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NOVEMBER & NOVEMBRE DECEMBER & DECEMBRE NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL 2016 RAC Management Team...... 4 Editor / Rédacteur en chef Report to RAC Members at the Annual General Meeting, Alan Griffin Email: [email protected] Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA...... 7

Advisors / Conseillers Rapport aux membres de RAC à l’Assemblée générale annuelle, Dave Green, VE3TLY Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA...... 7 Frances Roach, VE3HKG Gerry Trottier, VA3GLT Patrick (“Pat”) Doherty, VE3PD: A Tribute...... 21 Norm Rashleigh, VE3LC Mike Kelly, VE3FFK Minutes of the 23rd Annual General Meeting of the Members Richard Ferch, VE3KI Bill Karle, VE1YY of Radio Amateurs of Canada...... 22 Ken Grant, VE3FIT Bob Kavanagh, VE3OSZ Procès verbal de vingt-troisième Assemblée générale annuelle des membres de Radio Amateurs du Canada...... 22 Translation / Traduction Ante Laurijssen, VA2BBW RAC Condensed Financial Statements 2015...... 39 Alan Bulley, VA2UK René Levesque, VE2CNJ Message from the RAC Community Services Officer...... 61 Claude Lalande, VE2LCF Technical Diagrams / “The propagation characteristics of the VHF TECHNICAL Schémas technique and UHF bands and their wide , Stan Smith, VE3DDX lead to some very different uses of these Amateur Microwave DX: An Overview, The Canadian Amateur bands by Amateurs, when compared to Barry Malowanchuk, VE4MA...... 13 is published by Radio their use of the HF bands... This special Amateurs of Canada Inc. / issue contains articles on a variety of Amateur Radio Satellites, Keith Baker, VA3KSF...... 19 The Canadian Amateur est VHF/UHF topics.” – see pages 11, 13, 24, publié par la société Radio All Things Digital – Amateur Radio for the 21st Century, Amateurs du Canada Inc. 31 and 52 for our special feature articles. Robert C. Mazur, VA3ROM...... see next TCA Indexed in the Canadian Periodical Index / DEPARTMENTS Digital , Grant Taylor, VE3XTV...... 24 Enregistré à l’Index des publications canadiennes : TCA Advertising Index...... 3 QUA – A Topical Digest, Allen Wootton, VE7BQO...... 29 ISSN 0834‑3977 Silent Keys...... 5 Modern Moonbounce: 21st Century EME, Publications Mail Agreement RAC QSL Bureau System...... 5 Grant Furnald, VE6TA...... 31 Accord de publications diffusées #40028682. Feedback: Letters to the Editor...... 6 Making Waves, Bill Karle, VE1YY...... 36 Registration / matricule #09866 RAC Membership/Adhésion de RAC.....46 A Folding 11-Element Yagi for 432 MHz SSB, The Canadian Amateur Defence of Amateur Radio Fund...... 49 Steve Kavanagh, VE3SMA...... 42 720 Belfast Road, Suite / Bureau 217 Coming Events...... see next TCA The Adventures of Rover VE3CRU, Bill Burgess, VE3CRU..... 52 Ottawa, ON, Canada K1G 0Z5 613-244-4367; 1-877-273-8304 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS ARTICLES [email protected] WANTED http://wp.rac.ca/ Coax Publications Inc...... 15 We would love to Printed in Canada by Fleetwood Digital...... 45 receive your articles St. Joseph Communications – both technical and Hamstudy.com...... 6 Ottawa, ON, Canada non-technical. Imprimé au Canada sur H.C. MacFarlane Electronics Ltd...... 17 les presses de St. Joseph Please send them to Communications Johnson Insurance...... inside front cover Ottawa, ON, Canada the TCA Editor at Maple Leaf Communications...... 64 [email protected]. Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses to Radio Amateurs of Canada...... 5, 28, 55 The deadlines for the Circulation Department: next issues of TCA 217-720 Belfast Road Radioworld...... 40, outside back cover are November 15 and Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z5 RFinder...... inside back cover January 15. Radio Society of Great Britain...... 40 Yaesu...... 33

2 OPERATING The Canadian Amateur The Canadian Amateur, is published in Canada publié six fois par an, Six Metres and Down, Dana Shtun, VE3DS...... 11 six times per year to est destiné à fournir aux provide Radio Amateurs, radioAmateurs, à toute ARDF World Championship in Bulgaria, Joe Young, VE7BFK...... 18 those interested in radio personne intéressée à la communications and radio et à l’électronique Random Thoughts..., Dirk Moraal, VY1NM...... see next TCA electronics, and the general et au grand public, des public with information informations de toute nature “Queen Victoria Sends a Text...”, Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN...... 41 related to the of relatives à la science des . télécommunications. Public Service / ARES Column (please submit articles now)...... 48 Nous acceptons avec Articles, reviews, letters, plaisir tout article, étude, features, suggestions, Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry ARES Group participates in MS Bike Tour 2016, suggestions, photos et photographs and essays lettres. 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