CLUB EXECUTIVE October 2020
President Long time OARC member Al Oldfield, Dave Scobie, VE3BOW VE3ANO, became a SK on July 4 at age 96. See the tribute to Al on the OARC web site [email protected] which has a link to a slide show eulogy:
https://www.oarc.net/blog/allan-norman- Past President oldfield-ve3ano-sk/ Diane Bruce, VA3DB [email protected] The October meeting’s speaker Chris Char- Vice-President land, VE3OXU, who will be speaking on Vacant Amateur Satellite Radio.
Secretary Visitors can request the Zoom meeting ID Arthur Smith, VA3BIT by sending a request to: [email protected] 613-795-1154 [email protected] See you at the meeting.
Treasurer Ian Jeffrey, VE3IGJ Greg Danylchenko, Editor VE3YTZ 613-236-9291 [email protected] om
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Ed Sich, VE3WGO Next Meeting: Wednesday, October 14, 2020, at 19:30 [email protected] using Zoom software.
Roger Egan, VA3EGY [email protected] In This Issue....
Club Information 2 Radio Station XWA 5
Minutes 3 Membership Form 9
Dates to Remember 3 mk’s Words 4
Membership October 2020 Roger Egan, VA3EGY [email protected]
Groundwave Editor Articles may be submitted for Club Information Ian Jeffrey, VE3IGJ use in this publication provided 613-837-7393 that they portray events or The Ottawa Amateur Radio Club Inc. is an association of [email protected] activities that promote Amateur Radio Amateurs devoted to the promotion of interest in Amateur Radio. Letters and comments Radio communications in the National Capital Area and to the advancement and achievement of club members. are also welcome. Submissions Delegated Examiner may be made by mail addressed Regular Meetings of the OARC Inc. are held on the second Mike Kelly, VE3FFK to the Editor care of the OARC, Wednesday of each month (except July and August) in the Colo- 613-322-0669 or by e-mail to “[email protected]”. nel By Room which is on the second floor of Ottawa City Hall, [email protected] Deadline for submissions occurs formerly Regional Municipality of Ottawa Carleton three days after the regular Headquarters, on Lisgar Street. Meetings commence at monthly meeting of the OARC. approximately 19:30 local. Further details about each meeting Webmaster are noted elsewhere in this publication. Please support your Diane Bruce, VA3DB Executive Meetings of the OARC Inc. are normally held on 613-225-9920 local radio organisations. the first Wednesday of each month at 19:30 local. Contact the [email protected] They support you! President to confirm the date, time and place of the next meeting.
IRLP Cary Honeywell, VE3EV The CAPITAL CITY FM Net meets every Monday (except some holidays) at 20:00 local on the club repeater VE2CRA (146.940-, 100 Hz) to pass traffic and to make announcements of interest to amateurs [email protected] in the National Capital Region.
The Rubber Boot Net runs week days at 07:30 local on VE3MPC (147.150+, 100 Hz CTCSS tone) Repeater hosted by Roger, VE3NPO. The Rubber Boot net has been running since the early 1980's and is popular Harrie Jones, VE3HYS for the early risers and the go to work crowd. 613-978-1557 The POT-HOLE Net is a SSB/HF net sponsored by the Ottawa Valley Mobile Radio Club and is [email protected] conducted every Sunday at 10:00 hours on 3.760 MHz. All amateurs are welcome to check in. The POT-LID CW Net is an informal slow-speed CW net that meets every Sunday, except during July and August, at 11:00 hours on 3.620 MHz, to promote interest in CW and CW procedures. Hamfest Ed Sich, VE3WGO The QCWA CHAPTER 70 Net meets every Monday evening at 19:30 local on repeater VE3MPC 147.150+, 100 Hz) You do not have to be a QCWA member to participate. [email protected] The Ottawa Valley VHF/UHF SSB Net is sponsored by the West Carleton ARC. Look for it every Tuesday night (except the first Tuesday of the month) around 21:00 local on 144.250, (roll calls after net on 50.150, 432.150, 222.150, and 1296.100.) Horizontal polarization is preferred. The Phoenix Net meets Tuesday evenings at 20:00 local on VE3MPC (147.150+, 100 Hz CTCSS). The regular OVMRC net meets Thursday evenings at 20:00 local on VE3TWO (147.300+, 100 Hz CTCSS tone) analogue FM. The Ottawa Amateur Radio Voice (VHF) 146.940/146.340 100Hz CTCSS required Club bulletin “Groundwave” is (UHF) 443.300/448.300 100Hz CTCSS required VE3TEN published and distributed to club members. Publication VE3TVA Amateur Fast Scan Television Repeater Tuning in the beacon dates may vary but it is hoped Currently off the air and looking for a new home. so that it makes sense that the bulletin arrives at its destination before the events requires you tune to listed in it have expired. The IRLP Node 2040 146.940/146.340 (VE2CRA/VE3RC) 28.175 on CW and bulletin is not published for (Code 411 for info) (Code 204 for activity) read the tone that is July and August when (Code 88 for time) meetings do not occur. Every For further information please contact the Repeater Chair. there . The spaces effort is made to provide between the elements accurate information in the Note: The IRLP link is not connected to ECHOLINK. Please do are the higher tone. If bulletin, however we are all not try to connect using the alpha keys on your keypad. It just human and mistakes can be confuses the operator. that doesn’t work, made. The OARC accepts no tune to 28.175.28 on responsibility for any lower sideband for damages that may result Note: The IRLP link is disabled during the Monday night Capital from this. The opinions City FM Net from 20:00 to about 21:45 . better results. expressed in this bulletin are those of the author.
