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My SOTA adventures and project notebook. Trapped five band EFHW SOTA antenna. Touch Paddle for MTR 2. VK SOTA CW practice files. Welcome to my SOTA and project blog! Use the menus above to select pages of interest. The header photo was taken at Mt Loch during the activation on 10 July 2013. The background photo is from the top of Mt Tabletop during the 10 August 2013 activation.
Summits On The Air and other playgrounds. Mt Marulan and Towrang Range 9 Aug 2015. The summits chosen near Goulburn are around 100km from Canberra so well within RF range. It was an early start to get to the first one well before UTC rollover.
My adventures with Amateur Radio and Geocaching! My new Pathtag has finally arrived! June 24, 2015.
Get out of the Radio Shack and Live Life. Australian National Parks and ACT Nature Reserves. Hi all SOTA fans VK1 is pla.
Big mountain, small voice, many ears. Last weekend was a contest double-bill with the Remembrance Day and Lighthouse contests. Receiver strip, now with replacement audio stage using a TDA7052. Instead of the prescribed LM380. 867MHz IF filter, SA612 product detector, TL072 op amp, 2N2222 BFO. With a 10MHz IF and 3MHz VFO, which sounds sweet.
Mining for SOTA gold in Reefton. On The SOTA bug is biting.
VK2GOM Ham Radio and SOTA Blog. Taking ham radio to new heights! March 21, 2016. See you on the bands! September 15, 2015. I placed an order to SOTA Beams.
Lunch was hastilly made while batteries charged and the recovery gear and chainsaw loaded into my Great Wall X240 wagon. I set off a little after 0930hrs local time. Operating Position on Mt Bride. View of the track from my operating position on Mt Bride.
Some accounts of SOTA and other radio outings. A lightweight dipole for 2 m. A trip to Canberra for the 2015 WIA AGM and Conference. May 7 to 10, 2015. A meeting of the WIA Technical Advisory Committee was called for Friday afternoon, so that clinched the deal I would attend the AGM weekend. I finally left home only a little later than planned and headed east. I stopped at the Bruthen Bakery to buy some lunch and arrived at my first destination a little later than the planned 0130Z. I travelled up the Ca.
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Amateur Radio -QRP, Portable, S. HOW TO SET UP A PORTABLE STATION. For some strange reason quite a few experienced amateurs seem to be hesitant about setting up a portable station. Paul, VK5PAS has suggested that he believes that many are not sure how to go about it. I recorded this video of Greg, VK5ZGY demonstrating his set up in the back yard a few months back but I have only now got around to finishing it off. Have a look and get out there and give it a try.