Its been great over the years. Had fun and annoyed a few, be boring if we were all the same eh?
I will still be on 6 and 144.1 in summer Es.
73 ya all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teaxWYRH9A4
My parting shot, suck it up boys.
Ken OZ
Search found 30 matches
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The big party of the VK Logger
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11718
- Sat Dec 29, 2018 4:58 pm
- Forum: 50 MHz
- Topic: What has FT8 done for 6m ?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 18154
Re: What has FT8 done for 6m ?
Of course i think all right thinking people are wrong.
In a nut shell that is.
And I live in one, a nut shell that is.
Have a great new year folk. Hope the propagation improves soon as we all have cabin fever it seems.
Ken
ZL3OZ
In a nut shell that is.
And I live in one, a nut shell that is.
Have a great new year folk. Hope the propagation improves soon as we all have cabin fever it seems.
Ken
ZL3OZ
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:44 am
- Forum: Ancillary, Test Equipment, Components & Parts
- Topic: Solar powered shacks
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15004
Re: Solar powered shacks
Hi you Blokes. My take on it is a hybrid system. Two big 100AH celltower 12V batteries (swap outs) split between two groups of radio gear, one the main 7300 radio and main dual bander and the other is all the ancilliary stuff like extra dual banders and spare old Yaesu 757, scanner and transverters....
- Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:22 am
- Forum: 144 & 432 MHz
- Topic: FT8 on 2m
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10094
Re: FT8 on 2m
Good one Brian. But at that sig strength you could have wkd Peter on SSB. In contrast last season with 150W and a very basic 6 el horizontal built into my Hex beam I worked three openings and on the best day wkd 13 VK stns across 5 states. All SSB. And another local here wkd a few of them with just ...
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:31 am
- Forum: 144 & 432 MHz
- Topic: FT8 on 2m
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10094
Re: FT8 on 2m
Do we really have to go there? I had hoped digi might stay away frm 2mtrs. Bored already with it on HF and almost bored on 6 though its usefull to stretch to other continents to explore DX paths. On 2m? we might get some more double hop, but it will be boring. I suppose somebody will break a distanc...
- Tue Oct 02, 2018 11:45 am
- Forum: EMC, Interference
- Topic: 40M radar interference
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7769
Re: 40M radar interference
I would suggest to get a better feel of its world wide coverage is to go to WEBSDR.ORG or SDR.HU and start listening from different parts of the world. I just put up with the lousy thing so have not done this yet, bad enough combating local digital house noise from town at S7 on 40.
Ken
ZL3OZ
Ken
ZL3OZ
- Mon Aug 01, 2016 11:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's on your Workbench?
- Replies: 663
- Views: 188183
Re: What's on your Workbench?
Ah Roger. I made it work, quick text so it can go for approval, now its in rehearsals, no pictures taken. But as a picture paints a thousand words logically a thousand words will describe a picture.... so here goes. Words words words words words words words words words words Words words words words ...
- Wed Jul 27, 2016 1:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's on your Workbench?
- Replies: 663
- Views: 188183
Re: What's on your Workbench?
Hi tech here. A spring out of a roller blind, a small plastic toy motor gearbox with one wheel lathed out so its like a pulley. Jaycar 6 cell battery holder and a couple spring loaded switches. A miniature bowden cable out of some old bit of Mil radio gear (arc5?) and some cardboard tubes, paint and...
- Fri May 20, 2016 1:12 pm
- Forum: Digital Modes Miscellaneous
- Topic: Windows 10 and digimode programs
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19294
Re: Windows 10 and digimode programs
thank you Alan. Bout time I had a fool around with SDR.
Ken
Ken
- Fri May 20, 2016 11:32 am
- Forum: Digital Modes Miscellaneous
- Topic: Windows 10 and digimode programs
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19294
Re: Windows 10 and digimode programs
How do you do that? Wayne VK4WDM :om: Im afraid it was in the very small print, so as to not affect their desires, when you went ahead with the install Wayne. lower left of screen with something like "customise" as a small word link. In there are a host of things in tick boxes which by de...
