Wednesday 28 December 2016. Today I attempted to complete my SOTA and VKFF Park chasing with a maximum of 5 watts power output from my Icom IC-7300. Results are shown in the table below. Between 2300 and 2345 UTC propagation on 40 and 20m was excellent working Matt VK1MA/2 on 40m and later Steve VK7CW…
Sunday 28 August 2016. With the exception of an early morning 5 km walk with my two dogs, I spent the rest of the day in the radio shack chasing VK and ZL activators. SOTA gods were smiling on VK1 chasers today, good NVIS conditions on 40m with Victorian (VK3) activators operating between 7.080 and…
Summits on the Air (SOTA), who is chasing who? Part 2 Yesterday we looked at the top 20 VK SOTA activators as chased by me. Today I have prepared the data to show the top 5 VK SOTA activators by VK Association (Australian States) as chased by me. For interest, I have included the number…
Summits on the Air (SOTA), who is chasing who? Today I downloaded my SOTA Chaser and Activator logs and just for a bit of fun, I ran a pivot table over my SOTA chaser log to find out which SOTA activator I have chased the most. To get an exact count by callsign, I included…
Saturday 15 November 2014. Today, during the activation of Blackfellows Hill VK2/SM-033 in the Kosciuszko National Park, I picked up my 500th unique summit, from a contact with Rob VK3EK/P activating Mt Cann VK3/VG-133. Thanks Rob for two new summits today, Round Top VK3/VG-129 and Mt Cann VG/133. 500 unique summits
Sunday 5 October 2014. With the promise of a sunny day in Canberra, I dragged out the Magnetic Loop for a spot of SOTA chasing from the deck. In keeping with the spirit of SOTA, I opted for battery power combined with a small solar panel to keep the batteries charged between QSOs. Chaser gear:…
This morning I successfully chased VK4 SOTA stations VK4FADI Brendan and VK4FSCC Glenn both on VK4/SE-041 from Broulee on the NSW South Coast. There background noise was low until the TV was switched on! Dam that made the chase a little harder. Below are photos of the QRP set up. FT-857D and a 4.2 Ah…
SOTA and Lighthouse (2013) chasing from Broulee, NSW South Coast International Lighthouse-Lightship Weekend 2013 For a bit of fun I though I might take a consistent approach to this post as for SOTA activations and include data on the HASL. The walk on the beach was a 450 metre hard slog, starting with a descent…
Took a break from the hustle and bustle of Canberra and headed down to Broulee on the NSW South Coast. Broulee is a quiet town with a small general store and a takeaway. On Saturday my wife and I went to Moruya for the well-known Saturday markets where I picked up a 9 metre squid…
Get out of the Radio Shack and Live Life 