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
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
just to drop a copy here, in case I have not already done so before.
useful for programming them.
Simoco SRM9000 pinouts
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
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
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.
AHRDF - Australian Ham Radio Discussion Forum closed down - now only an archive
see extract below from VK4ADC :
The forum was closed to all new posts and private messaging on 7th November 2024.
It was going to be removed entirely but has been reinstated so that existing posts are searchable, using the search box option at top RHS, for now.
Existing search engine results should find articles but no new details will be found.
Registered users need no longer log in as there are no options available to post.
There will be no new users added so registration is unnecessary, and will fail regardless.
This archive may be moved to piggy-back off another domain at some stage OR may simply disappear entirely.
A revised colour scheme has been applied to differentiate its archive status as against the original blue colours...
starting to look at what WIA Contests that I am interested in that are coming up for 2025,
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/ VHF/UHF Field Day Summer Contest 18th/19th January, 2025
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/australiaday/ 25th January, 2025
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/johnmoyle/ 16th/17th March, 2025
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/ VHF/UHF Field Day Winter Contest 21st/22nd June, 2025
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/rdcontest/ RD Contest 18th/19th August, 2025
ttps://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/ VHF/UHF Field Day Spring Contest Nov 2025 ???
open from sydney to adelaide today, VK5RSB 53.750 MHz, with VK5KKU and VK2ATU having a chat
today we had some good 6metre openings from Sydney to Tasmania, its been quiet for past few weeks, but today yielded several hours of solid opening.
I heard/worked these VK7 6metre repeaters today :
53.700 VK7RCH Roberts Bluff
53.775 VK7RTV Stowport, Central NW Coast
53.800 VK7RMD Mt Duncan, NW Tasmania
53.825 VK7RAD Queens Domain, Hobart
53.875 VK7RAA Mt Arthur, Nth Tasmania
53.950 VK7RVP St Valentines Peak, NW Tasmania, this requires 91.5Hz CTCSS
I heard both Ian VK7QF and Brian VK7BW at first, then worked VK7QF on VK7RAD Hobart Repeater,
later I had a long chat with Glen VK2FC from near Maitland via VK7RVP.
Whilst on subject of 6metre repeaters, the status of repeaters in and around Sydney,
53.625 VK2RSN, Mt.Sugarloaf, Newcastle, off-air, but is currently in rebuild status ###
53.650 VK2RMP, Maddens Plain, Illawarra, operational, requires 123Hz
53.675 VK2RMB, Terrey Hills, off-air
53.700 VK2RGN, Goulburn, off-air
53.725 VK2RAG, Somersby, Central Coast, operational, requires 91.5Hz tone, linked to 23cm rptr
53.850 VK2RWI, Dural, operational
53.875 VK2RBM, Blue Mtns, operational, requires 91.5Hz tone
### Note: confirmed with Glen VK2FC today
