This year, Brett (VE7GM) and Eric (VA7NX) wanted to try something different for Field Day. Rather than just join a club activity or set up in one’s yard, plans were made to travel to a mountain summit and try a QRP operation from the high altitude.  We needed a summit that met a long list of

Eric Kehler (VA7NX) set out with his son and HF go kit to the far reaches of the back country where no other communication is available and from there make a call back home. The site where Eric set up was near the furthest point along the Elaho forestry road far up the valley and overlooking the

Stuart is operating from the telegraphy room at the restored Empress, Alberta, rail station as VE6100EMP.

Equipment is Kenwood 480SAT,a paddle, and a Buddistick. He has a dipole with him and the means to raise it,but there does not seem to be a need

Yugoslavia (Serbia),Poland, Czech Republic

Club members Ralph and Eric provided radio assistance once again with the annual bike-a-thon. This is a major fund-raiser for the Vancouver Rotary Club and all proceeds are used to help with hearing loss programs in the region. This year was the 30 year for the event and some of our operators have

Many Amateurs who work on the HF bands have the opportunity of contacting many stations from across the world and have an enjoyable time doing so.  With improved antennas and radios, it is becoming relatively easy to ‘work the world’ as the saying goes.  What most Amateurs don’t have, is the

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