{"id":5310,"date":"2026-05-03T14:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T17:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=5310"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T17:05:15","slug":"may-2026-events-of-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/may-2026-events-of-note\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2026 Events of Note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Antenna Workshop Event May 16th<\/strong> <strong>9:00 AM to 1:00 PM<\/strong> <br>Charlottetown Amateur Radio Club \u2014 HF Antenna Farming Workshop Event: &#8220;Antenna Wires &amp; Waves&#8221;Date: Saturday, May 16 \u2014 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Location: Royalty Centre, 40 Enman Crescent, West Royalty. 1st floor, room 125 \u2014 turn left. Leader: Gordon Bernard (VY2GB) Contact: 902-566-2962 | gsbernard@pei.sympatico.ca Who should attend: Any amateur planning to build, install, or test an inexpensive, efficient HF multi-band wire antenna system. Agenda covers: antenna resources, propagation and environmental factors, building hints, baluns\/ununs\/RFI chokes, horizontal and vertical HF wire systems, restricted-space antennas (apartments, etc.), inexpensive testing equipment, manual antenna tuners, support systems, and a show-and-tell segment. Participants bring: themselves, optionally coffee, a notebook, pen or pencil.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>*Emergency Preparedness Week &#8211; Touch a Truck Event May 9 10am-1pm<\/strong> <br>The PEI Emergency Measures Office will be hosting free information sessions across the province throughout the week and encourages Islanders to come meet members of the PEI EMO team and learn about how you can help keep yourself, your family and your community safe and prepared during emergencies. We will wrap up the week with an exciting Touch-a-Truck event, featuring a variety of emergency response vehicles and the incredible agencies that use them. It\u2019s a great chance to learn, explore, and have fun! We look forward to seeing you there! <strong>A few radio amateurs will be there with small footprint stations and demos set up.<\/strong> This event will be held May 9, at the Allen St. Sobeys Parking Lot, 400 University Avenue, an exciting Touch-a-Truck event, from 10:00 am &#8211; 1:00 pm.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5311,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions\/5311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}