Monday, October 18, 2021

P25 TalkGroup 4 gone

 I noticed the last few days that the activity I monitor on P25 Talkgroup4 has suddenly gone quiet.

Today I went looking for the  various dashboards for duckdns.org on the web and they have disappeared.

The lookup entry in Pi-Star admin menu for selection of P25 gateways  also shows TG4 also gone.

The only web presence  I have find associated with VK4TUX is the multi-mode repeater site Pi-Star device

VK4RBX - Digital Voice Dashboard (rfcomms.com.au)  which seems to be linked to TG10100.

That's a shame to lose TG4, as we already lost TG50525 a few months ago.


Sunday, October 17, 2021

WIA VHF/ UHF Field Day Contest calendar

 as we starting to come out of Covid lockdowns, we can start thinking about amateur radio contests again

Upcoming Contest Date & Time

  Spring 2021 - 0100 UTC Saturday 27 through 0059 UTC Sunday 28 November (differs in VK6).

  Summer 2022 - 0100 UTC Saturday 15 through 0059 UTC Sunday 16 January (differs in VK6).

  Winter 2022 - 0200 UTC Saturday 25 through 0159 UTC Sunday 26 June (differs in VK6).


that means  the  WIA Spring VHF/UHF 2021 contest will be on  27th and 28th November.   which is a little over a month away.


The Wireless Institute of Australia (wia.org.au)

GippsTech 2021 now postponed until 2022

 The GippsTech weekend aimed for  6/7 Nov 2021 has now been [postponed until 2022,  expecting it be back in the normal time of July 2022