Pierre’s Trap Dipole

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On June 5th, Pierre VE7NRO and Glenn VA7HC went to the Gorge Park to test Pierre’s trap dipole antenna on 80 and 40 meters. Initially we raised his fiberglass pole up about 35 feet. Guy wires were attached and the antenna with coax attached was raise up to approximately 25-30 feet. This effort took about 2 hours under brilliant sunshine.

Pulling out his MFJ Analyzer, Pierre checked the SWR on those two bands. The photos below show that Pierre did a great job in cutting the antenna to the correct length. Congratulations, Pierre.

Meshtastic project – a south island mesh network

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Curt VA7CAS, Zachariah VE7ZCZ, and Glenn VA7HC recently met at Hillside to get a south island LoRa mesh network off the ground. Curt helped a ton by purchasing Heltec V3 radios and flashing the firmware. Great fun for hobbyists. And not too expensive. Interested? Reply to the post.

Below are some photos.

Radio Solar Patrol

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My first task when I joined the National Research Council in 1975 was to complete the computer control system for our solar radio telescopes. These automatically track the sun and measure the radio flux density at 10 cm (2.8 GHz). These telescopes are now located in Penticton and provide the Solar Flux Index (SFI) reported in the Propagation Forecast on our home page.