World Amateur Radio Day (WARD) A few weeks ago a couple of us (Craig, VE3OP and I) realized that World Amateur Radio Day was coming up. We were wondering if…
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2023-04-19 mk’s Word – Homebrew Hints and Hacks
What? No in-person Homebrew Night?? It has been a while since I attended an in-person homebrew night, and it looks like it will be a while longer. So here’s a…
2023-04-01 mk’s Word – AI Being Installed on Local Repeaters
Coming soon to a repeater near you … You may have noticed a new trend in the local repeaters, with the introduction of artificial intelligence. Now instead of dropping occasional…
2023-03-15 mk’s Word – The Ide(a)s of March …
In search of … outdoor locations The temperatures are bobbing up and down through zero, as they should be this time of year. It has me thinking about those days…
2023-02-15 mk’s Word – A Radioactive Winter
Jumpin’ January … The CQ 160, one of my highlights of the winter, has come and gone for another year. This time, in an effort to defeat, or at least…
2023-01-15 mk’s Word – Startings and Endings
Where to begin? Start at the beginning, or somewhere else, but start. My accreditation as an examiner got renewed this week, which is a good thing, since I still have…
2022-12-15 mk’s Word – December Digressions
The winter 160m CW contest Its half past December and the first “real” snow of the winter is about to come down. We (the VE2OJ crew) got through another 160m…
2022-11-17 mk’s Word – November Notions
Novemburrr 2022 I’m in a Grrrumpy mood these days. That last gasp of summer like weather was fun while it lasted. Unfortunately it didn’t (couldn’t) stick around. I can’t decide…
2022-10-15 mk’s Word – Finding Foxes the Old-Fashioned Way
RITP and transmitter hunting For once I went to the Radio in the Park thing and didn’t set up a station. Instead, I wanted to see what transmitter hunting was…
2022-09-15 mk’s Word – A Plethora of Topics
Lots going on this month. Let there be light … We did the lighthouse thing. The antenna was good. The propagation was great but we didn’t hear many lighthouses on…