VE7VV

First licensed 1957. Previous calls: KN1CZM, K1CZM, W1TZ, VE7FPT.

Current Station

Equipment

Softrock SDR's: Ensemble II, III, RXTX modified for 160-10 mtrs, RXTX modified for 2200-160 mtrs,

    K5BCQ linear amplifier modified for 30W 2200-40 mtrs, homebrew 200W linear amp 2200-160m.

Software: PowerSDR, FLDigi, WSJTx, N1MM, MMVari, MultiPSK, FSQCall, Argo, QRS, etc.

VE7VV LF-MF Station

2200-160 mtr RXTX

2200-40 mtr 30W Linear Amp

Antennas

"Lazy L" - 160m 42 ft vertical wire raised by pulley from top of 43 ft aluminum tilt-over mast with 90 ft sloping horizontal section, base loading coils for 2200m and 630m.

Mast base

Base of antenna

630m matching system

630m loading coil with tilt adjust variometer inside trash barrel

2200m loading coil with sliding variometer

ARTICLES

160-10 Meter SoftRock RXTX Modification

2200-160 Meter SoftRock RXTX Modification

2200-30 Meter 100W Amplifier

137 kHz Bandpass Receive Filter

475 kHz Bandpass Receive Filter

RXTX TX Op-amp Filter Modification

200W Low Pass Filters for 2200m, 630m, 160m

PowerSDR - Instructions for Connecting a Keyer Paddle

Linrad_installation Manual

Annotated list of digital modes used on LF/MF

Modification of the Creative XFi soundcard for improved RX and TX performance with SoftRock SDR's

Detailed instructions to install all software for Softrock RXTX and PowerSDR and to configure for WSJTx

              Talk to Westcoast Amateur Radio Club "Operating on 630m: Why and How"

    Slideshow

    Speaking notes

PROPAGATION PREDICTION

PROP7R5 Propagation program and readme file

Longpath propagation prediction article

Old Station (tower taken down after many years of enjoyment)

Tower: 62 ft self supporting, 13 ft mast.

160: 75 ft top loaded vertical (shunt fed tower).

80: Quarter wave vertical sleeve element, base 8 ft from tower, 4:1 transformer.

40: Half wave vertical dipole, sloping from top of tower.

30: Half wave vertical dipole, sloping from top of tower.

20: 3 element monoband yagi on 31 ft boom at 64 ft, home designed and built.

15: 17 mtr 2 element functions on 15.

17/12: Duobander, 2 elements on each band on 9 ft boom at 74 ft, home designed and built.

2: 4 element vertical yagi, home designed and built.

Receive: 160 mtr flags to North and East, short on-ground Beverages to West and South.

DXCC - WAZ - WAS

DXCC Honor Roll #1 (mixed)

7 Band DXCC (#3120)

160 Mtr DXCC (#639, 185 current countries, first 160 DXCC awarded to a VE west of VE3)

80 Mtr DXCC (#134, 173 current countries)

40 Mtr DXCC (#289, 233 current countries)

17 Mtr DXCC           (102 current countries)

Digital DXCC (#2283, 147 current countries)


160 WAZ (#303, 35 Zones), first 160 WAZ awarded to a VE west of VE3)


160 QRP WAS (#987)

CONTESTS

ARRL 160 Meter Contest

 First place Canadian Division:

        Multioperator Category (as VE7QRP, with VE7GCC as 2nd op, running 5 Watts QRP); 1984

        QRP Category; 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019

 First place BC section (as VE7FPT or VE7VV):

        Low power:  1986, 1987, 1988, 1989

        High power: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

        QRP:            2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Top BC section score: QRP 38,640 points (2009)