Sydney Amateur Radio Ferry Contest - Sunday 10th March 2019

it is on again this year, the fourth time for this contest.

https://vk2bv.org/sydney-amateur-radio-ferry-contest-2019/ferry-contest-rules-scoring/

WIA Summer VHF-UHF Contest 2019

operated portable from Mt.Lambie  QF46xm approx 1300m ASL on 12th January 2019
6m, 2m, 70cm, 23cm and 9cm for the WIA Summer VHF-UHF Contest

GippsTech conference 2019

the 2019 GippsTech conference dates have been announced,  it will be 13th/14th July 2019 at the usual venues in Morwell/Churchill  in VK3 land.

VK3BEZ GippsTech page

Central Coast Field Day 2019

went to the Central Coast Field Day  yesterday (Sunday 24th February) held by the Central Coast ARC at Wyong Racecourse, little bit of rain, lacking in stalls from previous years, but still good to catch up with new and known microwavers and weak signal DXers, plus adding faces to callsigns. Good to see Rex VK7MO visiting too..

6metre repeater update

status of 6metre repeaters in and around Sydney
53.625 Newcastle  - unknown
53.650 Maddens Plains  - been playing up lately, came back for a day then gone again.
53.675 Terrey Hills - still off air, but will be returned one day.
53.700 Goulburn - unknown
53.725 Somersby - working fine
53.850 Dural  - working fine
53.875 Blue Mtns - working fine

Summer 2019 Field Day VHF/UHF Contest and Ross Hull 2019 Contest logs due

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/

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.

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.

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.

Summer VHF/UHF Field Day Contest - 12th / 13th January 2019

almost end of 2018 and just realised that it only two weeks until the 2019 Summer VHF/UHF/SHF Field Day Contest.   I missed the Spring Field Day for 2018, so more effort required to ensure I go portable to operate VHF through SHF, obviously a mountain in the western side of Blue Mtns. The plan is to go Saturday morning setup for 12noon start, do 6 hrs stint will be enough. Not serious to win, it's about just getting out portable to give out some numbers to others and build up microwave skillset. I got everything for 6metres and above, but primary focus is on microwave bands.