40m center loaded vertical with multi-band options
It’s a foggy morning in Canberra outside temp is 2 degrees at 8 am. Checked SOTAWatch for VK Alerts and found Ian VK1DI, Allen VK3HRA and David VK3IL would be activating summits between 01:00 and 02:00 UTC. I figured I would have a better chance at chasing from a local summit with a low noise…
Boboyan Divide VK1/AC-019 1510 metres ASL, Namadgi National Park VKFF-377 It’s Sunday and the weather forecast is for a fine cool day, perfect for SOTA activities deep in the Namadgi National Park along the ACT/NSW South Border. The plan for today is to activate Boboyan Divide at 1510 metres ASL then early in the afternoon…
I have plans to activate Pigeon House Mountain VK2/SC-033 – Morton National Park in the coming weeks. The summit is a narrow rocky out-crop where space is a premium. In thinking about antenna options for Pigeon House a short vertical will be the antenna of choice, an acceptable compromise to a half wave dipole. Pigeon…
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