VK Logger Ham Radio Forum Archive

Guy is a good Guy, He fixed one of my radios and told me how to fix another. Good service, prompt and fair prices.

I needed a new fibreglass x boom for my Maspro X yagi sat antenna set up on my El rotator. Couln't find a local source who had stock or who c/would make qty less than KMs. The M2 one out of the USA was perfect but was going to be expensive at $249.00 USD + freight so I went searching in China. I fou...

VK2HRX wrote: I have stopped entering these contests as the activity is to low in the Sydney area to make it enjoyable What a strange sentiment, Compton. Here we are discussing the merits or otherwise of distance-based scoring in a field day contest, yet it you have no greater expectation than to w...

snip General activity levels were very low for us in Sydney. Not much local traffic was heard on any of the bands compared with previous years. snip This is a far bigger issue than how to score it. I have stopped entering these contests as the activity is to low in the Sydney area to make it enjoya...

Hi Phil, (& group), Three of us in Illawarra now have 23cm running and managing local contacts. I can hear Sydney 23cm beacon ok. I am using the SG Labs transverter and find it great. vk2bls - Darrell (me) vk2ara - Ted vk2xic - Rob Happy to try out 23cm any time. I can also run digi modes on 23...

VK2XTC wrote:Should be directly overhead Sydney at 3:20pm this afternoon.

Someone please correct that prediction if I have it wrong.



Brian

For my location in Ryde its 15:20 to 15:28.

Anyone got any reports of recent repeater QRM activity in Sydney?

I am hearing on the grapevine that there has been some and that fox hunting skills are being requested.

My solar hot water tubing is glued down with a specific type of silicone. If you can't google it then let me know & I can find the tube in the back of the shed.

VK3DXE wrote:
They have to assume it's stolen. I think they did the right thing.

It was Icoms label, not mine. If Icom cant provide a label that is suitable for purpose what is the point of aggravating their customer?

Becasue the radio didnt have an identifable S/N as it had rubbed off the S/N lable. I sent them a phopo of the label but they refused to support a radio that didnt have a S/N. Stupid in my mind as it was still clearly an Icom radio. One of the reasons I never upgraded to the IC 9100.

Icom refused to deal direct with me for parts for one repair but did with another request. I was able to deal direct with Icom in the US for the repair that Icom in Melbourne refused to assist on. So with a bit of perserverence you should be able to get what you need from Icom somewhere.....

I filled a PVC pipe with some rod and then resin. It worked but was heavy. I went back to a smaller purpose built pole.

I do have an old Windsurfer ( circa 1985) mast that I will try "one day".....
Compton

SG 7900 is better as measured by subjective readability reports from others on repeaters.

Yes, I use one of those as my back up (a Comet one) and like you say they are robust. Maybe I just keep using the back up. I can notice a difference in peformance with repeaters I can and cant get into when I move from the closed coil style SG 7900 to the Comet. The Harvest one is red so maybe it wi...

Anyone tried one of these? http://www.409shop.com/409shop_product.php?id=117250 I'm getting about 2 years out of my 7900 Super Gainer or similar in mobile use. The last one didnt survive the perils of a SOTA trip based around the Braidwood Bakery, near Canberra. Be interested in real life experience...

Wayne,

Get onto the AMSATVK group in Yahoo Groups. You will get the detail you seek from there I reckon.

Cheers.

So the next step is to define possess. That's what the legal system will do. And yes definitions are in the regulation..... It just goes on and on....

I'll have 52.525 FM running in Ryde, Syndey. Lets see if that works

I can do split for those who can only Tx on 50 MHz as well.

6M in contests is a bit rare but interesting for us poor S calls.

I will also point 2, 70 & 23cm S to see if that works.

Bob, Thanks for the antenna explaination, very helpful. I can now see why I have difficulty with these balloons. Only got room for a 40M loop and 80m bent dipole.