Successful Activation...

Congratulations to Don, VE3DQN, for his successful first activation of Libby Island, ON-017, in FN25da.

Don used the QRP to the Field and the Ontario QSO Party participants to rack up 29 contacts, in the required two DX entities.  

Mike, VE7ACN, will be operating portable VE2 from Havre Aubert Island, QC-016, in the Madeleine Islands group for one week from April 2nd.   

It's located in FN97af

Give a listen for him!

First Activations of 2018 Announced

This year the first activation announcement is for two BC islands.....which is a first!  

On Monday, May 21st, Bill VE3FI will be activating Barnston Island - BC055, and on Sunday, May 27th, he will be activating Annacis Island - BC033.   If you are also hunting grids for the ARRL Grid Challenge, he will be operating in CN89 on those days.

Bill will be operating as VE3FI/VE7.  

Operating start time will be noon west coast time.   Bands to be used will be 20m, 14.260 +/- QRM  and 40m, 7.250 +/- QRM.

Get Ready...

Spring is just around the corner, time to start planning your mini-dxpeditions to your local islands.

The last few years the number of activations has fallen.....is this a lack of interest, or the fact that many hams are not aware of this aspect of our great hobby...we don't know, but it's time to give it a kickstart again.

Start making those plans....and let us know so we can get the information on this page and our Facebook page.

Merry Christmas

2017 Island QSO Party Results

Here's the link to this years results for the W/VE Island QSO Party Results....click HERE.

It was nice to see a good increase in the number of Canadian logs submitted......even if it was only 5 of them, its still more than last year.  Hopefully we can keep this trend going!!

It would be great to see some participation from the East & West Coasts, all the submissions came from Ontario and Quebec.  Hmmm.......maybe a DXpedition is in the future to a lonely island off one of the coasts.

Congratulations to the winners and runners up!!

Submitted Logs

The following Canadian logs have been received for this years W/VE Island QSO Party:

VA3PCJ
VA3TIC
VE2GT
VE3FI
VE3SCN

If you have submitted a log for this years contest and it is not listed, please contact Jay, NS4J, at:
ns4j@usislands.org as soon as you can.