Friday 1 February 2019 – Today is the 6th anniversary of SOTA in VK1 and to celebrate the occasion four VK1 SOTA activators are heading for the hills; Bill VK1MCW, Tony VK1VIC, Dermy VK1FDHA and myself. My plan is to activate Mount McDonald 17 km west of Canberra GPO. Elsewhere in VK3 a contingent of…
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…
In recent months 7 MHz NVIS propagation has taken a fall off the propagation-cliff to be replaced by its 5 MHz and 3.5 MHz siblings. As the sun’s natural 11-year solar cycle moves closer to a solar minimum, radio amateurs are experiencing a change in the MUF. Since January this year the NVIS frequency…
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