Low power amateur radio operations where the transceiver output power level is 10 watts or less.
Inspiration for this project came from Craig WB3GCK, all credits to Craig 🙂 First, this device is not SOTA compliant, however the drive-on mast support is an excellent way to support a lightweight telescopic pole and a HF or VHF antenna for a Field Day, Parks or WICEN (EMCOM) deployment. Position a car wheel on…
Saturday 23 November 2019 – I had planned to participate in the WIA VHF-UHF field day, however the forecast temperature is 33 degrees C (hot) and we have a thick red dust haze (hot northerly winds blow red dust from central Australia) which isn’t good for the respiratory system. So the plan for today is…
SG-Lab supply a HB9CV PCB yagi antenna with each transverter purchased, it’s a great deal. 🙂 The supplied antennas offer the user the ability to get on air quickly and without a major investment in other antennas and expensive low loss coax. I use SG-Lab’s 23 and 13cm transverters for the amateur radio…
Do you have a passion for homebrew portable HF antennas and antenna impedance matching devices, commonly known in the radio amateur community as Antenna Tuning Units (ATU) or in parts of the northern hemisphere as Aerial Matching Unit (AMU)? …then read on else leave this page now. The term ‘Tuning Unit’ is far from the…
VK1AD Portable T-Match Antenna Tuner (ATU) mounted in a plastic case L1 is tapped at turns: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 16, 20, 26 and 37. The vernier dials enable logging of each capacitor setting, which can be repeated at the next activation. This has so far proven sucesful for the 27.2…
I placed a bulk order with Jon N0WL for his nifty 3D printed FT-817 PowerPole adpater. The bulk order was made for members of the VK1 SOTA group. Today, Wednesday 29 Nov 17 the parcel arrived from the US, 7 days after placing the order, that’s great service. 🙂 As most FT-817 owners know the…
Saturday 8 July 2017. Thee enthusiastic SOTA activators Andrew VK1MBE, Al VK1RX and myself have plans to activate three summits Bald Mountain, Big Badja Hill and Dampier in the Gourock and Deua National Parks, 2.5 hours south-east of Canberra. Our plan is to rotate two SOTA stations between Bald Mountain VK2/SM-052 and Big Badja Hill…
This week I received three SOTA 23 cm Microwave Certificate Awards from Barry GM4TOE, SOTA Awards Manager, UK. SOTA Microwave Awards – Simplex Operations on 23cm 17 June 2017 SOTA 100 km 23 cm Microwave Award – Operating on 23 cm SSB from Mt Taylor VK1/AC-037, I worked Rod VK2TWR in Nimmitabel, over a 131…
How do you get on 23 cm 1296.2 MHz USB for SOTA activations without forking out loads of dough for an ICOM IC-910 or IC-9100? Answer a lightweight all mode 2.5 watt 23 cm transverter from Hristiyan LZ5HP in Sofia Bulgaria. The current unit on offer is version 2.3. The 23cm transverter’s default configuration is…
VK1AD WSPRLite beacon past 24 hours to 0945 UTC 26 March 2017 Radio amateur stations in Europe, North America, New Zealand and Australia who report receiving my 20m 100 mW WSPRLite signal. My antenna is a 40m OCF wire dipole with the feed point at 8 metres above ground level. WSPR Map – 26 April…
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