Thursday, 23 July 2020

IOTA 2020

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This coming weekend, July 25-26, is the 2020 IOTA Contest.   There are a few rule changes for this year, and they can be found HERE . Th...
Sunday, 19 July 2020

August Events...

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Tired of sitting at home staying safe from Covid-19?  Is the XYL tired of you being in the house under her feet all the time?  Need an excus...
Saturday, 18 July 2020

Linked Dipole

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There's not much going on in the VE3FI household these days, due to covid-19.  As a result I decided to go through the rucksack that hol...
Monday, 6 July 2020

IARU HF Championship

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Coming up this weekend, July 11 - 12, is the IARU HF World Championship.  The contest runs from 1200 UTC Saturday and ends at 1159 UTC on Su...
Thursday, 2 July 2020

Another Good Day on the Bands...

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Another Canada Day Contest is over.  I particularly like this contest, it is a lot more relaxed than other ones. It did start off slow, but ...
Monday, 29 June 2020

Canada Day 2020

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Coming hot on the heels of Field Day is the RAC Canada Day Contest.  This contest runs from 0000 UTC  to 2359 UTC on Wednesday, July 1st. Th...
Sunday, 28 June 2020

Field Day 2020 - the outcome...

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It was just not the same operating on my own rather than with the guys in the club.  It was thoroughly enjoyable and a tough slog, b ut, we ...
Monday, 22 June 2020

A Good Night...

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It was an excellent night on 20m tonight.  After dinner I went to the shack and set up the KX3 as I wanted to use it for the local 80m QRP n...
Sunday, 21 June 2020

Field Day 2020...

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Next weekend is Field Day, and for the first time in almost 20 years I'll be doing it on my own due to the current covid-19 restrictio...
Monday, 15 June 2020

80m - 10m EFHW Antenna...update

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The new antenna has been up in the air for about 2 days now and I have had a chance to make a few QSO's on it, both local and DX. So far...