There was a bad link in the previous post... A Big One to Last the Summer We're coming up to our club's 50th Anniversary and this is another big issue, with a look back at our history, plus great articles, and our regular columnists. Now read in over 165 countries, this issue brings you 130 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 July - August 2025 Communicator HERE, 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 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 communicator@ve7sar.net 73, John VE7TI 'The Communicator' Editor The Table of Contents for the July - August 2025 Communicator issue: The Unsung Pioneers - Some lesser-known early Amateur Radio experimenters and the dawn of wireless communication 4 Some Early Surrey Amateur Radio Club History 7 Telus Donates Tower/Trailer to SARC! 10 News You Can’t Lose: The Centennial Gleissberg Cycle 12 Page13—News You Can Lose: The Lighter Side 13 Amateur Radio History In the Province of British Columbia 15 Radio Ramblings: The Grab Bag 18 Amateur Radio Contesting... But is your log accurate? 27 Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications 30 Remote WAN Operation and the Perils of CG-NAT Drive 32 Six Meters: The SARC 50.070 MHz beacon 34 Spooltenna Product review 36 (ISED) Releases New Documents for Amateur Exams 39 You’ve got the Power!! Monitoring your voltage 40 Reinventing Spark Gap Radio 42 7300 SIG: Efficient SD Card Management 48 Antenna Adventures: A compact 2m/70cm J-pole that wasn’t 52 Fence Solar - Add a back-up power source 54 The first interstellar software update: Voyager 1 58 Update on the VE7NFR Pico Balloon 60 AMSAT Designates SO-125: A New FM Repeater Satellite 61 SkyRoof: New Amateur Satellite Tracking Software 62 CQ: International Dog & Cat Days Special Event 63 A Comprehensive Guide to Crafting an Engaging QRZ Bio 64 Ham Radio Outside the box: An Improved Tank Circuit 67 Top Ten Steps For successful portable QRP operation 70 Small Pistols of Ham Radio Contesting 73 The RSGB Looks at Morse Code 73 "Too Many Antenna? What You Talking About Willis?" 74 The World of CW - VE9KK Looks at a Contest Keyboard 76 Zero Retries: Repeaters Are For Voice, Digipeaters Are For Data - NOT! 78 KB6NU: What’s In Your Rubber Duck? 84 Foundations of Amateur Radio: What's really happening at the IARU? 86 Back to Basics: The Common Mode Choke 89 No-ham Recipes: BBQ Chicken Marinade 93 Profiles of SARC members: Fred Orsetti VE7IO 96 Another SARC Founder: Ralph Webb VE7OM 100 Here is a great new callsign search site 103 SARC-SEPAR Field Day 2025: 3F at our Training Centre 104 The RAC Canada Day Contest: Celebrating Canada’s 158th 107 I have switched PDF readers! 108 CQ WPX (CW) Contest: Using VB7MAN 109 The New Look of Our Website 110 Friends Lost... 111 SARC General Meeting Minutes: May 2025 112 SARC Annual General Meeting Minutes: June 2025 115 The SEPAR Report: Field Day 2025 120 QRT: OM, YL, and XYL: Are they still appropriate? 124 Ham Leftovers... 127 A look back at the Communicator—July 2015 128
OMG the next cool magazine. The article about the different sun-cycles is nice. Other cycles are existing too in the theory, but nobody knows really. These kind of science is to young for to experience. The longest cycle can be about 2400 years long and nobody can check this. Next the action-figure isnt real, here I stand against. And for to check callsigns in the USA or Canada, I like to use the FCC page or page of the Canadian Government. Its always reliable but not ok for a fast check. Canada: https://apc-cap.ic.gc.ca/pls/apc_anon/query_amat_cs$.startup USA: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/Ul...K0Y6D2x_TmG4okK5zZybKgIn!202589724!1747774883 Further maybe a donate button on the club site can be a substitute for a membership. This just for to show voluntary, that this is worth to read or be a small supporter just for the moment.
BEWARE! I clicked on this and then clicked the "open" tab and got what apparently is ransomware. The were multiple windows warning me about this site, but I could not close any of them. I had to pull up the task manager and shut down Chrome to make them go away. Do not click this link!
When I first clicked on "like a magazine," the black front cover with the gold "50" appeared. Above the upper right corner was a red oval with the work "open." Thinking that's how I was able to view the magazine, I clicked on it. Immediately three or four "Windows Defender" windows popped up. I could not close any of the windows or cancel them. Nor could I bring up any other windows on my PC. I thought it was some form of a ransom attack. I finally opened the task manager and closed my browser (Chrome), which got rid of the windows. I just pulled up the Communicator, and the red oval was not there. I look forward to reading the Communicator.
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