Dampier beacons 50 and 144 MHz

[VK6OX]

Hi Murray,

ZL3NW, ZL1RS and ZL2TPY all spotted the beacon on 1st Jan. Bob and Kerry again spotted it on the 2nd. ZL2TPY Kerry spotted it on the 15th. This is the latest report according to the Logger.
73

[ZL3MH]

The sprodic E this year is not so good as the sunspot cycle
is revering up. Has anyone inZL heard the Dampier beacon ?

73 Murray ZL3MH

[VK6OX]

Hi Murray,

Since December 1st, ZL3NW and ZL3ADC have "spotted" the 6m beacon on a couple of occasions, the most recent being from Rod yesterday!
You can check it yourself by selecting "History" on the logger page, then set the parameters for what you want to search for e.g. DX callsign, days to search over etc.

[ZL3MH]

Hi All

Red Dog and the Dampier beacon. On one of the last seens
of the film at the 1.21 hour mark the Mast of the beacon
can be seen. I will zoom up and see if I can see the two
antennas.This is from the other side of the building
from the above pictures ( Pic 3 )

Also Pannawonica hill is in the movie. I have some simular
Supper 8 Movies of panna hill in my collection.

All the best Murray ZL3MH

[VK6ADF]

Red Dog and the Dampier beacon. On one of the last seens
of the film at the 1.21 hour mark the Mast of the beacon
can be seen.

This is probably what Murray was refering to.

[ZL3MH]

Yes that is the seen

73 Murray ZL3MH

[ZL3MH]

My EK Holden from the 1970s in Perth.

[VK6TU]

Well spotted I can confirm that is the beacon antennas

Beacons still working well

73 from Michael
VK6BHY
NWWA

[ZL3MH]

This week Red Dog came out on DVD in ZL ( release date 28-3-12 ),
So being a tiger for punishment I went and brought it. Not Cheap at
$32.99 at the Warehouse. I enclose three more photo's of my EK and
the third trip to the North West this time to Pannawonica in a 1959 FB
Holden. After two trips in the EK which I drove over from Victorica
to the North West the EK was getting worse for wear. I also enclose
a pic of my Midland AM CB set and a 829b Mobile linear. I also have
about 1/2 hour of Supper 8 movies in the NW.

73 Murray ZL3MH

Mildland CB set

EK FB Holden

FB EK Holden Perth

[VK6SIX]

"Red Dog" real name "koko" from the movie of the same name has died in Perth.

In the movie the antenna of VK6RSX can be seen in the background briefly.

See above in the posts a photo of the VK6RSX beacon antenna, in a scene from the movie.

[VK2WDD]

If you ask QRZ.COM where that repeater is it will tell you Perth.

Surely by now sumwun could supply lat, long to let other hams know where it is.
It sure ain't at Applecross

Other software takes you to the same address

Geoff Johns, VK2WDD

[VK6OX]

Geoff,

VK6RSX is a BEACON, not a REPEATER.

The West Australian VHF Group is the custodian/Licensee of all beacons in WA, hence the Applecross PO address.

Repeaters in the Karratha/Dampier general area are (I think, will stand corrected ) VK6RWR in Wickham and VK6RWP in Karratha, both on 2m.

Cheers

[VK2WDD]

As good as govt weasel talk.
I don't really care what it is, why not let hams know WHERE it is.
Not hard.

Geoff Johns, VK2WDD.

[VK6ZFG]

Details of the Dampier beacons can be found by going to "http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/regis ... .main_page" and doing an ACMA Licence Deatils search for VK6RSX. This will show you the location the Beacon is licenced to operate from.

It is not, and should not be, the responsibility of the licencee of the Beacon to ensure every data base in the world has its data correct. If one finds and error in the data base wise thing to do is to advise the provider of data base should that they can correct it.

The VKlogger has every time I have reported VK6RSX plotted to the correct location, so it obviously its database correct.

73s

[VK7DX]

bcn location details are on VKLOGGER

click on BEACONS at bottom of page,
there you go,not hard..

[VK6OX]

As good as govt weasel talk.
I don't really care what it is, why not let hams know WHERE it is.
Not hard.

Geoff Johns, VK2WDD.

Poor response goes with a poor attitude methinks.
Remind me not to be helpful the next time you require it.

[VK6SIX]

Years ago, the australian government [acma/ptt/doc/sma/pmg or whatever it was art the time] "sold" the entire list of callsigns starting with "VK" to the owners of QRZ.com.

They [aust govt} listed/supplied at that time the licensee address as supplied with the application/current license holder.

Technical details ,,,exact transmiter location etc... were not supplied at the time to qrz.com.

[VK6ZFG]

I stand corrected.

VK logger has had to incorrect location for VK6RSX. It was showing it as still being on East Intercourse Island some 2 kM from the currently licenced site.

I have corrected the VKLogger Beacon database but I did not convert the ACMA AMG coordinates to MGA so if you look on Google earth it will be out slightly. I make it about 100M out, if the building I assume it is in is correct. I think it is close enough. Someone else can do the conversion is they feel the need for greater accuracy.

73s

[VK6TU]

I stand corrected.

VK logger has had to incorrect location for VK6RSX. It was showing it as still being on East Intercourse Island some 2 kM from the currently licenced site.


73s

The Dampier beacons are located on EII in the old port control building, the old location was on the beach in Dampier
I moved them back in 2010, and suspect the location has not been updated on the lic.

Michael
VK6BHY
NWWA

[VK6ADF]

It is still on East Intercourse Island as far as I know. The location was updated on the logger when it was re-established at the GPS co-ordinates that Michael provided at the time. As proven many times before,the logger is the most up to date reference for beacons and repeaters.