Yarmouth Amateur Radio Club - VE1GX

Yarmouth Amateur Radio Club - VE1GX Ham Radio Operators of South West Nova Scotia. The original membership was around seven people and we now have more than forty members.

Yarmouth Amateur Radio Club

Some Club History - The founding meeting of the Yarmouth Amateur Radio Club was held at the Grand Hotel in July of 1947 by a group of interested people. At first, monthly meetings were held in the various members' homes and as membership grew the meetings moved to different venues such as Yarmouth Central School, the Civil Defense building on the Haley Road, one of th

e army buildings on Parade Street, the Vocational School (now Burridge Campus), the CNIB office on Thurston Street and then the office on John Street when CNIB moved there, and later at the Royal Canadian Legion. After that the club associated with EMO and the meetings have been in the EMO building on Pleasant Street ever since. VE1YAR - Deerfield NS
VHF - 146.730 -
UHF - 444.700 +

VE1LN - Hebron NS
VHF - 146.865 -
UHF - 442.700 +

VE1EKV - East Kemptville NS
VHF - 147.105 +

APRS Nodes
VA1BAR - Barrington NS
VA1COR - Corberrie NS
VE1GX - Yarmouth EMO
VE1YAR - Deerfield NS
VE1EKV - East Kemptville NS

Packet Nodes
VE1YAR
VE1EKV
VE1RB - BBS

04/29/2026
04/23/2026

The Mount St. Helens Radio Kid, 1980
On May 18, 1980, 14-year-old amateur radio operator Tim Keller was in his basement in Toledo, Washington, when Mount St. Helens erupted 25 miles away. Power died. Phones died. Ash turned day to night.

Tim’s dad had a battery-powered ham rig. Tim knew Morse code. He became the only link out of Cowlitz County for 6 hours. He relayed locations of trapped logging crews to the National Guard. He sent: “SPIRIT LAKE GONE. SEND CHOPPERS. KIDS AT CAMP BAKER NEED EVAC.”

His hands shook so bad he had to write the dots and dashes first. He saved 17 people. The FCC later sent him a letter. He used it to get into college. He said: “The mountain was louder than anything. But the radio was louder than me being scared.”
#1980

04/18/2026

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Yarmouth, NS
B5A

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