Project plethora …
It has been a busy month (again). Since homebrew night:
- Two separate Basic exam sessions (2 new hams)
- One exam session with the Carleton U Aerospace group (3 new hams 1 new Advanced)
- 5 pot lid net sessions including one as NCS
- World Amateur Radio Day (you already read about)
- RAC HQ antenna lowering, in preparation for the new hex beam
- The May OARC meeting with W6NBC on open wire line
- A meeting at SHQ to start organizing Field Day
- Delivery to my place of a rooftop tower for eventual deployment to the roof of VE3RHQ (more work to be done there)
- Helping one ham fix an antenna, and another deploy some wire into the trees.
Not much of all this had me sitting in front of a radio. Strangely, that’s OK. As I have said many times, to many candidates, it is fun to launch new hams on their hamming career. It is also fun to help hams new and old with puzzles and problems.
Solar signals …
I hope you had fun during the much publicized solar storm. 6m should have been hopping. I’m sure there are a lot of hams, especially newer ones who have never heard what auroral propagation sounds like. Is there a digital mode that can contend with that stuff? One thing that distinguishes amateur communication from the other guys is our willingness (mania) to make use of any propagation, no matter how improbable, messy or unpredictable it is. If you just spent your time moaning about how HF was broken, well it’s your loss.
Wiring worries …
Coming up my hamming time is still mostly going to be spent on VE3RHQ. We still have to sort out the cables (50 at last count) and figure out how to get all that wire through the roof to the shack. Once that’s done we will FINALLY be able to put antennas in the sky.
73
Keep thinking, keep building.
mk
VE3FFK
Last Updated on 2024-05-20 by AdminOARC