VE3EEE – VE3OIJ Amateur Radio

VE3OIJ

2019-12-29

VE3EEE Active

I’ve been running as VE3EEE on FT8 over the Christmas holidays, just for a bit of a change-up. So if you see VE3EEE on the waterfall, it will be me, probably with a macaw on my shoulder “helping” as she is wont to do 🙂

VE3OIJ

2015-12-21

VE3EEE on the air around Christmas

Astrophysical and Geophysical, Digital Modes, DX, Operating

Just for something different, I’ve been using my second callsign lately. I have been doing mostly digital modes, especially JT-65, between 10 and 30 watts depending on conditions.

Despite the solar conditions (K-index between 4 and 6 for the last few days) there has been some DX on all bands from 80m to 10m.

VE3OIJ

2015-06-29

ARRL Field Day 2015

Clubs, Digital Modes, DX, General, Operating, Technology, Voice Modes

It’s the end of June and that means ARRL Field Day 2015. Squidette (VA3CEW) and I deployed to the Outlet Beach (FN13jv, right beside Sandbanks Provincial Park) to operate a Field Day station as VE3EEE.

Equipment

We went out with the standard VE3EEE portable pack:

Honda EU2000i generator
Quad core i7 laptop
Yaesu FT-847
Begali paddles
RigExpert Plus TNC
LDG automatic tuner
Hy-Gain DP-19D dipole (set for 20m)
Buddipole (set for 15 or 40 depending on the time of day)

WX

Cold and miserable with drizzle for basically the entire time. That was not fun at all. Nevertheless, we did have shelter, so it wasn’t the end of the world.

Solar WX

There were geomagnetic storms earlier in the week, but they had pretty much abated. K-index bounced between 1 and 3. 15m down to 80m seemed to be open. I listened on 10 and didn’t hear anything, so I didn’t bother with 6m.

Results

We made 72 contacts between 40m, 20m, and 15m, almost all digital although we threw in a few CW and Phone contacts just for good measure.

Social

We also took the time to drive across the county to visit the Quinte ARC Field Day site in Ameliasburg. It was rainy and miserable there too, but they had a great setup with 4 radios going!