General Discussion

Hi Members,

Roy suggested I post this to the clubs website.

A Pack of 8 Bungee Straps available at most Aldi Stores.

Great value at $5.00

I have a number of favourite campgrounds. Probably at the top of the list would be Sheepyard Flats on the Howqua River out of Mansfield.

That is where I will be for the next week. I am leaving Chelsea Heights tomorrow and hope to be there just after lunch. Purpose of the trip: play radio, eat food, lots of it and test my Starlink. Frequencies I hope to use: mainly 40 metres, around 7.125+/- at around 1100-ish. I also intend to attempt contacts on the Space Station. 145.990 up and 437.800 down.

Radio is my Yaesu 991A. Antenna should be my EFHW, although I do have a 40 metres dipole. For the satellite, Gerad has kindly loaned me his dual band beam.

Finally, I hope to be on the Kandoss net daily at 1600 +/-

Thanks to Craig, John, Colin and the team for organizing this event.

A very big thank you to all the members that made the day a fantastic celebration.

I use an Alpha match coil screwed into a truck mirror mount and I used the small spike provided by another antenna kit the JPC-12, but the 17’ telescopic antenna is a but much in the wind so I decided to use a longer tent peg.

I took advice from Roy VK3GB who pounds a long screwdriver to first make a hole to insert the tent peg.

All this pounding is tiring and I’m not adverse to labour saving devices so I obtained from Bunnings this auger.

This was successful but with caveats.