2 October 2020 Dates to Remember September Minutes 2020 Feb. 8-9 Canada Ski Marathon Apr. 8 Homebrew Night (Cancelled) 19:38 Zoom meeting started by President Dave May 15-17 Dayton Hamvention (Cancelled) VE3BOW Jun. 10 OARC AGM and Elections Announcements (Dave VE3BOW) Jun. 27-28 Field Day + (Arthur VA3BIT) Radio in the Park / ARDF Fox Jul. 1 RAC Canada Day Contest Hunt in Walter Baker Park will be held Saturday, September 19, from 9 am to 5 pm. Roger VA3EGY Sep. 12 OARC Hamfest (Cancelled) will be making presentations to his ARDF stake- Sep. 19 Radio in the Park holders, ie, the local IEEE chapter, Scouts, Christie Lake Kids and Ottawa Orienteering Club from 9 Sep. 30 Membership Renewals Due am to 1:30 pm. Roger will welcome hams to take Nov. 1 Joe Norton Award Subm. Due part in the Fox Hunting from 1:30 pm to 5 pm. Dec. 19 RAC Winter Contest Roger will be using the picnic shelter for his presentations. Arthur pointed out that hams who pants. For any one not receiving the Zoom want to operate portable should expect to do so invitation, please contact Norm at outside the picnic shelter and may do so from 9 [email protected] to get the contact details. am to 5 pm. The area has been busy with families and kids during recent weekends, so hams should Glenn VE3XRA: The RAC AGM will be held arrive early and be prepared to bring their own on Sunday, September 20 featuring an inter- operating table and chairs. Due to Covid-19, we active mini-conference during the morning will not be gathering for breakfast prior to the with the AGM held in the afternoon. Morning event. Bring your own lunch, snacks and drinks as presentation topics include a talk about ham they will not be provided. radio during Covid, a short history of ham ra- + Carp Hamfest, normally scheduled for this com- dio in Canada, DXpeditions, STEM and more! ing Saturday, is cancelled due to Covid. Also covered, en francais, is a possible entry + Greg VE3YTZ is now our Treasurer, so we need a level license below Basic. The RAC AGM new Vice President. If you'd like to volunteer, business meeting will be held in the after- please contact any executive member. noon. Arthur VA3BIT asked how IC/ISED + OARC membership for the upcoming year is feels about an entry level license. Glenn re- free! Please check our website at oarc.net for more plied that RAC is still in discussions with information. Diane VA3DB, our webmaster, has stakeholders how an entry license might be spent considerable time recently overhauling our structured in Canada, and has yet to approach website and you should now be able to log in and ISED. update your profile and membership. + Greg received notification from the City of Otta- Tim VE3TXB: Wondering whether another wa that stated that the club will not have access to advanced virtual course would be offered by City Hall for in-house meetings until at least RAC. Glenn said there would be, and details January 2021. will be on the RAC website. + Preliminary results for the RAC Winter Contest 2019 are in...361,728 points for the members of Mike VE3MKX: has a recording of the net on OARC/VRG that operated in the Diefenbunker as Sunday in which Norm's QRP signal was VA3RAC last December! heard loud and clear; Mike will make the re- cording available to Norm. Norm VE3LC: OVMRC's first meeting of the new year will be held next Wednesday, September 16. A Presentation: Zoom invitation will be sent to the usual partici- (Continued on page 4)
3 October 2020 The only other thing I did in the past month in radio, other than listen to some ball games, was to conduct the Pot Lid Net on Sunday. mk’s Word Although I have been a participant since it started in the seventies, I have only been the October already. -Spooky net control station a very few times. I felt out of practice, but managed to get through it. It's a good thing the Radio in the Park event hap- pened, or this column would be a blank space. Other than that, September was a very quiet Weather was perfect, which is not something one month. With pandemic numbers going in the can count on at half past September. I took the wrong direction, the best I can hope for is a bike out, and found that it was more tiring to ride speedy return of solar activity and the inter- to Kanata with all the toys than it was to ride to esting propagation that comes with it. Corkery in June without them. Something to con- sider for next year I guess. 