Thanks for the encouraging note Dave. It's good to hear from you. I've been around the VHF scene for a long time, starting out as VE1MQ qrv first on 2m, then 6m. Even dabbled a little bit on 70cm. Di
Hey Chris Long time no hear. What I can offer is pretty old and anecdotal. IMO, FN54 is not rare on 2m...there has always been 1-2 active ops there. Above 2m; not sure. To me, FN51 is quite rare. Too
Wishing you well Dave ! I'm not QRV on 222 but you have to know, I look forward to your humour every week with these messages. (not the ones where you're sick-not happy about that!) We also have been
Jack, You just brought up very fond memories of me working John on one of those far northern trips of his. I worked him on 6m MS (easily) and even asked him on-air, if you can imagine(!) to try 2m wh
Dang it ! I missed it Bill..ARGH! We even had the day as a holiday. A couple weeks ago I said to myself "Surely someone (Maybe Dave/K1WHS?) will post a reminder". I don't do very much VHF these days
Dave asked, so here's one possible explanation. Probably at one time there were 1 or 2 VE1's(Ve9's as well) on 222 but the reasons are likely many why there is little to none now. Equipment is more e
Hey Paul & Everyone ! Paul, Sorry to hear about Dave, W5UN. I had no idea he had passed. He was one of the 3 or 4 we worked on 2m EME from Sable in 1996 (CY0AA). and I worked him once/twice from my h
I think I missed the peak as I didn't get home til suppertime but was alerted to the AU by fellow MCCer, Don VE9XX and was able to get on and play some CW Olde' Skool ! YAY! Best DX was K9MRI in EN70
Sounds like you didn't read the rules and are now miffed @ the ARRL for them. Yes, I do agree they should do them like the rules for Rovers, but that doesn't change what you did. The words ".It turns
You're basically doing a "reverse captive Rover".ie: cheating..yes, I know that's not your intention.but when you think about what's happening.. Have fun ! Mike VE9AA Mike, Coreen & Corey Keswick Rid
Just wanted to give a shout out to my buddy/neighbour Paul, N1BUG (who I've been working on VHF since the late 1980's) because without seeing his messages this morning, I would've never even turned t
I'm sure you guys won't believe me, but one of the ideas(jokes) I was going to post was also pterodactyl as well! (I swear it) The other perhaps more obvious one, was Hurricane(post tropical depressi
As a non-222 op here, I have to give Dave, K1WHS very high marks for keeping me reading his 222 comments a few times a week and obviously having a good influence on keeping activity high and maybe cr
A look at the missed grids is very disappointing. To my NE I only nabbed FN54 and 53 with K1DY and K1HC. To my SW I missed FN24, FN23, FN21, FN15,FN14, FN11, FN10, FN02, FN01, FN00, & FM28 among oth
Dave, I'm just glad you or your family or house was not hurt. I know your pain EXACTLY. In 2010 I lost my big tower with my 2 best antennas (100% hand built from scratch) for 50MHz and down into the