[OZAPRS] New Warwick Igate

[David Hopkins]

Hi Brian
If you can keep on 145.175 until you reach say Stanthorpe.

So far we have no idea as how far it works south of Warwick.

I will be heading down to the Wyong field day early next month so 
will also see how far it goes.

David


At 06:14 PM 14/01/2009, you wrote:
>Hi David
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>I will be passing through Warwick Friday morning on the way to Tamworth for
>the country music festival normally I would use HF all the way specially as
>there is very little coverage between Brisbane and Tamworth on VHF, none
>that I am aware of now south of Warwick.
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>I will use VHF until I get past Warwick (VK4BBS-9) then will revert back to
>30m HF (VK4BBS-15) after I no longer hear my beacons coming back.
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>73 Brian VK4BBS
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>PS: Whilst I prefer 30m on HF as it is normally very reliable I may give 20m
>a try whilst away if there is a set frequency to work on as I have seen two
>different ones being tossed around.
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>-------Original Message-------
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>From: David Hopkins
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>Date: 01/14/09 17:56:09
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>To: ozaprs at aprs.net.au
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>Subject: [OZAPRS] New Warwick Igate
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>Gentlemen,
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>Finally we have an Igate installed in Warwick Queensland.
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>Callsign VK4HPW-1
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>Warwick is about 80KMs north of the QLD/NSW border on the New England
>Highway.
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>The DIGI is running on a temporary antenna just above roof height.
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>It is hoped to get the antenna to about 10 meters above the roof in
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>the near future.
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>The location is at the home of VK4HPW and unfortunately is in a bit
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>of a hollow.
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>Before the installation all APRS stopped at Cunninghams Gap. Now
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>there is reasonable coverage from about 10KMs south of the Gap until
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>well past Warwick.
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>If a higher site could be found then there would be a vast
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>improvement in the coverage.
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>What we need next is a couple of digi's further south to extend the
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>coverage another couple of hundred  kilometres along the New England Highway
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>David
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>David G. Hopkins (VK4ZF)
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>CAPALABA QLD.
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>AUSTRALIA
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>S27 32.191 E153 11.867
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