Previous newsletters can be found in the archive.

Our next members’ meeting will be held June 3 online using Zoom.

Let’s welcome Kevin B VE7TDK into our Zoom room to share what our VPD colleagues have been thinking about VECTOR.

I wonder what members think about holding an annual values workshop for VECTOR. Strong peer-organized organizations review shared values each year to strengthen and tune internal and external teamwork. Please send me your feedback after you read about the idea below (email).

In 2018 and 2019, we held a couple of workshops to raise member ideas to the front of our attention. To keep your evolving ideas in mind, VECTOR must hold annual “feedback workshops”.

After only the session in November 2019, we learned over 67 ideas suitable for VECTOR. Quite a backlog until people adopt, champion and deliver desired ideas. Imagine the added backlog we could collect in annual workshops. Perhaps overwhelming. What if we could use a different way to make member ideas reality?

Previous newsletters can be found in the archive.

Our next members’ meeting is May 6 and will be held online using Zoom. Please register in BetterImpact if you will be attending. Make sure you have updated your Zoom software.

QST ALL STATIONS

Effective Thursday, April 2nd, 2020 and until further notice, VECTOR will host at 19:05 on VE7RVF 145.45 MHz a daily Health & Welfare net for the benefit of our nearly 200 members, hundreds of VECTOR alumni, and the broader Metro Vancouver area amateur radio community.

Previous newsletters can be found in the archive.

Our next members’ meeting is April 1^st and we will hold it online using Zoom. Please register in BetterImpact if you will be attending.

Previous newsletters can be found in the archive.

Our next members’ meeting is March 4^th. Please register in BetterImpact if you will be attending (in person or online).

VECTOR’s radio installation at Firehall #5 continues to take shape as antennas and repeater equipment are installed, bringing repeater VE7RVZ 147.200 MHz +600 kHz, Tone 100 Hz, to life.

We have lots of plans for this amazing site. Stay “tuned”!

Note, this repeater was once called VE7ICS; the frequency has remained the same but the input/output tone has been changed to 100 Hz. An update to the VECTOR frequency list (see item number 20) has been made to reflect this. Please update your personal equipment accordingly.

Previous newsletters can be found in the archive.

Our next members’ meeting is February 5^th. Please register in BetterImpact if you will be attending (in person or online). This month we’ll be focusing on our field activities for 2020 including exercises at community centres, Field Day 2020, and radio events in the park.

Previous newsletters can be found in the archive.

Happy New Year!

On behalf of the 2019 and 2020 boards of directors, we’d like to wish all VECTOR members and their families a happy new year. It was an exciting year for VECTOR in 2019, with participation in VANSLAM and work on many ongoing projects. We hope that momentum will continue to build in 2020.

VECTOR will hold its next Basic Amateur Radio Certificate Course starting Saturday, January 4, 2020.

Our students enjoy a high rate of success - enroll with confidence regardless of your current level of radio, electronics or regulatory knowledge.