Surrey Amateur Radio Communications

The Communicator: November - December 2025 Communicator Newsletter

The November-December 2025 edition of the SARC Communicator, your go-to guide for all things amateur radio in our vibrant RF neighborhood. This 122 page edition is a journey across the history, innovation, and fascinating activities of amateur radio. View or download it at tinyurl.com/SARC25Nov-Dec

The Communicator July - August 2025 The Communicator

The SARC net 8 pm (PST) Tuesday, 7 Oct, on 147.360 MHz (+), T=110.9 Hz commemorates our 50th anniversary.  You're all invited to check in.  On IRLP reflector 9005 you can connect a repeater or your personal device. 

You can read about SARC's history at ve7sar.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

We'll miss you!

Guess he should have listened the first time

Here is the Sep-Oct SARC Communicator Journal. Lots of Amateur Radio articles and build projects, reviews and much more. Download it at tinyurl.com/SARC25Sep-Oct or read it online bit.ly/SARC25Sept-Oct. The experimental AI version is at notebooklm.google.com/notebook/5cd.... Enjoy!

Have been using it with good success, especially with my inexpensive 15-year old SDR dongle.

Don’t forget you can listen to NWAG on your Alexa device.
Just enable the NW Allstar skill from the Amazon Skill Store and ask Alexa to “play North West Allstar”
A great way to listen in and keep up with the conversation when away from your radio.
#hamradio #hamr #alexa

The SARC Communicator July - August 2025
Another big issue, great articles, along with our regular columnists: ve7sar.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
Past Communicator issues ve7sar.blogspot.com/search/label...
Searchable index back to 2007 by subject, author, or issue search.communicator.ve7sar.net

Thank you Jim, and thanks for contributing an article to the next Communicator... should be out tomorrow. - 73, VE7TI

The bands are much better than Field Day. We are working the RAC Canada Day Contest. Happy 158th birthday Canada!

The SARC Communicator May-June 2025
Its a big issue, and great articles, along with our regular columnists.
ve7sar.blogspot.com/.../the-comm...,
Past Communicator issues ve7sar.blogspot.com/search/label...
Searchable index back to 2007 by subject, author, or issue search.communicator.ve7sar.net

MANNA@89 weekend almost over. We did quite well in BC so far despite horribly noisy QRN. We even managed to separate Stan VA7NF from his key long enough to make a rare phone contact. Worked all except two MANNA/ChowHound stations but W4C and VK80MANM we're still hunting for you.

We will be joined in our commemoration of Operations MANNA and CHOWHOUND by a very special team.

Dr. Maurice Brook was a Navigator on Lancasters with 625 squadron, and flew the Operation MANNA missions. Dr. Brook is now 100 years old, but will be on the air.
ve7sar.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-ve...

Who said kids are not into Amateur Radio. We just graduated this mom and her two kids from our last on-line course. The kids are age 11 and 13 and passed the written exam AND a CW endorsement! Congratulations and see you on the bands. Our next course starts April 7th

VB7MAN QSL Card

Planning for commemorating the life-saving food drops to NW Netherlands near the end of World War II is now in full swing. 62 nationalities were part of Bomber Command in WW2.

Please visit manna80.radio/the-stations/ and ve7sar.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... for our latest update.

The March-April SARC Communicator Journal is hot off the virtual press with 116 pages of amateur radio news, projects and views. Read in 165+ countries with 👍feedback. Read it at ve7sar.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Our special event callsign for MANNA @ 80 is confirmed as VB7MAN. Don't know about MANNA? It is the 80th anniversary of a lifesaving food drop to the starving residents of NW Holland in WW2. See www.qrz.com/db/VB7MAN and ve7sar.blogspot.com/2025/02/oper...

Our last Basic Amateur Radio course before the question bank changes starts Monday, April 7, 7-9pm, on-line for 7 weeks. There are over 200 new questions and the exam will be more technical. You may wish to take the course before changes take effect. Information:
drive.google.com/file/d/1m4fc...

Local park activation using Xeigu-g90 with 9ahr battery and a Chelegance jpc-7 as a vertical with ground spike.

Love my G90

Jan. 19, 1925: Genevieve Emerson, a 15-year-old high school student in Oakland, is believed to be the first girl to obtain an amateur radio operator's license. She transmits under the call sign 6APL.

Secret listeners – revealing the life of amateur radio heroes The Voluntary Interceptors, amateur radio enthusiasts, helped break Axis codes in WW2, secretly listening for crucial intelligence from home

Secret listeners – revealing the life of amateur radio heroes eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hi...

YouTube video by Surrey Amateur Radio Communications SARC on 24 GHz

SARC on 24 GHz! - Believed the first in BC
On Jan 22, 2025 at 14:30 pm local time, two members of the Surrey Amateur Radio Communications Society completed what is believed to be the first 24 GHz terrestrial contact in BC.

ve7sar.blogspot.com/2025/01/sarc...

I think its a dead link

We've had a lot of positive responses to a recent article posted in the January-February Communicator. Its called "A different kind of Foxhunt", ad its suitable for the urban fox hunters out there.
Here is the link: ve7sar.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-di...

If any of you have not discovered it, the Internet Archive of Amateur Radio has thousands of jewels like this, including our own Communicator digital journal. archive.org/details/sarc...

Final hours of the RAC Winter Contest. Operating as VE7RAC on 20m SSB and 10m CW.

OSCAR 1 - Wikipedia

63 years ago today (12 Dec 1961) on a Thor Agena rocket, OSCAR 1 launched into orbit. This marked the first amateur-led satellite to orbit, giving ham radio its first taste of amateur radio satellites. #amsat #oscar1 #projectOSCAR

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_1