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Stories, projects, and updates from our amateur radio community.

2026

  1. RAC TCA Live

  2. Installing and Tuning a Fan Dipole Antenna

  3. Echolink Back Online

  4. IC-7300MK2 Remote

  5. CYD Ham Dashboard

  6. School Amateur Radio Club Network

  7. EasySkyMesh Firmware for Meshcore

  8. VA7ILO Meshcore Repeater Build

  9. Pebble HF

  10. Early Computer Made from Ferrite Cores

  11. Swap meet Aug 15

  12. DigiPi Hotspot

  13. The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally

  14. Consultation on Amendments to the Tower Siting Process

  15. Next Level RFI story

  16. Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

  17. Extremely Low Frequencies

  18. html Offline Logger

  19. Quick Offline Ham Search

  20. Echolink WebApp

  21. MeshCore Split

  22. Project NOMAD

  23. TE-KEVFLEX

  24. Emergency Communication for Non-Hams

  25. ISED Radio Equipment List

  26. Rattlegram Desktop

  27. Savvy 2-Element POTA antenna

  28. AIOC (All-in-one-Cable)

  29. Discovery Drive for the Discovery Dish

  30. Getting Started with FreeDV

  31. TX-500MP and LiNK500MP TNC

  32. Intercept

2025

  1. 24 hours of Earth's Rotation

  2. Coastal Flood Mapping

  3. The CRASH Clock

  4. LinHT

  5. FreeDV: Open Source HF Digital Voice

  6. Future Canadian Ham Blogs About His Classes

  7. It's Hard to Build an Oscillator

  8. Alien Signal or Meteor Scatter?

  9. ESP32 Antenna Array Can See WiFi

  10. RTL-SDR Compatible Android App

  11. What Does "Impedance Matching" Actually Look Like?

  12. Winlink Thursday

  13. Pinpoint and Track Radio Signals from 100MHz to 1GHz

  14. The AST SpaceMobile Battle Continues

  15. Controlling Shopping Carts Remotely

  16. AST SpaceMobile Defends Use of Ham Radio Spectrum

  17. How to Identify an Unknown Ferrite Core (Video)

  18. The Grey Line - A Twilight of Propagation

  19. Where are we in Solar Cycle 25

  20. Are EMPs a real threat to our radio gear?

  21. Centralize Your Amateur Radio Articles

  22. Got Radials? Got coax? Big Question: Touch or not Touch?

  23. What's Up With All These USB Connectors?

  24. Repeater Coverage Map

  25. Spider-Web Network Topology

  26. Antenna Isolation

  27. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications

  28. IC-7300 Low Receive Signal Strength

2024

  1. Quansheng UV-K5

  2. Telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'

  3. Chirp Update

  4. Updated Band Plan Script

  5. Updated Frequency Lists

  6. New IC-7760 Coming Soon

  7. K4XO: Antenna builds, theory, testing and more.

  8. Website Changes

  9. 2024 New Yaesu FM Analogue Mobiles

  10. Rattlegram - SMS via audio (and radio)

  11. Echolink Off due to Power Outage (Back On Now)

  12. Emergency Communication Lessons Learned From Hurricane Helene

  13. AREDN Demo Notes

  14. New Echolink Computer Installed

  15. Ham Radio Used to Help in the Wake of Helene

  16. Estimating Cost of Electricity

  17. RFI from Starlink to radio astronomers

  18. Electricity Consumption of our EV

  19. Repeater Output As Simplex Frequency

  20. End of BCSwap.ca

  21. Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

  22. Talking to the World with FT8 on a CRKits ADX-S QRP Radio

2023

  1. Mini-swap meet Nov 13: huge selection

  2. Basic Course by NARA Over Zoom

  3. DLARC

  4. Meet some of the Coast’s amateur radio volunteers preparing for emergencies

  5. 25th World Scout Jamboree 2023 Korea

  6. Echolink Is Back

  7. Canada Day Contest 2023

  8. ARRL Field Day 2023

  9. Guardian Article on Amateur Radio

  10. chek NEWS article about Vancouver Island Ham

  11. Mini-Swap Meet May 27th

  12. Beavers/Cubs Battleship Event

  13. VE7FJK in the newsletter for Sechelt Activities Centre

  14. City News Report on Contacting ISS

  15. ADS-X Arduino based QRP Digital modes kit.

