Radio

Well again with the late posting, on the 10th of November, Hannah (VK3GNU) and myself (VK3LNX) had the pleasure to attend Andersons Creek primary school, to help out with an ARISS contact. Not that we really did any of the hard work as that was done by VK5ZAI and then to the school via a telebridge.

Though I had been asked to do a quick Q&A on stage in front of a few hundred people by Rob (VK3KRB) about how long I’d been in amateur radio and what I had done.

Q&A at Andersons Creek Primary School

After me Jim (VK3AMN) also gave a quick talk about what he has done with radio, and then finally the contact went ahead.

The kids of Anderson Creek asking questions of Mike Fincke on ISS

Anyway it was a fun night and a pleasure to be there (more information can be found on the wia website.)

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Well it’s been a bit since we’ve posted here, but anyway hopefully this will get everything up to date.

In early November Hannah (VK3GNU) and myself (VK3LNX) went to the Bunyip state park to see how well we could work in the forest.

We took our vertical whip that we purchased from a recent hamfest, and a 40 Metre dipole that we had constructed for taking out into the forest.

We had little luck with the vertical (though we did on another morning get into a 80m net and got in fine). So we strung up the dipole into the trees, nice and high. But unfortunately the bands were rather quiet, but in the end we proved we could operate out bush so to speak.

basic setup of the ic703 and ic 706mkIIg in the forest

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