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Canada’s Amateur Radio Magazine La Revue des Radioamateurs Canadiens TCA JULY / AUGUST – JUILLET / AOÛT 2015 The Canadian Amateur “An interesting adventure” at Klukshu... Sample Copy from 2015 The Yaesu FTM-400: A look inside Publications Mail Agreement # 40028682 – Registration 09866 APRS and SMS Converge Bob MacKenzie, VA3RKM, enjoying winter operating This is a sample copy of the July-August 2015 TCA which is published by Radio Amateurs of Canada. For more information about RAC and TCA please visit: http://wp.rac.ca/p155/ ElaNa Mission XII P-Pods (including Fox-1A’s) just prior to fi nal integration into their carrying structure. (Courtesy: CalPoly via AMSAT) Sample copy of the July-August 2015 TCA 1 Sample copy of the July-August 2015 TCA 2 Canada’s Amateur Radio Magazine TCA La Revue des RadioAmateurs Canadiens The Canadian Amateur VOLUME 43 NUMBER 4 – [email protected] – WEB ADDRESS: HTTP://WP.RAC.CA/P155/ JULY & JUILLET AUGUST & AOÛT NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL 2015 RAC Management Team ................................................................... 4 Editor / Rédacteur en chef RAC President’s Message ................................................................. 6 Alan Griffin Email: [email protected] Un message du président de RAC .................................................... 6 Advisors / Conseillers Annual General Meeting / Assemblée générale annuelle .............. 10 Dave Green, VE3TLY Frances Roach, VE3HKG Saskatchewan Hamfest / Le Hamfest de la Saskatchewan ............. 10 Gerry Trottier, VA3GLT Norm Rashleigh, VE3LC WRC-15 Update: Conference Preparatory Meeting, Mike Kelly, VE3FFK Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN .................................................................. 17 Richard Ferch, VE3KI Bill Karle, VE1YY Call for Nominations: The Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame .. 18 Len Morgan, VE9MY Ken Grant, VE3FIT Mise ne nomination : Temple de la Renommée des Radioamateurs Bob Kavanagh, VE3OSZ Canadiens ....................................................................................... 18 Translation / Traduction Ante Laurijssen, VA2BBW Call for Nominations: RAC Amateur of the Year Award .................... 19 Alan Bulley, VA2UK Serge Langlois, VE2AWR Mise ne nomination : Rix amateur de l’année de RAC .................... 19 Noël Marcil, VE2BR René Levesque, VE2CNJ “Made it to Klukshu on Saturday to replace RAC Simulated Emergency Test...................................................... 50 Claude Lalande, VE2LCF the Repeater there. It was an interesting adventure as the weather was not ideal. Technical Diagrams / TECHNICAL Schémas technique We called the helicopter at about 7:30 am Easy-to-Build VHF Yagis, Steve Kavanagh, VE3SMA ......................11 Stan Smith, VE3DDX and were in the air around 8 am. The helicopter was able to drop us (went with a Amateur Radio Satellites, Keith Baker, VA3KSF .............................14 The Canadian Amateur Park's guy named David Blakeburn) at the is published by Radio Yaesu Fusion Technology, Mike Richards, G4WNC ........................20 Amateurs of Canada Inc. / top close to the comshell. The wind was The Canadian Amateur est fierce – likely 80 km/h or so. Temperature QUA – A Topical Digest, Allen Wootton, VE7BQO ...........................23 publié par la société Radio was a few degrees below zero. Amateurs du Canada Inc. A QRP Power Meter, Tom Hardy, VE4AKI .......................................34 As there were lower clouds moving in and Indexed in the Canadian out, the helicopter couldn't wait for us so we All Things Digital, Amateur Radio for the 21st Century, Periodical Index / departed and found a nice flat spot a few Enregistré à l’Index des Robert C. Mazur, VA3ROM ..............................................................36 hundred metres below. We did the repeater publications canadiennes : ISSN 0834‑3977 swap and tested everything as quickly as APRS and SMS Converge, Paul Dufresne, VE3OTB ......................42 possible as the heli had a deadline for Publications Mail Agreement another job.” DEPARTMENTS Accord de publications – see page 53 for the complete story diffusées #40028682. TCA Advertising Index ....................................................................... 2 Registration / matricule Note: TCA is best viewed in colour on #09866 the RAC website at http://wp.rac.ca Silent Keys ......................................................................................... 3 The Canadian Amateur RAC QSL Bureau System ................................................................. 3 720 Belfast Road, Suite / Bureau 217 Feedback: Letters to the Editor .......................................................... 5 Ottawa, ON, Canada ARTICLES WANTED K1G 0Z5 Help Wanted .................................................................................... 