Special Event Staion VY1T - Teslin Historical and Museum
Society . Grand Opening of Aeradio Exhibit.
2011-02-08

The VY1T Special Event Station will be on the air from June 29,
2011 to July 1, 2011 for the Grand Opening of Aeradio Exhibit at the
Teslin Historical and Museum Society in Teslin, YT.

VY1EI Eric our resident contester, will use VY1T on June 29th from
Whitehorse. Club Station VY1T will be on the air from Teslin
Yukon, at the George Johnson Museum June 30th from early morning
to late afternoon. VY1T will be on the air from Whitehorse on Canada
Day as a club station. QSL will be available

On June 30th please find us on 20 meters around 14.180 or so, also may
try 14.140

QSL via Hugh Henderson, VY1EEN at P.O. Box 33062, Whitehorse,
YT Y1A 5Y5

More information to be found on the Yukon Amateur Radio Association
website at http://www.yara.ca/ or contact Ron McFadyen at



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On June 30th 2011, The Teslin Historical and Museum Society, owner and
operator of the George Johnston Museum, Mile 804 Alaska Highway,
Teslin, will host a large gathering to celebrate the Grand Opening of
its historical and (now) unique Aeradio Navigation Range Building
(1941), with its interior exhibits.

The exhibits tell the story of Teslin from 1940-55 when its quiet and
simple northern village life was overturned with the coming of RCAF
Teslin base, the Aeradio Navigation Range, and the Alcan Highway.
The story is told with transmitters, other artefacts, text and
photographs inside a rare 1941 radio range air navigation building.

We would be delighted if Yukon ham operators, former DOT telegraphers,
amateur radio and radio telecommunication enthusiasts would attend the
Opening. We feel that this is appropriate because DOT staff of RCAF
Teslin not only handled hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of
radio messages from 1940-55 but because they were avid amateur radio
hams on their off duty hours. They controlled this aeradio building
and were central to Teslin's wartime role.

The Society will welcome dignitaries and guests, such as yourselves,
to Teslin for a formal ribbon-cutting, a sit-down traditional Dominion
Day Silver Tea, to view other new exhibits inside the Museum, a
display of ham radio (so popular in the 1940s) and other events
recalling that era in Teslin. Guests will be invited to "make a day of
it" and visit the local high-quality Yukon Wildlife Gallery and Teslin
Tlingit Council's elegant Heritage Centre exhibits. This invitation is
a preview to the formal invitation to be sent in Spring of 2011.

Should you wish to arrange overnight accommodation, please contact
Yukon Motel (1 867- 390 2443), Teslin Lake Motel (-390 2521) or Dawson
Peaks (-390-2244) for a selection of rooms, cabins and meals. Teslin
Lake offers superb trout, grayling, burbot and pike fishing. Charters
and leisure boat rides are available. Excursions for small groups can
be arranged by the Museum.


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