73 This year's project was a 30m ground plane with Hang in there elevated radials. My mast was a bit short for that mk band but, instead of wrapping the conductor in a VE3FFK spiral, I added a few sections of fishing pole to the top to get the extra height needed for a full quarter (Continued from page 3) wave vertical. The mast was lashed to a handy tree Greg introduced Ian, our long serving editor a bit above eye level, and two radials were run out of the Groundwave. Prior to being Ground- to other handy trees. One of the nice things about wave editor, Ian was the club Secretary. Ian is Walter Baker Park is the abundance of trees in the an electrical engineer and has been a ham for right places for such things. After quickly finding many years. the cable that always tests out at home but forgets how to conduct itself in the field, the antenna Spilsbury and the SBX-11A SSB Transceiver: tuned up just fine. It worked well, the rig worked The Iconic HF Radio of the North well, the battery not so much. For the first time by Ian Jeffrey, VE3IGJ. A Canadian radio this century, I got reports like 558 and 559C, with legend used extensively by mining companies the rig chirping along as the battery sagged. Any- as well as the Canadian military, the SBX-11A way, there were quite a few parks on the air sta- is a portable, low power SSB transceiver de- tions to work as well as the usual rag chews to be veloped in Canada by Spilsbury & Tindall in had. Vancouver. Ian proceeded to entertain us all with Jim Spilsbury's fascinating biography In the middle of one of those a candidate, who had with how he got into radio design and con- pre-arranged to write the Basic exam, turned up. It struction, culminating with the SBX-11A. seems that the more you want to wrap up a QSO, The SBX-11 and its successor, the SBX-11A, the more long winded the other ham is. All turned were solid-state transceivers sold in Canada out well, with the candidate passing easily after from 1970 to 1984. waiting for me to clear with the windy guy on the other end of the key. I just hope my usual libraries Spilsbury died in 2003. Spilsbury's company stay open after "picnic table exam" season ends. was sold to Racal Canada in 1984. Matthew I gather the direction finding chapter of the show Kendall, a former employee of Racal Canada, went well and was well attended. I looked over the has published a website dedicated to the toys that were there, but didn't participate in that, transceiver: http://ww.matthewkendall.com/ as I didn't want to get too far from my HF rig. Oth- electronics/sbx-11a. Locally, a group headed ers had interesting gear out for both HF and VHF by Stuart, VE3SMF, operates and maintains as well. All in all, it was a good time, and a chance the SBX-11A. to see some of the usual suspects face to face for the first time in a long while. (Continued on page 8)
4 October 2020 Montreal during the winter evenings of 1919, and regular organized programs were com- menced in December, 1920, by your Experi- mental Station, 'XWA' on a wavelength of Radio Station XWA 1200 metres [250 kHz]." XWA / 9AM (1919-1922) [I received a letter in the mail today. I removed the contents and discarded the envelope. I had CINW's history was generally said to have be- occasion to check the return address on the enve- gun with experimental station XWA, licensed lope and so dug it out of the trash and noticed a to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company colourful stamp. More than that, the stamp of Canada, Ltd. ("Canadian Marconi"), which showed a broadcast microphone an a headset was a wholly owned subsidiary of London- with the call letters XWA. I thought to myself based Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Compa- what’s that got to do with Canada? Looking more ny, Ltd. ("British Marconi"). XWA's first li- closely, I noticed that this was a 100th anniver- cence was granted sometime between April 1, sary stamp. So I did what any red-blooded Cana- 1914 and March 31, 1915, in conjunction with dian would do; I Googled “XWA” and the very a training school on Rodney Street, and it was first item listed was a Wikipedia entry for Cana- one of the few radio stations allowed to oper- dian radio station XWA. And here is the very in- ate in Canada during World War I, when it teresting story from Wikipedia. Ed.] was used to conduct military research. XWA's transmissions were initially limited to Morse code "dots-and-dashes" produced by spark transmitters. However, during the war vacuum-tube transmitters were developed which made audio transmissions practical. In spring 1919 Canadian Marconi's Arthur Run- ciman began voice transmission tests in downtown Montreal and in the Montreal har- bor using a "Captain Round" type vacuum- tube powered by a 500 volt battery, as the government lifted