If you require a QSL card to confirm any portable island/LH contacts please send an SASE (98 cent Canadian stamp ONLY) or an SAE with one green stamp if you are Stateside... an SAE and two green stamps if you are DX.     ****Some people can't read****....any deviation from QSL instructions above will result in reply via Bureau...perhaps once a year!

Sept 26th 2009 Horse Island AB-043 Lac Ste. Anne, AB new activation and CISA Island number!

Sept 6th 2009 Horse Island Lac Ste. Anne, AB new activation... poor propo. 

August 9th 2009 Horse Island Lac Ste. Anne, AB new activation...poor propo.

July 4th, 5th 2009  Pilot Bay Lighthouse ARLHS CAN628, Kootenay Lake B.C. First time activation!

 June 21st 2009 Dog Island AB-042  Lesser Slave Lake, AB  new activation and CISA Island number!

June 13th 2009 Farming Island AB-041  Lac Ste. Anne AB new activation and CISA Island number!

May 24th 2009 Farming Island  Lac Ste. Anne, AB new activation...poor propo

May 16th 2009 Long Island AB-017  Lac La Biche, AB activation. 

 Hi. Thank you for the "FUN" contact. I 100% QSL if you send me your card with an SASE. Stateside... 98 cent CND stamp ONLY please... or an SAE with one green stamp. DX stations two green stamps please or bureau. I prefer direct but I am also now AG on Eqsl.

I have retired my Yaesu FT901 preWARC hybrid and now run either a Yaesu FT2000D, or a Yaesu FT-857D exciting into a 5-band Spiderbeam (20-17-15-12-10M) rotated by an old Hy-gain Tailtwister at 35' above ground. A 40 meter halfwave, trapped, inverted "V" dipole was attached to the tower. Since purchasing the FT2000D I have added a Cushcraft 6M beam on my roof facing east....my QTH is at the bottom of a river valley but I have managed to make a few 6M QSO's! My original homebrew attic multi-dipole for 20-15-10M provided lots of "FUN" and has now been delegated as backup!

I have joined the ARLHS (mbr #1445) and look forward to working many Lighthouses! ARLHS Mbrs will find me on the 20M waterfall the second and last Sunday of each month for the ARLHS PSK Hour at 20:00 to 21:00 UTC...drop in and say hello...lets exchange QSL cards as I'm trying to get enough Digital QSO's for a Members Award! If there is a major contest on 20M we move our PSK Hour to the 17 M waterfall!

The FT-857D was purchased to get portable with hopes of activating some Canadian Islands in Alberta! A used touring kayak and a buddipole antenna have been added to the "FUN" pile....now if only this sunspot cycle would turn the corner!!! The FT-857D is currently interfaced with my Dell using a SignaLink USB for PSK31...watch for the "FUN" callsign on your waterfall!!!

The latest toys are an ArrowII antenna and an FT60R....made my first Sat QSO's on AO51...a blur of trying to scribble callsigns and grids on a scrap ofpaper, track the Sat with the ArrowII antenna on a tripod and switching freq's on my FT60R...GREAT "FUN"!!! Listen for me on AO51! Grid DO34sc.

Smoky Lake (pop.1100, 100 km N.E. of the City of Edmonton) is the "Pumpkin Capital of Alberta" and hosts the annual "Great White North Pumpkin Fair and Weigh-Off" the first weekend in Oct.

73..... Mike