Military Communications and Electronics Museum, Military museum in Kingston, Canada.
The Military Communications and Electronics Museum is a military museum in Kingston dedicated to signal technologies and equipment used by armed forces. It displays historical devices and transmission systems that shaped how soldiers communicated across different eras.
The museum was established in 1961 and traces military communications starting from 1903 through the World Wars. Its collections later expanded to cover the Korean War era and NATO peacekeeping operations that followed.
The museum exhibits include a memorial with models by sculptor Walter Allward, who designed the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France.
The museum sits on Ontario Highway 2 at CFB Kingston, in a purpose-built building opened in 1996. Exhibits run chronologically from the World War I galleries to the Afghanistan section, so following the sequence in order keeps the story clear. The working CFARS radio station, with callsigns CIW64, CIW964 and VE3RCS, is part of the displays.
The museum's amateur radio station carries three callsigns: CIW64 and CIW964 for the Canadian Forces Affiliate Radio System, and VE3RCS for the amateur service. CFARS, set up in 1978, uses its own official frequencies and identifiers rather than standard amateur ones.
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