​To all the MAARC members who came out early this morning to help, a big thank you. While the totals are not in yet, we did have 134 paid entrants and the 50/50 gave $192 to the winner and $192 to the club so I think we are on track to have the best flea market yet. Larry will let us know what the final take is on the raffle and canteen and we will post some pictures of the winners of the door prizes and the raffle.

I am glad to report that our own Oscar, VE9OSK won the raffle prize. The prize was a new Yaesu FT-2980 hi output (80 watts) 2 meter transceiver. He told me that at first he said to himself that he just missed the winning number of 273 as his ticket was 271 but then he remembered he had bought 3 for $5 so he had 271, 272 and 273. Congratulations Oscar and enjoy the new radio.

The door prizes were won by Kevin, VE1KEV who decided on the Tri-band hand held radio and VY2REG, Reg who got the dual-band mobile radio. Congratulations to all. - Ross VE9GCS

Updated: 01/10/2018 with more photos.

​Today's MAARC meeting was the annual general meeting where in accordance with the constitution, elections were held for the executive positions. MAARC would like to thank Gilles Gaudet, VE9NW for his 3 years on the board of directors. His position will now be filled by Michel Landry, VE9JFL. Hinson, VE9CX and Misha, VE9GIS are our other two directors.

Larry, VE9ASB has agreed to stay on as treasurer and Jim, VE9JRP will continue as Vice President. Ross, VE9GCS will fill the vacant position as secretary while André, VE9ARG will take over the position of president on October 1

All executives of MAARC agree that the first order of business is to ensure that ham radio is fun for everyone.

Thanks to Marcel, VE9ML for taking the lead on this year's nominations and ensuring that the vote was in accordance with our constitution.

Left to right: Misha VE9GIS, Larry VE9ASB, Ross VE9GCS, André VE9ARG, Jim VE9JRP

VE9BGC Bernie & and George VY2GF have an article in TCA this month on page 47.