VK Logger Ham Radio Forum Archive

There must be action afoot.

The URL now resolves and it is answering pings.

The webserver isn't up yet, nor are the email redirections.

Cheers.

Although that is a world first... Facebook was good for something

Hopefully they are aware of it then.

Cheers

Afternoon All,

Is anyone else having trouble loading the WIA website (wia.org.au)?

I am getting connection timeout errors and wia email redirects are not working.

Our Pacific neighbour, Vanuatu, is currently being threatened by Cyclone Harold. At the time of writing it was a Cat 4 but was spinning up to Cat 5. The current projections have it passing, very slowly, across the centre of the island chain in the next day or so. Most notably Esprititu Santo, Ambrym...

Hi Hayden,

Sadly no further radio tests.

My HF stuff has been boxed up due to interference from many things but especially FTTC NBN.

After the storm here on Tuesday we were without power until the wee small hours of Thursday. Needless to say, the generator got pressed into service and did sterling service. I found that I could run an upright freezer, two full size fridges and charge various batteries all at once. The trick was to...

Hi All, The generator I have (a 2kVA chinese thing) has developed an oil leak. Just spent an hour taking the covers off. I reckon there's another hour getting the engine shrouds off before I can even begin to look for the oil leak. It looks like I can get a Kings 2kVA for about $450 or a 3kVA for ab...

Many thanks.

Pretty much what it is used for currently, so given the price I might grab one.

Oh, one question, does it have a manual Squelch/mute or the stoopid auto mute like the Uniden?

Hi All,

I need to replace the ageing UHF (477 MHz) CB in the ute.

It has been many years since I have looked into that space. Has anyone had any experience with the Oricom range of equipment?

Any opinions?

The GPS seems to have it's very own Y2K moment coming up on Sunday as the 1024 possible week numbers exhaust. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-04-05/gps-rollover-global-positioning-system-receivers-satellites/10966218 It will be interesting to see if any of my older units a) run up and b) st...

I am not a Facebook user so I can't really comment on it's usefulness or otherwise, I find youtube as a 'learning tool' to be almost useless. The basis of my dislike is the interminable scrolling through poorly filmed, poorly narrated, poorly storybooked and poorly lit videos to find that one nugget...

I copied and pasted the original text. Does this work?

https://gsuite.google.com.au/intl/en_au ... ta-centers

(It works for me but that is probably not a great test)

I received this from Aidan Mountford on behalf of the WIA President (I had emailed the Prez directly on this matter). I make no comment as I am yet to digest what this means: Colin, I apologise if there has been any miscommunication - I will review this communication with the IT group. With respect ...

Hi Lou, It seems the WIA have engaged what appears to be an external 'concierge' service to handle email comms - this suggests that their IT services are being outsourced. Thus the qualification of business use for google suite. It seems a weird choice to provide these 'services'. Maybe they are try...

A couple of weeks ago I received an email from the WIA indicating that they would be moving their email redirection service to a Google service. For those who are unaware, the WIA has provided a service where members of the WIA could get a @wia.org.au email address that forwarded mail to the users a...

I. Give. Up.

I tried to inject a little positivity but the nay-sayers just have to hi-jack and have a whinge about a completely different subject. No wonder potential new-comers get turned off the hobby. Mostly by old whiny men and 1930's club meeting mentalities.

Well you win.

C'est Fini.

Well despite what the haters have said, I have quite enjoyed playing around with FT-8 over the last few months. At the very least it has got me back on the air. There has been an unexpected upside. QSL Cards. Using FT-8 I have been able to make contacts into places I have never been able to before. ...

So many things with buttons.

How do you remember what they all do?

I am not sure what AMC's business model is. The invigilators are independent of the training organisations, and I believe (but don't know) they generally come from boating and sailing clubs, etc. so they may or may not be paid. A marine operators exam is $89 per http://www.amc.edu.au/industry/omc/om...