Month: November 2019

November 15, 2019 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by AA3B, EA4NF, LU4AAO, The Daily DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks Read more…

  https://www.rac.ca/rac-attends-canadian-cubesat-meeting-in-fredericton/   The following item is courtesy of The Canadian Amateur magazine:   On October 7, 8 and 9, 2019, the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and CubeSat NB hosted the first of three Preliminary Design Read more…

Members of the CAN-AM DXpedition Group are now active as TX7T from the Island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands until November 17th. Operators mentioned are Didier/F6BCW, Bob/K4UEE, Robert/K5PI, Madison/W5MJ, Bill/W5SJ, Robert/W5RF, Neil/VA7DX and Keith/ VE7KW. This includes the operators from TX5T last Read more…

Monk Iakovos, SV2RSG, has been active as SV2RSG/A from the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousiou of Mount Athos. Activity has been on mostly 20 meters at various times between 1100-1830z (some 40m). It is interesting that he is now signing with a “/A” Read more…

13 Novenber, 2019 Island activities: IOTA QRGs CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz AF-032; 5H, Zanzibar Island: Alex/K2BB, Serg/RT5D, Sasha/UT7UV, Oleg/US7UX, and Pavel/UU0JR will be active Read more…

Hi All, As you may already know we will have our yearly supper at the Razzy’s Roadhouse pub on 161 St.Peters road at 6pm “this Saturday“. It will give us a change to review our lighthouse activation and talk about Read more…

11 November, 2019 Island activities: AS-115/AS-123. Operators Vasily/R7AL and Vlad/RK8A plan to activate from the following Turkish IOTA islands using the callsigns TA0/R7AL and TA0/RK8A: November 11-14th — Bogsak Island (AS-123) November 15-17th — Suluada Island (AS-115) Activation depends on Read more…

Lighthouse Season Wrap Up… When: Saturday, November 16, 3PM Where: University of Prince Edward Island, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering Building #30 (https://files.upei.ca/map.pdf) – Room 128A – Parking at MacLauchlan Arena What: Bernie (VE9BGC) will talk about antenna theory, design and Read more…

 | https://www.rac.ca/rac-welcomes-directors-for-2020/   For immediate release:   Each year, the terms of office of roughly half of our Directors end – four in even-numbered years and three in odd-numbered years.   We have now completed the nominations and election process Read more…

For Immediate Release: November 5, 2019   COBOURG, Ontario, and OTTAWA –   “A Canadian trailblazer, Fern Blodgett Sunde was the first woman to work as a wireless radio operator at sea, serving aboard an Allied merchant ship during the Battle Read more…