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73 Jim Taylor VA3KU
CARB Editor

• Director for Ontario North and East Ontario, Ben Price VE3CDA... New website.
• 2004 DARF Fund Annual report delivered to RAC  (Feb. 11 2005)
• Industry Canada consulting on Ultra Wide Band  (Feb. 7 2005)

• The North Shore Amateur Radio Club - North Vancouver, B.C  (Feb. 18 2005) 
• The Northern Alberta Radio Club (Feb. 18 2005) 
• Rideau Lakes Amateur Radio Club Inc.- Smiths Falls, Ontario  (Feb. 18 2005) 

• Burlington Spring Flea Market   (Feb. 26 2005)
• UMS Annual Fleamarket - Montréal, Quebec (Mar. 5 2005)
• Burnaby ARC Amateur Radio Flea Market  (Sunday, March 6, 2005)
• Radio and Computer Swap Meet  (Saturday, March 26, 2005)
• Hamfest Laval-Laurentides 2005 - Laval, Québec  (Apr. 2 2005)
• IARC Tenth Annual Flea Market  (Saturday, April 2, 2005)
• Moose Jaw Amateur Radio Flea Market  (Saturday, April 2 2005)
• Montreal Hamfest and Fleamarket LaSalle (Montreal), Québec (Apr. 9 2005)
• HAM-EX 2005 (Saturday, April 9, 2005)
• Winnipeg A.R.C. Spring Fleamarket  (Sunday,  April 17 2005)
• Down-East Flea Market  (Jun. 11 2005)

• Introducing the 'NEW' Ontario Emergency Communications Network  (Feb. 19 2005) 

• The Radio Amateur's Code (Feb. 17 2005)
• The Telephone Pioneer Net
• Weekly QRP Net.
• Maritime Swap Shop changes operations to Monday evenings. (Feb. 3 2005)
• Ontario Swap Shop
• Guides On The Air Feb 19 and 20 at Guide House

• QSL Card Production - doing it yourself - D. Howard Dickson -- VE1DHD
• DX n' HF    ARRL's DX Century Club (DXCC)  - by Scott Wood - VE1QD
• A Contesting Tutorial for the Beginner - Richard E. (Dick) Grantham - VE1AI (Feb. 17 2005) 
• Planning for the Inevitable - D. Howard Dickson - VE1DHD 
• The future of Amateur Radio? by James Wades, WB8SIW (Feb. 17 2005) 
• Victoria B.C. Hams provide communications link for the Canadian Adult Recreational Hockey Association

• John Bartlett  VE2ZH  (Feb. 15 2005)
• Ernie Crump  VE3OU  (Feb. 13 2005)
• Don MacQueen  VE1DH    (Feb. 6 2005)

• IARU Region 2 E-News 2005, Issue Number 1  (Feb. 12 2005)
• IARU Region 3 appoints new officials  (Feb. 12 2005)
• Licence arrangements for  hams visiting Australia  (Feb. 12 2005)
• New German Amateur Regulations now in force (Feb. 19 2005)
• First International Emergency Management Exercise (Feb. 25 2005)

• Feb. 18 2005 Tad Cook K7RA Solar Update
• Feb. 19 2005  Solar and propagation report

• Earth Rarely Out of Sight or Mind for ISS Crew (Feb. 15, 2005)
• Astronaut Amateurs preparing for International Space Station  (Feb.10 2005)
• AMSAT-DL reviews P3E satellite design (Feb 15, 2005)

• Radio Canada International - 60 Years of Radio Worldwide (Feb. 17 2005)
• Radio for Kids  (Feb. 18 2005)

• Some New Wrinkles in 2005 Field Day Rules (Feb. 2 2005)
• ARRL International DX Contest
• CQC Winter QSO Party
• Mississippi QSO Party
• North Carolina QSO Party
• High Speed CW Contest
• North American QSO Party
• 1st Annual US Virgin Islands QSO Party
• AM QSO Party

• Collins ARC special event to feature operation from B-29 station (Feb 19, 2005)
• Dayton Amateur Radio Association  Celebrating 75 years as a club
• 40th anniversary of the Canadian flag
• Commemoration of George Washington's Birthday
• 16th Annual U.P. 200 Sled Dog Championship Race
• 60th anniversary of The Battle of Iwo Jima in WW2
• 75th anniversary of the founding of the CWA
• 10th Northeast Florida Scottish Highland Games and Festival
• DM-80 TXpedition commemorates the Last Unspoiled Frontier
• 62nd anniversary of the launching of USS Kidd, DD-661

• DXCC listings now available on the ARRL Web site
• Anticipated Peter I Island DXpedition postponed until 2006 (Feb. 17, 2005)
• Bulgarian Antarctic Base "St. Kliment Ohridski  (Feb. 4 2005)
• Feb. 17 2005 ARRL  DX News
• Feb.17 - 27  2005  I.C.P.O. Bulletin Islands, Castles & Portable Operations - I.C.P.O.

• Standing room only reported at 2005 Amateur Radio Hurricane Conference (Feb. 17, 2005)
• ARRL warns against spurious, virus-infected e-mails (Feb. 17, 2005)
• ARES/RACES drill participation draws FEMA praise (Feb. 15, 2005)
• New ARRL COO Harold Kramer, WJ1B, wants bright future for Amateur Radio (Feb. 17 2005)

 

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