Welcome to VA3DBJ.ca. We are situated in Clarington, within Durham Region. This site is dedicated to radio communications in the Durham Region, Northumberland, Kawartha Lakes and Peterborough area. The primary focus will be Amateur Radio, but…
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Site Maintenance
This site will be in and out of maintenance from late evening Monday (October 28th) night till the morning hours of Tuesday (October 29th). The maintenance is back-end and it may not effect the website itself.
CanWarn – Canadian Weather Amateur Radio Network
CANWARN (Canadian Weather Amateur Radio Network) is a volunteer organization, of ham radio operators, who report severe weather when they see it to Environment Canada. What they do is called ground-truthing. They confirm on the ground what…
AMSAT Announces 2019 Board Election Results
As a result of the 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors election, Jerry Buxton, N0JY; Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA; Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK; and Michelle Thompson, W5NYV, were elected by the AMSAT membership to serve for 2 years. The…
Amateur Radio Resources Ready as Dorian Poised to Become a Major Hurricane
— From ARRL Amateur Radio resources organized this week as Hurricane Dorian threatened Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and worked its way through the Caribbean. A change in direction spared Puerto Rico — still recovering…
ARRL HF Band Planning Committee Reactivated to Address Spectrum Issues
— From ARRL In an effort to more effectively address HF digital technology issues, ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, has reactivated the ARRL Board of Directors’ HF Band Planning Committee. The six-member panel, chaired by First…
144 – 146 MHz Removed from French Proposal for Additional Aeronautical Applications
— From IARU The 144 – 146 MHz Amateur Radio segment has been removed from a French proposal to study spectrum additional for Aeronautical Mobile Service (AMS) applications. France had included the band, which comprises the entire…
Millions of users data leaked by browser extensions
From: Geekbots Now, a research report reveals that some popular browser extensions are collecting and even selling users data including a list of visited sites and photos that users have looked at. Most recently, security researchers found that…
California Earthquakes Disrupted HF Propagation on West Coast
From: ARRL.org British Columbia radio amateur Alex Schwarz, VE7DXW, said that an Independence Day magnitude 6.4 earthquake in California’s Mojave Desert and multiple aftershocks negatively affected HF propagation on the US west coast. Schwarz, who maintains the…
Restraint Urged in Response to 2-Meter Reallocation Proposal
From: ARRL.org Representatives of International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) member-societies in Europe are advising restraint in the wake of a proposal to consider the allocation of 146 – 148 MHz to the Aeronautical Mobile Service (AMS)…
New Security Warning Issued For Google’s 1.5 Billion Gmail And Calendar Users
Story by Davey Winder – Forbes Google’s Gmail email service is used by upwards of 1.5 billion people. The Google Calendar app, meanwhile, has been downloaded more than a billion times from the Play Store. Security…