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The Communicator May-June 2025
May 1st, 2025 | 
Author: Its a big issue, and great articles, along with our regular columnists.
Now read in over 165 countries, this issue brings you 120+ pages of Amateur Radio content from the Southwest corner of Canada and around the globe. With less fluff and ads than other Amateur Radio publications, you will find Amateur Radio related articles, projects, profiles, news, tips and how-to's for all levels of the hobby.
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John VE7TI
'The Communicator' Editor
The Table of Contents for the May-June 2025 Communicator issue:
- The Rest of the Story: Pavel Schilling .............................................4
- NEW! A Complete Search Engine for The Communicator ..............7
- News You Can’t Lose: ..................................................................12
- News You Can’t Lose: Some enjoyable listening ahead! ..............12
- News You Can Lose: ARRL New Taxes for DX QSOs ..................13
- Mentoring Young Hams .................................................................15
- Post Special Event Summary: Operation Manna: .........................18
- Manna@80: The more unique contacts made by VB7MAN ..........24
- Radio Oranje and the ‘Kraut Sieve’ ...............................................25
- Radio Ramblings: Computing Science and Amateur Radio ..........28
- Computing Science and Amateur Radio ........................................28
- A LoRa-Based Mesh Network for Emergency Communication .....39
- A Heathkit “Cantenna” Deep Dive ................................................41
- Testing “Cantenna” oil ....................................................................43
- Making a Better Heathkit "Cantenna" ............................................46
- Another Notable Manna/Chowhound 80 Contact ..........................48
- Exploring the iCOM IC-7300's Internal Antenna Tuner ..................49
- Automatic Antenna Tuners & Couplers ..........................................52
- Electronic Keyers & Keyer Paddles ...............................................53
- Transients and Spikes on Power-line Voltage: ..............................55
- So... What is an MOV? ..................................................................57
- Testing MOVs ................................................................................59
- A Cheap and Light Weight HF Antenna .........................................60
- SO-124 [HADES-R] Satellite .........................................................61
- Tracking the ISS with an Arduino-Based System ..........................63
- Wondering where you can be heard? ............................................64
- A Reference for Coaxial Cable ......................................................65
- YADD: Maritime HF Activity Revisited ...........................................66
- The Mystery of the Mis-keyed Callsign ..........................................69
- Exploring Digital QSL Cards with DigiQSL: ...................................70
- How to Operate Pedestrian Mobile ................................................72
- Ham Radio Outside the Box: 25 Years a Ham ..............................75
- 2m: Weak-Signal Performance of Common Modulation Formats .79
- Zero Retries: An Introduction to the IP400 Network Project ..........82
- KB6NU: Buttons Are Back, Baby! ..................................................85
- KB6NU: Single sideband and a HAMNET update .........................87
- Foundations of Amateur Radio: .........................................................
- What is the difference between a Dummy Load and an Antenna? 88
- No-ham Recipes: Chinese Chicken in Sauce ................................91
- Back to Basics: A Balancing Act ....................................................92
- Profiles of SARC members: Jaspal Bagha VA7JB ........................98
- The Contest Contender: CQ WPX SSB ......................................102
- The Contest Contender: The 2025 ARRL Rookie Roundup ........104
- VB7MAN Participates in an International Microwave Party .........105
- High School Communications Course Update ............................113
- SEPAR Report: Winlink reestablished in the SEPAR program ....115
- QRT [Opinion]: The FCC Policy Statement .................................118
- Ham Leftovers... ..........................................................................121
- A look back: May 2015... .............................................................122
Tomorrow starts Manna/Chowhound Weekend
Manna@80!
Operations Manna and Chowhound were lifesaving food drops to Northwest Holland 80 years ago, just prior to the end of World War Two. Over 20,000 people had died from starvation and a colder than normal winter. Allied pilots and support staff from the UK, the US, Canada, Poland, and Australia dropped over 7,000 tons of food behind enemy lines.
There are 10 special event stations operating in these countries Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. If you contact 4 or more, a special event certificate will be issued. Check QRZ.com for any of the following callsigns or Manna80.radio on the web where the stations’ current operating frequencies are available via HamAlert.
Participating stations:
The UK
2. GB80MAN: International Bomber Command Centre
3. GB8MAN: Royal Air Force Station Binbrook
4. GB80CHO: 100th Bomb Group Museum in Thorpe Abbots
The United States
5. W4C: Boca Raton Amateur Radio Assn
Canada
6. VB7MAN: Surrey Amateur Radio Communications in Surrey, BC
7. VB6MAN: Calgary Amateur Radio Club at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada in Nanton, Alberta
8. VE1MAN: Pictou County ARC in Picton, Nova Scotia
Australia
9. VK80MAN: Bull Creek Aviation Heritage Centre Perth, Australia
Poland
10. SN80MAN: The SP5KAB Radio Club
We hope to make contact with you.
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VB7MAN is ON AIR!
Mark VA7MM and others are our first guest operators
A recent VB7MAN QSO with Jake, KC7WXD, in Nevada.
Jake is an antique wireless experimenter and the chirpy note of the Command Set at VA7MM using VB7MAN, obviously caught his attention. The photo is of Jake’s homebrew 802 tube transmitter. His QRP signal at 2.5 W with the 802 transmitter was a perfectly copiable up here in BC.
If you would like to be a guest operator using the MANNA@80 callsign VB7MAN, have a look at the calendar for available slots and send us a note at [email protected]. You can use any band and any mode anywhere in BC.
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