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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.
Download the May-June 2025 Communicator in
LARGE or SMALL format, or read it on-line like a magazine
Previous Communicator issues:
Search for past Communicator issues
We now have a comprehensive searchable index back to 2007
HERE.
As always, thank you to our contributors, and your feedback is always welcome.
The deadline for the next edition is June 15th.
If you have news or events from your club or photos, stories, projects or other items of interest from BC or elsewhere, please contact us at [email protected]
73,
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
The Communicator March – April 2025
You will find some great articles in this issue, along with our regular columnists.
Now read in over 165 countries, this issue brings you 115+ 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.
Download the January - February Communicator in
LARGE or SMALL format, or read it on-line like a magazine
Previous Communicator issues:
Search for past Communicator issues
We are working on providing you with a comprehensive searchable index,
but in the meantime a searchable topic index is HERE.
As always, thank you to our contributors, and your feedback is always welcome.
The deadline for the next edition is April 15th.
If you have news or events from your club or photos, stories, projects or other items of interest from BC or elsewhere, please contact us at [email protected]
73,
John VE7TI
'The Communicator' Editor
The Table of Contents for the March - April 2025 Communicator issue:
- The Rest of the Story - Alfred Lewis Vail 4
- Bob King G3ASE: World War II RSS Monitor 8
- World Amateur Radio Day 10
- News You Can’t Lose - BandOpticon 12
- Page13—News You Can Lose 13
- Radio Ramblings: Passive Radar Update, BladeRF SDR, $5 Yagi 14
- The Wobbulator 25
- Rubber Coating Removal 28
- Dealing With Leaking Dry Cells 29
- An affordable and easy PCB vise solution for electronics hobbyists 30
- The ‘7300’ User Group - The spectrum scope and waterfall 31
- Remote control and operation 34
- Do you own an Alinco DR/135/235/435T or TYT9000? 37
- The Background Noise on the HF Amateur Bands 38
- BCQP 2025 — Initial Thoughts 44
- From the ATV Journal - An Impressive, Low Cost LNA 46
- Pi Pico Makes SSTV Reception a Snap 49
- ISED Releases New Canadian Basic Amateur Radio Question Bank 50
- Forget the Coax, Use Cat 6 52
- Ohm’s Law: Look what you can do with it 53
- Stranded: An Unlikely Friendship 55
- A satellite primer 58
- A DMR Primer 59
- Those Darn Wall-Wart Power Supplies! 60
- Operation Manna @ 80: Honouring the legacy through amateur radio 63
- Ham Radio Gizmos Platform Launches Documentary Series 66
- Ham Radio Outside the Box: An Off-Center Fed Sleeve Dipole 67
- Are You a Rag Chewer or a “59 73” Operator? 70
- 2 Meters: Another Slacker DXpedition 71
- KB6NU: How do we encourage more experimentation in amateur radio? 74
- What CAD software do you use? 75
- SARC on 24 GHz! 76
- The Solar Max: Is a second peak coming? 77
- Foundations of Amateur Radio 78
- No-ham Recipes: Toad-in-the-hole 81
- Back to Basics: Understanding Ohm's Law 82
- Profiles of SARC members 88
- Index of Past Profiles of SARC members 90
- Winter Field Day 95
- A Review of Distracted Driving Regulations in BC 109
- QRT: The Crucial Role of Amateur Radio 110
The SARC Communicator – January-February 2025
New desktop publishing software opens up even more possibilities for the SARC Communicator, the digital periodical of Surrey Amateur Radio Communications. This issue is now available for viewing or download. Another new feature is a smaller version, best suited for mobile devices, available here for viewing or download. The advantage of the larger version being higher resolution graphics and photos.
The best new feature, in my opinion, is the ability to provide you with a compete Table of Contents [below]. This should enable better accessibility from search engines.
You will find some great articles in this issue, along with our regular columnists.
Now read in over 165 countries, we bring you 120+ pages of Amateur Radio content from the Southwest corner of Canada and elsewhere. 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.
Download the January - February Communicator in
LARGE or SMALL format, or read it on-line like a magazine
Previous Communicator issues:
Search for past Communicator issues
and a full searchable index is HERE.
As always, thank you to our contributors, and your feedback is always welcome.
The deadline for the next edition is February 15th.