  16. K9YO-15

  17. Winter Field Day Logs

  18. Carbon Oxygen Battery

2022

  1. OpenStreetMaps

  2. Ham Radio Repeater Connects Lost Hiker

  3. Three Canadian Amateurs Are Now Authorized on the 8m Band

  4. Montana PBS Documentary: HAM

  5. JOTA in the Coast Reporter

  6. JOTA 2022

  7. New Repeater in Nanaimo

  8. Mailing List is Down

  9. Some AREDN news...

  10. Echolink Back Online

  11. New MIRA AREDN Net

  12. Wiki Update COMPLETE

  13. Canada Day Field Day 2022

  14. UTC Time on IC-7300

  15. Who Knew Grounding Was Controversial

  16. HAARP on the Air

  17. Blowing up Capacitors at 187000 fps

  18. Raspberry Pi Can Detect Malware By Scanning for EM Waves

  19. Guide to Doing Radio Astronomy with RPi and SDR [pdf]

  20. Hummingbird Feeder Heater

2021

  1. New Site Template

  2. Decoding James Web Telescope

  3. AREDN Wiki

  4. New Club Banner

  5. Tuesday Morning Net

  6. VE7RXZ Issue [RESOLVED]

  7. JOTA 2021

  8. That's One Way To Install a Rotator

  9. Barker & Williamson Antenna Install at the SCRD

  10. Cuban Government Jamming 40 meters

  11. Hidden Baofeng Settings

  12. Temporary VE7SCK Crossband Link DISCONNECTED

  13. Successful AREDN connection to Nanaimo

  14. ARRL Field Day 2021

  15. New Tags

  16. Test 1

  17. test 2

  18. test 3

  19. Vancouver Recording Studio Plagued by Radio Interference

  20. Sea Signals

  21. Narrowband Proposal

  22. Is it Ham Radio?

  23. AREDN

  24. Membership Due

  25. Covid-19 Spread (Part III)

  26. The Anatomy of a Scam

  27. Possible Low Budget Antenna?

  28. Universal Radio Hacker

  29. British Columbia Radio Amateur Copies Signal from Mars-Orbiting Satellite

  30. Ham Radio Forms a Planet-Sized Space Weather Sensor Network

  31. Report: Winter Field Day 2021

  32. ATU-100 Project

  33. Winter Field Day

  34. Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World

  35. Printed References

  36. Civility in Ham Radio

  37. JS8Call HF Net Process (Update)

2020

  1. Surrey Amateur Radio Club Basic Course Jan 2021

  2. Amateur Radio Tech Talks

  3. A look at Chang’e 5 telemetry

  4. VE7SCK Update 8

  5. Geogebra Plugin

  6. Jamboree on the Air

  7. BCPSN Checkins

  8. HamCuredSmoke

  9. VE7TIL Hears Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

  10. ReactOS Attempt

  11. Baofeng Saves Mars Mission

  12. Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months

  13. Thursday Net Announcement

  14. More Info on the Radio Aboard ISS

  15. No more WINMOR

  16. Emergency Preparedness Podcast Episode

  17. VA7FI's New Desk

  18. Welcome Richard Mitchell

  19. Welcome Back John Hall

  20. Welcome Kevin Southern

  21. iPhone RFI

  22. Ham radio is dying! No it’s not, it’s evolving

  23. Very Brief History of SDR

  24. Phaser Digital Mode Transceiver Kit

  25. PicoAPRS

  26. Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shreds dish

  27. Conspiracy Theories

  28. SpaceX Satellites Ruin Picture of Comet

  29. BCPSN on Youtube

  30. Donate to CVARS

  31. LunART- Luna Amateur Radio Transponder

  32. The Ghostly Radio Station

  33. Virtual Ham Expo

  34. The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio

  35. Bowen Island Repeater Linking

  36. VE7QNX Repeater

  37. The Magnetic Amplifier

  38. Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son, by John Mills

  39. Field Day 2020

  40. Marble Computer

  41. Digital Concepts

  42. DIY $3 Automatic Router Re-starter

  43. How Amateur Radio is Connecting People during Lockdown

  44. Thursday Evening Net

  45. Zombie Satellites

  46. Power Cable Resistance

  47. Amateur radio operators turn to analog tech to communicate during pandemic

  48. LAN-IQ SDR (Stand-alone SDR)

  49. Historic first Trans-Atlantic contact made on 432 MHz - Tues 7th April 2020

