Items for the Calendar....

Keeping with our theme of promoting QRP SSB events, the following contests that have a QRP category will be coming up soon:

ARRL 10m Contest.  0000Z December 14th to 2400Z December 15th.

RAC Winter Contest.  0000Z to 2359Z December 28th.

NA QSO Party, SSB.  1800Z January 18th to 0600Z January 19th.

See you on the bands!

RaDAR November 2013 Contest

Information regarding this years RaDAR Contest can be found HERE.  This is a great QRP activity, try it, you might like it !

 

 

 

Please Respect the QRP Frequencies

QRP Afield 2013

This weekend is the QRP Afield event, sponsored by the New England QRP Society.

Rules for the event are HERE.

This is the perfect opportunity to get out and operate in the fall weather.  It's still not that cold out, and this weekend is supposed to be nice in Upper Canada.

Get out there and operate!

 

North American SOTA Weekend

This coming weekend, September 7th and 8th, 2013, is the annual North American SOTA Weekend.

Active SSB frequencies will be 7.285, 14.342.5, and 18.187.5.

Give a listen and try to work the guys on the hills.  For more information on SOTA have a look HERE.

The Upper Canada QRP Society

The Upper Canada QRP Society is a group of Amateur (Ham) Radio operators in the Kingston and Frontenac County area with an interest in QRP (low-power) operating, and antenna experimentation. The Society is devoted to promoting SSB QRP usage on the ham bands.

Membership is free and open to anyone in the Kingston and Frontenac County area with an interest in low power Amateur Radio.

We are a "Non-Club Club" - no rules, no membership fees, no executive and no by-laws.

We meet each Sunday morning from 0700 to 0900 at the Star Diner, 849 Princess Street, in Kingston.  Our weekly meetings are shared with the Frontenac Radio Group.

For more information please email us at upper.canada.qrp at gmail.com.