The Mt. Coot-tha repeater, VK4RBC has been plagued by interference for as long as I can remember. Usually the interference problems have been nothing more than annoying, but tonight it’s been particularly bad. It appears that somewhere on Mt. Coot-Tha, someone is operating an illegal pair of cordless headphones, at a frequency of 433.525MHz (input [...]
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Browsing Posts published in July, 2008
Well, yesterday I received my first QSL card. About a month ago, I was tuning around on 40m and noticed there was a station calling CQ. A station with what I thought was a rather unusual callsign, VI2AMW60. I sat there for a moment racking my brain trying to think what country VI was… in [...]
Well people will have noticed that I’ve been quiet on IRC, forums, email… and also on most of my usual haunts around the amateur bands (especially HF). I’ve been out at Laidley for the past few weeks, doing some industrial experience with a small outfit known as Eze Corporation, who trade under their trademark of [...]
Hi all… I’ve been busy lately, thus haven’t had a lot of time to post on here… but I’ll save the full details of where I’ve been for another post. People might recall my earlier attempt at a homebrew 2m/70cm whip antenna for a handheld radio. At present, I’m out at Laidley (actually about 2km [...]
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