Through a grant, the SCRD Emergency Program was able to get a Barker & Williamson antenna for HF communications. VA7JJR, VE7TBN, and VE7RBE took down the existing fan dipole antenna that had served the Emergency Program well for many years and put up the Barker & Williamson antenna.

In the weeks to come, the ECT team will experiment with the antenna and make any necessary tweaks to the install.