  50. CBC Article on Pandemic and Amateur Radio

  51. Morse Code from a Raspberry Pi

  52. My New Book

  53. RAC Online Radio Courses

  54. N8XJK Super Booster

  55. COVID-19 Spread (Part II) Updated

  56. SCARCS and COVID-19

  57. COVID-19 Spread (Part I)

  58. BC Hydro Considers Replacing Old Streetlights With LEDs (Update)

  59. Congratulations to Marc Beaupre (VE7TBP)

  60. Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergencies

  61. Winter Field Day 2020 Results

  62. WLW: America's 500,000 watt radio station

  63. Slot Antenna

  64. Winter Field Day 2020 2

  65. SSTV from the ISS

2019

  1. BC Wildfire App

  2. When Cell Service Goes Down

  3. VE7XNC Going Away and Christmas Dinner 2019

  4. JS8Call Now Faster (or Slower)

  5. Congratulations to Patrick and Robert

  6. MIRA Repeater Use

  7. CVARS 6m Repeater

  8. Congratulations to Stephen Smith (VA7SMI) on Publishing his Book

  9. Cool Weather Website

  10. RSPdx Coming Soon (Update)

  11. Fault line under Strait of Georgia could cause 6.0 earthquake off Sunshine Coast

  12. Burnaby Radio is Moving

  13. MB1 Transceiver

  14. A 433 MHz Radio Chat Device

  15. IC-9700 Review

  16. New Antenna Uses Saltwater and Plastic to Steer Radio Beams

  17. Communications for 2020 Trail Race Series

  18. Secret Antenna Tips

  19. For New Members

  20. Monitoring Winlink Traffic (UPDATE)

  21. US Air Force Gets Flex HF Radios

  22. Icom IC-705 Announced

  23. New Logo!

  24. Winter Field Day 2020

  25. W7LI Repeater

  26. VECTOR President Interviewed on CBC

  27. RC Fire Hall

  28. VE7SCK Update

  29. Simplex Test on Largo Rd

  30. VE7BNV Up and Running on Bowen

  31. Podcast of Canadian Ham Radio Exam Questions

  32. Farewell to Ron Kaiser - VA7GRK

  33. Sold IC-A6

  34. Field Day 2019 Newspaper Coverage

  35. Suppression of a Local Noise Source Using a RSPduo

  36. California Earthquakes and Propagation

  37. BCARCC AGM in TCA

  38. Ham Radio a Hobby or Utility?

  39. Field Day 2019 Preliminary Results

  40. Update: Island Trunk System - Newastle Ridge Building Replacement Appeal

  41. Ham Locked Baofeng Radios

  42. What's New

  43. First ever transatlantic 2m contact

  44. Lots To Do

  45. Field Day 2019

  46. Club Media Coverage

  47. Arthur (Jim) Wilkinson - VE7CGP

  48. ARRL Field Day 2019

  49. 2m Band Endangered?

  50. 2019 Puddle Jumper Classic

  51. Open Source Electronics Lab for $30USD

  52. IRLP Maintenance

  53. Report from the BCARCC AGM

  54. Radio interference from Solar Panels

  55. RemoteQTH: Open Parts for Ham Radio Stations

  56. A Walk Through of Hamvention 2019

  57. 2019 AGM

  58. Thank you Jim VE7CGP

  59. Building a Dummy Load

  60. New SDRuno release will implement receiver diversity

  61. New Date for the AGM

  62. Preparing for the Puddle Jumper Classic #2

  63. aprs.fi Server Upgrades, and Raw Packets UI Abuse

  64. Custard Antenna

  65. April Monthly Meeting

  66. Preparing for the Puddle Jumper Classic

  67. 5G and Weather Forecasting

  68. Amateur Radio in Space Pioneer Astronaut Owen Garriott, W5LFL, SK

  69. Playing with Software Defined Radio

  70. Certificate Backorder

  71. NPR (New Packet Radio)

  72. Fight Over Encoded Broadcasts

  73. Highest SOTA Activation

  74. In New Zealand,Charged for Having a Baofeng Radio

  75. JS8Call v1.0 is here

  76. ES’HAIL-2: Hams Get First Geosynchronous Repeater

  77. SCRD Antenna Upgrade Installation

  78. iFixit Tools

  79. Individual causing malicious interference triggers parliament petition

  80. Integrating Google Assistant with IRLP

  81. Es'hail-2

  82. ITU is strengthening e-comms

  83. THE $50 HAM

  84. Surrey PREOC

  85. Canada’s Amateur Radio Population Showing Continued Growth

  86. Bitcoin Coders Send International Lightning Payment Over Ham Radio

  87. March 7 2019 Club Update

  88. Website Upgrade