VK Logger Ham Radio Forum Archive

Greetings all, If I am still vertical I will be 83 years old and hope to be doing all the things I do now. IE. Chasing DX in my spare time, making things, working portable and if my XYL lets me near a ladder, playing with antennas. When I read the post from Ross ZL3ADT about working W5UBW on 6 metre...

Hi all It looks like acma's problems are not confind to amateur licences. As the treasurer of a local boat club, I received a Notice of expiry of the club's Maritime Coast Licence, complete with all the dire warnings should we operate the station. Upon checking my records I found that the licence wa...

Split frequency operation is realy nothing new as in the old days, crystal controlled stations, unless they both had the same frequency crystal, would of necessity been working split. I find a handy feature of the FTDX 1200 that I have recently purchased, is that when the split button is pressed the...

I have had a KR400 up in the air for over 20 years with no troubls at all. the antennas are a 2 element TET Emtron triband and a 3 element 6 metre yagi. Once I found that the antennas had moved but when I looked I found that all that happened was that the top mast clamp had worked a little loose. 73...

I must say this post has produced a great number of interesting thoughts, so here are some of mine, regarding an FM only section in field days. There was a time when Novice stations were only allowed FM on 2 & 70, no SSB at all on VHF. This resulted in quite a lot of portable FM activity. Some c...

A friend of mine said he had a twisted pair once and found it very painfull.
73 de Mike Vk3KTO

Thanks Colin, for drawing that to our attention. What a great man David Gordon (Slim) was, not forgetting Joy and the other family members. One of my treasures is a recording of some of his songs he made as a your lad at a Sydney DIY recording studio, long before he made When The Rain Tumbles Down i...

Greetings all.
As a matter of interest my XYL has had a pacemaker fitted for some time and has not reported any ill effects from my radio activities. I can run 400 watts on hf and 150 watts on 2 metres and have used the VK3UM program and it it gives me the OK.
73 de Mike VK3KTO

The article in the RAOTC mag. is agood read. Some years ago I had thre pleasure of a 3 way QSO, during the RAOTC old rigs contest, Ken VK2KP and Doug VK3KMN, both using SSB400s. They sure sounded great! As far as I know these 2 would be the only ones left in working order, although I think Doug may ...

Greetings All
Will be in Marimbula June 7 to 12th for the Jazz Festival. Hope to have FT857 with me, so will give a call on 144.100 from time to time, as well as other bands.
73 de Mike VK3KTO

Looks like somebody has at last found a use for one of the late Peter Brock's Polarizers