The Nova Scotia Team Canada VE1MAN

OUR EVENT GALLERY

John VE9EZ and his team of local clubs and amateurs will run a station VE1MAN to commemorate operation Manna from Nova Scotia Canada.

Johns team will be made up of some members from the Pictou County Amateur Radio Club.

The Pictou County Amateur Radio Club was formed in 1948 with 15 members.

They currently operate VE1HR, a linked voice repeater and packet system located on Maclellans Mountain, near New Glasgow, and VE1JCF, a voice repeater and APRS node located on Rocky Mountain, in the southeast corner of Pictou County.

Their meetings are held at 7:30pm on the 3rd Thursday of every month at the former Library Building, 122 Park St., Stellarton, N.S across the street from the Pictou Campus of NSCC

On November 4, 1948, eleven Pictou County radio amateurs met at the home of Jim McNabb VE1DZ in Trenton to discuss plans for organizing an amateur radio club. At that meeting Jim McNabb VE1DZ, Joe Miller VE1UK and Gus Chisholm VE1TX were appointed as a committee to draw up a constitution and by-laws for an Amateur Radio Club.

On December 2, 1948, twelve Pictou County amateurs met at the home of Joe Miller VE1UK to hear and discuss the constitution and by-laws drawn up by the committee. At this meeting a club was formed, to be known as the Pictou County Amateur Radio Club.