On the air (sometimes) in rural Australia
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.
I discovered another useful amateur radio blog-related resource today. Ben Sutton has created Planet Ham, a web site which aggregates various radio-related blogs. This brings the content of multiple blogs to you in one place, rather than you visiting multiple websites. In my case, though, I use news aggregation software running on my computer so the content comes to me rather than me having to go out and visit it. I do this by making use of Planet Ham’s RSS feed to get the best of both worlds.
PlanetPlanet is the home base for the software that Ben uses. It lists a subset of like-minded, aggregated blogs. Others that I read include Planet Linux Australia and TextPlanet.
Planet Ham can be found at http://www.planetham.com/
