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by Vince (VE6LK)
In August and September 2024, I used to be travelling round Southern Ontario for some household issues and naturally I introduced my radio package with me to squeeze in some radio remedy stops alongside the best way. That is the report of my cease at CA-6341 Welland Canal System Nationwide Historic Website together with CA-6096 Battle of Beaverdams Nationwide Historic Website.
This activation took a little bit of analysis to determine the intersection of the 2 on condition that the panorama had been dramatically altered from the time of the Battle of Beaver Dams in 1813. For instance, at the moment, the Welland Canal didn’t exist! So the city of Thorold has a park positioned on the west finish of the battle web site, and I used to be in a position to find a monument on the east finish, thus I used to be in a position to extrapolate and see that Lock 7 was in a direct path between the 2. Thus I settled at Lock 7 for the activation.
This activation was finished later within the day after my “Cross-Border Activation between Associates” and I used to be happy to notice the situations had improved a good bit.
I began off on CW, looking different mates that had been activating (shout-out to Ed W4EMB!) after which switched to SSB QRP the place Steve KO4AFL discovered me and we had a short chat earlier than we each moved on. I stayed on 20m for this activation.
The Welland Canal is an engineering marvel that enables lake freighters to traverse the 100m/326′ top distinction between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
Opened in 1833, it sees a median of three,275 freighters in the course of the transport season which runs about 9 months of the 12 months. With that form of visitors, you may be moderately assured that you simply’ll see one among these enormous freighters on the day and time that you simply go to the realm.
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After my earlier activation with N2MAK, we drove down the Niagara Parkway previous Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake earlier than arriving on the Welland Canal. It was a nice day and never terribly humid.
One final ham radio associated story to the day was operating into Peter (VA3ELE) about 1km from our home-away-from-home as he was making an attempt to set a brand new distance report with a pal who was nicely over 100km away.
Peter defined to me that his radio was 3W and the dish yielded 47dB of achieve thus his ERP was round 14,000W. Evidently that I did not stand in entrance of the dish.
All in all, labour day 2024 was full of lovely surroundings and plenty of Ham Radio – precisely how a trip day ought to be in my books.
72 and dit dit,
…Vince
First launched to the magic of radio by a member of the family in 1969, Vince has been energetic within the passion since 2002. He’s an Accredited examiner in Canada and the USA, operates on virtually all the modes, and is frequently engaged on making his CW proficiency suck much less. He participates in public service occasions round Western Canada and is energetic on the air whereas glamping, cell, at house or doing a POTA activation. You’ll be able to hear him on the Ham Radio Workbench podcast, comply with him on Twitter @VE6LK, take a look at his YouTube channel, and view the tasks and articles on his web site.
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