Welcome to the DXer.ca website

Welcome to the DXer.CA - 2012 website. The DXer.ca site has been on the air in one form or another for 16 years now (Since 1996 as "espresso.ts.uvic.ca)! We are based in Victoria B.C. Canada but we have listeners and hobbyists stationed all over the globe!

If you are a radio listener, SWL, DXer or a ham radio operator - then DXer.ca is your one stop resource for this fascinating hobby.

We review receivers, transceivers, antennas and all gadgets associated with the radio hobby. Enjoy our website and have fun in our active forum area.

Our resident hobbyists include Ian McFarland (formerly of RCI, BBC and NHK), Dr. Walter Salmaniw, noted DXer and technical author Nick Hall Patch, Ham radio operators like Brian Chapel, Theater rigging engineer Tom Heemskerk and yours truly, Colin Newell.

Club activities of old include the IRCA, SPEEDX (those were the days!) and CIDX.

Coming soon! The history of solid state technology featuring Ian McFarland and special guests - originally recorded in the seventies with significant updates for the 21st Century! Is going to be fun, fun, fun!

Imminent review! Durham Radio is shipping us the Alinco table-top shortwave receiver: The DX R8T - and hey, an manufacturer that puts "R8" in their product description field is being bold! OK, that is an inside joke I guess.

And some more reviews from Fleetwood in Vancouver - the good folks that loaned us the wonderful Wuoxun transceiver.

Photo Right - Who are these young men? Jim Coward on the left and Ian McFarland (on the right) working on the Antenna Series (a few moons ago!) now available as a download -- and in February 2012 as a CD you can buy as well.

I have been rebuilding our "free" file download area - we have one of the largest collection of small eBooks and documents for the small-radio or ULR fan.

In the last 2 years we have had over 100,000 file downloads from our document area - which is astounding. Stay tuned for more - working on getting the entire "Proceedings" series online - one of these days.

As I have been rebuilding the DXer.ca site and upgrading various pieces of software - in doing so I have upgraded the hosting package from $19/month to $40/month to cope with the demand on the bandwidth.

Everything will stay free as long as possible. Thankfully, we now have a couple of sponsors.

Amateur Radio Reviews: We will be reviewing the Yaesu NT-817ND, the ICOM 703+, The Wuoxun Dual-Bander, the Kenwood TS-480SAT and more - so much more...

Rich media returns to DXer.ca - More audio, more features - and now a FLASHBACK - a 2008 DX-Podcast from the vaults!

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