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March 11, 2023

Another Take on the IC-705

The Icom IC-705 multi-mode QRP transceiver has been around for a couple of years and has been the subject of many product reviews. Its notoriety as a top line QRP radio, my desire to have a full-function QRP radio for Field Day and not having spent any significant money on my ham radio hobby in…

March 11, 2023

Event-Bryan Rawlings Canadian Amateur Hall of Fame Plaque Presentation

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…

March 11, 2023

Space Weather Update

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.

March 11, 2023

A Guide to HT Range Extension With the Anytone 578

The Anytone 578 (AT578) mobile radio can be configured as a “crossband” repeater. As the name suggests, crossband repeaters operate much like other repeaters with one important difference: the uplink and downlink frequencies are on different bands.

March 11, 2023

BLAST FROM THE PAST!

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.

March 11, 2023

Rambler March 2023 (Vol. 65, Issue 7)

March 11, 2023

Peanut – Digital amateur radio software with great audio

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…

February 12, 2023

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