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Updates

Sep 22, 2026

Added a new link to my TinyGS LoRa satellite telemetry page. From there you can go on to view the hundreds of the other LoRa statellite online stations around the world.

See Radio Magic.

Sep 20, 2026

Reedited & posted my previous TCA articles A Starry Tale (RM074) & Take a Wild Ride with UberSDR! (RM075). This completes the reediting & republishing of my last articles written for TCA.

See Radio Magic.

Sep 18, 2026

Just finished my first editorial, but it's written in the narrative style & called When Technologies Become Tsunamis (RM076). A total departune for me, but it was very refreshing.

See Radio Magic.

I ended my 14-year run writing for The Canadian Amateur (TCA). It was getting harder to come up with new & innovative ideas for quality articles. I wanted to cast farther out into terra incognita. But that wasn't going to happen.

I don't write or think the same way I did 14 years ago. I just can't write "exciting" new articles about building dipoles or J-poles et al. Or reviewing the new Icom 7300 MkII or whatever, any differently from the hundreds of other reviews already written.

With a publication that only comes out every two months, I'm already months behind my technical writing peers. So self-publishing is the best solution for me.

Reedited & posted my previous TCA articles The Road to Radio—Part 7 (RM072) & The Road to Radio—Part 8 (RM073). This completes the series.

See Radio Magic.

Check out SWR Magazine. A free Amateur Radio ezine promoting the hobby with less tech talk & more passion!

Jul 09, 2026

Added support material for my next TCA

Jul-Aug 2026 article Take a Wild Ride with UberSDR! (RM075).See Radio Magic.

Jun 20, 2026
While searching for information on the PI4 mode & beacons, I stumbled upon a link for an Arduino all-in-one project board. The price is ridiculously low for what you get & what it can do!

Quoting the website: "The RFzero™ is an Arduino multi-purpose GPS controlled Si5351A RF unit. It can be used as a beacon (IBP, SBP, CW, FST4, FST4W, FT4, FT8, JS8, JT4, JT65, JT9, ModeX, PI4, Q65, RTTY, WSPR, …), signal generator, VFO, QO-100 dual LO, low cost GPSDO, e.g. for 10 MHz, IC-9700 LO, 90 MHz frequency counter or … More than 40 programs, Arduino sketches, are integrated into the Arduino IDE, so you can write or modify the software yourself. With the RFzero Manager you don’t even have to know anything about Arduino to use the RFzero™."

See RF Zero.

My RFzero is on the way & am reading through the documentationt.I will have more to say in a future article.

Very sad news announced today by NRC Canada: "As of June 22, 2026, the shortwave radio broadcast of the NRC's official time signal (CHU) will no longer be available." This follows Environment Canada's ending its Weather Radio service on VHF FM 162 MHz in March 2026. Now we are only have the American HF WWV/WWVH & VLF WWVB time signals & NOAA's VHF FM 162 MHz Weather Radio service (if you live along the US/Canada border).