This year’s Field Day was held at Peter Rizzi’s (VE7RZZ) QTH. By all accounts Field Day went well. We even had a couple of guests stop by – Daryl (sp) from Revelstoke and Ron Rosmer/VE6FV from Hinton, AB. who operated one of our stations for several hours and took some Drone videos of the site that he’s share with us at the link below:
This card was gratefully received for our support of the 2025 Reino Keski-Salmi Loppet. Thank you to our club members who participated!
2025 – Reino Keski-Salmi Loppet
Well, it’s done and dusted for another year and what a day it was. Temperatures were about -7 and the sun was shining for the 41st annual Reino Keski-Salmi Loppet. Even with the milder temperatures and the lack of snow at lower elevations the course was in pristine condition. There were 429 registered racers this year along with their families and cheering crews. The race course was altered slightly from previous years to a 32 Km double loop format that proved to be more efficient. The new course worked so well that the SARC crew was back at the chalet before 13:00 hours.
On Friday, September 27th, Dorn VE7HDU and Hans VE7OHR provided transportation for Phil VE7BPH and Robin VE7HMN up to the Queest Mountain Repeater via the Malakwa route.
Enjoying the southern Ontario weather. HF is very active this morning. Contacts in
Texas, and multiple contacts in Kansas, Decided to use my BuddiePole and two stainless steel 5.4 meter arms for my dipole with a 1:1 balun.
Wayne, VA7VT has chosen to ignore the long held tradition of doing tower work in the depths of winter. Instead, he’s decided to repair the coax to his 2M antenna in the heat of summer.
In order to verify the coverage of the Shuswap Amateur Radio Club repeaters compared to modeling data, the club decided to organize and hold an exercise to determine the actual coverage of the VHF repeaters on the major highway routes in the region. The exercise was held on Saturday, June 22nd 2024 starting at 10:30AM local time.
Was visiting Ottawa in July and attended the POTA outing held by the Ottawa Valley Mobile radio club. Here is one of their members VE3LC working FT8 mobile with a RasperryPi400 interfaced to an apple ipad for display..
Was dealing with an older Kenwood TM D700 VHF/UHF mobile. Fan was really noisy to the point of being unusable in the home qth. I googled the problem and found that if you remove the fan from the casing, peel off the fan identity sticker and add a few drops of light oil the noise stops… fyi to all and 73 for now.
Was camping at Carnes Creek Rec Site last week. Camp site #6 set up my Zastone D9000 and a small magnet mount UHF/VHF car mount antenna mounted to a baking ray.