Installing poorly built antennas since 1994! Pixie QRP 7Mhz CW Kit. The other week, talk on the australian ham radio Facebook wall turned to kit radios and the Pixie QRP Kit. A number of options were shown and talked about, after a search and comparison, I chose to purchase this Versions of the kit from This eBay seller. One of my local Ham radio club members sent me a link to these nifty PowerPole PVC Boots. Why? IC9100 Firmware Update E3 2015.

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.

I recently obtained a Yaesu VX-8DR, primarily for use on SOTA activations. The radio has the six metre band, which is a bonus as SOTA is presently running a six metre challenge. By David Fannin which uses an arduino to process the standard GPS messages from a UBlox GPS and convert them to the Yaesu protocol. It looked like a great place to start, although the end solution had to be reasonably compact.

Mt McLeod trig and Ovens Valley. Four Summits on the AAWT, March 2015. I had notice that a number of summits sat on or near the Australian Alpine Walking Track. Lake Cobbler would make and excellent base camp for a number of day trips which would easily pi.

The operating position on Briarty Hill with the kids in the background. Activated across 31 December 2013 and 1 January 2015. I tuned up on 40 metres and logged my first. Once the New Year arrived, I held my frequency and worked 10 SOTA stations straight in as many minutes. The following 30 minutes settled down to a comfortable pace with seven more S2S stations worked. When the New Year rolled over I worked a total of 29 contacts with 16 unique summits. As soon as the FT-817 was.

A blog about my activities with SOTA on the Amateur Radio bands, from Sydney, Australia. Thursday, 31 July 2014. Hi there, this site has migrated to a new WordPress site. You can access it HERE. Tuesday, 29 July 2014. Contacted me and over a short period of we made the necessary arrangements. The date was set for early in August 2014 however, fortunately the date was revised to 26-27 July, 2014 which coincided with the VK1 SOTA Party.

Well this is my first attempt at blogging, following in the footsteps of many other Amateur Radio operators. I am not sure how often I will post here, but I hope that some of what I post will be of interest to others, and may help some to get into this fantastic hobby of Amateur Radio.