The QRP Adventures of VE3FI

My wife bought me a new portable antenna for Christmas this year, and I took it out for today for the first time. It's produced by a cou...

Finally the weather has warmed up enough to get out and do another activation. We have had two weeks of bitterly cold weather, with the occa...

Tuesday morning saw me head off to Parrott's Bay, CA-5142, hoping the parking lot had finally been plowed out after our last big storm.....

The Old Mill in Delta Yesterday, January 31st, I believe the first Mills On The Air (MOTA) activation took place in North America with the a...

It's been a week, or more, since I did a POTA activation. The weather has been a never ending tale of heavy snow falls and brutal cold. ...

It's not looking very good propagation wise for tomorrow, January 20th. A good day for repairing antennas and cleaning radios I think. S...

It was the first time in 10 days that I have been on the HF bands today. While I'm still not over the flu, I'm actually feeling a lo...

I have to admit the bands were in far better shape than what I had been led to believe by yesterday's propagation numbers. 15m was the m...

Here we are in 2026 and wondering what surprises this year will bring - and given the current state of the world, who knows what will happen...

The first activation of 2026 happened this morning and conditions were not too bad. Lemoine Point, CA-5141, was fairly deserted when I got t...