The QRP Adventures of VE3FI

Coming up this weekend is the Islands on the Air contest.  It's always interesting working the various islands that pop-up on the air, a...

I decided to finally get out and do a POTA activation today.  The bands have not been the best over the last couple of weeks so I have not b...

Over the past year I have mainly, for convenience, used Hamsticks for my portable activations, and I have been very happy with them.  The pr...

Coming up next month, 0001 UTC August 20 to 2359 UTC August 21, is the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend.    This  year, 2022, ...

This doesn't look too good!!   This is the forecast for Monday to Wednesday.  Wednesday does not look to be a good day for chasing DX or...

Coming up next weekend, is what should be one of the best DX contests of the year, the IARU HF Championships.   Hopefully the propagation wi...

On June 19th I wrote on this blog that I would like to see what the QSO pattern difference was between my operating using 10w and hamsticks ...

What a weekend!!   After the last two years worth of Field Days with the hundreds of high power 1D stations taking part, this year was very ...

The preparations continue for Field Day.  This year we are travelling 90 minutes west to Grafton, Ontario , to a site we have used before, w...

It certainly has been a lousy weekend for doing portable radio.  The weather was fine, the band conditions not so much! On Saturday the prop...