Wednesday 10 February 2016, planned SOTA activation of Mt Taylor VK1/AC-037 856 metres ASL on 439.00 MHz FM Maidenhead Grid Locator QF44MP Mt Taylor Nature Reserve – VKFF-0854 Radio: Yaesu FT-60R dual band HT Antenna: 5/8 HT antenna Power Level: FT-60R 5 watts SOTA Alert: Yes Date posted alert: 7 February 2016 Notice Period: 3…
Friday 5 February 2016, Mt Ainslie VK1/AC-040 843 metres ASL VKFF-0850. Space Weather Services (Australia) has reported 25% enhanced Maximum Usable Frequency (MUF) conditions for Canberra since 09:00 local. At the time I didn’t capture a screen shot of the MUF report. The screen shot below is an example of SWS reporting enhance conditions for…
Adan VK1FJAW and I will be in the Snowy Mountains, a 2 hour drive from Canberra (VK1) on Saturday 23 January 2016 to activate four mountain peaks for the SOTA 6 & 10m Challenge. 🙂 The BOM weather forecast is: Cloudy, Medium (60%) chance of showers, 2 mm of rain, most likely in the morning.…
Monday 28 December 2015. Tidbinbilla Mountain VK1/AC-013 1615 metres ASL, Namadgi National Park A new summit as the benchmark for assessing the difficulty of a SOTA peak ascent. Until today, Mt Tennent 32 km south of Canberra GPO was my personal benchmark with an ascent of 780 vertical metres over 7 km taking 2 hours…
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