Surrey (BC) Amateur Radio Club is coming up on 50 years ! Read the latest.

With over 125 pages here is the Table of Contents

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

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