Easter saw us in Horsham in western Victoria visiting christens parents, and this gave us the chance to activate some summits and explore the Grampians at the same time, as well as Mt Arapilies, ...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2016/04/02/easter-sota-activations-vk3vw-020-vw-022/
Last weekend, we took our annual family short holiday pilgrimage to Tidal River camp ground in Wilsons Promontory. Each year, we head to this lovely spot for a couple of days away to celebrate Na...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2015/02/28/sota-activation-vk3vt-060-mt-oberon-2015/
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 had some time yesterday afternoon to tune up the wire i am using with the 1:1 Balun dipole project. I set myself up outside and ran out the dipole as I would deploy it for a SOTA activation. T...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/09/25/tuning-dipole-using-11-balun/
As part of a short family holiday to Sydney and home via Canberra, I was able to fit in one activation. I had dropped the family off at Questacon early on good friday morning, the kids love this...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/04/21/sota-activation-vk1ac-040-mt-ainslie/
My big child Nathan turned six this weekend, as a bit of a family tradition, we try and go camping for both kids birthdays. And for the last couple of years for the big child’s birthday we have...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/02/11/sota-activation-vk3vt-060-mt-oberon-wilsons-prom/
The Australia Day long weekend found me in Western Victoria. My wife grew up in Horsham and we were in town celebrating her fathers 80th birthday. (happy 80th Karl).. Not far from Horsham is a pr...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/01/27/sota-activation-vk3vw-022-mt-arapiles/
Before Xmas we packed up the camper trailer and car and headed bush for a holiday/break. Our location of choice is the Thredbo Diggings campground in the kosciuszko national park. We left Melbo...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/01/07/3-weeks-in-the-snowy-mountains/