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NAB Photos up

By ve7wnk on June 14, 2012

All (most) of my NAB Photos are here: http://www.wenko.ca/pub/nab2012/img/

I had a chance to meet Leo Laporte after he moderated the “Broadcast Minds” function at NAB 2012

Bob and Leo

Bob and Leo

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ARRL June VHF Contest

By ve7wnk on June 14, 2012

Last weekend, a few hams from the lower mainland took a trip to Promontory Hills near Merritt BC. See it on a Google map.

We operated single-band on 6 Meters from inside of a local telecommunications companies microwave site compound. Conditions were poor the first day, however the band opened up Sunday morning as we were packing up. We did not operate after 11AM as we started ripping everything down so that we could be out of the site before the sun set.

In this video you will see me operating the last few minutes of the end of the contest.

Here is VE7HHS working the pile up while VE7STK marks the grid squares.

As mentioned, conditions were poor for the most part, and we really did not really have a rate going until Sunday. Weather was interesting up at altitude, and it even snowed on us (on and off) for a few hours on Friday night, however none of it really stuck. Sunday, as is always the case, was our nicest weather day, and we had nice temperatures the whole time.

Our unchecked/ray log file is available here.

Photos will be uploaded soon. My next post will probably be able the 2012 Field Day event in Coquitlam or the construction of my FM Radio wide-band aluminum dipole.

Operators: VE7HHS, VE7FET(plus first harmonic Scott), VE7NEO, VE7STK, VA7NSA, VE7TL, VA7LNX, and VE7WNK.

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I am going to NAB!!

By ve7wnk on March 20, 2012

See you in Vegas! I will be there from Sunday thru Wednesday. I will probably not be able to attend the ham-radio reception, however I will be posting as many photos and content as possible.

Cheers,

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A trip to WWV

By ve7wnk on January 7, 2012

Here is a quick post to let you know about my recent excusion to the WWV transmitter location in Fort Collins Colorado. If you are a ham radio operator who has never heard of the WWV time clocks I encourage you to submit your amateur radio credentials to me for shredding. For non-hams you can read about it via wikipedia as they have an excellent article featuring WWVB.

I was in Littleton CO in the middle of December to meet the remaining members of my girlfriend’s family who I had yet to meet. I had no vehicle and the WWV site is about 120km North of Littleton where I was staying. My girlfriend and I were going to go there when she showed me the little town of Fort Lupton, however we did not go as the sun sets by 5pm and we were late leaving. The next day we went tubing and her mom surprised me by saying that we were going to to Ft. Collins to check out some geeky towers. They did not know how big of a deal WWV is to ham radio nerds…A huge thanks to Connie!!!

Here is a photo I snapped after WWV went into night mode:

WWV in night mode

WWV in night mode

This is the location where I was photographing.


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To see the photos and video that I uploaded you can view them on my other server at wenko.ca/wwv

Thanks for visiting!
Bob — VE7WNK.ca

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Hacker reveals plan to occupy airwaves [KGO-TV ABC7]

By ve7wnk on November 18, 2011

Very interesting story, watch.


Written version available HERE.

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