HI Everyone:

The meeting tonight is in Tsawwassen. Will keep it on the social side tonight. If you have anything you would like to bring up by all means please. I have been advised by Os that he will be picking up the tickets for the Burger and Brew event today and have them on sale at tonight’s meeting. Keep in mind if you can’t make the meeting check in with OSK at 8:30 pm on 3.729

C U there tonight
gord

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Let family and friends know if they want to get into the exciting hobby of amateur radio that our next course is starting April 2. Course fee is $65 but we have an early bird special till March 24 of $50. All details can be found at: http://wp.me/P2tTI7-6c

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Our Burger & Brew fund raiser is scheduled for April 25. It will be held at the Sundance Pub on Ladner Trunk Road. More details later and how to get tickets. For know mark your calendars.

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Many thanks to all who presented or attended our digital night on Thursday. Had many complementary remarks after the presentation.

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Bill has managed to get a hold of six more of those Uniden small speakers. Cost is only $10 including tax. If your interested email Bill at: victorecho7 to have your name put on one when they arrive.

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Finally a note from Rebecca regarding the BCQSO Party:

Those considering a few hours at the radio on Feb 2 local time and they are not sure about how to execute a QSO or trade QSOs, please let those individuals know that they can contact me at va7bec with their questions.

I’ve also prepared some helpful hints, which are now posted at http://orcadxcc.org/content/pdf/bcqp_hints.pdf and a one-page summary of coinciding events and required exchanges, which might be handy to have near the radio on game day. The summary is at http://orcadxcc.org/content/pdf/weekend_sked_2013.pdf

For BCQP 2013, we have plaque sponsors for top scores in five categories:

Top BC
Top YL
Top Canadian Score outside BC
Top US Score
Most Federal Electoral Districts Worked

I’ll be running the sponsor call, VA7ODX, on sideband. Drop by and say hi if you hear me CQing.

73
Rebecca

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Have a great week everyone.

Hi Everyone:

The meeting tonight is at North Delta. Tonight is our digital night. We have three digital presentations to show. Each one will last approx. 30-40 minutes. We will be using the projector so everyone can see how these programs work without crowding around a laptop and peering over someones shoulder.

Tom will be presenting winlink, Darrel will showing his Fldidgi he has been talking about over the last few weeks and I’ll be doing DRATS. This promises to be an interesting evening and I hope you can find the time to join us.

If you can’t make it to the meeting keep in mind Oz (VE7OSK) will be taking checkins around 8:30 on 3.729

C U Tonight at 7
Gord

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DARS now offers free membership in to our newly formed “20 Below Club”
Starting this Sunday evening, January 20th, any and all club members are invited to
dust off their straight keys, tune to 28.020MHz and join in the great resurgence of the
ORIGINAL DIGITAL mode of CW. There is no code too slow, but definitely code too fast
in the 20 Below Club. Top speed is set at 20WPM..straight key. Our group is open for you to drop in and join the fun every Sunday at 19:00 Pacific Standard Time
Simple rules. Send as fast as you wish to receive. Mistakes allowed. I’ll be there this Sunday listening for any calls.
Remember. This is just for fun, and to help us all improve our code through PRACTICE.

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At last nights meeting VE7AHT found a training cw video from the 30’s.

There are actually some good points to this video if you can stand going back to 1939.. HI HI..
Here is the link as promised. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M56m4cvml_Q

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Basic amateur radio course starts April 2. If you have been asked how to get in the hobby please refer them to our course. All details at: www.deltaamateurradio.com look for course certification at the top.

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Digital night next meeting. Winlink, drats, and a new format to fldigi.

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Can you spare a little time to help out with the April burger & brew night. Oz could use another pair of hands and ideas to get this thing going. If you can help out let us know.

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Have a great weekend and hope to hear lots on Sunday night.

Hi Everyone:
The meeting tonight is in Tsawwassen. Not too much on the agenda tonight. Keep in mind that for those who haven’t paid dues they are now payable. The AGM meeting is scheduled for late February. All positions (president, vice president, secretary treasurer and directors) are open. Were always looking for new blood to lead the club. If interested let it be known that you are interested. We are still looking for someone who can help out with the planning of the burger and brew fund raising event in April. We use the money gained from this event to help pay for the insurances and therefore keep the annual dues low. If you can spare some time and help out, we really need your assistance.

