Radio

Working with the radio at my mother and fathers place is much more successful than at home. The fact that it’s about 60KMs from the city helps. And it’s nice to spend a night in a place without light pollution is really nice.

Anyway Hannah and I set up a basic wire dipole antenna, 10 meters side to side, and strung it up around the decking out the back of my parents place.

This antenna cost us the grand cost of under $5AUD nice and cheap.

Anyway during the daylight hours, we listened in to the 20 and 40 meter bands, even picking up KE6M from california, which was kinda cool.

At night the 40 Meters seemed almost unusable as there was a lot of AM stuff emanating from China, and also a repeating noise that could of been an over the horizon radar system also from China.

But 80 Meters was fairly active, and we filled many pages of my little log book with stuff we found interesting. One of the cool things was a couple of guys talking about how to build decent chokes and baluns from stuff in their junk boxes.

A good day all in all.

I so need to get myself licensed so I can start transmitting.

~Ivy

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