About LARC

General Club Information

The Lakehead Amateur Radio Club Inc. (LARC) is an Ontario registered, non-profit corporation. The following hypertext pages are the opinions/viewpoints of its contributing authors. LARC or its editors assume no responsibility for the accuracy of information documented. These pages may be copied for non-profit use by the amateur radio community provided credit is given to the authors and source(s).

LARC is also a member of the Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC).

The first meeting of the Lakehead Amateur Radio Club Inc. was April 17 1934. The club inaugural meeting first elected Pat O’Shea VE3FW as it first president on this date. The club was originally called Lakehead Wireless Experimenters and later to be called Lakehead Amateur Radio Club and later again Lakehead Amateur Radio Club Inc.

Mission Statement

As approved by a meeting on June 14 1979 by the members of the Lakehead Amateur Radio Club Inc.

To provide an organization for the encouragement of the science of radio, electronics and communications for and by amateur radio operators;
To hold meetings for the purpose of bringing the club members together to share ideas and information related to amateur radio;
To provide the amateur radio (operator) with theoretical and practical assistance;
To provide volunteer radio communications as a public service whenever possible;
To promote the hobby of amateur radio, by way of classes, lectures, exhibitions, demonstrations and information to the general public; and
To purchase, acquire or take by gift, devise, bequest or donation for the objects of the corporation and the furtherance of its objects, but for no other purpose, and to sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise dispose of any real personal property.

General Club meetings are every second Thursday of every month (except summer months) in Room 191 McIntyre Building at Confederation College 7:30pm EST.

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