CAD) Wo-coumy amerew Baio Gi i, row bigyis your world 7 Newsletter online at nitp:/veStca.weebly.com January 2017 Edition Next Club Meeting At Riverview Fire Dept Training Room 1 Meet and Greet9 10AM Regular Monthly Meeting At 10:00 nt Andre Goguen Vice President Steve Frost tary (VACANT PUT YOUR NAME HERE} Penny Clarke 's Gordie Morton Camille LeBlanc Tobie Boutot Breaking News!!!!! 2017 ham basic classes are starting Jan 21 For more info please contact: Yvon Hache yon.hachey@gmail.com Charles Levasseur VESCEL@ragers.com Tri-County Amateur Radio Club sponsors the following: Page oneThings at TCARC are running well am very pleased to see such good attendance at ourregular manthly meetings. jur RAC insurance has been renewed for 2017 Twould Ike to give special thanks to Yvon VETVON for setting up the training session for 2017. | really appreciate all the time and effort he has put into this endeavour. | also want to thank the other members who worked in recruiting the 14 students that we presently have lined up for the upcoming course that will begin on January 21, 2017 BTW I am still looking for a secretary for the Club. Any volunteers? André VESARG PRESTON Due to the December issue of the Newsletler nat being published online, | have decided to recycle some of the content from that issue Most of the material was sent te me by George VY2GF, 50 | wanted to make sure it was put out here for ail to enjoy. Thank you George for contributing. to hang out with the radios Lucky the Cat i | offered to do the newsielter for a couple reasons, one being that George seemed to need @ break and second, it would give me a chance te try something new. That being said, | set out to master the Scribus software that was already installed on my Linux laptop. It locked simple enough, so | played around a bit and got nowhere. | watched a couple videos on You Tube and downloaded a user manual and did a litte reading. I did not realize there was So muchto this. Anyway, | did learn a few things, mostly after | had already pieced together a few things that will make up this month's Newsletter which will kind of resemble a patchwork quit | intend to practice and learn, and with any luck will be able to set things up fer a more plausible effort for future editions. ® 5 | | will be in need of stories and other things to fill up the pages so please’send rhe anything of interest. Thanks, you can email me (Stephen Macintosh) Dy scanning the code or at VESSMA@gmail. com. =p fol =aThi County Anekaur Racho Ehud (hire, How big is your world? LIGHTHOUSE ACTIVATIONS. In the period between Aug. 2015 and Sept. 2016 Bernie (VE9BGC) and myself have activated five lighthouses on PE! using the calisign VY2PLH. Possible activations for 2077 are in the works but there will be.one special activation. The East Point lighthouse, on PEl's most easterly point, has been desigriated the Confederation Lighthouse to mark Canada’s 150th birthday. East Paint was granted this distinction because it's the only ‘surviving lighthouse constructed in 1867. Each year the major light house event is the International Lighthause Lightship Weekend {ilw.nel) from CO.01UTC 19 Aug. to 2400UTC 20 Aug. 2017 (48 hours). East Point. If you go to the 2077 entrants list on the ILLW web site you'll See the East Point listing. Given the Monaur bestowed on East Point it would be great if there were sufficient operators to operate for the duration. ACTIVATIONS 22/24/25 Sept. 2016 Tignish Run (ARLHS CAN 036) N46 86.776 W63 89.672 FNBGaw 20 August 2016 — Wood Islands (ILLW CAQ0S1/ARLHS CAN 535) N45 56.99 WE? 44 76 FNBSpw 3/4/5 June 2016 - Souris CAN 464 N46 20.76 WO2 14.85 FNB6Vi 16/7/18 October 2015 — Wood Islands CAN 535, 536 and 537. N45 $6.99 W62 44.76 FN@Spw TS August 2015 Cape Bear (ILLW CAQO49/ARLHS CAN 092) _N4600215 We2 27.487 FNBGsa 16 August 2015 East Point (ILLW CAQO48/ARLHS CAN 165) N46 27.152 W65158.31 FN@Bak Links Brent (VY2HF) 20176 ILLW hittps.www. youtube. com/watch?y-R7vo_PFDYOc&feature-youtu. be Media hitpylwww rcinet calen/2016/09/1S/new designation for historic lighthouse! Media httpulww.cbc.camnewsicanadaiprince edward island/pei confederation lighthouse 1.375495 East Point Lighthouse hitpyiwww-easipointighthouse.com/ Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society nitpviwlol.arins.comindex php George (V¥2GF) A humorous story which really happened ‘Back in the summer | was contacled by an amateur new to PEI. He had moved to the Souris area from ‘Ontario arid was told | might be available to assist him in installing a G5RV. | readily agreed and said I'd be there the next day. When | arrived the GSRV was already installed and operating. Apparently he had called the plumbers to deel with a problem and when they arrived he assumed they were myself and started describing where he wanted the GSRV. The plumbers went ahead and installed it and they did a real nice job! ‘George (VY2GF) Page ThreeTh County Amekaur Racho Glu ihe. How big is your world 7 Princess Auto Hot Deals Essential Equipment for Stealth Expeditions Shelter hulp princessauto comlenid ail? person hut ing blind/A p8BE7113e $199. ran princessauto col 33 mienidetailwoodland ghillie sut/A PBE2GB67e $75 Soldering Equiament Magnifying Soldering Station hopJMwww.princessaute comlendetailiiluminated magnifying sodering siatio OA PAGSIESSe $39.99 George (VY2GF) Page Four