Club Activities RARC activities in the community are grouped into three categories: outreach initiatives at public events to promote awareness of RARC and Amateur radio, radio communication support at local community public events, and volunteer emergency comunication activities with local emergency preparedness organizations using Amateur radio. These events allow members to test their radio equipment while also improving radio operation practices and procedures. Members also make use of the club station VE7GOG to participate in radio contesting, repair equipment and test donated vintage radios and other items. There are also social activities throughout the year.

Happy Canada Day!

There is no parade for this year so we will celebrate with images from previous years' RARC participation in parade communication and route marshal activities on our special Steveston Salmon Festival Canada Day Parade page.

Canada Day 2012 - RARC members at briefing in front of radio communications net control table (located inside the Steveston CommunityCcentre) before proceeding to their assigned positions along parade route. Click on image for more RARC images from past Canada Day parades in Steveston.

Long Day for RARC Members on July 1st
with Steveston Salmon Festival
Canada Day Parade and RAC Contest

Once again members were at the Salmon Festival Hatchery shed at 6 AM to help parade marshals set up for arriving entries at Garry Point Park before heading to assigned radio communication positions along the parade route. Following the parade and a hearty lunch in the Seiner Room, compliments of Steveston Salmon Festival, some members headed over to the club station VE7GOG to join other members already participating in the annual RAC Canada Day Contest.

This is the first time that net control for radio communications at the parade was conducted outdoors. It's also the first time that the radio go-kit was deployed, presenting an opportunity to 'activate' the equipment and pushing the kit's SLA battery to its limit before having to bring out the generator from the nearby station (less than 100 metres away). The net control position on the 'hill' presents new options planning for next years parade communications.

Thank you for participting in
the special SSTV event to commemorate
50th Ann. of the Apollo 12 Moon Landing

Richmond ARC, with Burnaby ARC (and VECTOR) coordinated transmission of Apollo 12 images by SSTV (slow scan television) on Nov. 16, 2019 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the second moon landing of the NASA Apollo program.

Edited images from NASA photo archives were transmitted on the 2 metre (VHF) frequency of 145.500 MHz and was also tested on HF (20m) with limited success. Details about the special SSTV event are still posted on the RARC Apollo 12 SSTV Event Web page.

This is the second commemoration of the Apollo Program undertaken by the Richmond Amateur Radio Club. Recap of the July 2019 50th Ann. Apollo 11 SSTV event is on the RARC Apollo 11 SSTV archive page.

Thank You to Our Sponsors, Exhibitors, Vendors and Club Members for Another Successful Communications Display and Swap Meet on April 6th 2019

This year's event, which took place again at the South Arm United Church in Richmond, attracted a greater number of exhibitors from the Amateur radio community and local emergency and communication programs to showcase their radio communications equipment. This unique event builds on the result of previous years’ initiatives to bridge Amateur radio with emergency communications with displays from Richmond, Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Delta, Coquitlam, Langley and Abbotsford, and also The Salvation Army and Canadian Forces. The event also creates opportunities for the general public to see how Amateur radio and emergency communications organizations from across the Lower Mainland play a role in the community’s emergency preparedness. Go to our RARC events Web site for our prize winners, other details, and more photos from the event.

World Amateur Radio Day 2021
(Excuse to get out and get together)

RARC members participating in 2021 World Amateur Radio Day (Apr. 18) at club station VE7GOG. Activities mostly remained outdoors with no more than two members at a atime permitted inside the radio 'shack.' This was the first event in 2021 where members were able to physically get together.