Can I purchase RAC membership without a subscription to The Canadian Amateur?
A. – As a not-for-profit membership association, Radio Amateurs of Canada is obligated under law to periodically communicate with its members on legal matters. The Canadian Amateur (TCA) is our primary means of communication with members. Therefore a subscription to TCA is not separable from membership. However, if you are blind, and can provide RAC Headquarters with your CNIB Registration number, or if you are a family member living under the same roof as a RAC Full Member, you can be a Family Member without receiving your own separate copy of TCA by mail. CNIB makes available TCA on audio tape to visually impaired RAC members, which satisfies the legal requirement. Q. – Why can I not just purchase The Canadian Amateur at a local newsstand. A. – RAC has investigated the feasibility of making TCA available to non-members and prospective members in that form. Unfortunately this is a very costly method of distribution and not cost-effective in our print run quantities.