If you have news or events from your club or photos, stories, projects or other items of interest from BC or elsewhere, please contact us at [email protected]
73,
John VE7TI
'The Communicator' Editor
The Table of Contents for the January-February 2025 Communicator issue:
- The Rest of the Story: Charles Wheatstone 4
- News You Can’t Lose: Field Day results are in 12
- Page13—News You Can Lose 13
- Radio Ramblings: Reflections 15
- Does the Ghost of Salvador Dali Haunt ChatGPT? 26
- Tech: A transceiver on your Android phone 27
- Xiegu G90 Review 28
- Another Tape Measure Antenna 31
- POTA is Calling - Will you answer? 32
- A Different Kind of Foxhunt 34
- USA Radio Orienteering Championship 35
- Mastering iCOM HF: A deep dive into filtering capabilities 37
- Schooling ChatGPT on Antenna Misconceptions 42
- LIDS: The Less Involved Data Society 43
- Experimental Maritime Mobile on 630m 44
- From the ATV Journal 48
- B.C. QSO Party 50
- A Light Dipole 52
- An Easy Field Strength Meter 53
- AMSAT - OSCAR 7 55
- Dutch Amateur Radio Operators Detect Signals From Voyager 1 56
- Update on the Local High Altitude Balloon Project 57
- They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To… 58
- LingoSat ISS Deployment 59
- Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Appointments 2024 60
- The Santa Barbara 1925 Earthquake 62
- Ham Radio Outside the Box: Antenna height matters 65
- What Did Beethoven Do For Ham Radio? 68
- VE9KK - The World of CW: I am at peace with the RFI gods 69
- K0NR - 2 Meters: Handie-Talkie or Walkie-Talkie? 71
- Which Modes Have You Operated? 73
- KB6NU’s Ham Radio: Hurricane Helene 74
- Pico-based SDR runs stand-alone 75
- Foundations of Amateur Radio: The venerable QSL bureau 76
- No-ham Recipe: Oatmeal brown bread 79
- Back to Basics: Codes & encryption 80
- Profiles of SARC Members: Jeanne Wilson VA7QD 88
- CQ WW DX Contest [CW] 92
- ARRL 10m Contest 94
- RAC Winter Contest 96
- SARC News… 97
- SEPAR Report 103
- Ham Leftovers... 107
- QRT: Blog vs PDF? 108
The November – December 2024 SARC Communicator
The final issue of the year. The November-December Communicator, digital periodical of Surrey Amateur Radio Communications is now available for viewing or download. Some great projects and articles in this issue including a terrific Ham IV rotator upgrade, suggestions for affordable test instruments, and complete introduction to 3D printing, with special emphasis on amateur radio applications. Our regular columnists will also provide you with some interesting experiences.
Now read in over 165 countries, we bring you 125+ pages of Amateur Radio content from the Southwest corner of Canada and elsewhere. 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.
Download the Nov-Dec 2024 Communicator
or read it on-line like a magazine
Previous Communicator issues:
Search for past Communicator issues
and a full searchable index is HERE.
As always, thank you to our contributors, and your feedback is always welcome.
The deadline for the next edition is December 15th.
If you have news or events from your club or photos, stories, projects or other items of interest from BC or elsewhere, please contact us at [email protected]
73,
John VE7TI
'The Communicator' Editor
The September – October SARC Communicator
We're back!
Read in over 150 countries, we bring you 125+ pages of Amateur Radio content from the Southwest corner of Canada and elsewhere. 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.
You can view or download it as a .PDF file:
Previous Communicator issues:
Search for past Communicator issues
and a full index is HERE.
As always, thank you to our contributors, and your feedback is always welcome.
The deadline for the next edition is October 15th and we're especially looking for articles and stories about 3D printing for amateur radio.
If you have news or events from your club or photos, stories, projects or other items of interest from BC or elsewhere, please contact us at [email protected]
73,
John VE7TI
'The Communicator' Editor
The July-August 2024 SARC Communicator
Hello summer...
With another big Summer issue. The July-August 2024 Communicator, digital periodical of Surrey Amateur Radio Communications is now available for viewing or download.
Read in over 150 countries, we bring you 120+ pages of Amateur Radio content from the Southwest corner of Canada and elsewhere. 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.
You can view or download it as a .PDF file:
Previous Communicator issues:
Search for past Communicator issues
and a full index is HERE.
As always, thank you to our contributors, and your feedback is always welcome.
The deadline for the next edition is August 15th.
If you have news or events from your club or photos, stories, projects or other items of interest from BC or elsewhere, please contact us at [email protected]
73,
John VE7TI
'The Communicator' Editor
The May-June 2024 SARC Communicator Journal
Heading into summer...
With another big issue. The May-June 2024 Communicator, digital periodical of Surrey Amateur Radio Communications is now available for viewing or download.
Read in over 150 countries, we bring you 120 pages of Amateur Radio content from the Southwest corner of Canada and elsewhere. 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.
You can view or download it as a .PDF file:
Previous Communicator issues are at:
Search for past Communicator issues
and a full index is HERE.
As always, thank you to our contributors, and your feedback is always welcome.
The deadline for the next edition is June 15th.
If you have news or events from your club or photos, stories, projects or other items of interest from BC or elsewhere, please contact us at [email protected]
73,
John VE7TI
'The Communicator' Editor
