VK Logger Ham Radio Forum Archive

Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio Club will be holding exams for all grades on Saturday the 27th of February at 11:00 AM The Club rooms are located at 85 Godfreys Road Bli Bli QLD. https://vk4wis.org/ TO REGISTER PLEASE GO TO OUR EVENTBRITE PAGE https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/135622359127 As the exams a...

VKCC ANNUAL AMATEUR RADIO CATCHUP For around 10 years we have held an annual Christmas catchup for South East Queensland Radio Amateurs - this year it is at the Norman Hotel 102 Ipswich Rd, Woolloongabba QLD 4102 PLEASE RSVP ASAP - to vk4ts@wia.org.au (needed for COVID Regulations) www.vkcc.com Tha...

hey Pete You still need ground radials and the bandwidth is pretty narrow on 80M - Much more expensive would be something like the Gap Voyager https://www.strictlyham.com.au/gap-voyager-dx#.XtoTGzozbIU OR even the Rippletech TZ-3VL ANTENNA DESCRIPTION The TZ-V-3L is a tri-band trapped vertical anten...

Spot on Adam Nothing more to add than to what we have in the past - My suggestion is to introduce another VHF UHF Day- 4 in all -Or perhaps use the existing John Moyle VHF UHF categories - and give the Ross Hull Trophy to the winner of the points score as per the Contest Champion. 100 points for 1st...

WIA Contest Champion and the Ross Hull

Since the start, the WIA Contest Champion has catered for the Ross Hull Contest - the Ross Hull regularly only has 10 and less contesters enter - Should the Ross Hull be deleted as a contest from the contest champion scoring criteria?

Richard Knadle K2RIW SK How many of his amplifier designs have graced the airwaves? Dick Knadle, K2RIW, of Dix Hills, New York, has died. An ARRL Life Member, he was 80. Knadle was revered as a technical resource and mentor for the VHF/UHF/microwave community and was the 2010 ARRL Technical Achievem...

Thanks Chas

I will pass on to Phil - Hopefully he has registered here

Regards

Trent

RESTORE AN ICOM IC251E An email to me from VK4BAA Phil, "I’m trying to fix my old Icom IC-251E. It has a bit of an issue with tuning properly and I’ve traced the fault to a particular PCB. Semiconductors of this vintage (40+ years I reckon) are hard to come by, so I was hoping that you might kn...

An email to me from VK4BAA Phil, "I’m trying to fix my old Icom IC-251E. It has a bit of an issue with tuning properly and I’ve traced the fault to a particular PCB. Semiconductors of this vintage (40+ years I reckon) are hard to come by, so I was hoping that you might know where to go hunting ...

VK SHIRES 2020 COVID19 Changes These are the changes for 2020. VKCL will be updated to cater for the changes (In Progress) NO ROVER CATEGORY NO MULTI OP 4 hour repeat Shorter version 8 Hour category NB 8 Hour can be any 2 of the 4 hour blocks. Not overlapping. As there are 6X4 hour blocks it can be...

MARCH IS CONTEST MONTH - ARRL DX, JOHN MOYLE, RUSSIAN DX. CQ-WPX * a month to easily work DXCC * Here is a reminder of what to tweak in the station This article, by Rob Hummel, WS1A, discusses ways to be really competitive in an HF Contest. He writes: If you want to be competitive, you must be posi...

Thanks Peter,

Yes that was what I was alluding to, in that, the closest I could find was the EU R2 Mode and that gave the reports as per FD condition and moving frequency stopped the errors resulting from unexpected exchanges from operators running normal FT8 .

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Over the contest weekend VHF UHF we had pretty tough conditions in VK4 but we did have a good score from VK4WIS. With no options we thought why not give 6m FT8 a try for Contest exchanges, we reset the FT8 software to R2 exchange as it fitted with the VHF UHF FD exchange - signal report, 6 character...

http://www.vkcc.com/2016/06/28/trans-tasman-low-bands-challenge-2016/#more-1360 Trans Tasman Low Bands Challenge Prepared by VK4TS and VK4SN Last amendment 9th May 2016 1. Contest Introduction This contest is to encourage Low Band Activity in Australia and New Zealand – The applicable bands are 160,...

So let me paraphrase this Sir Humphrey. You did nothing. An answer so reminiscent of the old series " It's clear that the Committee has agreed that your new policy is really an excellent plan. But in view of some of the doubts being expressed, may I propose that I recall that after careful cons...

From 70.050 to 70.150 Australia wide there are only 2 allocations and they are both in North Queensland. Both parties were asked by me whether the would move and they confirmed in writing that they would move. This detail was forwarded to the WIA Board several months ago. This would allow the creati...

From the description it is not a Wilson -

U Mounting style is used by Force 12 but they don't do traps

Chermside out of Melbourne made use of U bolts not U brackets

Can you upload a link to a photo of some of the parts ? Balun, antenna mount etc ?

The Trans Tasman Results for 2015 have been released http://www.b4h.net/vkcc/transtasman/ttlbcresults2015.php Winners are Grinners Congratulations to the Category leaders – Multi Multi High VK4HH Bill and Dianne from the Lockyer Valley Queensland put on 248 QSOs for a contest high score of 2,630. VK...

The 19th and 20th March has a great event on the Australian Ham Radio Calender - The John Moyle Memorial Field Day. It is time to find the power Button on the radio and turn it to the ON position; skilled and more fortunate operators may have more than one radio and can then exhibit dexterity by tur...