Some portable CW operating this afternoon. Mostly worked SKCC WES stations and hunted a couple of POTA activators. Temps were around 1C/34F. Saw a few snowflakes earlier in the morning.

Today I took part in the Summits on the Air Transatlantic S2S Event. I activated Mont Morissette (#SOTA VE2/OU-014) with my IC-705 and AlexLoop. I worked stations in 7 countries in just over 1/2 an hour (France, USA, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia, England) on 20m, 17m, & 15m. Before going QRT due to snow, I managed to bag a Transatlantic S2S with G4TGJ/P at G/NP-028. A great day, and the calm and peacefulness at the summit was priceless.

Inspired by KI7QCF's Brass Knuckle Gang (2m CW club), I had ChatGPT design some silly outlaw QRP(p) gang t-shirts for me, and I had a couple of them made by a seller on Amazon. ChatGPT certainly took some liberties with the Morse keys, but I decided to go with it anyway. Printing one-off single t-shirts like this has come down in price a lot. I paid about $21.49 CAD each.

My wife spotted this plaque about the "Rogers Batteryless Radio" at the Chestnut Residence at University of Toronto. Across the street from the residence, a Toronto Engineer, Ted Rogers, developed an effective AC tube and designed a radio receiver around it which debuted in August 1925.

Got this bad boy in my e-mail today :) Worked amateur radio stations across the globe from Sweden to Saudi Arabia to Argentina to Australia using my Meme Month special event callsign, VB2CAP.

And Australia is in the log. Woohoo! I need to get up early more often.

Looks like the Yaesu FTX-1F is finally going to start shipping in mid-June, and it's pretty pricey. €1,552.94 (w/o VAT) which is approximately $2,433.52 CAD which doesn't include customs/duties/shipping. https://www.wimo.com/en/yaesu-ftx-1f

Quick evening activation tonight of CA-5004/CA-5082 with an Venus SW-6B and an AlexLoop while my daughter had a girl guides meeting nearby. A bit of flooding in the area but I found a picnic table above water.

Happy World Amateur Radio Day! The mayor of Ottawa (Canada’s capital) has declared April 18th 2025 World Amateur Radio Day in Ottawa.