the restrictions imposed during the war on the use of radio by non- military personnel or organizations. In March History 1919 Canadian Marconi announced that it was planning to "install the new wireless tele- As with most early broadcasting stations, some of phone at important points in and around the station's earliest activities are poorly docu- Montreal in the near future", in order that mented. In Listening In a 1992 history of early Ca- "the public will be able to test for themselves nadian radio, author Mary Vipond noted that the latest development in long distance com- "Several different versions of the gradual transfor- munication". There were also plans to install mation of XWA from an experimenter in radio te- one of the devices in the Transportation lephony to a regular broadcaster (with the call let- Building office of J. N. Greenshields, presi- ters CFCF) exist" and "the precise date on which dent of the Montreal Board of Trade, which XWA/CFCF began regular programming may be "will enable brokers to talk with Kingston, Ot- impossible to determine". This uncertainty was tawa, Three Rivers and Quebec". evident when, in 1928, the station manager wrote to the Radio Branch in Ottawa asking "would you In early 1919, British Marconi shipped a bulky kindly let us know the date of our first broadcast", combination desk and 500-watt transmitter, to which the reply was "We do not have the exact shaped like an upright piano, to the Canadian details of this on our files, but find that test pro- Marconi building in Montreal at 173 William grammes were carried out by your Company in (Continued on page 6)
5 October 2020 teau Laurier in the capital city of Ottawa. This was part of a demonstration of the long range capabilities of radiotelephony arranged by Dr. (Continued from page 5) A. S. Eve of the Royal Society, who was giving Street (later re-numbered as 1017). The set, capa- a lecture reviewing "Some Inventions of the ble of two-way radiotelephone and longer-range Great War". In Montreal, Canadian Marconi's radiotelegraph operation, had been developed chief engineer J. O. G. Cann opened the during World War One, but with the end of the broadcast with a series of announcements, war was now surplus. The parent company hoped including reading a sealed message previously there might be commercial interest within the Ca- sent by Dr. R. F. Ruttan, which was followed nadian paper and pulp industry in using transmit- by the playing of phonograph records, begin- ters like this for communication between their ning with "Dear Old Pal of Mine". Also includ- mills and offices. It was installed on the building's ed was live entertainment featuring Dorothy top floor, and operated under the XWA call sign. Lutton, who sang "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms" and "Merrily Shall The earliest tests and demonstrations focused I Live". A Naval Radio Service station in Otta- more on using the transmitter for point-to-point wa also participated, with officer E. Hawken communication than for broadcasting. This re- singing "Annie Laurie", along with the playing quired engineers to repeatedly speak simple of phonograph records. The Ottawa transmis- phrases, with pauses to listen if there were any re- sions were well heard at the Château Laurier, plies. As was common at a number of early sta- but had difficulty being received in Montreal. tions, the engineers soon tired of their repetitive At the time these broadcasts received little talking, and began to play phonograph records to publicity beyond a few local newspaper re- provide test signals. This in turn drew the atten- ports, in contrast to a similar broadcast made tion of interested local amateur radio enthusiasts, a month later by the Marconi station near who enjoyed hearing music instead of the usual London at Chelmsford in Essex, featuring telegraphic code used almost universally for radio Dame Nellie Melba, which garnered broad in- communication at this time. In addition, during ternational attention. the fall of 1919 Canadian Marconi formed a sepa- rate company, Scientific Experimenter, Ltd., to XWA eventually began operating on a regular sell equipment to radio amateurs. By December schedule in order to promote radio receiver 1919, the company was using the XWA radio sales, and at first the station was almost single broadcasts of music in order to interest people in -handedly run by Darby Coats. (Coats went on purchasing receiving sets, thus introducing a to have a long broadcasting career.) A phono- whole new industry to Canada, although at first graph player and records were provided