Ham Radio Data Center

1. Solar flare on 16th Dec. 2009

Solar X-ray flux for 14th to 16th Dec. 2009. Image and data from NOAA VE3EN’s solarcycle24.com website is reporting a C5.3 solar flare occurred early today, which can be seen in the image from NOAA above. Below is an image from the Solar...

16/12/2009 | 748 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Email | Read more...

2. Summits on the Air in Canada, 14th Nov. 2009

Summits on the Air (SOTA) is where amateurs will venture to the top of regional high spots and operate with portable equipment.  This started in the UK and has grown across Europe and is now being established in North America. Ottawa amateur...

09/11/2009 | 740 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Email | Read more...

3. Sands Contest Group

Morecambe Bay at sunset I recently stumbled across the blog of the Sands Contest Group.  This seems to be an active UK amateur radio contest group who run special events, use Elecraft transceivers and experiment with antennas (or aerials!)....

02/09/2009 | 536 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Email | Read more...

4. Smiths Falls Hamfest 2009

Smiths Falls Hamfest (Saturday 9th May 2009) Last week (Saturday 9th May 2009) I attended the Smiths Falls Hamfest, another local hamfest for me. I bought a few items, mostly components, and the usual book which this time was the ARRL edition of...

16/05/2009 | 414 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Email | Read more...

5. Start of the local hamfest season

Hamfest purchases Saturday was the Iroquois hamfest, organized by the Iroquois Amateur Radio Club.  This is the first of the local hamfests in Eastern Ontario.  It is a nice small hamfest in a Civic Centre  with a great atmosphere. It had...

06/04/2009 | 456 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Email | Read more...

6. Successful tests with D-Rats 0.2.9

Recently I updated the shack computer to xubuntu 8.04 and have been updating the amateur radio software too.  One of those packages was D-RATS.  This is a program that allows connection of computers to D-Star radios and I have previously reported...

01/02/2009 | 556 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Email | Read more...