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…
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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…
2024-04-18 mk’s Word – Delayed by lazy editor
That crazy antenna (a follow up to homebrew knight) At one point in the process of getting VE3RHQ up and running we were looking at omnidirectional antennas for satellite work.…
2024-03-29 Weird Stuff – Eclipsed by Garbage
[Wayne Stacey VE3QO shares some of his “Sixty Years of Weird Stuff in Radio”.] My first job as a university “summer stupid” was in the engineering department of a Winnipeg…
2024-03-25 Ed Explains the 2024 OARC Hamfest
Something old and something new … Even though the OARC hamfest is still several months away, it doesn’t hurt to be prepared well in advance. As always, we need lots…
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…
2024-01-27 Weird Stuff – Ya want fries with that QRM?
[Wayne Stacey VE3QO shares some of his “Sixty Years of Weird Stuff in Radio”.] In the early 1960’s, when gas cost a mere 35 cents per gallon, many teenagers in…
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…