by a persons operating radio receivers were required to Sainte Catherine’s West music store in return hold an "Amateur Experimental Station" licence, for on-air acknowledgments. Performers as well as pass the exam needed to receive an weren't paid, so live entertainment was pro- "Amateur Experimental Certificate of Proficiency", vided by song pluggers promoting sheet music which required the ability to send and receive sales, amateurs (sometimes with more enthu- Morse code at five words a minute. In January siasm than talent), and the occasional profes- 1922 the government lowered the barrier for indi- sional looking for publicity or intrigued by the viduals merely interested in receiving broadcasts, new technology. By June 1921 interest in by introducing a new licence category, Private Re- broadcasting had increased to the point that ceiving Station, that removed the need to qualify Canadian Marconi began publishing the Ca- for an amateur radio licence. Initially these licenc- nadian Wireless Magazine, with Coats as the es cost $1 and had to be renewed each year. editor, initially just four pages long, but, re- flecting the rapidly growing interest in radio, The first documented broadcast of entertainment expanding to twenty pages a year later. by XWA to a general audience occurred on the evening of May 20, 1920, when a concert was pre- The chronology is not completely clear, but pared for a Royal Society of Canada audience lis- tening 110 miles (175 kilometres) away at the Châ- (Continued on page 7)
6 October 2020 (now CKBE) were sold to Mount Royal Broad- casting (later Métromédia). The historic CFCF call letters were retained by TV station CFCF- (Continued from page 6) TV so, just short of 70 years after it had been sometime in 1921 the station's call sign was first assigned, CFCF changed its call letters to changed to "9AM", reflecting a policy change in CIQC. At the same time, the station launched the call signs issued to experimental stations. an ill-fated country music format as "Country (Broadcasting licences did not exist at this time.) 600", which only lasted until March 1993, at A short notice in the November 1921 issue of QST which point there was a further switch to magazine reported that the station, now using news/talk programming, with on-air person- 9AM, was broadcasting once a week on Tuesdays alities including Howard Galganov. starting at 8 p.m., using a wavelength of 1200 me- tres (250 kHz). During 1997-99, CIQC was the home station for "The Travel World Radio Show", hosted by CFCF (1922-1991) veteran travel broadcasters Stephen Pickford and Willem Bagchus, which became the first Station advertisements included the slogan Montreal radio show to be carried in U.S. syn- "Canada's First Station". dication when it was picked up in August 1999 In April 1922 the Canadian government began is- for simulcasting by the Westminster, Mary- suing the first licences specifically for "radio- land-based Liberty Works Radio Network. telephone broadcasting stations". Initially all these The program was profiled in the October 15, stations received four-letter call signs starting with 2000 edition of L'Actualite magazine for its "CF", "CH", "CJ" or "CK", plus one additional "C" efforts in promoting Canadian and Quebec as the third or fourth letter. Included in the first tourism to an American audience. group of twenty-three stations was a Montreal CINW and the move to 940 kHz (1999) grant for Canadian Marconi, assigned a transmit- ting wavelength of 440 metres (682 kHz) and the CIQC received permission from the Canadian call letters CFCF. The slogan "Canada's First, Can- Radio-television and Telecommunications ada's Finest" was later adopted based on the new Commission (CRTC) to move to 940 kHz, a call sign. frequency that had been vacated when CBC Radio One's CBM transferred to the FM band After numerous frequency changes, followed by a as CBME-FM. The move included an increase three-year period from 1925 to 1928 when it in transmitting power from 10,000 watts shared time with CKAC on 730 kHz, CFCF began (daytime) and 5,000 watts (nighttime) to operating full-time at 600 kHz in 1933, which 50,000 watts full-time. would remain the station's transmitting frequency until 1999. CFCF was an affiliate of the Canadian Along with the frequency change there was a Broadcasting Corporation's Dominion Network format change to all-news, plus new call let- from 1944 to 1962; and also carried some pro- ters. The station began operations on 940 on grams from the U.S. NBC-Blue Network, at least December 14, 1999 employing the call sign of as of 1939. CKNN, however