VE9KK Blog

  Way back in high school one of my classes was band class, now this was not brass band but strings and wood wind. I was a cello player and ...

The bands seem to be improving and it's a nice thing to see. Today I flipped the switch on in the early afternoon. I also loaded  DX Hea...

20m at 19:10 during the CWops 1 hour contest   With the increase in sunspots and rising flux comes some solar flares and the Kp-index will ...

 The RAC Winter contest is in the books and my second contest where I was running and not S&P.  The propagation numbers took a big leap ...

As frequent readers of my blog, you know my interest in contesting, and specifically CW contesting. Just a few weeks ago, for the first time...

The hills are alive with the sound of music....well you get the idea.  This past weekend, as most of you may have known or seen, the bands w...

   Around this time last year, I registered for the CWops intermediate CW course. The CWops is a worldwide group of radio ops that support t...

In Canada and the U.S. this is a long weekend ( Labour Day Weekend ) with Monday being a holiday.  I was able to spend a little time on the ...

The bands were alive with CW today even with the not-so-great-sounding solar forecast.   

 I toddled into the radio room this afternoon and flipped on the radio and most of the time I have my PC on and head over to DX Summit spott...

  I was doing some cleaning around the house the other day and came across a QSL card of the very first contact I made.  It was June 6th, 19...

 This past weekend was the CQ WW CW contest which if I can I always partake in.  This year I made it a point to set aside the time to indulg...

Yesterday I dabbled in the OK/OM DX CW contest for about an hour and a half. This time for some fun and interest I entered QRP level but lo...

CW ops in action Greetings to all my blog readers I think it's safe to say that a majority of you 6 months ago never thought we w...

My last post of December had to do with some goals I wanted to get working on in 2020. It's now 2020 and as has happened to me in the ...

No lack of action The  CQ WW DX   CW contest this weekend was the first contest as VE9KK unfortunately, most of Saturday and into the e...

About a month ago I received a new morse code key, the 9A5N solid state CW paddle . I chose the all black twin lever model and from the g...

Well here we are it's almost the end of 2017 as I was out for a pint with my Ipad and looking at some of the blogs  I follow. I came...

I just can't believe the weather we are getting for it being half way through October. The temperature today was 22C with clear skies ...

On Saturday the NAQP CW contest was on and it's a great what I call "mini contest". For me it started at 2pm local time whi...