VK Logger Ham Radio Forum Archive

The 2m beacon has been off-air for a while so yesterday i attended the site to check the 70cm repeater and grabbed the beacon while i was there. Back on the bench the laptop said it it had a fault of no exciter power, lucky i have some spares so a new exciter and drop the freq, by 1Hz and it's back ...

Does it have a partner and family? Time for a new shack!

I thought 143 was used for links and 91.5 for general access?
JUG

i like the pool noodles what a great idea. I'm always looking for tape streamers or shopping bags to alert people of my trip hazards, and i've even got spare noodles in the shed! Thanks for the tip Lou.

Just a thought have you checked the Neutral to Earth connection and or the the actual house Earth is intact?.

We have both in our area, with Echolink on the local 2m repeater, it tends to get used by club members away on trips keeping in touch with locals, or members out of range of the local repeater able to listen to the Sunday broadcast and call back.

Very nice just the thing to keep my OCD happy. Have you thought of marketing them to others i sure like me others will want them now.

Thanks Danny i've been wanting this for a long time.
VK3JUG

Laser cut at a local machine shop, accurate and no damage to panel.
JUG

Must be just the right distance, it's busy keying away nearly all day every day here!
When is it being moved?

I use HF commercialy at work and find the Roger beep very handy in poor signal conditions often heard when voice is gone altogether but even when signals are good it's at such a level not to be annoying. Most Amatuer repeater controllers feature a Roger beep to indicate the end of transmission, stop...

Working well, have an R8500 running at work on a vertical, and the beacon has been coming and going all day long since you fired it up.

Yep and another Station "Disaster" on VK3RRU 28.263MHz proliferating the airwaves.

Hi Admin, there is 2 entries for the VK3RRU 70cm repeater, i have marked the 1 with the incorrect location as the one to delete in the comments box.
Vk3JUG

Sunraysia Amateur Radio group will be involved with JOTA as usual on Hf and available on Echolink (VK3JUG-R) which comes out on the 2m Mildura repeater, plus IRLP which comes out on our 70cm repeater at Merbein. Give us a call over the weekend.
JUG

With the change in duty cycle to continuous Tx on the new beacon, and more to come, we have already noticed an increase in our power bill and being a small club we need to watch our pennies. i was thinking of installing a switch to disable the beacons overnight either by time clock or sunset/sunrise...

Thanks Terry, that's the Programmer sorted, i can go ahead and finish it, need to reprogram the EPROM for one of our APRS didgi's.
Just need to find the Emulator now.
Cheers
PeterN
VK3JUG

Hi, i have just obtained some unfinished projects i would like to finish and put to use. One is an Eprom programmer from Electronics Australia September 93. The other is an Eprom Emulator from Jan/Feb 92. Looking for a copy of the original articles, unfortunately i gave away all my early mags when s...

Check the beacon database on here it lists if GPS locked/ TXCO etc. and actual freq. Do some Dxing and see what you can hear.

Our NBN is not far off, the water tower in the centre of town has been busy with new cable trays and bit's n bob's appearing appearing everywhere, along with a new padlock and alarm system. The clubs 2m repeater has been on this site for well over 30yrs rent free and now we have been locked out unti...