20190105 - F-troop discussions

Post date: Jan 5, 2019 1:21:41 AM

Many topics were covered during the net.

Ian VK6TWJ reminds us of the SSTV net:

• Every Tuesday at 20:00 WST on 146.625 MHz, hosted by Glen VK6IQ.

Damien VK6FDEC reminds us that this week is the Scout Jamboree in Talem Bend South Australia. 

• Look for VK3JAR for Echolink and IRLP connections and frequencies.

Charles NK8O shares with us some band filters / notch filters that can be used during a contest:

• https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/8809017.pdf

Brian VK6FFRA shares with us some information from Bob Rice about antennas:

Two videos by Bob Rice on Viemo.

• 1. Portable horizontal multi-band dipole

  2. 7-band semi-vertical trap antenna

Included on these videos are some home-brew construction ideas for

• 1. Capacitors using printed circuit boards (Vertical antenna)

  2. Coils (Horizontal) and a

  3. Dip meter using a circuit/BNC connector (Vertical) and an SWR meter. (Featuretech model which is the same one that I have hence the interest).

All are very neat and tidy homebrews!

• • https://vimeo.com/user8162260

Printed info on multi-band semi-vertical antenna

• • https://sites.google.com/site/trapantenna/about-the-antenna

John VK6RX points us at a WIA submission to the ACMA about adding functionality to the Foundation License. It includes provisions for:

• Permit use of digital transmission modes

• Relax permitted transmission bandwidths

• Add access to more frequency bands

• Increase maximum power from 10 W to 50 W pX

• Relax conditions to enable limited home construction and use of re-purposed transmitting equipment

• Identify a 6-character callsign range to replace the current 7-character callsigns

The submission is on the WIA website:

• https://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2018/20180612-1/documents/2018-06-12%20WIA%20-%20LCD%20Submission%20Part%202%20(Foundation)%20V2.2.pdf

There was discussion about horizontal vs. vertical noise. I've explained it previously here:

• http://podcasts.itmaze.com.au/foundations/20180930.foundations-of-amateur-radio.txt

John VK6RX has just connected the VK6-HUB to the Brandmeister network which means that if you're on DMR you can now participate in F-troop. Details are here:

• https://vk6rx.net/vk6-hub-node-42732/

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