The Hamilton Amateur Radio Club tries to host a wide variety of activities for it’s members. The menu above will take you to blogs for each major activity. As this revision of our web site evolves, more activities will be added, so be sure to check back often.
Following is a listing of all activity related posts, as a summary.
HF Nets
HF Nets in Canada
Announcing the 23rd Annual Ontario QSO Party (new operating procedure:Covid-19) 2020
Announcing The 23nd Annual Ontario QSO Party 2020, To be held on the third full weekend of April 1800Z April 18 (which is 12 Noon local time) to 0500Z April 19, 2020 (to 1am local time) and then sleep time and back at it at 1200Z (that is 8am on the Sunday) to...
Announcing the CQWW160SSB 2020 Contest (Cancelled)
Join us for this fun contest. Contact Rick if you’d like to work this contest from the contest site.
Announcing the R.A.C. Winter Contest 2019
Announcing the R.A.C. Winter 2019 to all you Contesters and would be Contesters. Don’t forget the RAC Winter Contest. It is a 24 hour contest that starts at 0:00 UTC to 23:59 UTC December 28, 2019. That means that because of the time difference with the 5 hour...
CQ World Wide DX Contest for 2019
2019 CQ WW DX Contest SSB We operated VE3DC this year at the Contest Site will had a station on every band that we could. This is the fun contest where we work everyone we can all over the world, including strange Islands and call signs. This is the contest where we...
The Tesla Electric Festival
The Hamilton Amateur Radio Club put on an Amateur Radio display for the event. See some pictures of the Event: CLICK HERE
International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend (ILLW) 2019
ILLW Weekend, Aug 18 & 19 2017.
ARRL Field Day 2019
Feld Day 2017 is wrap! Beautiful weather for 22 out of 24 hours, pretty good band conditions and a good time was had by all. Follow this post for pictures.
RAC Canada Day Contest, July 1 2019
Mardy VE3QEE and Parker VA3WPS past Canada Day, The Canada Day Contest will be here soon, starting Sunday, right after Field Day. We will be using VE3DC our well known Club Callsign. Some of the guys have been out to do antenna work in preparation for this event, two...
Fox Hunts 2019
Well, it’s that time of the year again and the hidden transmitter schedule is here.
Announcing the 22nd Annual Ontario QSO Party 2019
The Ontario QSO Party is always held on the third full weekend of April. The first part is 1800Z April 20 to 0500Z April 21, this means 2pm Saturday April 20 to 1am Sunday April 21 and second part is 1200Z to 1800Z April 21 which means 8am to 2pm on Sunday April 21,...
Light up 2 Meters Night-an FM Simplex event
March 24 2019 6-8pm Local Time
Happy New Year!
General Meeting – Jan 16 2019
Speaker Sarah Simpson-Interpretation Officer for the Haida
Hamilton ARC Hidden Transmitter Hunts
The Next Fox Hunt is scheduled November 04 2018. Click below to read the full post and get the schedule.
Hamilton Area Nets
Repeaters and Nets in the Greater Hamilton Area
Announcing the R.A.C. Winter Contest 2018
Announcing the R.A.C. Winter 2018 to all you Contesters and would be Contesters, Don’t forget the RAC Winter Contest. It is a 24 hour contest that starts at 0:00 UTC to 23:59 UTC December 29, 2018. That means that because of the time difference with the 5 hour...
What we did this Summer in 2017
What we did this Summer in 2017 by Rick VE3BK The people at the Hamilton Amateur Radio Club were still busy this summer, even with the July-August break. Here are some things we did this...
Announcing The 20th Annual Ontario QSO Party 2017
20th Annual Ontario QSO Party – April 15 – 16
Announcing the CQWW160SSB 2018 Contest
Announcing the CQWW160SSB 2018 Contest VE3DC has won many Certificates for this contest in our Class in Canada and in Ontario. So let’s do it again this year in 2018. You can check the official results for us on the official webpage at: https://www.cq160.com This is...
Announcing the RAC Winter Contest 2016
Hello Ham Radio Contesters and would be Contesters, Don’t forget the RAC Winter Contest. It is a 24 hour contest that starts at 0:00 UTC to 23:59 UTC December 17, 2016 this year. That means that because of the time difference with the 5 hour difference now for the...
Announcing the Canada Day Contest, on July 1st, 2016, the 149th Birthday of Canada
The Canada Day Contest will be here soon, after Field Day again this year. Field Day is on the Saturday and Sunday of June 25-26 this year with Canada Day starting at 00:00 UTC or 8 pm locally on the Thursday June 30th, 2016, 5 days after Field Day, and...
Announcing The 19th Annual Ontario QSO Party 2016
Announcing The 19th Annual Ontario QSO Party 2016 Held on the third full weekend of April. First part is 1800Z April 16 to 0500Z April 17, this means 2pm Saturday April 16 to 1am Sunday April 17 and second part is 1200Z to 1800Z April 17 which means 8am to...
CQ World Wide 160 meter SSB 2016
VE3DC was #2 in our Class in Canada and #2 in Ontario in 2015, right behind of VA3ZV and 6th in our Class in North America again. A great job for 2015, so let's do it again this year in 2016. VA3ZV and VE3DC clashed for top Ontario Multi and ZV was the winner by only...
RAC Winter Contest 2015
Hi Contesters, Don't forget the RAC Winter Contest. It is a 24 hour contest that starts at 0:00 UTC to 23:59 UTC December 19, 2015 this year. That means that because of the time difference with the 5 hour difference now for the Winter months, this actually means that...
Announcing the 2015 CQ WW DX Contest SSB 2015
Announcing the 2015 CQ WW DX Contest SSB 2015 We will be operating VE3DC at the Contest Site and will have a station on every band. This is the fun contest where we work everyone we can all over the world, including strange Islands and call signs. This is usually the...