Have a friend who wants to get into amateur radio? April 2 is the start of the Basic Amateur Radio course. All the details on the website www.deltaamateurradio.com and look for courses at the top of the page.

VE7ZZV sent me an email you could find interesting.

See you tonight
Gord

“Lawrence Hooper” lchooper89

I have somewhere a document outlining a number of projects by the Canadian Army during WW 2 such as the WS 19, 52, 58 and 88.

It seems that the plan was to re-equip the infantry with the 58 set, but this was delayed as the entire capacity of primary battery producers in the US, UK and Canada was already full. Producing the battery for the 58 set was shelved, and soon thereafter the war ended. The 58 set continued in use in Canada. Army Cadet units used them but I have not found reference to anybody else using them.

The same fate was met by the 29 set. The British Army had ordered 10,000 of these radios but cancelled the order in early 1945 as the war was about to end. Eventually 300 were produced for the Canadian Army which used them mostly for arctic operations where the 19 seset power supply tended to freeze up! The 29 set project continued at the Canadian Signal Research and Development Establishment up into the early 1950s when it was decided to adopt the American VRC-12 family of radios. This project also came to a screeching halt due to design and production delays and the British C42 family of radios were adopted by Canada as a stop-gap until a proper completely solid state combat radio showed up. This plan also fell apart when the Canadian Army adopted the American M113 APCS, and it was decided to purchase the VRC-12 family after all as this would allow us to use the American installation kits!

Lawrence VE7DPQ

— In Wireless-Set-No19, “cowbaybook" wrote:
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> The Walkie Talkie was invented by a Canadian, Donald Higgs who worked for the Cominco Mining and Smelting Company. Credit was given in most records to Americans, but in truth his unit was a true portable. His story is at http://dlhings.ca/index.html and has an interesting bit about his role during WW2. As a ham I discovered I now have his callsign VE7BH There are some pictures of it on the site.
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> Tom
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— On Fri, 1/11/13, Henk wrote:

From: Henk
Subject: [The WS No.19 Group] Re: Wireless Walkie Talkie
To: Wireless-Set-No19
Date: Friday, January 11, 2013, 8:21 AM

Very interesting. Pity, the photos are not better. Henk

History of the Walkie Talkie: A walkie-talkie is a hand-held portable, bi-directional radio transceiver. The first walkie-talkies were developed for military use. Major characteristics include a half-duplex channel (only one radio transmits at a time, though any number can listen) and a push-to-talk switch that starts transmission. The typical physical format looks somewhat like a telephone handset, possibly slightly larger but still a single unit, with an antenna sticking out of the top. Where a phone’s earpiece is only loud enough to be heard by the user, a walkie-talkie's built-in speaker can be heard by the user and those in his immediate vicinity.The first radio receiver/transmitter to be nick-named “Walkie-Talkie” was the backpacked Motorola SCR-300, created by an engineering team in 1940 at the Galvin Manufacturing Company (fore-runner of Motorola). The team consisted of Dan Noble, who conceived of the design using FM technology, Henryk Magnuski who was the principal RF engineer, Marion Bond, Lloyd Morris, and Bill Vogel. Motorola also produced the hand-held AM SCR-536 radio during the war, and it was called the “Handie-Talkie” (HT).Donald L. Hings also worked on the early technology behind the walkie-talkie between 1934 and 1941, and is sometimes said to actually have invented it. Hand-held transceivers became valuable communication tools for police, emergency services, and industrial and commercial users, using frequencies assigned for these services. Walkie-talkies are also popular with some amateur radio operators, operating with an amateur radio license in several different frequency bands.Since even a powerful commercial walkie-talkie is limited to a few watts of power output and a small antenna (the physical size of the package limits both battery capacity and antenna size), hand-held communication range is typically quite short, with a typical range not exceeding the line-of-sight distance
to the horizon in open areas, and much less in built-up areas, within buildings, or underground. Many radio services permit the use of a repeater which is located at some high point within the desired coverage area. The repeater listens on one frequency and retransmits on another, so that reliable hand-held to hand-held unit range can be extended to a few score miles (kilometers) or further, using repeaters linked together.Low-power versions, exempt from licence requirements, are also popular children’s toys. Prior to the change of CB radio from licensed to un-licensed status, the typical toy walkie-talkie available in retail stores in North America was limited to 100 milliwatts of power on transmit and the 27 MHz citizens’ band channels using AM amplitude modulation only. Later toy walkie-talkies operated in the 49 MHz band, some with FM (frequency modulation), shared with cordless phones and baby monitors. The lowest cost devices are very crude electronically, may employ superregenerative receivers, and may lack even a volume control, but they may have elaborate packaging. Unlike more costly units,low-cost toy walkie-talkies may not have separate microphones and speakers; the receiver’s speaker typically doubles as a microphone while in transmit mode.The personal walkie-talkie has now become popular again with the new U.S. Family Radio Service and similar unlicensed services in other countries. While FRS walkie-talkies are also sometimes used as toys because mass-production makes them low cost, they have proper superheterodyne receivers and are a useful communication tool for both business and personal use. Operation in the Family Radio Service is restricted to walkie talkies limited to 500 milliwatts of effective RF power. Some FRS models also include the surrounding GMRS channels, which require a license.TriviaHandie Talkie refers to Mototorla portable products only. According to the US
Patent and Trademark Office, Handie Talkie became a trademark of Motorola, Inc. on May 22, 1951. The application was filed June 24, 1948 and the trademark registration number is 71560123.The abbreviation HT is commonly used to refer to portable handheld ham radios (from any manufacturer) in the UHF and VHF ranges.A walkie-talkie is called “talkie-walkie” in French._._,___

