August 18th, 2025

Myself and Steve VE1OR had a great weekend at Cape Jourimain Nature Centre during the annual International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend 2025.
Unfortunately with the burn ban on because of the dry hot weather we could not travel through the woods to the lighthouse so we set up at the field behind the information center.
We recorded 175 contacts including stations from France, USA, Spain, Germany, Sweden and of course Canada. We also recorded 20 contacts with other lighthouse and Lightships. We had many tourists stop by to see what we were up to including visitors from Argentina, Chile, India, England, USA, Germany, Brazil and Japan. Thanks to everyone at the centre for letting up set up for the weekend.

Thanks also to JP VE9ADV, Lysle VE1BZE and David VE9DWJ for driving out to chat with us during the activation.

As you can see in the pictures, the Cushcraft R-6000 contines to be a easy setup and works so well from 10 though 20 meters.

August 17th, 2024

Here are three pictures taken during the International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend at Cape Jourimain New Brunswick. The first is Steve VE1OR operating the HF station inside the lighthouse and the second shows the Lighthouse, HF vertical antenna and the Confederation Bridge while the third shows the HF vertical with PEI off in the distance.

There were many visitors to the lighthouse throughout the day including fellow ham Lysle Anderson VE1BZE who dropped by.