Recent Happenings January-June 2006

Recent Happenings January - June 2006

On Saturday 25th March Tony VK5ZAI and Jill invited amateur friends from around the state. Here is a photo of most of the group.

Names of those at Kingston on 25th March 2006
VK5JBJ, Brenton, Shandel, Sharna, Shannon.
VK5GA, Doug, Bev
VK5YX, Hans
VK5HLS, Leslie
VK5AMD, Mary, Murray
VK5KJ, Kevin, Judy
VK5HDW, David, Sandy, Henry.
VK5PCL, Phil.
VK5WCC, Bill
VK5EMI, John, Deidri
VK3FI, Noel, Jill
VK3KYF, Garry, Sue
VK5ATQ, Trevor
VK5MC, Chirs, Josie
VK5CK, Mike, Wendy
VK5ZAI, Tony, Jill
VK5ZX, Wayne
VK5EE, Tom
VK5DJ, John, Maxeen
VK5ARE, Roger
VK5AM Mae
VK5ZGY, Greg, Gabby, Deanna
VK5OM, Jim, XYL, Ian, Enid
VK3KBO Ross, XYL, & son
VK5ZLT, Alan
Warren, Kay

The club participated in the John Moyle field Day on 18th March 2006

Kevin VK5KJ and Charles VK5XCP operate the HF station from inside the club trailer. Approximately 200 contacts were made on 80M and 40M using a dipole slung with the aid of Kevin's antenna slingshot.

Tony VK5ZAIs mobile home with 6M beam and SHF equipment in the foreground. Activity was quiet on the higher frequencies due to lack of propogation

David VK5HDW performs the cooking duties while the rest of the club members await the service.

"If you blokes can't run enough power I'll just have to use the gas instead of the heat sinks like in the VHF field fays"

Jill and Judy are rivetted to the action on the hill during the John Moyle field Day

Club participates in Summer field Day 14/15 January 2006

DO NOT DISTURB -don't they look innocent when they are asleep
Why is the door locked David?

It wasn't me who took the photo, I'm asleep too

Overview of site - The Bluff

John VK5DJ on 1296, Mathew VK5HMW on 70cm

Col VK5DK on 6M (closest he was allowed to HF)

The club Summer Field Day expedition was made to The Bluff (QF02GG) between Millicent and Mt Gambier. The following amateurs attended: VK5NC, VK5DK, VK5HMW, VK5HDW, VK5LAC and Wendy, VK5KEE, VK5FOXX and Tyler, VK5FWEJ, VK5NKJ, VK5AKJ, VK5HAY, VK5EE, VK5DJ, VK5HCF

A convincing number of contacts were made from 50MHz on all bands to 10GHz. Conditions were excellent and we generated one of our best scores working VK2, VK3, VK7, VK5

The view from the campsite

Overview of site, preparing the SHF gear.

Col VK5DK (centre) making the 2400 VK3/VK5 2400MHz record with VK5HDW (right) scribing

VK5KJ's barbeque on 2/1/06

On Monday 2nd January 2006 a number of us got together at VK5KJs for a new year barbeque.

The photo shows avid HF operator, VK5DK, (ex VHF and UHF enthusiast who has seen the light) calling on his new expertise to adjust the antenna coupler for Tom VK5EE. He is watched by David VK5HDW (left). Tom (right) used his portable setup to work a number of 40M stations. The antenna was 15M of wire over a nearby tree cast using VK5KJ's super slingshot antenna launcher.