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Hi Everyone:
The meeting tonight is at North Delta. A couple of things to let you know about and other then that we will keep it social. Got any new toys bring them along for show and tell.

Dates to keep in mind:

Saturday, Jan 19 — Dave’s HF Open House at North Delta.
Thursday, Jan 24 – Digital presentation

C U tonight
Gord

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2013 dues are now payable. Three ways to pay. See Tom in person, mail a cheque to Tom or use PayPal.

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January 24 – Digital Night. This is a three part seminar.
-fldigi and sending messages using the various forms. This is what Darrel has been discussing over the last few weeks.
-DRATS another system to chat, send various messages and files. You can get involved in this system without a radio.
-Winlink and how to send and receive via the Winlink system.
Darrel, Tom and myself will present these three systems using the projector so everyone can see how these systems work.
Mark your calendars as this is a night not to miss.

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Dave’s HF Open House takes place on Saturday January 19. These are always fun events as Dave (VE7AHT) will take you through operating HF with the do’s and don’ts. This is hands on and hopefully the bands will be open for lots of exotic DX. If your planning on coming, drop Dave an email dbauer so he has an idea of who is coming.

Please RSVP to foodb5106bar@telus.net if your planning on attending.

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We are in the finalization of the next basic amateur radio course and should have the dates firmed up hopefully next week. It should take place in early April.

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Speaking of April, it’s not that far off now and our annual food and brew night is rapidly approaching. Jeanne who was involved with Oz in last years planning is unable to do it this year due to prior engagements. We need somebody who would like to help out in the planning of this fun filled night. If interested let me know. If we get an early start on this then the work load will not be too heavy as it will get spaced out.

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We are in search of a Delta event we can use as a special event station. As discussed last night we have two worthwhile events, Deas Island Fish Cannery and Delta Police who are both celebrating milestone years. If your aware of any other events please let us know so we can decided on one. Were asking all members to be involved as we have made this event very simple. Operate on the day from wherever you are and for whatever time you have available and on what band and mode you choose. It can’t get anymore simply then that. This event will be great for our out of town members as you can work from your qth. We are looking at a September date and will let you know more as we finalize what is going to take place.

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Have a great week everyone.

Hi Everyone:
The meeting tonight is in Tsawwassen. A couple of items to pass along to you. If you can’t make the meeting (especially for our out of town members) remember you can check in on 3.729 at 8:30 pm local time. Hope to see you all there at 7. Gord

QSL Bureau: I have cards for: VE7HRA, VE7GHW, VE7AHT. If you don’t pick them up tonight I’ll have them in your envelopes waiting for you next Thursday at North Delta.

Hi Everyone:
The meeting tonight is at North Delta. If you got a new toy for Christmas bring it along for show and tell. Se you all at 7. Gord