Mercury Amateur Radio Association NW

"BC Affiliate"

A Link to The Mercury Amateur Radio Association of Alberta -

http://www.mercuryalberta.ca/www/radio/MaraAlberta/Mercury_Alberta/MARA.html

 A Link to the Mercury Amateur Radio Association for the East Coast Including New Brunzwick, Nova Scotia, and the NE States of the United States of America -

http://ne.mara.net/

  A Link to the Mercury Amateur Radio Association for the NW Coast Including British Columbia  and the NW states of  the United States of America including Washington, Oregon, and Idaho

http://www.mercurynorthwest.org/index.php

Mercury NW Jan 2012 Newsletter 

http://www.mercurynorthwest.org/docs/MNW_Newsletter_Jan2012.pdf

Mercury NW - "BC Affiliate Membership"

Note: BC LDS members of Mercury can become affiliate members of Mercury NW by simply filling in the application form.

http://www.mercurynorthwest.org/JoinUs.php

You will gain affiliate membership through this application. This is a none voting membership because you are not required to pay dues. We will, however, share trainers and ideas both ways across the US/Canada border, share ideas via our internet connections with Mercury NW. It's a win-win situation for both groups.

We have tried to get  our own Mercury association going but due to still having a small membership and in that a lack of the required expertise we have found it impossible to get going. This does not mean it won't in the future. Many members are interested in doing this, just not enough individual time to dedicate to the process. When a change takes place to this you will see a change to the heading of the Home Page that will make it highly obvious. Meanwhile I will keep this web site going to help anyone wanting to learn and get their Basic Amateur Radio Certification.

 (Check the "Latest News" page)

• Make yourself available as a communications specialist for your local municipal emergency preparedness group.

•   Prepare yourself to be a communicator for your ward, stake, or other organization where you can serve with additional useful skills.

• Add ham radio to your repertoir of tools if you are a blue water sailor, for safety and socializing.

• If you are involved in scouts this is a skill that you can possibly use while wandering the wilderness with a bunch of kids (safety), it also helps inspire them to do greater things - it's true. You may want to go a bit further and learn Morse code and use QRP to communicate when deep in the far off exotic locations. QRP is low power radio, just a few watts. Those radios are light to carry but have tremendous punch.
  

• You can work with your local junior high school counselors to create an amateur radio enrichment program. It does wonders for young people where they are at the crossroads of life. If you want to know more just contact  Radio Amateurs Canada, Youth Education section -
• http://www.rac.ca/YEP/contact.htm
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• O/K here's a thought for those of you that may be living in the outback or considering living there, maybe living on a remote spot like a light house or, like me in the past, a remote radio repeater site. Get your amateur certification with high enough qualification to operate on HF. You won't ever regret it. It'll help keep you from getting "bushed". Think that it can't happen? Sure it can, the mind is a delicate thing.  Being able to have feedback with a real live body on the other end of a radio link is a real help. Working HF in a remote location may even be a blessing for others wanting to speak to someone in an exotic location. Wow eh!
  
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• Do you have aspirations to travel to exotic lands but can't afford to right now? There are lots of people in foreign lands who want to practice their English skills. They'd love to talk to you. I have a friend who did that and he soon found that he had invitations to visit those far away places. His amateur radio contacts provided him with opportunities to go to some very wonderful places and be with great people. If it weren't for that his trips would have been limited to the usual tourist fair and not nearly so  memorable.

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