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1. Trip Report for Cypress Provincial Park POTA and Hollyburn Mountain SOTA

   Another activation in but this time doing Hollyburn Mountain Cypress Provincial Park. This is another 4 point summit (+3 Winter Bonus), and also very accessible. The hike is only about 1.5 hours up, and can be done with spikes. It was quite busy, even for a Friday.

   Made contacts …

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2. GNU Radio experiments

   I've been playing around with GNU Radio, and published a GRC file that might be useful to amateur radio operators. It's a 2-channel narrowband FM receiver This lets you monitor 2 frequencies in your stereo audio output. Useful for monitoring 2m calling, and also your favourite repeater.

   I want to …

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3. Trip Report for Cartmell Peak

   An amazingly sunny day for a snowshoeing trip. Cartmell Peak is part of the Sasquatch Mountain Resort, which means you need to buy a $20 pass, but part of that is for a lifetime membership - just don't lose the card.

   Bruce (VA7SGY) organized the trip, and Austin (VE7QH) and Aaron …

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4. Installing CHIRP inside a virtualenv with uv

   CHIRP is an awesome tool for programming radios, but it's nice to be on the latest version. I like to install everything in a virtualenv so it doesn't mess with system packages, but the CHIRP instructions don't cover that.

   New versions are constantly released, and you want to go to …

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5. Trip Report for Cypress Provincial Park POTA and Black Mountain SOTA

   Had a great day doing an POTA and SOTA activation of Black Mountain in Cypress Provincial Park. This is a 4 point summit (+3 Winter Bonus), which is very accessible. The hike is only about 1.5 hours up, and doesn't go through any avalanche terrain. It's very well travelled …

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