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Quick Tip: Use a legal-sized clipboard as a lap desk when operating from your car
One of the challenges in operating stationary mobile when doing POTA activations is that you have limited space but you need something for logging contacts.
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Decode Colours in WSJT-X
Some users of WSJT-X may not be fully aware of the power contained in its application of coloured fore- and backgrounds to decodes and transmissions.
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AllStar Link node access to VE3OCE for OVMRC Thursday Evening FM Net.
Norm (VE3LC) has established a Radio Link controlled by an AllStarLink (ASL) node for remote radio access to VE3OCE (or other area repeaters).
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Kemptville Amateur Radio Group (KARG) Hamfest 2025.
The First Hamfest of the sesason. Shake the winter blues!
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RAC Amateur of the Year 2024 Award: Mike Kelly, VE3FFK
Radio Amateurs of Canada and the OVMRC sincerely congratulates Mike Kelly, VE3FFK, on his appointment as Amateur of the Year for 2024.
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OARC Basic and CW Course
Our friends at the OARC are running a basic amateur radio course and a CW course starting this February.
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Website Feature Highlight 3: IRC
The OVMRC now has its very own Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Channel! This channel can be used as a meeting place for local hams to have text-based conversations while in the shack, or on their mobile devices. It can be accessed via our web client at the link below, no installations or registrations are necessary:…
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OVMRC Portable Activity (Oct 19, 2024) POTA at Green's Creek Conservation Reserve CA-1425
Green’s Creek starts at the Ottawa River in the east end of Ottawa. It is an area of unusual geology, with steep-sided ravines and plateaus. The area has 5.5 kilometres of trails for seasonal recreation such as hiking and cross-country skiing. https://ncc-ccn.gc.ca/places/greens-creek