The Moncton Area Amateur Radio Club (MAARC) was founded in 1966 and traces its roots back to 1936 with its predecessor club the Moncton Amateur Radio Club. Today MAARC members participate in a wide variety of activities from Field Day, nets, training, contesting and more. The club operates 6 repeaters, a packet radio node, Echolink node, APRS gateway and other technology. If you are in the Moncton area or are just curious, check them out at https://www.maarc.ca/
Would you like to talk to astronauts in the International Space Station? Make friends around the world? Build electronic projects? Assist your community in times of disaster? Keep in touch when traveling off the beaten path? If so, then welcome to wonderful world of Amateur Radio!
Amateur Radio operators, also known as “hams”, are licensed by the Federal Government to communicate with similarly authorized enthusiasts in almost every country in the world. They come from all walks of life – from the teenager next door, to people you know at work, to Nobel Prize winning scientists, astronauts, and famous entertainers. They all share a love for the magic of radio!
©Lawrence Powell
ANNAPOLIS ROYAL – Al Penney can bounce radio signals off the moon, but right now he’s working with high school students who want to send live video back to Earth from the edge of space.
Annapolis West Education Centre student Abigail Bonnington holds a video camera hardly bigger than a sugar cube. It’s attached to a small transmitter that will send signal to a laptop.
It stopped working and now Penney and Bonnington are troubleshooting. It has to be operational or replaced by sometime in June when the Annapolis Royal Space Agency launches its second ‘package’ deep into the stratosphere – 30 or 40 kilometres up.
Penney is with the Annapolis Valley Amateur Radio Club and has been working with the students since the fall.
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