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…
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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…
2023-10-16 mk’s Word – Racks of RAC’s Records
Get moving … I’ve been spending a lot more time than my usual day a week at RAC these days. As some of you know, it was decided that after…
2023-10-10 Weird Stuff – A Transmitter Named Adolf
[Wayne Stacey VE3QO shares some of his “Sixty Years of Weird Stuff in Radio”.] For me, one of the big bonuses of beginning my post-secondary education at the University of…
2023-09-16 mk’s Word – Radio Activity Returns
Fun times Unlike last time, there seems to be lots going on again. First, with RAC HQ being in the same city as our newly minted director, Craig, VE3OP/VE3KKU is…
2023-08-18 mk’s Word – August Angst Abounds
The lament Where did summer go? It’s half past August already, even though Field Day was only a week or so ago, or so it seems. There hasn’t been much…