{"id":1752,"date":"2023-07-21T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T18:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2023-07-21T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T18:28:38","slug":"buffalos-on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/buffalos-on-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalos on the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 22 in Comox, BC, Winnipeg, MB, Trenton, ON, and Summerside, PEI, these radio operators will use a combination of ham radios and existing antennae on CC115 Buffalos to communicate with each other and with other amateur radio operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will operate on civilian amateur&nbsp;radio&nbsp;band frequencies and make brief&nbsp;radio&nbsp;contact with other&nbsp;radio&nbsp;operators around the globe, mostly in Canada and the USA, depending on ionosphere conditions (read more about the ionosphere below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/royalaviationmuseum.com\/cross-canada-ham-radio-event-to-be-held-at-ramwc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cross-Canada ham radio event to be held at RAMWC &#8211; Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four sites will be attempting a Buffalo net coast-to-coast on <strong>14.135 MHz SSB at noon EST (0900 PST) on Saturday, July 22.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re an amateur radio operator and would like to make contact during the event, here are the call signs for each of the four stations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VC7BUFF457 Comox BC \u2013 Phillip Tanner VA7XOZ<br>VC4BUFF462 Winnipeg MB \u2013 Calvin Winter VE4AJ<br>VC3BUFF456 Trenton ON \u2013 Dave Ackerman VE3UGT \/ VE3OX<br>VY2BUFF451 Summerside PEI \u2013 Doug Silliker VY2DS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/BOTA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1753\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 22 in Comox, BC, Winnipeg, MB, Trenton, ON, and Summerside, PEI, these radio operators will use a combination of ham radios and existing antennae on CC115 Buffalos to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}