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…
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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…
2023-07-18 mk’s Word – Field Day Finale
Yet more about Field Day I’ve been looking through the field day logs to see what I can learn. It was obviously more productive than recent years, with more QSOs…
2023-06-15 mk’s Word – Summer solstice approaches
Exam-in-nation Exams have quieted down after the rather hectic pace I reported at the end of last month, but there is still another one on the calendar for next week.…
2023-06-01 mk’s Numbers – Another year of exams
(As you may know, Mike VE3FFK is the OARC’s ISED Delegated Examiner. This is his report for the 2022-2023 year.) New exam record set This year has been a record…
2023-05-16 mk’s Word – May’s Mixed Messages
Antenna re-think Looking back at the pictures from my 2023 World Amateur Radio Day (WARD) article, I see I could have made some improvements. The legs at the base of…