the WIA Summer 2019 Field Day VHF/UHF Contest logs were due in by midnight 28th Jan 2019,
and the Ross Hull 2019 Contest logs are due in by 11th Feb 2019.
Coming Up:
There is a ZL based VHF-UHF-SHF-EHF contest called the NZART "DX Weekend Contest".
All bands 6m and up. Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th February 2019 ..
http://www.nzart.org.nz/activities/contests/vhf-uhf-shf-ehf-contest-dates/
and the next contest here in VK is the John Moyle Field Day Contest on 16th and 17th March 2019.
http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/johnmoyle/
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
post mortem summary of the WIA Summer VHF/UHF/SHF Field Day Contest 12th/13th January 2019
here is summary of the weekend:
operated from Mt.Lambie (QF46xm) on Saturday afternoon, 2m SSB, 23cm SSB, 9cm SSB, 6m (52.525) FM, 70cm (439.000) FM. At last minute we didnt take 6m yagi or multimode. The 70cm yagi for SSB did not work, later finding a damaged centre pin in connector, and did not take 10 GHz unit as too big to fit it. It was clear skies, so solar panel & battery adequately provided power, so did not need to run generator. Packed up and left Mt.Lambie at 5pm.
Saturday night at QF46pu, we did some portable microwave contacts with Dave VK2JDS (QF46pu) across to Justin VK2CU's location (QF46qu), worked all 11 x bands 50 Mhz to 76 GHz until midnight.
Sunday morning did not go to QF46xe, instead stayed at QF46pu to operate all bands again, then continued on after lunch doing contacts for Ross Hull Contest. Also did some driving around looking for possible portable sites, ie. high spots that can be cleared.
operated from Mt.Lambie (QF46xm) on Saturday afternoon, 2m SSB, 23cm SSB, 9cm SSB, 6m (52.525) FM, 70cm (439.000) FM. At last minute we didnt take 6m yagi or multimode. The 70cm yagi for SSB did not work, later finding a damaged centre pin in connector, and did not take 10 GHz unit as too big to fit it. It was clear skies, so solar panel & battery adequately provided power, so did not need to run generator. Packed up and left Mt.Lambie at 5pm.
Saturday night at QF46pu, we did some portable microwave contacts with Dave VK2JDS (QF46pu) across to Justin VK2CU's location (QF46qu), worked all 11 x bands 50 Mhz to 76 GHz until midnight.
Sunday morning did not go to QF46xe, instead stayed at QF46pu to operate all bands again, then continued on after lunch doing contacts for Ross Hull Contest. Also did some driving around looking for possible portable sites, ie. high spots that can be cleared.
Saturday, January 5, 2019
DX Report 5th January 2018
I was out mobile today, 10metre FM and 6metre FM were buzzing, 28.620 Adelaide, 29.640 VK3RHF. and 29.680 presumably VK7 had a vk2 and a vk3 chatting on it, anyway, they were alive and active into Sydney, plus 52.525 FM into VK5, plus locals working interstate on 29.500 FM simplex and from the conversations it had been open on 6m and 10m into ZL solidly in the morning.
Friday, January 4, 2019
WIA Summer VHF/UHF/SHF Field Day Contest 12th/13th January 2019
check for latest status here on the day https://www.contestradar.com/
or vk2kfj-9 on aprs, or vklogger.com
of course the following are tentative, Wx permitting, failures, etc
Saturday afternoon QF46XM 1200m ASL
Sunday morning QF46XE 1300m ASL
Sunday afternoon back to QF46PU 900mASL (non-contest mucking around if people need Ross Hull contest numbers)
50.150 USB Horiz
52.525 FM Vert
144.150 USB Horiz
146.500 FM Vert
432.150 USB Horiz
1296.150 USB Horiz
1294.00 FM simplex Vert (or Horiz if reqd)
3398.150 USB or FM Horiz (or could be .100 or .200 whatever!)
10.368.1xx USB (or FM if reqd) (.100 or .150, or somewhere there
Actually Ross Hull Contest runs whole of January and overlaps Summer contest.
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