Thank You!!

A huge Thank You goes out to all the hams who took the time and activated an island this year.  Without you guys there would not be a need for the Canadian Island Activators, and life would then be pretty boring.

2019 was a fairly quiet year as far as activations go, but given our position in the current solar cycle, we are not surprised.  It's a lot of work to plan and execute a good activation only to have it ruined by very bad propagation.  I know.....it happened to me on a couple of activations this year.

This year we have started to announce Canadian lighthouse activations as well.  We don't keep track of lighthouses, but if we can help drum up some business for those out there activating, so much the better.

We hope that 2020 will start to see some improvement in propagation, and in turn hope that will start hams looking at getting out and activating an island or two during the year.

Once again a big Thank You to this years activators, we couldn't do it without you guys!

Seasons Greetings..

Winter Field Day...

Planning on taking part in Winter Field Day, January 25th & 26th, 2020 ??

If you are, plot your location on this map located HERE, so far we have only one Canadian location shown....I'm sure there will be more, but let's get Canada on the map !!

The Rules for the event can be found HERE.

Early Winter

Well, winter seems to have come very early to a number of places around the country.  If you're planning on doing an activation...Island or Lighthouse...please use some common sense and watch out for hypothermia and thin ice.  We don't want any accidents and everyone needs to stay safe.

Light Activations

Just received from John, VE3ISE.....

Weather and Time permitting, he will be heading to Southampton, Ontario, to activate two lights on Wednesday, November 13th, at approximately 1700 UTC.

The lights are:

Chantry Island Light, CAN-619, and

Southampton Range Light, CAN-626.

Frequencies will be 7.260 to 7.270 +/- QRM.

Hopefully the weather will be fine and John can enter and leave the snow belt without much trouble.

Shuylers Island - First Activation.

Coming up this Tuesday, October 15th, Doug VE3VS and Heather VE3HQH, will attempt a first activation of Shuylers Island.

The island is located in FN04px, North-East of the town of Minden.

Call sign is use will be VE3VS.

Doug and Heather plan to start on 80m early in the morning, and by mid-morning will switch to 40m and perhaps 20m as well.

Let's hope the propagation improves so we can work them.

UPDATE:   Doug and Heather have successfully activated the island and it has been issued the number, ON-306.  Well done!!

Panmure Island PE-002

Coming up on Sunday, October 6th, George, VY2GF, will be activating Panmure Head Light - ARLHS CAN-363, located on Panmure Island, PE-002.

Grid Reference is FN86sd.

Activation will take place between 1400 UTC and 1800 UTC.

George will be on 20m SSB - 14.240 or higher +/- QRM.

You can check it out on www.facebook.com/groups/MLARG