We went to Mt. Allyn QF57rv, a group of us from MWRS Club operating as VK2MB, for the 8 hour stint, I also operated as myself to give out some numbers on 146.500 FM simplex to people. Nothing heard or worked on 439.000 FM or 52.525 FM
Nothing on 23cm or 9cm, just too many damned trees sticking up. on the south-west side of the carpark, which is what we needed to get back to Sydney and beyond, it is clear view from north round to east, (90 Degrees) , but south through west to north (180 deg) is buggered by big trees.
We worked ZL stations on 2m SSB. that was the excitement, considering it was 37deg C when we got there. The dirt road to the top is thin, windy and rough, although there were cars coming up.
Overall, pretty dismal operating from this site, Telstra and Optus mobile coverage was piss weak, considering we sitting on top of a mountain, 4G signal kept coming and going, not reliable for doing liason on vkspotter etc. We noted that Gerard VK2IO did a whole lot better operating portable from Mt. Banks QF56ej. Need to re-evaluate where we going next time.
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