The QRP Adventures of VE3FI

Last Saturday I, and three other members of the Upper Canada QRP Club, set off early to activate 2 separate islands for the W/V Island QSO P...

Propagation is not looking very good for the next few days!!

Tomorrow, August 27th, sees this years W/V Island QSO party.  The QSO party runs from 1200 UTC August 27, to 0300 UTC August 28. If you wish...

Well, the propagation numbers were not very good today, as you can see from the posting below this one.  But....I've been in the house l...

The latest solar weather report sure isn't a good one....looks like a couple of rough radio days ahead of us.   Update:  It may be the w...

Yesterday morning, Don VE3MNE, and John VE3WTN, and I, drove down to Lake Ontario Park here in Kingston, and did a bit of antenna experiment...

I haven't used my Buddipole system, except for the telescopic whips, for about 6 years now.  Most of the parts are scattered in various ...

Coming up on the weekend of August 27/28, is this years edition of the W / VE Island QSO Party.   This will be the first time in two years t...

With the heat we have been having over the past few weeks I have noticed that my KX3 tends to get a bit warm at times, and of course the rad...

After a week of lousy propagation we finally had a not-so-bad day today, and I managed to make contacts on both the west and east coasts. Pr...