[OZAPRS] Re: [radio] ozaprs Digest, Vol 30, Issue 3

[Alex Colquitt]

Ach, Just stirring the pot Brian,

Actually, I can hear several stations on 10.147 down here.  Just wanted 
to see if Andrew was going to confess to applying a bit of power to his 
inverted vee. ;-)     
How could anyone resist?

As far as the station location, VK1AC should be showing up on APRS as a 
WX station and VK1AC-1 as the digi for traffic on the Federal Highway.  
I cover the 2M shadow area along Lake George from Collector to Gearys 
Gap and fill a small hole in the system.  As the crow flys, drawing a 
line 6kms west of the southern tip of Lake George would put you in my 
front paddock.

Yes, I'm very familiar with the Bungendore SES.  My wife is a volunteer 
and I play the "Lost Soul" when they run the certification tests for 
land search, etc..  Gives me a chance to practise some of those 
camouflage techniques I was taught some years ago and it gives the SES 
trainees a good workout.  I remember those two fishermen going lost. 
Can't trust that lake when it has water in it.  Especially with the 
submerged fences going all the way across.

Today, Lake George is bone dry and has been for some years now.  
Bungendore keeps expanding and they keep drilling deeper into the 
aquafier.  The old mine at Woodlawn has been turned into a Biogas 
generator (read: Sydney garbage dump) and I worry about the leachate 
getting into the Lake George aquafier.


But I digress.. I'm getting very off topic here..

Cheers,

Alex - VK1AC

ozaprs-request at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au wrote:

>Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 19:44:49 +1000
>From: "Brian Beamish" <bbeamish at bigpond.net.au>
>Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Re: [radio] ozaprs Digest, Vol 30, Issue 1
>To: <ozaprs at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au>
>Message-ID: <003801c57fb3$db236290$6500a8c0 at BRIAN>
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>Hi Alex
>
>Know the area just wonder who you are actually copying as Andrew
mentioned 
>that he was listening only at this stage?
>Where abouts along the lake are you located?
>
>Some years ago I was regional  communications officer Southern Tablelands

>Region for the then Civil Defence (now SES) and also a leader in the 
>Goulburn search and rescue. Not sure how the lake is now possibly just
about 
>empty I guess? Then full and one extremely cold winters evening we were 
>called out to look for two lost police in the even colder lake waters who
in 
>turn were out looking for a couple of chaps supposedly out fishing and
had 
>not returned home. By the time we arrived there the two police and one 
>fisherman were out.
>
>Out very early next morning we started our search together with a
helicopter 
>from the RAAF base in Canbera for the second fisherman he was not found.
One 
>of the local farmers said that he would eventually appear on the other
side 
>of the lake well a few weekends later we found the deaceasd body in
almost 
>that exact spot the extremely cold water had kept it down all that time.
>
>A lot warmer winters here in Brisbane than along Lake George whilst I do 
>miss the area I do not miss the winters.
>
>73s Brian VK4BBS
>
>
>  
>
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