2024 Easter Sunday MAD session (Microwave Activity Day).
Nick VK3BA portable about 15kms west of Geelong at QF21CU41 for todays Easter Sunday MAD session.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
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.
I checked his QRZ.com page but nothing mentioned, I hope he is ok.
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.
Friday, February 23, 2024
Silent Key - Peter Sturt VK2ZTV from Newcastle.
Just read that Peter Sturt VK2ZTV from Newcastle passed away last week. He built and ran the 6metre repeater for Newcastle, amongst other ham repeaters, not forgetting his company GenComms. He helped me with some donated gear and cct diagrams to build a 6metre repeater for here
Tex Morton - VK2AHZ
a little bit of history, Tex Morton, apart from being a famous country singer, his hobby was amateur radio.
He lived down Manly/Fairlight, drove a big american sedan back in the 60s/70's
Drank at the Ivanhoe pub.
Friday, January 19, 2024
St.George Amateur Rado Society - VHF 2metre Summer Contest
SGARS VHF 2m Summer Contest |
The SGARS VHF 2m Summer Contest is open now until 29th February 2024. This is a great oppurtunity to get out in great Aussie outdoors and catch that one winning contact.
The SGARS 2m Summer contest is open all licence classes, including foundation. Analogue and digital modes can be used. Just one contact can win this contest, so please refer to the contest rules at the web site.
For more information about SGARS activities go to www.sgars.org |
Sunday, January 7, 2024
VK2XB truck mobile aprs
I mentioned some time ago about two truckers I see on APRS, one of them is Ian "Indy" VK2XB ,
here is a video from VK2XB and a magazine article
Radios in "new" (to me) Truck! New job - new truck! (youtube.com)
Meet the truckie who 'yabbers' to cosmonauts (bigrigs.com.au)
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