Durham Region and Worldwide Communications
Tuesday , 24 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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Amateur Radio

Brandmeister Decommissioning 3101, Replacing It With 3104

Released by Brandmeister Starting on May 1st, 2021 we will be asking users who are presently connected to Master Server 3101 tostart making...

Amateur Radio

New FCC license fees NOT to take effect, yet!

UPDATE: The FCC Part 97 rules establishing a new $35 amateur radio application fee go on the books on April 19, but the FCC won’t...

Information Technology

New malware found on 30,000 Macs

With no payload, analysts are struggling to learn what this mature malware does. A previously undetected piece of malware found on almost 30,000...

Amateur Radio

RAC Advanced Course for Maple Leaf Operators: Winter/Spring 2021

The course is filling up quickly. RAC’s next online Advanced Certificate course for Winter/Spring 2021 is filling up quickly. Since May 2020, 400 Radio Amateurs...

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RadarBox Station Activated

AirNav Systems RadarBox I have been playing with the RadarBox software and decided to activate a full-time feed via a Raspberry Pi. AirNav...

Information Technology

Detecting Post-Compromise Threat Activity in Microsoft Cloud Environments

Alert (AA21-008A) – This Alert is a companion alert to AA20-352A: Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations....

Amateur Radio

Former RAC President Farrell (Hoppy) Hopwood, VE7RD SK

From RAC Radio Amateurs of Canada has received the sad news that former RAC President, Farrell Hopwood, VE7RD, became a Silent Key on December...

Amateur Radio

WSJT-X 2.4.0 Introduces New Digital Protocol Q65

From ARRL.org WSJT-X version 2.4.0 has introduced a new digital protocol called Q65, which is designed for “minimal two-way QSOs over especially difficult propagation...

Amateur Radio

FCC Reduces Proposed Amateur Radio Application Fee to $35

From: ARRL.org The FCC has agreed with ARRL and other commenters that its proposed $50 fee for certain amateur radio applications was “too...

Amateur Radio

AMSAT CW Activity Day 2021 Takes Place On New Year’s Day

AMSAT has announced that its CW Activity Day 2021 will take place all day on Friday, January 1, 2021, starting at 0000 UTC...