The Management and Staff of VK3KQ/p is pleased to advise that we will be operating from our usual portable location in the Ross Creek State Forest, near Enfield, around 25km south of Ballarat, QF12VG.
The Spring Field Day will see some slight changes to our antennas on 2m and 70cm, with the yagi heights now optimised for ground gain. We'll be posting our location on the Contest Radar and also running AirScout for some AE experiments if anyone is interested - we have a nearly ideal path for AE contacts into Adelaide, Mt Gambier, Canberra and central VK7 for such experiments (perhaps it has something to do with our FD site being an old VOR navaid location). Our 70cm operator Mike VK3RZ will be leading our AE endeavours as he is significantly more experienced in these matters than myself.
As per the Winter FD, we'll have three operators: Ralph (me!) on 6 and 2mx, Mike on 70cm and Damian on 1296-10GHz.
Incidentally, for 9cm operation we have modified our IF so we can operate on either 3398.150 OR 3400.150MHz. Can we get an indication of what frequency others around VK3 will be using so we can program up our rig controller accordingly?
Cheers, and good luck in the contest.
Ralph VK3LL
(part of the VK3KQ/p team)