Rob Noakes, VE3PCP, and his family Alicia and Justin, will be set up at the Lion’s Hall in Tiverton, Ontario during the day on Saturday October 21. Rob’s XYL, Alicia is the Girl Guide Leader for the 2nd Kincardine Girl Guides and they will be doing Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) at the Lion’s Hall location for the day.
As an added bonus, Rob has volunteered to run the VA3RAC station from October 20 to October 22 for JOTA as part of RAC Canada 150 Award to celebrate Canada's 150 birthday.
Rob will be running on 80m and 40m with NVIS antennas and will also have mobile 40m and 20m antennas on the event trailer to cover those as well. On 2m, Rob will be running a homebrew 3-element yagi aimed at the VE3RTE repeater in Paisley for the day as well.
Carson Morton, VA3OSO, plans on attending as well to demonstrate digital modes to the group.
They will also have a computer set up to demonstrate some online resources for Amateurs such as web receivers, reverse beacons, DX clusters and so on.
The hall will be open to anyone wanting to stop by and join in on the activities.
Rob encourages Amateurs to drop in and run VA3RAC for a time if they are able to.