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Canada's Amateur Radio Magazine La Revue Des Radioamateurs Canadiens Canada’s Amateur Radio Magazine TCA La Revue des RadioAmateurs Canadiens The Canadian Amateur VOLUME 44 NUMBER 1 – [email protected] – WEB ADDRESS: HTTP://WP.RAC.CA/P155/ JANUARY & JANVIER FEBRUARY & FÉVRIER NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL 2016 RAC Management Team .............................................................4 Editor / Rédacteur en chef Alan Griffin RAC President’s Message ...........................................................8 Email: [email protected] Un message du président de RAC ..............................................8 Advisors / Conseillers Dave Green, VE3TLY Revised RAC 0-30 MHz Band Plan Released, Frances Roach, VE3HKG George Gorsline, VE3YV ................................6, inside front cover Gerry Trottier, VA3GLT Norm Rashleigh, VE3LC Mise à jour et publication du plan des bandes 0-30 MHz de RAC, Mike Kelly, VE3FFK Richard Ferch, VE3KI George Gorsline, VE3YV ....... 6, intérieur de la couverture arrière Bill Karle, VE1YY Ken Grant, VE3FIT The 2015 World Radiocommunication: 60 metres at last! Bob Kavanagh, VE3OSZ Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN ............................................................12 Translation / Traduction Conférence mondiale des radiocommunications de 2015 : Ante Laurijssen, VA2BBW Alan Bulley, VA2UK 60 mètres – enfin! Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN ..............................12 Serge Langlois, VE2AWR Noël Marcil, VE2BR Call for Nominations of Candidates for Regional Director .........18 René Levesque, VE2CNJ Claude Lalande, VE2LCF “Known as NA-009, the Perry Islands were Appel de mises en candidature pour le poste de directeur de région .........................................................................................18 Technical Diagrams / divided in July 2014 into two groups. The islands to the east of Byam Martin Channel Schémas technique Radio Amateur of the Year: Alex Shovkoplyas, VE3NEA, Stan Smith, VE3DDX – which fall entirely under the administration of the Territory of Nunavut and which are Stan Leschinsky, VE3TW ..........................................................20 The Canadian Amateur part of CQ Zone 2 – remained denoted as is published by Radio James Dean and Farrell Hopwood Appointed to Canadian NA-009. The islands to the west – which fall Amateurs of Canada Inc. / Amateur Radio Hall of Fame, Ed Frazer, VE7EF .......................21 The Canadian Amateur est largely under the administration of the publié par la société Radio Northwest Territories and which are part of RAC Section Manager Election Notice ......................................59 Amateurs du Canada Inc. CQ Zone 1 – became NA-248. This is the final IOTA group in Canada still waiting to be Indexed in the Canadian TECHNICAL Periodical Index / brought on the air for the first time.” – see page 43 for the complete story Enregistré à l’Index des Amateur Radio Satellites, Keith Baker, VA3KSF ...................... 14 publications canadiennes : ISSN 0834‑3977 Note: TCA is best viewed in colour on the RAC website at http://wp.rac.ca QUA – A Topical Digest, Allen Wootton, VE7BQO .................... 22 Publications Mail Agreement Accord de publications A Wireless (Remote) Antenna Switch, Don Dorward, VA3DDN .... 24 diffusées #40028682. Registration / matricule All Things Digital, Amateur Radio for the 21st Century, #09866 ARTICLES WANTED Robert C. Mazur, VA3ROM ....................................................... 36 We would love to receive your articles The Canadian Amateur Condo Conundrum and a Homebrew Solution, 720 Belfast Road, – both technical and non-technical. Suite / Bureau 217 Please send them to the TCA Editor Tom Hardy, VE4AKI .................................................................. 42 Ottawa, ON, Canada at [email protected]. K1G 0Z5 Call for Technical Articles: Antennas etc ................................... 47 613‑244‑4367; We are also looking for two new 1‑877‑273‑8304 columnists: Antennas; and YL News. [email protected] DEPARTMENTS http://wp.rac.ca/ The deadlines for the next issues TCA Advertising Index .................................................................3 are January 15 and March 15. Printed in Canada by St. Joseph Communications Silent Keys ...................................................................................5 Ottawa, ON, Canada Imprimé au Canada sur PHOTOS WANTED: RAC QSL Bureau System ...........................................................5 les presses de St. Joseph Communications We are always looking for great Feedback: Letters to the Editor ...............................see next issue Ottawa, ON, Canada photos to grace the pages of TCA and especially on our front cover. RAC Membership / Adhésion de RAC .................................27, 28 Return Undeliverable If you have a portrait-oriented colour Canadian Addresses to Call for Articles: Technical and Non-Technical .......................... 