Welcome to VE3XD (Don Cassel's) home page. Thank you for visiting here and I hope you find what you're looking for. I've created this page to provide information about my activities in Ham (Amateur) radio.

Although the official name of the activity is Amateur Radio it is more widely recognized as ham radio. In either case there are licensing requirements to be involved in the hobby and in my case I am licensed as an Advance Amateur by Industry Canada and operate with the  callsigns VE3XD or VE3BUC.

These pages outline my activities in ham radio with a special interest in contesting or radiosport as it is widely known among the practitioners. In the summer of 2011 we moved to a new home in Kitchener Ontario and as a result my on air activities have been severely restricted. I may do some simple operating but most of my contesting will now be mostly limited to club station operation.