Brent MacMillian Club Secretary VE3OTL
Brent is our illustrious El Presidente, who keeps us all out of the trouble, which we might wish to get into. He is a real promoter of Amateur Radio and has every major transceiver in his shack from 1949. It is quite a display! Rumour has it that he even has a new ICOM in a box that he never opened- unbelievable. Brent is a great CW op with the a couple of towers and yagis and the power to send us all squealing from the dicibels. He is also a car enthusiast who comes to the meetings and the Sunday Coffee with a different colour car, just every time. In addition to cars, Brent rides his mint Harley which, of course, is all wired for Amateur Radio. And unless I forget; his is one of the only guys in the club who can climb towers. The last time he did it, he was up there for a couple of hours- great going Brent!
ve3ssm@gmail.com
Mike Chikoski VE3MHL Website
Mike is a video man who has done TV and real big time movies. When it comes to computers this guy is a wiz without compare. He can fix any software or hardware problem and set up a recording studio on a shoe string. Mike is the man behind the live streaming of our Basic Course on You-Tube. Thanks to him, anybody can go to the web site and take the complete radio course just by watching the video. Mike also created our web page and he has most kindly offered his time to maintain it. Once again this is bringing us into the arena of social media and thus potentially attracting the young generation. Mike is so generous with his time and his commitment to ham radio that he deserves all our thanks.
saultaarclub@gmail.com
Elmer VE3DYR
Elmer is a long time Radio Amateur who has just about done it
all,including circular pipe antennas. His current interest is AIRES and
Homeland Security. If you see a car in town with an upturned umbrella for
an antenna, you have found Elmer Kars. Well be careful because Paul Kars,
his brother VE3GPM also has the umbrella antenna, but he drives a van.
Gerald Guzzo VA3WZT
Gerald is a former Physics teacher from the South, although he was born and
raised in the Soo. Gerald is also a recent Honours Graduate from our Basic
Amateur Radio Course. He attends Thursday Code Classes faithfully and
longs for the day when he can do a little Morse Code on the bands.
Matt Dunlop VE3BRD
Matt is one of the clubs newFPVfly guys. It means “first person
view.”Through a camera placed on his model airplane he can fly
it just as if he was sitting in the cockpit. This is exciting stuff which
you just have to see in action. The electronics on these airplanes
requires the use of Amateur Frequencies. In the event of an
emergency, Matt will fly his plane to providethe authorities with pictures
and maps of the disaster area. As is the case with all Amateurs, Matt
is willing to help out when life and property are at stake.
Ian Dunlop VE3IJD
Ian is the other half of the Daring Dunlop Duo. Like his brother before him, Ian is an Amateur Fly Guy. His work as a professional engineer does tend to keep him busy and sometime out of town, but his is a welcome addition to our Amateur Community.
Chester Kubis VE3CKE
Chester is a recent graduate of our Basic Course at Great Lakes Honda. He does not sweat the small stuff but keeps working until that final day when he can retire from the steel business and play radio.
Dave Pitcher Past President 2017 VE3DPT
Dave is the Chairman of the Algoma Amateur Radio Club Repeater Committee and is the technician’s technician. There is not one problem in radio, electronics, or computers that will stump this man. The good news is he does not act like he knows it all, but he knows it all. Dave is the guy who installed the D-Star Repeater and that my friends is no easy task with all the lines of Linux that are required. He is our repeater go-to guy who keeps us on the air. Dave is recently retired steel man who plans on developing his CW skills so he can compete with the big guns.
ve3dpt@shaw.ca
Alan McLean VE3RET Club President
Alan is the expert in interference problems and regulations as he is a retired
Industry Canada Radio Inspector. He keeps all of us on the straight
and narrow, but is also great source of knowledge in many aspects of
Amateur Radio.
Doug Levans VE3DXL
Doug is an old time blind CW op. His favourite line is to call you a bad
puddy, all in jest of course. Doug has recently acquired a new HF radio
and antenna system and has returned to burning up the airwaves.
John Zarechney VE3KOQ
John is the inventor and general tinkerer in the Ham Community. He has
built an air pressure bazooka device to throw a line up into the trees and
thus string an antenna. Recently in a club meeting he demonstrated a Spot
Welder made from the guts of an abandoned Microwave oven. A year ago he
was handing out his own design of a clamp which would allow you to flip a
green board and thus allow soldering on both sides. Keep up the good work
John, but stay away from cyborgs.
Peter Szilagyi VE3ADQ
Peter is a professional Telecom Engineer who has a MaSc in PowerElectronics.
He taught Radio and TV at Sault College for several years. When it comes to electronics,not many more hams have a better background then Peter.
His favourite pass time is designing and building microwave receivers
and transmitters which he tests by sending SSB signals across Lake Superior.
If any word describes Peter, that word would be Active!
He has built a 60 foot 160 meter vertical and recently he demonstrated
to the club, the construction of a 2 meter Yagi. His intention is to stack
these Yagis so he can hit the repeater from his Goulais River location.
Also Peter is the Director of Activities for the club and has provided
many an excellent presentation on various aspects of electronics.
Keep up the good work Peter, but stay home once and a while.
Rolly VE3RJ
It’s all in the call. Rolland is an Amateur TV enthusiast who has been on the air locally for many a year. He has videoed our club meetings and events and has transmitted them on a regular schedule all with his own money and tremendous expenditures of time. Recently, along with Mike VE3MHL he has come up with a way to transmitting video, capturing it and then live streaming it on You-Tube. Rolland has helped to move us in the direction of social media and thus connect to the young future amateurs out there. Now if you want to see something interesting, ask him to send you a CQ on Morse code. He can do it with all 5 fingers- unbelievable. We have to get that on You-Tube.
Richard Macnaughdon VE3RLN
