE9MTV

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