VE3YRA Android Player
A receive-only Android app for the VE3YRA stream, with ongoing work around clean routing to phone, Bluetooth and vehicle media.
Project notes →Current workbench
What I’m building now
My current projects are a mix of Android apps, remote-radio tools, operating aids and games. Canadian Ham Lookup is the main focus right now, with several other shack projects continuing alongside it.
Current project · Android
Canadian Ham Lookup
A Canadian amateur-radio callsign companion built for Android: fast ISED lookups, voice entry, optional text-to-speech, privacy-aware address display, offline fallback data, and a compact QSO logbook.
Currently in closed testing on Google Play. Canadian Ham Lookup will be available on Google Play soon — free to use, with no ads and no nag screens. A voluntary donate-to-the-author option may be added later. Current development line: v1.8.4.
Also on the workbench
Other current projects
These projects are also actively evolving alongside Canadian Ham Lookup.
DragonLady
A C# Visual Studio maze-chase arcade game that evolved from a Ms. Pac-Man-style prototype into dragons, purple jewels, hunters and its own original personality. Source code is available on request.
Source code available on requestRadio Rescue
An iOS arcade game built with SpriteKit, centred on radio-rescue gameplay, waves, scoring and fast arcade action.
Project notes →TriSpace 2035
A retro-inspired Windows arcade space game currently on the workbench, built as a lightweight no-installer project.
Open project →CW Training Room
Shared straight-key and iambic paddle practice over WebSockets, with browser-generated sidetones and operator presence.
Open training room →Simple Space Weather
A compact ham-radio space-weather monitor showing NOAA planetary Kp plus near-real-time solar-wind speed and proton density.
Open Space Weather →About the shack
Radio, code, and a lifelong curiosity about how things work.
I’ve been interested in radio and electronics since I was a kid — from CB and simple receivers to antennas and the idea that a piece of wire could pull voices out of the air. In 2024 I finally earned my amateur-radio licence, completing the RAC Basic course and passing with honours.
Since then the hobby has grown into equal parts operating, building, programming and experimenting. I enjoy digital modes, Fusion/C4FM, DMR, FT8, CW, antenna projects, radio control and pretty much anything that gives me a reason to learn how something works.
A lot of the software and projects here started with the same question: “Could I make this myself?” Some solve real problems in my shack, some make things easier or more accessible, and some exist simply because the idea sounded fun to build. That mix of amateur radio, software and experimentation is what the VA3HKW shack is all about.
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Useful right now
The parts of the shack server that are meant to be opened, checked or downloaded rather than merely admired.