Welcome to
VE3LNY's Web Site
My
name is Jack Botner and my amateur radio callsign is VE3LNY.
The photo shows me installing my 6 meter yagi antenna.
I have been licensed since 1979 and have been operating out of various locations in the Toronto area (currently FN03hs). Professonally, I am a computer programmer and recently retired from a large financial institution. My specialty is applied cryptography.
My station consists primarily of an ICOM 746PRO and I operate on HF and VHF. (I also have an IC-T7A handheld, and now a Quansheng TG-UV2 handheld.) Since I live on a small city lot, there isn't enough space for antennas. On HF I use a G5RV doublet for 80, 40 and 17 meters, a trap dipole for 12 and 30 meters, and a 1/4 wave vertical on my roof for 10, 15 and 20 meters. My tower is a 40 foot TV tower, with a 3 element 6 meter yagi and a 6 element 2 meter yagi (both horizontal) on a TV rotator. I also have a home-built J-Pole for local and repeater operation on 2 meters. I must have lucked out with the G5RV, because it loads up on 40, 20, and 17 meters without a tuner.
Since I acquired my 746PRO, I have been active on 6 and 2 meter DX. 6 meters is a particularly fascinating band, and I was very fortunate to catch the sunspot cycle peak in 2001 to work a lot of DX. (N4UFP has an excellent presentation on 6 meter propogation at the ARRL SC web site, click on Technical Presentations by N4UFP). I also enjoy working aurora and tropo-ducting on VHF.
License for my Code
I am making my programs and embedded source code freely available for any purpose under the MIT License. Use of the programs or code constitutes your agreement, so please check it out, it will only take a minute.
Free Programs
Over the years I have developed many computer programs. You can download some of these from my Download Page.
PIC Projects
Thanks to AmQRP I have learned how to program PICs, which are small, inexpensive programmable microcontrollers from Microchip Technology Inc. Click here for my Pic Projects page.
AVR Projects
The AVR series of microcontrollers, from Atmel Corporation are similar to PICs. Click here for my AVR Projects page.
Other Electronics Projects
Power Controller, Battery Charger, Audio Amplifier, etc.
My DKD 810B Spectrum Analyzer
Upgrading(?) to the 21st century.
My Electronics Notebook
About some of the components I use.
My Nostalgia Page
Good old stuff.
Satellites
Since I
retired I have become involved in an
interest group called the Satellites. We meet once a week and talk
about various ham radio and computer topics. You can find the Satellites web site
here.
A number of the Satellites are also involved in various Distributed
Computing projects, including the Einstein@home and
Rosetta@home projects. For more information on these and other Distributed Computing projects, see
the Satellites
Distributed Computing page.
