We completed our first Fox hunt and everyone had a great day, so much so that another is booked for 6th December, 08:30am, again somewhere between crossroads and Campbelltown along the M5 corridor. All those that participated learned something including the Fox. We had VK2ND, VK2DEK, VK2FOX & VK2PR + 1. With VK2DU as the […]
Well what a week this was. Plenty of traffic on Winlink but only 2 check-in’s. I have been asked by some, please don’t respond to all with long article’s or text and if you must remove the original text. There are some who rely on HF Winlink with slower protocols like ARDOP to actually communicate […]
A location has been chosen, known only to the fox, We will announce on the VK2RFG – Gregory Hills repeater, Output: 438.650MHz Input: 431.650MHz with a CTCSS: 91.5Hz the suburb as a starting direction. The area is in close proximity to the M5 corridor from Crossroads to Campbeltown. It is a public space and has […]
Only a couple this week, Neil M0KNC is travelling and was able to get in portable. A Portable winlink connection on a SOTA activation attempt from Tony VK2VIC, SOTA Summit Saturday 14th Nov 2020 @ 0945hrs local. NSW Summit VK2/ST010 Mt Foxlow. Great to see some portable attempts around the place.
We had a bit of a quiet week, no one sent links or information on their setups especially portable stations for Winlink. It’s great news that the sunspots seem to be on the rise so the HF propagation will start getting better again. Great to see that people test their setups. I am in the […]
A location has been chosen, known only to the fox, We will announce what repeater we will be on ahead of time and on the morning of the hunt a suburb will be given for the chasers to get start. The area is in close proximity to the M5 corridor from Crossroads to Campbeltown. It […]
Winlink is a wonderful tool used by Amateur Operators around the world to send and receive email, especially when there is no other form of contact possible due to remoteness or infrastructure failure in their local area. My last mesg sent out was a staggering “Bytes: 904” of 194 words, 1034 characters and this is […]
We had a slow week this week. Might have a lot to do with the fact that I forgot to send out to everyone last week. One thing that has been mentioned, Please don’t reply ALL especially as some people rely on HF to collect their Winlink emails. This about them when you send a […]
We are looking at starting up a 2m Fox hunt around the South Western parts of Sydney. The fox would be hidden in a local park in a suburb and from that Suburb information you would have to find it in some park or public space in the area. The general area would be from […]
Well you would expect No news to be good news. Well in this case, no news just means that NOTHING has happened and proved we have been wasting our time. We have been waiting on Wia to sort out our frequencies for this repeater and to this point we have NOTHING. We have equipment ready, […]