VE2DPE's Ham Radio Blog

This ham radio blog is not a "traditional" blog. What gets posted here is permanent in nature, rarely "time sensitive".

You will find here, in addition to amateur-radio-related news and events, posts about ham radio equipment such as: transceivers, receivers, antennas, software and more.

In other words, anything I find worthy of note about amateur radio.

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Ham Radio - Amateur Radio Fascinating Secrets

Ham radio or amateur radio has fascinated generations. This Web site reveals the secrets behind its enduring popularity and usefulness.

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Another Satisfied Ham

"I compliment you on your extensive and thorough website, and especially how you personally take time to assist others! Thank you!!" James KJ6WU

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QRP Labs QCX+

The QCX+, by QRP Labs, is a solid, well-designed SDR QRP transceiver in bands 17 to 80m. Options include TCXO, aluminum case, GPS board. The radio includes

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On My Ham Radio List

'The Bit Player’ (2019) on PrimeVideo, a documentary on Claude Shannon, the inventor of the theory of communication and the recent movie 'Tesla’ (2020) on Netflix.

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Heathkit Ham Radios - We all built them back in the day.

I think that the title says a lot. Back in the late 1970s, I built a Heathkit receiver. I think the model was an HW 1680. Back then, my license class

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Ionospheric Propagation of Radio Waves Explained

How does the ionospheric propagation of radio waves work? Here is an explanation from a ham radio point of view.

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Sunspot Cycle 25 to Be Strongest Ever

Scott W. McIntosh, Deputy Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, et al., conclude, in a recent research paper, that " SC25 could be among the strongest sunspot cycles ever observed". The QRP enthusiast in me is ecstatic! VE2DPE

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6 Meter Ham Band Plan

Here is where you will find the latest band plan information for regions 1, 2 and 3.

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6 Meter Ham Band Activity & Its Propagation Modes Explained

This article is about how to keep tabs on 6 meter ham band activity and understanding the propagation modes contributing to the action.

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A 160 Meter Antenna Hybrid Design

Here is one way to squeeze in a resonant 160 meter antenna (no coils) where you don't have enough horizontal space for a full-length dipole.

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This Ham Radio Blog
Is Yours Too!

For those of you who like to be able to intervene and share something of significance with the other ham radio enthusiasts who visit this Web site by the hundreds each day, there is a very unique way of doing that here!

After your text has been approved the "nutshell" version of your text will be posted in this blog. It will consist of your title and a short description. Your complete text will be posted on its own permanent page on this Web site. Your blog post will have a live link to it.

All our readers who subscribe to our RSS feed will be instantly alerted of your post.

Make your intervention significant and it will be noticed! It will never get buried under hundreds of other posts. I guarantee it!

This Amateur Radio Blog's
Role

This ham radio blog plays an essential role in my "triple action" communication strategy.

This Web site is especially designed to assert itself among amateur radio related Web sites. (How? See the "Powered by..." at the bottom of each page).

This blog, on the other hand, is designed to offer an extra access to the Web site's content (through RSS feeds), thus augmenting its "visibility" on the Web.

Last, but not least, this blog also enables me to publish special timely posts containing my comments on amateur radio related news and events, as they happen.

In other words, I am using every available channel of communication, on the Web, to make my information accessible to the largest audience possible.

A Proven
Infopublishing Technique

This blog is part of a unique "infopublishing" process that I use to give widespread access to my website's content.

Why use both a Web site and a ham radio blog to reach essentially the same audience?

Why not? It works!

Like so many other things in this world, amateur radio is changing.

This blog's mission is to help you stay tuned to the frequency of exciting changes that are occurring in amateur radio!

73 de VE2DPE
Claude Jollet
7, Rue de la Rive, Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, Québec, Canada J6E 1M9

QTH Locator: FN36gb