Radio

Victorian Repeater Data

Ivy — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:10:27 +0000

The wia has a pdf of all of the repeaters in Australia. Unfortunately they don’t give this information in formats that might be useful when using a computer to program your radio.

Anyway I’ve now managed to get the data for the 6 metre, 2 metre and 70 centimetre repeaters into a csv file, and an excel spread sheet.

Anyway the excel file is here and the csv file is here. If there’s any errors pleas mention it.

de Vk3IVY

Kynton Hamfest

Ivy — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:49:13 +0000

Well went to the Kynton Hamfest last weekend. Lots of fun lots of junk, and lots of shiny things.

Ended up getting a new HT from the Strictly Ham stall. A Yaesu VX-7R as our old VX-5R had seen better days.

Anyway it’s an interesting little radios, it does 6 metres, 2 metres, and 70 centimetres FM at 5 watts. It’s also got general receive from the AM broadcast band to 999MHz. Also it can out 300 miliwatts on 1.25 metres (not a band we have allocated.) And the fun thing is that it can also do 6 metre AM with 1 watt.

So far a nice little handheld and I have no gripes with it (though the rubber duck antenna is well a rubber duck antenna.)

Also TTS Systems had a nice stall with the beautiful TENTEC radios and the BudiPole range of antennas.

Then there was the Junk and bits and other bits and pieces. Some bits and pieces, and lots of “shiny things”

Nearing the end of the day I went saw Jim VK3AMN, and Ed VK3FEET talk about what we’re doing with the school and I was able to answer some questions regarding the ARISS contact we did last year.

All in all a fun day.

de VK3IVY

stuff and things.

Ivy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:59:07 +0000

Well I’ve managed to resolve an issue I was having with my wordpress blog. Where the post screen was a white font on a white background. Not much fun.

Oh well it’s fixed now.

Anyway should be posting a little bit more now.

de VK3IVY

A test among other things

Ivy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:56:29 +0000

Well I just aquired an iPod touch. Nice little device though I am still getting used to it’s keyboard.
One thing I noticed is that there didn’t seem to be many ham applications for the little device. I hope I can fix it with a number of little useful applications. For example a call sign look up tool.

~ivy

Ariss Contact

Ivy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:25:16 +0000

Well it’s all official, Sherbrook Community School is getting their Ariss contact sometime in the last week of October.

So happy for the kids and kinda jealous too. I’d would of loved a chance like this when I was in school.

Final foundation course for the year.

Ivy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:47:16 +0000

So Arks Academy did their last foundation course for the year, and yet another 100% pass rate. Which makes me very very happy.

Next year is going to be a lot of fun with foundation courses, standard and advanced upgrade courses, and not forgetting one or two regulations courses.

Lots of fun.

Training Regulations Documentation and things.

Ivy — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:51:14 +0000

Well I’ve been working on a radio training site as a catch all for radio training documentation and licensing. Covering everything for the foundation, standard, and advanced license classes in Australia.

So Far so good, but getting some documentation into it is somewhat time consuming. But it’s going to be a project worth doing.

Now I need to get this site to show up when people search.

De VK3IVY

VK3KID

Ivy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:33:27 +0000

Well a few of us have been spending time down at the Sherbrooke Community School with their new school based radio club.

The main aim is to make this self sustaining. So far we’ve got a few of the teachers licensed and a fair few kids too.

We’ve got the kids contesting and that’s a lot of fun.

I don’t know I find it quite rewarding to watch these kids work.

And a link to their webpage and their page on qrz.

“how like my nice panel van” or Radio Regulations Course

Ivy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:01:37 +0000

Well I and a group of others ran a regulations course at the Sherbrooke Community School.

All my students passed which I have to say was a real buzz.

Been running a few foundation courses as well..

More soon, I’ve been slack updating.

~Ivy

160 Metres.

Ivy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:11:17 +0000

Well I have the day off . So I might come up on the 160 metre coffee club, my antenna “tunes” but that doesn’t really mean too much it may tune but who knows if it will radiate, most likely not to be honest.

But at least I can hear the coffee club net, I don’t know if I will jump on or not. I find it a little nervous, coming up on a new net. Especially something like this.

To be honest it is quite noisy, though the removal of the large amount of switching power supplies here made it somewhat better. I may have a scan round on 20 metres a bit later on in the day and see if I can work anything would be a bit of fun.