Well, I was going to tell you all about how the Commonwealth Contest went. But let’s preempt that for a bit about the March OARC meeting. March Meeting brought comments,…
Author: Mike VE3FFK
2025-02-19 mk’s Word – February Frequencies
Too bad about the February monthly meeting being cancelled. I hope everybody got the word. I guess we will try again in March. It’s nice to hear the Canadian Ski…
2025-01-15 mk’s Word – And Pictures Too
Whipping up an antenna … Since there isn’t much going on here just now, I thought I’d let you see a few of the toys I’ve acquired recently. The first…
2024-12-19 mk’s Word – Winter Wonderings
I’m back … No, I didn’t really go anywhere, but haven’t put any words onto the OARC website since the weather was nice. Partly I was busy with the station…
2024-07-20 mk’s Word – Mid-summer Musings
What has happened? Here it is, half past summer already. Where did it go? Since my last report, at least two happenings happened – Field Day and Canada Day, which…
2024-06-17 mk’s Word – Examination and Rumination
Club examiner’s report … First, my year-end examiner report from June 1, 2023 to May 31 2024: Some of those who failed an exam subsequently re-wrote and passed. Two candidates…
2024-05-19 mk’s Word – Busy, busy, busy
Project plethora … It has been a busy month (again). Since homebrew night: Not much of all this had me sitting in front of a radio. Strangely, that’s OK. As…
2024-03-17 mk’s Word – Empires, drones, and rabbits
Contesting and networking … I stuck my toe in the Commonwealth Contest, AKA BERU, (from the days when it was called the British Empire Radio Union contest, who says we…
2024-02-20 mk’s Word – Is It Spring Yet?
Skating on thin ice … I’m writing this just after spending time on the expressway known as the ARRL CW DX contest, and looking forward to QSYing to the pot…
2024-01-16 mk’s Word – Snow Fun, Is it?
What to do in the dead of winter January, and real winter has arrived, just in time for Winter Field Day and the Canadian Ski Marathon. At this point, it…