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.…
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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…
2024-01-05 Operation High Tower
Harrie VE3HYS found a video showing the installation of the original tower and buildings at Camp Fortune, where the VE2CRA repeaters live. Jump down to view the video (13:49). We…
2023-12-17 mk’s Word – Power to the People
Portable power purchase I recently bought a power station, not the one at Fitzroy, or Darlington, but a battery packaged with an inverter and DC-DC converter. It’s called the Ecoflow…
2023-11-17 mk’s Word – November Noise
Tricks of the trade? I’ve started to wonder, in a way I haven’s since I was about ten, what does everybody else know that I don’t. For example, something everybody…