VK Logger Ham Radio Forum Archive

Thanks for sharing the pics Murray, noticed a difference in safety practice compared to 15 years ago

Dean, what type of feed are you planning for your dish as that I have a similar type as well. I am slowly gathering bits and pieces and hoping to try 23cm eme one day

thanks for sharing
73
VK5EI - Joe

Great set up Murray, the Yaesu line up looks good and those sat antennas getting into the bird (VO52) great this evening. Booming 5/9 signal from you into Adelaide, thanks again for the contact
cheers
Joe

You are defiantly doing it the challenging way to work the ssb bird :D , so far you have done extremely well. When we spoke on VO52 my rx freq was 145.897 usb and tx 435.256 lsb (always changing as the bird passes). This freq reading was towards the end of the pass. I am no expert on this but becaus...

G’day Simon, I sense frustration from your post. We had a brief contact on FO29 on 23/1 @ 2030hrs (my local time). I do recall that you where not on our exact downlink frequency and drifting with the doppler. I had to use my rit to tune you in. The guys that regularly work the ssb birds are true gen...

G'day John, Its been a big two long days for the guys and I am sure plenty of info will come later. We always have challanges with our hobbies and one of the bonuses we gain is acheivement. Its a bit like fishing :-) I failed today to decode any hf telemetry due to high noise level and poor conditio...

I give full support to these group of guys giving it a go, thats what amateur radio is all about. They have my full support

http://projectspaceballoon.net/

love it good one Theo

VK5DJ calculator is great I have fabricated and tested several UHF and VHF yagi's using flatbar aluminum for the driven element. I decided on folded driven elements and then make a simple balun. Very easy and good low SWR.

I’m in the process of installing a Yaesu G5500. My plan is to use 7 core trailer and cat 5 8 core stranded Network cable. The 7 core will supply voltage for the motors and power some relays for coax switching. The cat 5 will carry controller sensor voltage and other small voltage demands at a later ...

Test transmission at 08:30 UTC all received ok tonight, using DM780 for decoding sofware. I have sent an email to Nigel as requested.

cheers - VK5EI
Joe

Great photos Murray, top stuff

cheers
Joe - VK5EI

sound

The radar signal was S9 at my QTH yesterday at 09:55UTC. Band width 28.450 to 28.490MHz. Excuse the poor screen shot, I was tuning the VFO several times.

Congratulations, well done Lee
noticed lots of 2m vk activity well done guys, I hope to join the elite group soon
cheers

and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe_THkyTwIA

I have a Icom 7000 as well, very important to understand how all of the filters work (TBW settings) This may help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hkve9VWdko

regards
Joe - VK5EI

G'day Wayne, I use a 9m vertical mounted on the roof of the house. My roof is tiles so for a ground plane I use 4 wires in each direction from the mounting point. Each wire is different lengths, shortest 6m longest 15m. I use a Icom AH4 to tune the antenna and I am able to cover 3.5Mhz to 50Mhz. wit...