Don Mullis VE7AX gave an excellent presentation on Amateur Radio Contesting on January 23, 2025. As many as 19 members attended. Ninety minutes of chock-a-block contest information and question and answer. Check it out by clicking on the link below. (Zoom video work done by Andy VE7PT.)
Presentation LINK. Password – VzB@3.2F
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 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.
