On the air (sometimes) in rural Australia
Archive for February 2006
I’ve moved my collection of 10m beacon audio files to a new location.
The files can now be found at http://vk2djg.net/beacons/
They recordings are pretty old now, I haven’t had much (any) time to spend on such pursuits in recent times.
It appears that SuitSat was shoved overboard from the Space Station, worked for a very short time, then failed.
Quite a few 2m and 70cm contacts have been made between VK and ZL over the past few weeks. The distance, depending on QTHs in question, are around the 2200 km mark.
Contacts made this way are mainly due to tropospheric propagation. High pressure zones, and high temperatures forming ducts aid and abet those seeking contacts.
It’s harder for me to work into ZL because I’m about 120 km inland - and 1 km high. It’s harder for my signals to enter a duct, or otherwise made it across the water.
