VE3RHJ's Ham Radio Page

Articles I have written

• Building a Web Page, part 1: tools, a web host, and a first web page.
• Building a Web Page, part 2: linking web pages.
• Building a Web Page, part 3: images.
• Stupid 'Net Tricks: a second email address.

• What? Me Contest? A beginner's guide to CW contesting. (Feedback and On The Air magazine)
• Working the Parade An introduction to operating special events. (On The Air magazine)
• The Existential Pleasures of Amateur Radio How I got started, way back when. (GBARC Feedback newsletter)
• In Just 30 Days, I Can Make You A Ham! [PDF file]  How we teach the Basic qualification in four weeks (first publication!)

Web pages I have created

• What is Amateur Radio? Created for visitors to our club's booth at the 1998 Split Rail Festival, with no Internet connection available, these pages display from "local" files. Feel free to adapt them to your club's needs...but be aware of the many references specific to Canada, and to the Flesherton area. Warning: includes many images; may take a while to load.
• 4-Week Amateur Radio Course: Our club taught the Canadian Basic amateur radio qualification in four weekends. Here's the outline from our last course. See also the article above.

Miscellanous postings and editorials

• In Praise of Older Rigs Unrepentant nostalgia.(GBARC Feedback newsletter)
• On Public Service and Volunteerism Reasons to not be a solitary ham. (GBARC Feedback newsletter)
• A Defence of Contests A packet message I posted some years back, after reading one too many complaints about amateur radio contesting.
• What happened to charity? Another packet blast, in reply to an uncharitable ham.

Favorite Ham Radio links

• Virtual Radio Club - we meet via the Internet
• Radio Amateurs of Canada

Odds 'n' Ends

• A Letter to the Better Business Bureau regarding our problems with a computer store