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 6:46 am
- Forum: Towers, Masts & Transmission Lines
- Topic: In-line joining of coax
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13171
Re: In-line joining of coax
Ahh. David. Did you not read the rest of my tongue in cheek posting? I didnt do 80mtrs. I used it for long haul VHF 2mtr into VK and was and still am (with better coax now) in the ZL forward pack when it comes to SpE DX on 2mtr. :D :D Yes I know its awfull but the loss produced was less than the gai...
- Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:41 am
- Forum: Towers, Masts & Transmission Lines
- Topic: In-line joining of coax
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13171
Re: In-line joining of coax
Every one else has thrown their opinions in so why not me too. :D In my years of land mobile vhf coms in vehicles and buildings making joins in RG58 whether its U or AU or what ever or plain old RG104 in the old days I made coax joins almost every day. Yes it make impedance "bumps" introdu...
- Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:18 am
- Forum: Transceivers, Transmitters & Receivers
- Topic: FT7-57GX Tx Audio Problem
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8376
Re: FT7-57GX Tx Audio Problem
Hook it up to a spare car battery for a trial Mal. That should prove the voltage drop thing as that was first thought for me too when I read your first post. Check the fuseholders on the power cable too, bit of flux on the ends of the fuses or oxide on the metal ends?. I know its only on 80 and 40 b...
- Fri Feb 12, 2016 8:02 am
- Forum: Regulatory, Licencing & Exams
- Topic: Exam / Licence Price & Young People ..
- Replies: 160
- Views: 60456
Re: Exam / Licence Price & Young People ..
:D :D Last Post. (anyone have a bugle?) I will cease stirring on this subject as it has drifted a bit anyway from the original comments about making cheaper entry for the poor young fellow Ham who has a $ hurdle to jump. The same fellow probably has an I phone cost in the hundreds of dollars and a f...
- Fri Feb 12, 2016 7:41 am
- Forum: LF, MF, HF
- Topic: Unusual signals on 40m
- Replies: 66
- Views: 34091
Re: Unusual signals on 40m
BUT (and this is where it gets weird) - they ARE homebrewers! They are running variants of the Indian BITX low cost transceiver design, followed by individually-designed linear amplifiers based on International Rectifier "IRF" series switching FETS. So, the "biggest rig on the air&qu...
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:12 am
- Forum: Regulatory, Licencing & Exams
- Topic: Exam / Licence Price & Young People ..
- Replies: 160
- Views: 60456
Re: Exam / Licence Price & Young People ..
Well maybe like ZL3OZ says, there should just be one class of licence, and it should be free. Not my words grouped like this. I did say all one class of license. I did not say it should be free! The free bit is bad. Most definitely not free, as that removes any inclination or commitment from Govt a...
- Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:29 pm
- Forum: Regulatory, Licencing & Exams
- Topic: Exam / Licence Price & Young People ..
- Replies: 160
- Views: 60456
Re: Exam / Licence Price & Young People ..
At least they wont be misunderstood when they say "SIX" Wayne.
OZ
OZ

- Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:43 pm
- Forum: Regulatory, Licencing & Exams
- Topic: Exam / Licence Price & Young People ..
- Replies: 160
- Views: 60456
Re: Exam / Licence Price & Young People ..
After what I posted about ZL licences I am now glad I am licenced ZL and not VK. I think all this different classes of exam and proficiency levels is just a load of old fart stuff. Its class segregation isnt it? Mines bigger than yours? Of course I will get either flak or total ignore from those in ...
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 5:34 pm
- Forum: Regulatory, Licencing & Exams
- Topic: Exam / Licence Price & Young People ..
- Replies: 160
- Views: 60456
Re: Exam / Licence Price & Young People ..
Some thoughts from a ZL What ever happens DO NOT EMBRACE free licenses. WE went that way as you probably know and it seemed good at the time. Hams mostly want something for nothing. We have the same declining influx issue in ZL. Free license hasnt done anything for that. It has not been a deciding i...
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 6:59 am
- Forum: FM, Repeaters, D-STAR
- Topic: What to select for a new VHF repeater?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9371
Re: What to select for a new VHF repeater?
Does anybody still use your existing repeater? We have three 2mtr and one 70cm repeater in our zone under branch 34 and I am a trustee and service tech but I question the need now. No body uses them and literally days and sometimes weeks go by without so much as a trigger. Value for money spent on l...