Summerside Amateur Radio Club

06/10/2026

Set up will start 9 am Saturday

05/16/2026

05/03/2026

May 2026 Events of Note

Antenna Workshop Event May 16th 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Charlottetown Amateur Radio Club — HF Antenna Farming Workshop Event: “Antenna Wires & Waves”Date: Saturday, May 16 — 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Location: Royalty Centre, 40 Enman Crescent, West Royalty. 1st floor, room 125 — turn left. Leader: Gordon Bernard (VY2GB) Contact: 902-566-2962 | [email protected] Who should attend: Any amateur planning to build, install, or test an inexpensive, efficient HF multi-band wire antenna system. Agenda covers: antenna resources, propagation and environmental factors, building hints, baluns/ununs/RFI chokes, horizontal and vertical HF wire systems, restricted-space antennas (apartments, etc.), inexpensive testing equipment, manual antenna tuners, support systems, and a show-and-tell segment. Participants bring: themselves, optionally coffee, a notebook, pen or pencil.

Emergency Preparedness Week – Touch a Truck Event May 9 10am-1pm
The PEI Emergency Measures Office will be hosting free information sessions across the province throughout the week and encourages Islanders to come meet members of the PEI EMO team and learn about how you can help keep yourself, your family and your community safe and prepared during emergencies. We will wrap up the week with an exciting Touch-a-Truck event, featuring a variety of emergency response vehicles and the incredible agencies that use them. It’s a great chance to learn, explore, and have fun! We look forward to seeing you there! A few radio amateurs will be there with small footprint stations and demos set up. This event will be held May 9, at the Allen St. Sobeys Parking Lot, 400 University Avenue, an exciting Touch-a-Truck event, from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm.

04/21/2026

All welcome to join in

02/16/2026

🎙️📡Spring Radio Licensing Course 2026 Starts March 23, 2026 📻 📞

The Summerside Amateur Radio Club is offering a licensing course again this spring.

With an Amateur Radio License you can make contacts with your radios across the world to friends and fellow hams via voice, morse code, or digital modes. It’s emergency readiness, but also a great hobby with regular island-wide activities plus you get to meet cool, fun, and nerdy people all over the world whenever you want to.

Main topics covered will be:

Regulations and Policies
Operating and Procedures
Station Assembly, Practice and Safety
Circuit Components
Basic Electronics and Theory
Feedlines and Antenna Systems
Radio Wave Propagation
Interference and Suppression

There are no age limits or prerequisites for the course. Tuition is $100 which includes the exam and a portable radio to get you started after you pass the exam. We also recommend you purchase a study guide which the course will be based on.

The course will be held in person in Summerside twice a week for 8 weeks on Mondays and Thursdays from 7:00-09:00pm starting Monday, March 23 2026, ending Monday, May 11 2026.

Register for the course here: http://www.summersidearc.com/index.php/2026/02/16/spring-radio-licensing-course-2026/

11/13/2025

NEW - Join us in our weekly Sunday net on the Summerside repeater network, hosted by Joe VY2JTN.

Any licensed radio amateur is welcome to join in! If you are on the mainland, feel free to link up your local NAVCOM repeater or join us via Echolink worldwide!

Occurs every Sunday at 8:00PM.

Summerside VE1CFR 146.850 -0.600 100.0Hz
Cavendish VY2PEI 145.150 -0.600 100.0Hz (Hardlinked)
O’Leary VY2CFB 147.120 +0.600 None (Hardlinked)
Winsloe VY2CRS 147.390 +0.600 100.0 (Hardlinked)

10/05/2025

For interested parties, the Summerside Amateur Radio Club now has accredited examiners again who are able to administer all Amateur Radio Examinations on behalf of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada. 👩‍🏫🎙💯🇨🇦📡

Examinations For interested parties, the Summerside Amateur Radio Club has accredited examiners who are able to administer all Amateur Radio Examinations on behalf of ISED Canada. For those looking for assistance in study preparation, the Island’s amateur radio clubs offer training courses on a re...

07/30/2025

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Activating the West Point lighthouse for illw August 16 to 17 using the Vy2wpl call for the first time . All are welcome to come visit and get on the air and help celebrate the 150 anniversary of the light house