6metre voice repeaters in and around Sydney as of July, 2023

  6metre Repeater status as of 26th July, 2023

VK2RAG, Somersby, 53.725 MHz  requires  91.5 Hz  CTCSS tone  - they run Sunday WIA b'cast and callbacks

VK2RWI, Dural, 53.850 MHz - working,  WIA Sunday b'casts supposedly will  move to here from 52.525MHz simplex

VK2RBM, Blue Mtns, 53.875 MHz - working,  requires 123Hz CTCSS

VK2RMP, Maddens Plains, 53.650 MHz  - working,  requires 123Hz CTCSS

VK2RSN, Mt Sugarloaf, Newcastle, 53.625 MHz    unknown status, nil response, I tested this in December 2022 when up that way.

VK2RGN, Goulburn, 53.700 MHz, off air according to the Goulburn ARC website.

VK2RMB, Terrey Hills, 53.675 MHz, still off air and still planned to return it to service.

VK2RCN, Telegraph Point, Port Macquarie, 53.800 MHz, working, requires 91.5Hz CTCSS tone

VK2RSM,  Adaminaby, Snowy Mtns, 53.575 MHz, requires 123Hz CTCSS tone

VK2RSC, Lismore, 53.550 MHz, working, now requires 123Hz CTCSS tone

VK2RAG 23cm 1273.400 repeater off air

news from CCARC  that  VK2RAG 23cm 1273.400 repeater is off air for replacement.

no ETA of when it will return.

Winter Weak Signal DX Update - 4th July 2023

 here some more 23cm and 9cm weak signal Q65 activity on 1296.215MHz and 3398.215MHz

Winter Weak Signal DX Update - 28th June 2023

 here are some very impressive DX contacts,  from VKSpotter Propagation Reporter,
specifically the microwave activity on 23cm and 9cm, this represents  the path of Gladstone to Brisbane.

Note : 9cm via Aircraft Enhancement using Q65 digital.

That is equivalent path of Sydney to Albury,  or Sydney to Coffs Harbour

Manly Warringah Radio Society - operating WIA Winter VHF UHF Field Day Contest - 24th June 2023

 some photos of the WIA Winter VHF UHF Field Day contest activity from Manly Warringah Radio Society  operating portable at Terrey Hills QF56oh on Saturday afternoon 24th June 2023

run special event callsign of vi100mb

https://phwl.org/2023/vhf-field-day/

Hamfest schedule Australia and New Zealand 2023

 

WIA VHF/UHF Contest 24th/25th June 2023

 Manly Warringah Radio Society will be operating the WIA VHF/UHF Field Day contest this weekend from Terrey Hills QF56oh , 6,2,70,23 on Saturday afternoon under callsign VI100MB

WIA Winter VHF/UHF Contest - 24th-25th June 2023

 The Rules are posted at: https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/

Since the untimely passing of Mike Subocz VK3AVV in January 2022, developer of the popular VKCL contest logger, who also wrote a log-checker, we've lost the facility to properly prepare results while awaiting probate on his estate.

As everyone is aware, we have been working on catching up with manually preparing results of the 2022 contests and this year’s Summer event, last January.

A number of people have made valiant efforts over recent months to find or to write suitable log-checking software to suit these unique contests that have been developed by the stakeholders over time.

It’s proven to be a herculean task and I am truly grateful to those volunteers who have taken it on. Let them rest for the moment – or so – and I urge you just get out there, enjoy the outdoors, or the indoors at home, and have fun.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not yet up to the task.

Best wishes to all for the contest.

Roger Harrison VK2ZRH

Manager, WIA VHF/UHF Field Days

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VK-VHF mailing list

VK-VHF@lists.ozlabs.org

https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/vk-vhf

RAOTC Net - first monday of the month - 5th June 2023

 

Radio Amateur Old Timers Club net today 5th June, as it is first Monday of the month,

WELCOME to the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club Australia Inc (raotc.org.au)

has all the frequencies and times.

I listen on VK-DMR TalkGroup5 at 11am local time, which at the moment is 01:00 UTC

Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc1 is ready for download by beta testers

 Dear WSJT-X Users,

We are pleased to announce that Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc1 is
ready for download by beta testers.

WSJT-X 2.7.0 Release Candidate 1 introduces a new program called "QMAP",
a new Special Operating Activity known as "Q65 Pileup", and a number of
other program enhancements and 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-rc1.txt

Release Candidates are intended for Beta testers.  If you download and
use WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc1, please remember to provide feedback to us on its
new features -- and on anything that does not seem to work properly.

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-rc1".

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-rc1.html#SUPPORT

We hope you will enjoy using WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc1, and that you help us to
create a GA release of this version very soon.

   -- 73 from Joe, K1JT; Steve, K9AN; Nico, IV3NWV; Uwe, DG3YCB;
        Brian, N9ADG; and John, G4KLA