Back around 2020 a new word began entering the vocabulary of radio nerds around the world – LoRaWAN, or Long Range WAN – a neat protocol which sends small amounts of data large distances using tiny amounts of power. As the years went along the technology kept improving and while I was aware of it, I was a busy person and hadn’t looked too deeply into the technology, despite being a self-professed radio nerd! Fastforward to mid-2025 and I found myself dragged into a LoRa project when a friend needed me to make introductions to a tower site owner in Continue Reading
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Of Antennas, Trees and Cranes – Just Another Tuesday
Being heavily involved in the local amateur radio community has resulted in some interesting adventures, but one for the memory books took place on an otherwise unassuming Tuesday in September. For the past few years I’ve been tangentially involved with the University of Victoria’s amateur radio club – helping out with projects and the administration of the lab’s network. I’ve become a reasonably well known fixture in the lab and so it was not a huge surprise when I was invited to help out with an antenna install on the director’s property on Sidney Island. Sidney Island is an 8.6 Continue Reading