Winter Field Day

Coming up on January 25th & 26th is Winter Field Day.

Information can be found HERE.

This is for ALL hams, not just North Americans.

The New Year...

VE3GO, VA3QV, VE3MNE, VE3WTN, & VE3DZE.

Some of the local characters at the Frontenac Radio Group meeting last night, held at the County Ambulance Logistics Base.

Instead of being out in the cold warehouse next to the command vehicles and support trucks, these guys snuck into the Chief's office.

As a group we are very fortunate to be able to use the logistics base for our meetings.  It also has the benefit that the paramedics, and their supervisors, know who was are.

Sad Day

Lieutenant-Colonel Fernand Gerard Villeneuve, AFC, CD, RCAF Rtd. 

July 2, 1927—December 25, 2019

Founder and First Commanding Officer of the 

RCAF Golden Hawks Aerobatic Team.

Australian Emergency...

DX Marathon...

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years, I know I certainly did.  2019 seemed to go by so fast, we can only hope 2020 slows down a bit so we can all enjoy it.

The other day I came across this LINK.  If you don't know about the DX Marathon have a read, it's a well kept secret that needs to be made much more public.

What a great motivation this will be to try and get on the air every day.  Hopefully, as the bands get better, and the propagation starts to improve, this will be fun.

The rules for this event can be found HERE.

Happy New Year Everyone...

Its over….for this year

I think this years RAC Winter Contest was the best in a number of years.....by far.   In the end I managed to work Coast to Coast to Coast, ending up with a respectable number of QSO's......far better than the last three years combined!!

As well I also managed DX QSO's with France, Slovenia, and Belgium, all on 20m, and all of them totally unexpected.  In the end I made contacts on 20m, 40m, 80m, and 160m.  Occasionally I checked both 10m and 15m, but I never heard a thing on them, not even  in the CW portion.

Propagation for the contest was: SFI=72, SN=0, A=13, and K=2.  I have heard other local ops tell me they had high noise on the bands that hindered their efforts, but I had none of that, the bands sounded good to me.

I even managed to work the ever elusive Bob, VA3QV, on 20m.  It's amazing where you find him 😁

Now I'm off to start making some long range plans for 2020.

RAC Winter Contest 2019

Coming up this weekend, December 28th, is the 2019 edition of the RAC Winter Contest.  This is a great relaxed contest, many of the Ops stop and have a quick chat during the contact.  It's a good way to work Canada, Coast to Coast to Coast.

Rules can be found HERE.