The Coquitlam Amateur Radio Emergency Services Society is proud to announce that 10 new amateur radio operators have received their Basic and Basic with Honours licenses as a result of our Fall 2018 class.
Congratulations!
Our next Basic License course is tentatively scheduled for April 2019.
We will update our website once the dates are finalized.
Keith Witney, VE7MID/VE7KW, will operate from Vimy Ridge between April 1 to 9 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle in France.
For more information: http://www.tricitynews.com/news/coquitlam-amateur-radio-operator-to-take-to-the-airwaves-at-vimy-ridge-1.11389792
Watch as we lift our 2nd multi-band quad antenna.
Multi-band Qaud Antenna Lift onto Tower
Video courtesy of Ian Procyk VE7HHS.
Our three 80 foot self-standing antenna towers are up!
Tower 3 with 5-element 20m beam antenna.
Tower bases completed.
The 3 concrete tower bases are complete!
They have been back-filled (lower left).
The towers are expected to be put into position during the week of November 24.
Scaffolding has been raised in preparation of assembling one of our large quad antennas.
Photo courtesy of Ian Procyk VE7HHS.
We finally poured concrete into all three of our antenna tower bases.
Photo courtesy of Dan Marsland VA7DCR
A major milestone achieved.
We should be able to remove the forms in 1 week and back fill in the holes in about 2 weeks. After a curing period of 28 days, we will begin to raise the 3 towers.
An incredible job by all of the volunteers and die-hards of CARESS.
Stay tuned for more updates.
Coquitlam Search & Rescue invited us to attend their large scale exercise at Pitt Lake on Sept 28, 2014. Our goal was to assist the various SAR teams by evaluating and establishing a radio link from the head of the lake all the way down to Coquitlam’s town centre fire hall. Click here to read the full story.
VE7SCC emergency communications trailer at Grant Narrows.
On Saturday, September 13, 2014, Paul VA7CDB and Richard VA7RLW represented CARESS at the 2014 Coquitlam Treefest located at the Riverview Hospital Grounds.
At our display, we demonstrated our capabilities as volunteer emergency communication providers to the City of Coquitlam.
We ran a Grab-n-Go kit and a 20m Zepp dipole antenna along with a 2m VHF station.
We had many interested visitors along with representatives from the City of Coquitlam, (Concillors Terry O’Neill and Craig Hodge) along with the Province of BC (MLAs Linda Reimer, Selina Robinson and John Horgan).
CARESS VE7SCC display at Treefest
Terry O’Neill, Councillor for Coquitlam, a supporter of CARESS is next to Paul Bryan VA7CDB.
Linda Reimer, M.L.A. for Port Moody-Coquitlam visited us.
On August 24th Coquitlam ARC and SEPAR (Surrey Emerg. Prog. Amateur Radio) members toured the Vancouver MCTS centre located downtown Vancouver on the 23rd floor of Harbour Centre building, 555 West Hastings.
The MCTS (Marine Communications and Traffic Services) centre consists of a Vessel Traffic, Supervisor and RMIC (Region Marine Information Centre) positions and normally a Radio and Safety position which has however at this time been remoted to Victoria MCTS in preparation of reducing the 5 present Pacific Region MCTS stations (Prince Rupert/Comox/Vancouver/Tofino/Victoria) down to 2 stations – Victoria and Prince Rupert MCTS in the future.
Vancouver MCTS at this time monitors the movement of marine traffic on VHF radio and radar and advises vessels of other traffic in its mandated area of responsibility and also provides navigational, safety and weather information broadcasts to mariners.
The tour was informative and operations were expertly described by the on duty MCTS Officer Bob Holoiday.
Webpage for Vancouver MCTS – http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/e0003905
The tour was organized by Brian Derksen.
Photos taken by B. Derksen and Fred Orsetti
View of Burrard Inlet from MCTS
left to right Jay Melkins/VE7KC, Stan Williams/VA7NF, Denny Baylis/VA7BAV, Phil Storey/VE7YBH, Unnamed,
Fred Orsetti/VE7IO, Marcy Liu/VE7JT, Ron Cunningham -former MCTS Officer, Brian Derksen VE7VBD
Supervisors position with RMIC position in far background
Traffic services position
Duty officer B. Holoiday describing operations and functions of MCTS Vancouver