this had been done improp- erly, as the station was denied permission to Some notable personalities during the CFCF era use the CKNN call letters. CIQC instead be- included newsman Gordon Sinclair, morning came CINW. Following four months of simul- hosts Ted Blackman and Al Boliska, sportscasters casting, the transmitter on 600 kHz was shut John Robertson and Dick Irvin, Jr., and 1960s down on Easter Sunday (April 23), 2000. A rock 'n' roll disk jockey Dave Boxer. In 1986, CFCF sister station, CINF "Info 690", provided changed its format from full service to adult stand- French-language all-news programming. ards. CINW ended the all-news format in Septem- CIQC (1991-1999) ber 2005, switching to news/talk program- In September 1991, CFCF and its FM sister CFQR (Continued on page 8)
7 October 2020 — at 7:02 p.m., ending 90 years on the air un- der various call signs and formats. Licences for both CINW and CINF were returned to the (Continued from page 7) CRTC for cancellation, which approved the ming. The first day of the revamped format was revocation on June 8, 2010. September 14, 2005, and, in a throwback to CIQC days, the first live guest, at 6:47 a.m. EDT with Later that year, Cogeco acquired Corus' Que- morning man Barry Morgan, was Stephen Pick- bec station assets; the sale included the trans- ford, who had hosted Travel World on CIQC from mitter sites and equipment in Kahnawake 1997 to 1999. The station's most popular broad- used for CINF and CINW, but not the can- casters were Joe Cannon, Jim Duff and Charles celled operating licences. Adler. One of the station's first announcers was
Debbi Marsellos, a native Montrealer who was (Continued from page 4) mainly a traffic reporter but also anchored the Questions? news and did some hosting. Debbi started working Norm VE3CZI: The two books about Spils- at 940 News from its inception, coming from bury and his transceiver are fascinating. CJAD. Patrick Letang was the 940 News Business Norm has some information on Spilsbury and Editor until his death on December 6, 2006. the SBX-11A, including Spilsbury literature at AM940 Montreal's Greatest Hits (2008) his website rodemi.com
On June 6, 2008, CINW announced it would drop Stuart VE3SMF: Expressed his appreciation its talk programming and move to an oldies for- for Ian's detailed presentation. Stuart made mat, effective June 14 at 5 p.m., citing difficulties use of the radio during the time he spent in operating in the Montreal market. The most re- Canada's north, where he said they are still in cent ratings report prior to the change placed the use. The radios are used at relatively low fre- station sixth among Montreal anglophones with a quencies on the order of 5-8MHz with anten- 3.8% share; nonetheless it was one of the lowest- nas in NVIS orientation. Stuart further com- ranked commercial English-language stations in mented that the QRP Society will also be op- the market (just ahead of CKGM (The Team 990)), erating from Rideau River Provincial Park on and was well behind spoken-word rivals CJAD and September 19, and suggested if anyone oper- CBC Radio One. Live programming began at 9:40 ating during the Radio in the Park event hears a.m. on July 1, with new morning man Marc Den- them, please respond! is, marking the return of oldies to anglophone ra- dio in Montreal, absent since CKGM flipped to Dave VE3BOW, with the help of his archery sports in 2001. CINW also carried some non- neighbour, has erected a G5RV at the music programming, including the overnight cottage he's staying at north of Maniwaki, and Coast to Coast AM program; following CINW's would welcome skeds to chat on 80m. closedown, that program would be picked up by Astral Media-owned CJAD in March 2010. Mike VE3MKX expressed his appreciation for Ian's presentation and recommended Closure (2010) several antennas for use with the SBX-11A.
On January 29, 2010, Corus announced that both A discussion on finding crystals for the radio CINW and CINF would cease broadcasting as of ensued. Stuart pointed out that synthesizers 7:00 p.m. that day, due to unsustainable ratings. are also available. Regular programming ended at 10:00 a.m. and was replaced with a repeating pre-recorded state- Meeting ended at 20:58. ment from general manager Mark Dickie an- Thanks to Harrie VE3HYS for use of his Zoom nouncing the station closure and inviting listeners subscription. to tune to sister station CFQR-FM. Broadcasting abruptly ceased — the loop announcement was cut Minutes taken by VA3BIT. off in mid-sentence, foregoing any official sign-off
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