Amateur Radio Station VE6DCM in
Edmonton, Canada
My Station
I have been actively involved in amateur radio since October 2001 using
the call
signs VE6WK / VE6DCM and located at grid square DO33. Originally
principally on VHF / UHF using FM and
SSB, and since July 2005 on HF. My station equipment consists of
a Yaesu FT-100D all band, all mode radio, Cushcraft AP8 vertical 80m to
10m, and Diamond
X-50A vertical VHF / UHF.
For mobile operation I have being using a Icom IC-2200H mobile, Yaesu
FT-150 HT, and Icom IC-91AD (D-Star) HT.
2010-04-19 Bill 16 - Traffic Safety ( Distracted Driver )
Amendment Act, 2010
In response to the initiative by Alberta Transportation to band all
recreational use of 2-way radio I forwarded the following letter to the
Minister of Transportation and subsequently e-mailed the same to all
Alberta MLAs.
Bill
16 Traffic Safety Distracted Driver Comments
This bill has the effect of completely eliminating all recreational
2-way radio communication while operating a motor vehicle. Aside
from the fact that 90% of all cell phone traffic is essentially
"recreational" communication, it is clearly unsupported by any evidence
to indicate that the use of a hand held microphone was ever a safety
problem.
2005-07-22 Decision by Industry Canada regarding Elimination
of Morse Code
The final decision by Industry Canada can be found at:
Spectrum Management and Telecommunications - Gazette Notice DGRB-003-05
2004-08-28 Canada Gazette Notice DGRB-002-04
Elimination of Morse Code
Amateur radio is changing rapidly in every
regulatory
jurisdiction around the globe. Here in Canada, the Department
of
Industry
(Industry Canada) accepted an request from the Radio Amateurs of Canada
(RAC)
for regulatory change and elimination of Morse code. Industry
Canada
released a call for comments in the Canada Gazette Notice
DGRB-003-04. I carefully considered the ramifications of the
changed proposed by the RAC and decided that it was necessary to
confront what I considered to be an abusive recommendation. You
may
obtain a pdf file version of my comments from this link: ve6dcm-dgrb-003-04-comments.pdf. size: 195 KB
These
comments were prepared in part because of the
perceived
natural unfairness of the RAC Proposal to arbitrarily exclude 24,000
licensed
radio operators from access to the HF bands, and to unreasonably
increase the
pass mark for future amateur radio operators from the current 60% to
80%. It is perceived that the effect of the RAC
Proposal
would be to
unreasonably limit access by Canadians to the amateur bands and the
universal
enjoyment of the hobby.
Should you
wish to contact me you may
send an e-mail to:
info.yyyy@thranite.com
Replace yyyy with the current year.
Put
RADIO in
the subject
line of your e-mail to get past the SPAM filters.
Albert Einstein, when asked to
describe radio, replied:
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat.
You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los
Angeles.
Do you understand this?
And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
receive them there.
The only difference is that there is no
cat."
Useful
Links:
Radio
Amateurs of Canada
NARC -
Northern Alberta Radio Club repeaters: VE6HM VE6UV
NARC
- Northern Alberta Radio Club - Forum
QCARC - Quarter Century
Amateur Radio Club repeaters: VE6QCR VE6BOX
VE6PP VE6SS
North Central Amateur
Radio Club (St. Albert)
Industry
Canada - Amateur
Radio Service
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