Sunday, March 31, 2024

2024 Easter Sunday MAD session.

  2024 Easter Sunday MAD session (Microwave Activity Day).

Nick VK3BA portable about 15kms west of Geelong at QF21CU41 for todays Easter Sunday MAD session.

MAD - Microwave Activity Day - Easter Sunday March 31st - VK3BA/P at QF21CU41 Barrabool Hills (youtube.com)


Friday, March 15, 2024

VK0DS - Davis Station, Antartica - update Feb 2024

 VK0DS - Davis Station, Antartica - update Feb 2024

some recent photos from field trip








WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc4 Candidate Release

 Dear WSJT-X Users,


We are pleased to announce that Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc4 is
ready for download and use by beta testers.

WSJT-X 2.7.0 Release Candidate 4 includes new features (especially for
companion program QMAP) as well as bug fixes.  A full list of
enhancements can be found in the Release Notes:

https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/Release_Notes_2.7.0-rc4.txt

See also Section 1.1 of the WSJT-X User Guide for this candidate release:

https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.7.0-rc4.html#NEW_FEATURES

Release Candidates are intended for beta testers.  If you download and
use WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc4, please remember to provide feedback to us on the
new features in version 2.7, and on anything that does not seem to work
properly for you.

Direct links to installation packages for Windows, Linux, and macOS can
be found on the WSJT-X page https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html
Scroll down to the heading "Candidate release:  WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc4".

For those who like to compile from source, a complete source-code
tarball is available at the WSJT-X page. Public access to the git
repository for the WSJT project is also available on the "Git" tab here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/
It may take a short time for the code to be updated on SourceForge.


WSJT-X is licensed under the terms of Version 3 of the GNU General
Public License (GPL).  Development of this software is a cooperative
project to which many amateur radio operators have contributed.  If you
use our code, please have the courtesy to let us know about it.  If you
find bugs or make improvements to the code, please report them to us in
a timely fashion.

The authors and Copyright holders of WSJT-X request that derivative
works should not publish programs based on features in WSJT-X before
those features are made available in a General Availability (GA) release
of WSJT-X.  We will cease making public Release Candidate (RC)
pre-releases for testing and user early access purposes if this request
is ignored.

Feedback should be sent to this email list or one of the of the others
mentioned here in the User Guide:

https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.7.0-rc4.html#SUPPORT

We hope you will enjoy using WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc4, and that you will help us
to create a new General Availability (GA) release soon.

    -- 73 from Joe, K1JT; Steve, K9AN; Nico, IV3NWV; Uwe, DG2YCB;
         Brian, N9ADG; and John, G4KLA

Monday, March 4, 2024

John Moyle Memorial Field Day Contest 2024

 John Moyle Memorial Field Day Contest 2024

The Field Day will be held over the weekend of the 16th-17th March 2024 and run from 0100 UTC  on the Saturday to 0059 UTC on the Sunday

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


VK2LPC-14 truck mobile missing from APRS

 I noticed I haven't seen VK2LPC-14 on APRS since October 2023 when Vince arrived at location in Newcastle port area.

aprs.fi – live APRS map

I checked his QRZ.com page but nothing mentioned,  I hope he is ok.

VK2LPC - Callsign Lookup by QRZ Ham Radio

update on RFI from Northern Beaches Hospital

 update on RFI from Northern Beaches Hospital

I wrote last year about tracking and identifying some RFI being emitted from Northern Beaches Hospital in Frenchs Forest, the good news is that it is fixed, I estimate  it was fixed in end of January or early February 2024,  I can now scan 6metre FM repeaters again wiithout being plagued by the bursts of noise.