Hon. President, Derek G3GRO reports exchange of greetings over the festive season with long-term CARC DX members Ron, VK6RV in Perth WA; Peter,VA3PJ in Ottawa; Ray, G3LNM near Norwich; and Ken, G3JKF in Seaford who all send their best wishes to the Club.
Ray and Ken both said that they look forward to reading the CARC on-line Newsletter and keeping track of what we had been up to.
Ken reported that he has like several of us more locally, been experimenting with WSPR and has been getting kitted up to carry out some serious comparison of an OCF wire antenna (160m to 10m) and small loops. (sounds familiar!)
Peter in Ottawa has never managed to get up his antenna tower since he moved QTH but has acquired a TS2000 and is QRV on VHF and has a built a transverter for the 900Mhz band available in Canada and the US. - Peter had been very active on 432and 1296Mhz from his previous site nearer in to Stittsville.
Ron and Eileen have unfortunately both been experiencing serious health problems and Ron, like your scribe, is not very mobile these days as a result of an infection picked up after a knee replacement operation!! He reports that he now has a poor site and like many of us he had been experiencing increasing local noise levels. He had been more or less QRT but has recently acquired an Icom IC7600 transceiver and due largely to its impressive digital noise suppression capability has recently had his first QSO on 20m in 6 years.
de : Derek, G3GRO
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