Individual Operating Stories

These activities are about individuals doing radio related adventures that may involve a small number of club members

Club Members Ralph, Brett and Eric packed up their radios and hiking boots and made for the summit of Mt Agassiz. It was our goal to be the first to activate the Mt Agassiz in the Summits on the Air program. We set off on the lovely morning of July 20, 2013 for the peak and drove up the logging road

The ARRL Rookie roundup SSB  took place on Sunday April 21 and we participated from VE7IO.


Pamela Hamilton, VE7PFH, who has been licensed since November 2012 joined in for a couple of hours of training and fun on ham radio.  Pam quickly adapted to the operation of the equipment and after a very

I set off on a 2 week hunting trip (Sept 19-Oct4)  north to the Dawson Creek/TumblerRidge area of BC & took along my ham radio equipment.  The camper has been renovated since my last trip with the addition of 16' of 4ga wire acting as a feed line from my RV battery to the Anderson Power Pole system

The early morning hours of Sept 8th, saw Eric, VA7NX and Ralph, VE7OM heading toward the eastern Fraser Valley.  The purpose of this jaunt was to activate Mount Cheam.  The Summits on the Air group, out of the UK, encourage individual Amateurs and groups to experience the great outdoors and bring

Details of the Automatic Packet (Position) Reporting System are available from many sources. An excellent example is The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications 2011 or later edition.


My APRS experience has been entirely on the Kenwood TH-D72 hand-held dual band transceiver, which has GPS (Global

Here are some photos of my field day 2012 weekend at the cottage in Ontario.


I set up my camper on my truck & positioned my antenna, a G5RV, in a north/south direction. Hoping to contact the WRARC but unfortunately only south & east contacts were made.


I made 54 QSO's, which included 26 US

I recently assembled an HF go kit for my back country travels. The kit comprises an IC-7000 with a home built OCF dipole antenna. Since I already had a sectional mast for use in the hills with my VHF gear, I decided it was time to do some HF testing as well.  Since the Canada Day contest was only a

Here’s a brief rundown on my recent adventures with the Buddipole antenna. I bought this antenna to use when out and about in our motor home.


Thanks to Stuart/VA7QB and Ralph/VE7OM for their input and assistance. Stuart has the buddi stick version of the antenna and Ralph uses the Buddipole

I have been traveling the back country for years, exploring the logging roads and hiking the hills. It was my desire for safety that led me to radio. My first radio was a commercial unit that enabled me to track the logging trucks on the narrow roads and communicate with them as needed. This sparked

Two members of the White Rock Amateur Radio Club acted as operators for the annual Hyack Parade in New Westminster, May 24, 2008.  Stuart (VA7CRH) was assigned to a shuttle bus, and Ross (VA7NRW) was assigned to shadow the executive director of the event.  In all there were about 20 operators at

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