VE3VN

Ron Schwartz, VE3VN, maintains his enthusiasm for participating in CW contests using his SO2R station and tower farm. For more than five decades, Ron has been an avid ham radio operator and ham radio blogger with an enduring passion for climbing towers and rigging antennas. In recent years, Ron has pursued an interest in EME – moon bounce , Tropospheric ducting,  and meteor scatter.  VE3VN is my QSO Today.

Blog: http://ve3vn.blogspot.com/

Hometown: Winnipeg, Canada

First License: May 1972, VE4OY, Certificate

First Stations:
Hammarlund HQ-129X Receiver
CW 807 Mobile Tube radio with VFO
Hallicrafters HT32 SSB Transmitter
Hammarlund HQ-170 Receiver

Current Rig: 
Yaesu FTDX 5000 Transceiver
Yaesu FT950 Transceiver
Drake L7 Amplifier

Favorite Contest: CQ Worldwide, CW
Sweepstakes Amateur Radio Contest

People
Robert Kaufman, VE4GV
Kurt Andress,  K7NV (SK)
Marty Sullaway, NN1C
Joe Taylor, K1JT Digital Modes

Terms
5 Tube Superheterodyne Receiver
Shortwave Radio
Slugtune Coil
Local Oscillator
Department of Communications, Canada
Canadian Amateur Radio Station License
Canadian Amateur Radio SSB Endorsement on 10 Meters
Sporadic E Propagation
Yaesu FT-101 HF Transceiver
Aurora Borealis Propagation
Astronomy
The Graduate, movie
MS Computer Science, University of Manitoba
Ottawa Companies
Nortel Networks
Bell Northern Research
Mitel
IBM Mainframe Computers
IARU Radio Sport
Collins 30S1 Amplifier
Ottawa River
Canadian Shield Rock
Manitoba Flood Protection
SO2R – Single Operator 2 Radio
2BSIQ – 2 Bands Simutaneoulsy
3 Element 80 Meter Vertical Yagi
Prop Pitch Electric Motor – need reference
Cycling Sport
RAC – Radio Amateurs of Canada
Ottawa Valley QRP Society
Contest Club Ontario
Ontario QSO Party
QSO Party Challenge
VA3CCO Bonus Station
John VE3EJ Contest Station
160 Meter Vertical Yagi
LaBlanc and Royal Tower
N1MM Contest Logger
Arduino Mega
PSK Reporter
WSPRnet
QRP Labs QDX- Portable Digital Transceiver
EME – Moonbounce Mode
50.313 MHz

Excited by:  Technology, SDR, everything gets computerized. Social aspects of sharing technology

Advice to new or returning hams: Amateur radio is an easy way to put your technology into the field.