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 […]
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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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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Check out Winlink website www.winlink.org if you want information about how it works. Our weekly check-in net is structured so that people send a standard format email and we collate the information posting it online. We like to share information about each others stations, about the gateways and how their setup. If you do anything […]
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ZL/VK Weekley Check-in’s
Well back on track, even if a little late after doing night shift wipes out the weekend and Monday. Some interesting stuff going on around the world, N0UYH, Ben from Iona, Bonneville, Idaho, USA said it was a sunny day with Smoke haze from the California Fires. We in Australia fully understand what summer fire […]