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Canada’s Amateur Radio Magazine
TCA La Revue des Radioamateurs Canadiens

The Canadian Amateur VOLUME 46 NUMBER 1 – TCAMAG@YAHOO.CA – WEB ADDRESS: HTTP://WP.RAC.CA/TCA
JANUARY & JANVIER &
FEBRUARY FÉVRIER NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL
2018
RAC Management Team .................................................................4
Editor / Rédacteur en chef RAC President’s Message, Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA .................5
Alan Griffin
Email: tcamag@yahoo.ca Un message du président, Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA ..................5
Advisors / Conseillers Radio Amateurs of Canada Welcomes New Officers ....................10
Dave Green, VE3TLY
Norm Rashleigh, VE3LC Distracted Driving in Canada: An Update ......................................10
Mike Kelly, VE3FFK
Richard Ferch, VE3KI Roland Peddle, VE6RL (VO1BD) Appointed to Hall of Fame,
Bill Karle, VE1YY Frank Davis, VO1HP ......................................................................11
Ken Grant, VE3FIT
Bob Kavanagh, VE3OSZ Getting Ready for the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference,
Translation / Traduction Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN ................................................................24
Ante Laurijssen, VA2BBW
Alan Bulley, VA2UK Update on Proposed Revisions to the Canadian Table of
René Levesque, VE2CNJ Frequency Allocations ...................................................................39
Claude Lalande, VE2LCF
Message from the RAC Community Services Officer ....................57
Technical Diagrams /
Schémas technique RAC Section Manager Election Notice .........................................58
Stan Smith, VE3DDX
“In a typical search CVARS deploys its TECHNICAL
The Canadian Amateur communication trailer alongside the SAR
is published by Radio Command Centre. The club’s trailer has Amateur Radio Satellites, Keith Baker, VA3KSF ...........................13
Amateurs of Canada Inc. / three workstations set up. It has a built-in
The Canadian Amateur est APRS server and several radios, both for QUA – A Topical Digest, Allen Wootton, VY1KX ............................15
publié par la société Radio
Amateurs du Canada Inc. the Amateur bands and also for the VLF Adventures: Spanning the Atlantic on 36,000 metres,
commercial frequencies used by SAR.
Indexed in the Canadian Should rugged terrain require, a portable, Joe Craig, VO1NA .........................................................................21
Periodical Index /
Enregistré à l’Index des suitcase-sized, fully self-contained APRS Work the World with WSJT-X, Part 2: Codes, Modes and
publications canadiennes : repeater can be deployed on high ground Cooperative Software Development, Joe Taylor, K1JT,
ISSN 0834‑3977 either with the help of an ATV or on foot. Steve Franke, K9AN and Bill Somerville, G4WJS .........................25
– cover photos by Gabor Horvath, VE7JH;
Publications Mail Agreement All Things Digital – Amateur Radio for the 21st Century,
Accord de publications see page 49 for the complete story Robert C. Mazur, VA3ROM ............................................................30
diffusées #40028682.
Registration / matricule A Remote Controlled Wi-Fi Antenna Switch,
#09866 DEPARTMENTS Horacio Bouzas, VA6DTX ..............................................................35
The Canadian Amateur TCA Advertising Index ............................2
720 Belfast Road, The Defence of Amateur Radio Fund
Suite / Bureau 217 Silent Keys ..............................................3
Ottawa, ON, Canada The Defence of Amateur Radio Fund (DARF) is a
K1G 0Z5 RAC QSL Bureau System ......................3 Trust Fund that was established in the early 1990s
613‑244‑4367;
1‑877‑273‑8304 Defence of Amateur Radio Fund ............1 by the Canadian Radio Relay League to provide
tcamag@yahoo.ca financial support for research, and to defray travel
http://wp.rac.ca/ RAC Membership ........................... 40-41 expenses of a delegate to World Radio Conferences (WRC) to
Printed in Canada by Adhésion de RAC ........................... 40-41 defend the Amateur Radio bands.
St. Joseph Communications Feedback: Our Readers Write ..............62 It costs a lot to attend a World Radio Conference such as the
Ottawa, ON, Canada upcoming WRC19 meeting in October 2019 (see page 24).
Imprimé au Canada sur Coming Events .....................................63
les presses de St. Joseph Travel and meeting expenses for a three‑ to four‑week
Communications conference can top $10,000 or more in an international city like
Ottawa, ON, Canada Geneva, Switzerland – even for the most frugal. Without new
RAC Notifications (eTCA, Bulletins) donations, DARF funds on hand won’t last indefinitely.
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