47 Circulation Department: photo, like that on our front cover 217‑720 Belfast Road (or a landscape-oriented photo that Defence of Amateur Radio Fund ...............................................49 Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z5 can be cropped), please send them to me at [email protected]. Coming Events ..........................................................................63 2 OPERATING The Canadian Amateur The Canadian Amateur, is published in Canada publié six fois par an, Six Metres and Down, Dana Shtun, VE3DS ............................................................10 six times per year to est destiné à fournir aux provide Radio Amateurs, radioAmateurs, à toute The Toolbox Radio, Barry Brousseau, VE3SLD.......................................................17 those interested in radio personne intéressée à la communications and radio et à l’électronique 2016 Worked All NCDXA “RST” Stations Special Event, John Reisenauer, KL7JR ...19 electronics, and the general et au grand public, des public with information informations de toute nature Canadian Field Service Episodes: 1953-1957, Erwin David, VE3ZTH/G4LQI ........29 related to the science of relatives à la science des telecommunications. télécommunications. Fresh On The Air – Adventures for the New and Beginning Ham, Nous acceptons avec Articles, reviews, letters, plaisir tout article, étude, Phil Boucher, VE3BOC ............................................................................................40 features, suggestions, suggestions, photos et photographs and essays lettres. Les manuscrits GenRad Treasures, Bill Karle, VE1YY .....................................................................41 are welcomed. Manuscripts soumis doivent être lisibles should be legible and et porter le nom de l’auteur, The Last Canadian IOTA: Operating from Melville Island in the High Arctic, include the contributor’s son indicatif, son ou ses name, call sign, phone numéros de téléphone ainsi Cezar Trifu, VE3LYC ................................................................................................43 number(s) and addresses que ses adresses postales, (mail, email and packet, as courriel et paquet s’il y a Random Thoughts, Dirk Moraal, VY1NM .................................................................46 applicable). lieu. Si vous avez envie d’écrire pour TCA : Vimy Ridge Commemorative Station VE100VIMY, Donald Studney, VE7DS ..........48 For a complete Author’s http://wp.rac.ca/p155/ Guide visit: Le contenu de la présente Public Service / ARES Column................................................................................49 http://wp.rac.ca/p155/ publication est protégé The contents of this par copyright, tous droits Public Safety Lifeline Volunteer Years of Service Awards, Brady Conroy, VE7TAX .....49 publication are copyright, réservés et ne peut être reproduit sans autorisation and may not be reproduced préalable dont est toutefois Bathurst Amateurs Support the CIBC Run For The Cure, Francis Pitre, VE9FCP ..50 without prior consent except dispensé tout groupement by a bona fide Amateur reconnu de radioAmateurs A Vintage Entry in the Brandon Travellers Day Parade, Rick Jones, VE4AV ...........50 Radio organization which sous réserve que ladite may reproduce them reproduction paraisse avec The Sports Page – The Canadian Contest Scene, Bob Nash, VE3KZ ....................51 provided the author and les mentions du nom de The Canadian Amateur are l’auteur et soit identifiée Section News – The RAC Field Organization Forum ...............................................58 acknowledged. extraite de The Canadian Amateur. Le service The Advertising Department Message from the RAC Community Services Officer .............................................58 publicité de The Canadian of The Canadian Amateur, Amateur, agissant au nom on behalf of the magazine, RAC Section Manager Election Notice ....................................................................59 de la revue, décline toute wholly disclaims any responsabilité quant au responsibility for the content contenu des annonces RAC Field Organization Reports / National Traffic System Net Reports ................62 of any advertisement publicitaires publiées et ne contained herein and se porte en aucune façon Coming Events: The Hamfest and Fleamarket Calendar ........................................63 makes no representations garant de la véracité des on behalf of The Canadian propositions contenues Amateur as to the truth of dans lesdites annonces. NEWS any statement contained in La compagnie Radio any such advertising. Jim Dean and Farrell Hopwood Appointed to Hall of Fame .......................................6 Amateurs du Canada Radio
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