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Salmon Run Contest

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I like the way the Washington State QSO party ‘runs’…   it’s very friendly. People stop to chat and compare notes.  CW exchanges are at slow speeds, encouraging those who don’t use that mode much. And it’s daytime only; sensible. The BC QSO party and future Vancouver Island contests should follow the same format.

I’m surprised that more BC stations didn’t participate in Salmon Run; maybe they just dabble like me and don’t post their scores. (I had other activities on both days). I got 27 of the 39 counties in WA; next year I plan to take a more serious ‘run’ at the contest.

Editor’s note: Thank you Alan for “flying the IslandHF flag” in this contest.

Keymans Club of Japan CW contest

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Propagation was awful and I only made a total of five Qs on 40m for a total of 80 points. What the heck I thought, so I sent in my N1MM Cabrillo file as a 40m single band log. Much to my surprise I received a certificate for being #1 in Canada! The lesson to be learned is send in a log – you just never know.

Brian Summers VE7JKZ

Editor’s note: The Keyman’s Club contest is a “User Defined Contest”. For this type of contest, two UDC modules are programmed for use in N1MM+. The use of these modules were for a worldwide contest. For the proposed IslandHF contest, the modules would be written for a more local contest – at least initially.

Spark to Space

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Spark to Space is a book about the history of Amateur Radio in Canada. It is a fascinating read with a good number of old photographs. It can be found in PDF form in the Downloads tab on this website. Who knows you might find a relative in these pages who was a radio amateur in the early twentieth century.