Australian Ham Radio 40metre Net

 setup up my Codan 9323,  setup in house on 40m dipole, I been listening around 40metres the last few days whilst WFH. Eventually this Codan will go in the 4wd.

I stumbled across this net today on 7.100MHz from 10am,  it ran until 11.30am (00:30utc)   a big net, lots of people calling in,  did a search and found their facebook page.

Australian Ham Radio 40metre Net  under the net control of Ron VK3AHR

(20+) Australian Ham Radio 40m Net | Facebook

In the afternoons I will try and listen in on the Kandos Net.

10MHz GPSDO

 a note from David VK2DRT

A new developer has added greatly to the firmware of the GPSDO and has a vastly improved readme at the link below to help both programming and developing.

Suggestions and development continues are more people come on board.

 

https://github.com/fredzo/gpsdo-fw

 

Others have engineered little daughter boards that fix the output impedance/amplitude issues should that be important to you. It may not be perfect but it greatly exceeds the accuracy of my old frequency counter which is now bang on (once given an hour to warm up lol).

 

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/10mhz-gpsdo-by-bh3sap/

Man and Machine TV show

 a good local  TV show I enjoyed watching, Man and Machine Muscle cars

Man and Machine - Muscle Cars, Classic Cars & Iconic Machinery

Mobile regional NSW

 just to promote a couple places visited when doing our country trips,

We stopped into a Round About Bakery at Wyalong (NSW) for afternoon coffee and lunch and cake, very nice.

They also have stores in Temora and Forbes.

and  picked up a delicious fruit cake at the Narrandera Bakery (NSW), a beautiful moist fruit cake

and of course good coffee and cakes for afternoon tea.

Toyota Landcruiser Trooper - mounting Codan Antenna Tuner

 Toyota Landcruiser Trooper - mounting Codan Antenna Tuner

if you need to mount a Codan Antenna Tuner  on rear of a Toyota Landcruiser Trooper, then this shows one method on how to mount it,

Simoco SRM9000 DB15 pinout connections

 Simoco SRM9000 DB15 pinout connections

just to drop a copy here, in case I have not already done so before.

useful for programming them.

Simoco DB15 pinout connections

Simoco SRM9000 pinouts

APRS tracking on 14-15-16 Feb 2025

 my APRS track on the weekend 14-15-16 Feb 2025
Just some casual looking at possible future places for an antenna farm

P25 Repeaters for Sydney and surrounds - as of 11th February, 2025

 P25 Repeaters for Sydney and  surrounds

VK2RCG GPT Sydney City 438.200 MHz now standalone

VK2RNS Asquith (Sydney North) 439.975 MHz standalone

VK2RHP Horsley Park, (Sydney south west) 438.1375 MHz  TG10700

VK2RMB Terrey Hills 438.175 MHz  is standalone

VK2RWK Kurrajong, 439.825 is standalone

VK2RWS Berowra 438.275  w/ -5.4MHz  (WICEN rpr) - unknown status

VK2RWH Nelson Bay 439.625 standalone (WICEN rptr) - unknown status

Non-operational or redeployed :

VK2RHR High Range - being repaired

VK2RGN Goulburn - off air.

VK2ROT Paddington, off air, possibly gone
VK2RWI Dural - now a VK-DMR rptr
VK2RHT Chatswood - now a VK-DMR rptr
VK2RAG Somersby - gone, redeployed
VK2RCF Carlingford - gone
VK2RLE Heathcote - gone

New Zealand (ZL) Repeater Listing

 I stumbled onto this site whilst trying to check the status of the ZL 6metre repeaters.

The ZL's got a good set of repeaters spread across the two islands, including some 900Mhz,(33cm) and of course 23cm repeaters.

The only repeaters they don't have are 10metre repeaters (ie 29MHz)

Be nice if they tied some of their 23cm repeaters, or 900Mhz, etc, to their 6metre repeaters such as Klondike, Climie and Christchurch, that  would create some activity over in ZL when 6metres is open.

vhf.nz/maps/repeaters.html

AHRDF Discussion Forum closed down - now only an archive

 AHRDF - Australian Ham Radio Discussion Forum closed down - now only an archive

see extract  below from VK4ADC :

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