VK2XB truck mobile today

 I listening on 40metres, 7.100 a group chatting away, heard Indy VK2XB call into the group, he mobile in the big rig out near Goolgowi and Merriwagga, out western NSW, on way to farm near Hillston

VK2XB/m on the Kandos 40metre Net

 whilst listening to the Kandos 40metre Net on 7.093 this afternoon,  heard Indy VK2XB call in, nice to see him mobile, checked the APRS and sure enough, we can see him mobile in the truck taking some freight to Melbourne. 

Australian Ham Radio 40metre Net

 setup up my Codan 9323,  setup in house on 40m dipole, I been listening around 40metres the last few days whilst WFH. Eventually this Codan will go in the 4wd.

I stumbled across this net today on 7.100MHz from 10am,  it ran until 11.30am (00:30utc)   a big net, lots of people calling in,  did a search and found their facebook page.

Australian Ham Radio 40metre Net  under the net control of Ron VK3AHR

(20+) Australian Ham Radio 40m Net | Facebook

In the afternoons I will try and listen in on the Kandos Net.

John Moyle Field Day 2022 - postmortem

 I went to QF46pu with the intention of  working VHF and above, however after the first hour  of calling and finding nothing and hearing nothing,  (except for  VK2LE/p on 146.500, but they could not hear me). Dave VK2JDS was tuning around 40metres and found lots of stations calling CQ Contest,  so I started working the contest on 40metres, it was great fun, lots of strong signals, easy to work them. There were some serious stations out there, but also many casual contesters who liked a bit of a chat, which I was very obliging with. 

I was not  doing the contest seriously, just give out some numbers.  There seemed like there were many club groups and family groups, one op had his daughters doing the CQ calls while he made the contacts, so I was surprised by the number of young operators, both genders present, some of which had picked up the contest bug and operating very professionally and proficiently, which was great to hear. 

Over the 24 hour period I racked up 50 contacts, in between other projects,  while realistically just having a bit of fun in the contest.  I was operating under my other callsign VK2ABP,  running the Icom 756 Pro2 into a 80metre horizontal wire loop, strung out among the trees. 

Now that I had fun on a HF contest, I think I need to have a go at the RD Contest in August. I think I leave the VHF and above for the WIA VHF-UHF Field Day Contests.