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 [...]
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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 [...]
Well, I spent much of my weekend fooling around with antennas in one form or another. I had taken down my HF rig to bring to the Brisbane Amateur Radio Club social — to sort out why it wouldn’t tune up on 10m… the problem turned out to be my power supply. I was using [...]
I’ve been doing some thinking today. I haven’t been in the amateur radio gig very long… I got my license in mid January, and I’ve been active mostly on the 2m and 70cm bands for the past few months. The last month saw me acquire the parts needed for a HF station, and so lately [...]
Last Friday (23rd), was the night of the Brisbane Amateur Radio Club Annual General Meeting. Anyone who has been involved in a small club or community group, knows how dangerous it can be to attend these meetings — if you don’t intend to stand for a position, especially when most of the people holding executive [...]
Some of you may recall a recent post in which I described my idea for building my own high-fidelity wireless headset. The recommendation from most people was just to buy a bluetooth headset. Today I was in the hardware store here in The Gap, looking around actually for something totally unrelated — mounting brackets for [...]
As seen/heard on this week’s WIA National News service… GOOGLE A REPEATER Stuart Longland is in the process of putting together a Google Map of repeater usage in VK. This database is based on information determined from the WIA’s list of repeaters, with GPS locations screen-scraped from ACMA’s online database. It’s very much a work [...]
People who know me, will know I’m quite a keen supporter of open source projects. I’m not nearly as fanatical about it as others, such as Richard Stallman, but I try to support open source as much as I can. However, I suppose I’m a much bigger supporter, of open standards, than open source. I [...]
Well… I’ve now been on-air for a little over a month. It has been over that time, I’ve made a number of observations, both about the equipment I have, the technologies, and the underlying culture of amateur radio. Cultural observations… Since becoming an operator… it’s amazing how many other radio amateurs you see crawling out [...]
I’ve been pondering this idea for a while now. When I’m at home, I like to listen to my music… and sometimes, talk to people using VoIP. One big bug-bear I have, however, is being tethered to a desk by the cord of a headset. Now… I basically have a few options: Cordless headphones (either [...]
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