Comox Swap Meet

9 Feb
The Comox Valley Amateur Radio Club will be holding it’s second annual swap meet this year on April 1st. It will be located at the Florence Filberg Centre in Courtenay. Tables will be $20 and setup time is 08:30 and ... Read more »

Single Sideband Net on VHF

17 Oct
The ‘225 net’ meets each Thursday night @ 7pm on a frequency of 144.225 MHz using USB.  Host/Net Control is Merlin, VE7OR, operating from Chinatown in Vancouver. I typically sign in, getting 5×7 signal reports from Merlin, from my place ... Read more »

Dave VA7DWZ and Mount Arrowsmith

24 Sep

Yesterday I helped the Arrowsmith radio club install a new digi-peater antenna at their VE7KU repeater on Mt. Arrowsmith-ish. Drove logging roads to 1,200 metres, and then a 1/2-hour alpine hike to the tower. It was great fun 🙂  Antenna not yet installed in picture.

Dave Randall VA7DWZ

 

Editor’s note:  Dave is an enthusiastic graduate of this year’s Ham Class