This approach worked well, so long as the box was far enough away from Patrick’s primary radio and other sources of interference so as not to be swamped with noise.
One of our club members, Patrick VA3PAF, put a spare VHF radio and his wife’s smartphone into a box, logged into the Zoom meeting on the smartphone, recording the audio from the radio and sending it directly into Zoom. Our initial stab at a solution was hardware based. My VHF radio, a Kenwood TM-281, tuned to local repeater VE3RCK v1: The Hardware Based Solution Meetings would be held primarily on VHF, but we would pipe the audio from the meetings into Zoom, allowing members who couldn’t get on the air to at least listen to the proceedings. In an effort to serve all club members equitably, we decided to combine the two technologies. In time, we realized that some of our members did not have access to a VHF radio at home or were out of range of our repeaters, and would be better served by a Zoom call. When the stay at home orders that resulted from the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic went into effect, the Kitchener Waterloo Amateur Radio Club (KWARC) was forced to start holding our meetings remotely.īeing a radio club and having some members who suffer from unreliable internet access at home, we were loathe to move proceedings entirely to Zoom, and started holding club meetings on our VHF repeaters.
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