VE2DX Electronics closing down - Nov 2025

Richard, VE2DX operates a small company in Canada which designs and sell products for the amateur radio market. These include a variety of interfaces for various radios as well as a number remote antenna switches.

The products were sold via DX Engineering in the United States, Martin Lynch & Sons in the UK as well to a individuals.

In September, VE2DX announced that unfortunately have to close due to the introduction of tariffs in the United States.

This is an excerpt from the statement issued...

 VE2DX ELECTRONICS DESIGN MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

1- Shipping to the USA: Please be advised that we can not and will not ship anything to the USA as of September 19th, 2025, because the shipping companies in Canada will NOT take any shipment unless WE pay YOUR tariffs in advance.

These Tariffs are from US Customs, and there have been many administrative errors, such as the fact that our products are covered under USMCA and should not be subject to any tariffs AT ALL!

As a result, US Customs is requesting that transport companies pay in advance for US citizen tariffs. Consequently, these transport companies are charging our company tariff fees, making it almost impossible to collect the payments from our customers, many weeks or months after the fact.

Let's be very clear: we are not charging anyone any tariffs, nor is Canada. These tariffs are imposed by US Customs and are to be paid by the importer, not the Canadian exporter.

Bottom line, we will no longer be able to ship anything to the USA. We invite you to contact our US-based resellers if you need any products.

4- Are we going to close? Yes, 🙁 Many of you have been following and supporting us from the very beginning. No later than last week, I was in NH to discuss a potential US partner and initiate some manufacturing in the USA, but the numbers just aren't there. 🙁

I am very sorry to inform you that, as of November 2025, VE2DX Electronics Design Inc. will no longer exist.

We continually strive to develop innovative approaches and technologies that can assist our fellow ham operators at a fair price. As a result, it took us far too long to become profitable. This, combined with the August 2024 floods and US Customs tariffs, makes it impossible to develop further. As a result, we must consider selling or closing our beloved company. 

I want to thank everyone for their support over these GREAT six years.

De Richard G. Desaulniers Sr., VE2DX

Full statement... https://ve2dx.com/blogs%2Ftips/f/ve2dx-electronics-design-major-announcement

Video: Understanding 6 Meter Sporadic E Propagation by W3LPL

Frank Donovan, W3LPL gave a presentation recently to the Madison DX Club titled 'Understanding 6 Meter Sporadic E Propagation'. The talk which is about an hour in length covers Sporadic-E propagation with an emphasis on the 50 MHz (6m) band. 

The talk is given from a North American perspective but the distances discussed are applicable to stations in Europe as well.

The talk not only covers single hop Sporadic-E but multi-hop as well as shown in the image above.

Chordal hop propagation refers to where a single Sporadic-E cloud refracts the signal enough that it is able to propagate to the next Sporadic-E cloud instead of relying on a lossy ground bounce.

The talk includes some interesting slides which show the height of the Sporadic-E cloud changing with the time of day. This suggests that the longest single hop distances should occur in the early morning or early evening.

He also expands the discussion to cover Trans-Equatorial Propagation (TEP) whereby stations in the USA can link via Sporadic-E to the TEP zone to the south and then onto to South America.

The same scenario would apply to stations in Europe trying to work South Africa and South America on 6m.

The presentation is shown above.