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Winlink Checkin's Weekly

##Tips for non hams sending email to winlink users##

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 […]

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Winlink Checkin's Weekly

ZL/VK Winlink Check-in’s for 30th Oct 2020

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 […]

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FOX HUNT General Info

Fox Hunt – South Western Sydney

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 […]

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Repeaters Info

Hurstville Repeater

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, […]

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Winlink Checkin's Weekly

ZL/VK Winlink Check-in’s 9th Oct 2020

Well seems that Winlink is growing, Wade VK1MIC has made not that there is now a new Winlink Gateway in VK6 land, VK6EEE. We would like to thank Martin for this great service. Also of note, E51SEA Nigel has noted that Winlink has been a great lifeline for him whilst he is in the Cook […]

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Winlink Checkin's Weekly

ZL/VK Winlink Check-in’s for 2nd Oct 2020

Was an interesting week this week, busy and hot over the weekend and this early part of the week wet and blustery which caused internet issues for me. Annoying with out NBN 🙁 in Australia. I hopefully have fixed it, found the lose connection and dried it out, tightened it and put it out of […]