19 613‑244‑4367; We would love to receive your 1‑877‑273‑8304 articles – both technical and RAC Membership / Adhésion de RAC ....................................... 31, 32 [email protected] non-technical. http://wp.rac.ca/ Defence of Amateur Radio Fund .................................................... 59 Please send them to the TCA Editor Printed in Canada by Coming Events ................................................................................ 63 St. Joseph Communications at [email protected]. Ottawa, ON, Canada The deadlines for the next issues of NEWS Imprimé au Canada sur les presses de St. Joseph TCA are July 15, September 15 and RAC Section Manager Appointed for Ontario South .........................7 Communications November 15. Ottawa, ON, Canada New RAC Website .............................................................................7 Return Undeliverable Nouveau site de RAC ........................................................................7 Canadian Addresses to For RAC Membership Inquiries and Circulation Department: RAC Comments on ARRL Proposed Changes to US HF Band Plans .. 7 217‑720 Belfast Road Change of Address please contact Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z5 RAC HQ at: [email protected] Commentaires de RAC à propos des changements au plan de bandes HF des É-U. proposés par l’ARRL ........................................7 Sample copy of the July-August 2015 TCA 1 OPERATING The Canadian Amateur The Canadian Amateur, is published in Canada publié six fois par an, Six Metres and Down, Dana Shtun, VE3DSS ................................................................... 8 six times per year to est destiné à fournir aux provide Radio Amateurs, radioAmateurs, à toute Southern Amateur Radio Hospitality, Ron Walsh, VE3GO ............................................. 25 those interested in radio personne intéressée à la communications and radio et à l’électronique electronics, and the general et au grand public, des Radios that Helped Win WWII, Frank Gue, VE3GUE ..................................................... 29 public with information informations de toute nature related to the science of relatives à la science des Fresh On The Air – Adventures for the New and Beginning Ham, telecommunications. télécommunications. Phil Boucher, VE3BOC .................................................................................................... 30 Nous acceptons avec Articles, reviews, letters, plaisir tout article, étude, features, suggestions, suggestions, photos et YL News and Views, Val Lemko, VE5ACJ ......................................................see next TCA photographs and essays lettres. Les manuscrits are welcomed. Manuscripts soumis doivent être lisibles Random Thoughts, Dirk Moraal, VY1NM ......................................................................... 41 should be legible and et porter le nom de l’auteur, include the contributor’s son indicatif, son ou ses The Response to the Nepalese Earthquakes, Phil A. McBride, VA3QR/VA3KPJ............ 44 name, call sign, phone numéros de téléphone ainsi number(s) and addresses que ses adresses postales, (mail, email and packet, as courriel et paquet s’il y a Public Service / ARES Column........................................................................................ 46 applicable). lieu. Si vous avez envie d’écrire pour TCA : Guides on the Air in British Columbia, Marcy Lui, VE7JT................................................ 46 For a complete Author’s http://wp.rac.ca/p155/ Guide visit: Le contenu de la présente Kitchener-Waterloo ARC: Emergency Services, Larry Gorman, VE3LGN ...................... 48 http://wp.rac.ca/p155/ publication est protégé The contents of this par copyright, tous droits A Simple Desktop Stand, Don Dorward, VA3DDN .......................................................... 49 publication are copyright, réservés et ne peut être reproduit sans autorisation and may not be reproduced préalable dont est toutefois without prior consent except The Value of a Certified Emergency Coordinator, Bill Boskwick, VE4BOZ...................... 50 dispensé tout groupement by a bona fide Amateur reconnu de radioAmateurs RAC Simulated Emergency Test...................................................................................... 50 Radio organization which sous réserve que ladite may reproduce them reproduction paraisse avec provided the author and SATS and SHARP, Robert Striemer, VE4SHS ................................................................ 51 les mentions du nom de The Canadian Amateur are l’auteur et soit identifiée acknowledged. extraite de The Canadian Viewing Whitehorse from Above, Ron McFadyen, VY1RM ............................................. 52 Amateur. 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