All radio amateurs in the Ottawa Area are invited to attend a Special Amateur Radio Event to present to Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN his Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Plaque Date: Saturday April 15th, 2023 Time: 1:30 to 4 pm. The award to Bryan will be made at approximately 2:30 Place: IBEW Local 586, 1178…

Aficionados of HF DXing will know that solar flux levels have been rather high over the last 3 months leading to exceptionally good propagation on 20 metres and the higher frequency HF bands.

Witnessing the constant evolution of our OVMRC amateur radio club under the inspired leadership of amateur radio operators such as Norm VE3LC, Barry VE3NA, and many others, it reminds me of the Golden Years of the OVMRC in the late 90's when the club had a count of about 300 members in its fold.

While working across digital modes the trans-coding can really distort audio quality for the voices you know and recognize! This was the situation with my access to the Friday night CANNET working cross-modes with my C4FM and DMR handi-talkies and a jumbo-spot running pi-star. The search for some better audio quality led me to take…