Issue # 138                             July 24 2005

Canadian Amateur Radio News as it happens....RSS feed 

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  Important Notices & Bulletins

• RAC Foundation Award presented to Ottawa ARES and the Canadian Red Cross. 
• The VE6/ VA6 Incoming QSL Bureau is being moved to Calgary (July 13 2005)

  Club News, Events & Profiles

• Field Day 2005 Reports 
• With help from the Northern Alberta Radio Club there is now a new group of Advanced Amateur Radio Operators in the Edmonton area!  (July 15 2005)
• Westcumb Amateur Radio Club News
• Saskatchewan Centennial Hamfest 2005 Saskatoon  (July 22-24 2005)
• Second Annual MARITIME DX FORUM (Aug. 6 2005)

  Flea Markets

• 26th Annual Northwestern Ontario Hamfest (July 29-31 2005)
• Victoria - Haliburton Amateur Radio Association  Hamfest 2005  (August 27, 2005)
• Ottawa Amateur Radio Club 9th Annual Hamfest   (September 3, 2005)
• Vancouver Island Ham Happenings  (September 10, 2005)
• Barrie Amateur Radio Club  Hamfest  (September 10, 2005)
• Kingston Amateur Radio Club Annual Flea Market (Sept. 17 2005)
• London Amateur Radio Club 28th Annual Fleamarket   (Sept. 25 2005)
• SHF 2005 Committee...Hamfest Update

  EMO / ARES News

• Dryden's Emergency Operations Centre  VA3EOD operated by the Amateur Radio Society of Dryden 
• Another VECTOR story (July 15 2005)

  Contest Corner

  Operational / Educational

• Maritime Swap Shop
• Ontario Swap Shop
• The Manitoba Repeater Society Swap & Shop

  Feature Articles

• VC9W Whitehead Island IOTA DXpedition (July 28-Aug 2 2005)

  Letters to the Editor

  World News

• New Amateur Licence Structure for Australia coming  (July 23 2005)
• Europe considers Novice licensing (July 15 2005)
• South Africa-Government Gazette confirms SARL as the National Body  (July 16 2005)
• Philippines Hams may loose 70 CM (July 15 2005)
• Morse code is alive and well (July 8 2005)

  Propagation Reports

• July 22 2005 Tad Cook K7RA Solar Update
• July 23 2005  Solar and propagation report from Neil Clarke, G0CAS

  Space News

• Educators query ISS astronaut via ham radio (July 22, 2005)
• Shuttle Discovery launch at least a week away (Jul 20, 2005)
• Six Radio Amateurs Aboard the Space Shuttle (July 15 2005)
• SSETI Express Launch Date Announced (Jun. 3 2005)
• AMSAT-UK Colloquium set for late July (May 4 2005)

  Special Interest

• Mobile Phone Threat to Radio Astronomy (July 22 2005)
• Ham radio helps rescue hiker (Jul 21, 2005)

  Contest News

• Great Lakes Sweepstakes (July 23-24 2005)
• Flight of the Bumblebees  (July 31 2005)
• RSGB Islands-On-The-Air Contest  (July 30-31 2005)

  Special Event Stations

• Israel Amateur Radio Club, 17th Maccabiah Games  (Jul. 10-21 2005)
• National Baby Food Festival  Fremont, MI.   (July 19-23 2005)
• We 8 Chicken!   Manchester, MI  (July 21-22 2005)
• 6th Annual Packard Museum Car Show Warren, OH   (July 21-24 2005)
• Promote Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. Williamsburg, VA  (July 23 2005)
• Saline Railroad Depot Museum Open House Saline, MI.  (July 23 2005)
• W0NOZ. Annual Little House on the Prairie Pageant  DeSmet, SD. (July 23-24 2005)
• Birthplace of the 4H Clubs of America Springfield, OH  (July 23-25 2005)
• Celebrating the 2005 Seneca County Fair in Ohio  Tiffin, OH (July 25-31 2005)
• EAA AirVenture 2005 Fly-In  Oshkosh, WI.   (July 28-31 2005)
• Isle of Man’s 175th Maritime Anniversary/Mutiny on the Bounty and Peter Heywood  Douglas, Isle of Man  (July 30-31 2005)

  DX News

• EGYPT, SU.  Gab, HA3JB will be QRV again as SU8BHI from July  01 to December 31
• July 21 2005 ARRL  DX News
• July 22-31 2005  I.C.P.O. Bulletin Islands, Castles & Portable Operations - I.C.P.O.

  United States

• FCC Proposes to Drop Morse Code Requirement for All License Classes  (July 20, 2005)
• New ARRL Goes to Washington video available for download (Jul 20, 2005)
• ARRL Board of Directors in session (Jul 15, 2005)
• Hams show in force at Gerritsen sentencing (Jul 14, 2005)

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