Board of Directors

Garvin Cole, VE6GFC, President.  Garvin has been a licensed amateur since 2017 and has been active in all aspects of the hobby on the HF, VHF and UHF bands. He came to Calgary in 2021 in retirement. His career spanned sales, marketing and operations of high tech companies in the telecommunications, inter-networking and security spaces. Throughout his career he has serviced clients and built partnerships in both the Canadian and US markets. Garvin has always been involved and volunteered in community interests. These interests ranged from sport related to an active position within the board of directors for the Canadian charity Youth Flight Canada during its beginnings. His pursuit to expand his knowledge grew with his involvement in the mission of the society.

Wally Gardiner BA, B. Ed, VE6BGL, Vice President. Wally has been a licensed Amateur since 1977 and built the first VHF repeater in High River in the early 1980’s. He has worked in electronics maintenance and repair of RF devices, and technology instruction as well as being the Electronics lab supervisor at University of Alberta. He was part of the team that designed the Electronics curriculum for both the Province of Prince Edward Island and the Province of Alberta. He is a Fellow of the Nortel National Institute and winner of the Hilroy Prize for educational innovation. He was CEO of Gardiner Computer Consulting Inc, that designed and sold numerous custom interfaces and led the production of software for point of sale, heavy equipment dispatch management and security monitoring. Wally is a frequent contributor to a number of Amateur related periodicals and holds a Class A operator certificate.

Martin Alcock, M. Sc, MIEE VE6VH, Development Project Lead. Martin has been a licensed amateur since 1977 and holds a Class A operator certificate. He has been active in building several microcontroller based repeater systems, and is the inventor of the state machine controller that was published in CQ Amateur Radio in 2016. He led the deployment of the AREDN network in Western Canada, and has written several novel applications for digital repeater linking and telemetry gathering now deployed by the society. He has been recognized by local Amateur clubs and has received two merit awards for his efforts. He is a partner in a contracting firm which provides project development resources to the society, and in his professional capacity has enjoyed a 45 year career in mobile radio, cellular telephony, VLSI and FPGA design, as well as OFDM based data radios and cable modems. He came to Calgary in 1983 to join a cellphone company, from there he joined a wireless LAN company where he led a team of engineers in building the world’s first FPGA-based OFDM transceiver in 1998. He obtained his master’s degree in software engineering from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom with distinction and won the dissertation of the year award.

Tim Hubbard, VA6TH, Treasurer. Tim is a master craftsman in many areas and media. He brings his expertise to add to the society capabilities, he has been licensed since 1993 and holds a class ‘B’ certificate with honours. His main interests are digital modes and chasing DX on HF. Tim was a founding member of the society and continues to give it his  support.

Greg Chabassol, VA6GAC, Director. Greg served in the military as a radio operator, and brings his expertise in managing traffic and messages to the society. He was recently licensed and holds a class “B’ certificate with honours. Greg was a founding member of the society.