A couple of months ago, the SOTABeams Facebook page Posted a link to a new item they had just finished making. A simple pair of lightweight dipole traps for portable use to help with running mu...
Work took me into country north eastern Victoria. A long day of tasks and driving, a 700km loop! I packed my sota backpack into the car just in case i had time to drop past a summit and undertake...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2015/01/17/sota-activation-vk3ve-204-paps/
Sota rules allow one summit activation (for the activator points) per calendar year, and the program runs to UTC time. In Australia we are lucky that we are 10(11)hrs in front of the UTC date lin...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2015/01/06/sota-activations-new-years-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/
The other day, I had to head to Bendigo for work, so packed the SOTA gear in the car for a quick late afternoon activation on the way home. Mt Alexander VK3/VN-016 sits just south of Bendigo and ...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/10/21/sota-activation-mt-alexander-vk3vn-016/
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/
To Balun or Not to Balun, this is the question? Like Ford vs Holden, Canon vs Nikon or Yaesu vs Icom; the world is divided into two camps on how best to connect a resonate wire antenna to a bit o...
Work took me back to western Victoria yesterday, with an early morning meeting in Warrnambool which meant a very early morning trip form Melbourne. Having finished all my tasks by mid-day, I took...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2014/08/20/sota-activation-vk3vc-022-mt-cowley-2014/
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/
A couple of years ago one of the Manly Warringah Radio Club members acquired some mystical unicorn DXwire from Germany. This created a heated debate that lasted for months on the merits of thi...
http://www.vk3bq.com/2013/11/17/mystical-unicorn-dx-wire-ultra-light/