We are visiting Chrsitines parents for easter, they live in horsham in western Victoria, i was able to sneak out for a couple of hours to play and make a Sota Activation. I asked the family if th...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2015/04/05/sota-activation-vk3vw-022-mt-arapiles-2015/
The nifty 3D printed FT817 Stand I had made up at Glen Eira library last year was fantastic! it worked really well, i was even using it on sota summits to lift the radio up a little! Until I had ...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2015/01/06/broken-3d-printer-ft817-stand/
Camping in Kosczisko National Park provides easy access to a number of sota summits, some are easy to access, and some require a bit of a walk, over the last week or so we have activated a number...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/12/30/sota-activations-vk2sm-065-vk2sm-007-vk2sm-014-vk1ac-043/
Its the xmas holidays, and as usual we are at our normal spot at Thredbo. We have been in the mountains for nearly one week already and I hadn’t gotten around to activating any summits. We had ...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/12/22/sota-activation-vk2sm-001-mt-kosciuszko-2014/
We headed into Adelaide today from the farm to explore the sights and I had a chance to activate a summit on my way into town. Mt Lofty VK5/SE-005 sits above Adelaide and has the towns Radio and ...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/09/26/sota-activation-vk5se-005-mt-lofty/
I’ve spent a couple of days recently in Ararat with work, a town in Western Victoria. We had been deploying a piece of telco equipment. By coincidence, Peter vk3zpf another active sota particip...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/07/19/sota-activation-vk3vs-036-one-tree-hill/
As part of my efforts to make the FT817 work as well as it can on sota summits (yes, i tinker too much). I was looking at options for filters for the radio. While i have been spending money on th...
As part of my efforts to improve the performance of my sota station, I have been focusing on the low hanging fruit of changes to help improve performance, better antenna, swapping the internal sp...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/07/02/ft817-speech-compressor-install/
Im in the middle of painting my house, and its taking a very long time, my only aspiration in life, be rich enough to pay someone else to paint for me, as such most weekends recently have been sp...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/06/16/sota-activation-vk3vc-002-mt-donna-buang-2014/
I blame Ben, VK2BEN for making me spend all my money, the other week, he shared with me a link to the below Speech Compressor designed to fit inside a Yaesu MH-31a8j microphone supplied with ...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/05/16/ft817-audio-speech-processor/