Durham Region and Worldwide Communications
Wednesday , 25 June 2025
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Canadian amateur radio operator since 2007. Operating on the VHF/UHF bands and local repeaters in the Durham Region area. Husband and the father of four.

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General

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...

Amateur Radio

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...

Amateur Radio

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...

General

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,...

Police

Teen Hacked Apple Twice Hoping to get Job.

Teen hacked Apple twice hoping to get job but got caught by FBI and police. A 17-year-old Australian boy accused of hacking Apple...

General

Need a Reason to Drop Google Chrome?

Google is planning to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users only. This is despite a backlash to an announcement by Google in...

Weather

VA3DBJ Weather Station Back Online

The VA3DBJ Weather station is now back online. The software has been updated to latest version of Cumulus. You can access directly by...

Amateur Radio

Morse Code Marks 175 Years of Dots and Dashes

The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance travelled from Washington, DC to Baltimore on Friday, 24 May...

Amateur Radio

WWV Celebrating 100 Years

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Radio Station WWV will be celebrating its 100-year anniversary in October 2019. The oldest continuously operating radio...

General

Safe and Ad Free Browsing

Ever since my bad experience with Facebook and their other products, I have been working on ways to minimize my digital footprint. I...