[OZAPRS] mobile on 30m

[Ron and Val Smith]

Hi Andrew,
Have a good trip.
We will follow you with interest.
Cheers
Ron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew McDade" <amcdade at senet.com.au>
To: <ozaprs at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au>
Sent: Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:23 PM
Subject: [OZAPRS] mobile on 30m


>
>
> Gday all,
>
> Im just letting everyone know that Im heading up into the North West of
> Western Australia next week holiday'ing. Leaving Adelaide on Sunday the
6th
> of June and returning sometime in the second half of July for a total of
> around 6 weeks or so. Our planned route will take us due north to Alice
> Springs, then NW accross the Tanami , up into the Kimberly area, Gibb
River
> Road etc. and then finally into Broome. We will probably head back via
the
> great northern HW and then back down the Stuart HW to Adelaide sometime
in
> the latter half of July.
>
> Keep an eye out for VK5EX-11 as Ill be running APRS mobile where
possible
on
> 30m - 10.147600 Mhz USB.
>
> Ill also expect to listen on the APRS frequency as well whilst mobile,
so
if
> you are seeing direct posits from me then why not give me a voice call
and
> then we can QSY down the band a bit to 10.120 or whatever.
>
> I will be using a IC706Mk2G radio @ abt. 50 watts, terlin outbacker, a
> tinytrak 3 , magellan 315 gps. Because I cant easilly change bands
whilst
> mobile ( In fact its impossible unless your a stunt man !! ) Ill
probably
> sit on 30m most of the time anyway, either on the APRS frequency of
> 10.147600 USB or 10.120 USB for voice.
>
> It'll be very interesting to see what 30m offers ( or doesnt offer !! )
with
> regards to HF propgation over this path during the trip.
>
> I will also have a laptop on board, capable of running UIVIEW with
MIXW32
> with a soundcard  interface, and USB GPS module, which I may run up from
> time to time so I can see what, if anything, is going on.
>
> Regards .. Andrew .. VK5EX
>
>
>
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