[OZAPRS] Newb HF questions ;)

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

Hrrm, I thought an advanced (I used to be AOLCP before they changed  
everything..) license let you transmit on any ham band??  That's what  
the ACMA site seems to say?

But yeah, anyone have suggestions on a 'good' but cheap antenna for  
30m that'll mount on the roof of my wagon or on the boot of the wife's  
car?  (Idea is to have the same loom in the back of my wagon, and the  
boot of her car, and just drop the radio and gps into whichever we're  
going away in..)

Cheers,

Damien

Damien Gardner Jnr
VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
rendrag at rendrag.net -  http://www.rendrag.net/
On 23/05/2009, at 4:24 PM, Shaun Pitcher wrote:

>
> Balun may be appropriate for 80 and 160, although not sure about you
> licence for those bands, however you can always listen.
>
> Regards,
> Shaun Pitcher
> ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au wrote on 20/05/2009 12:17:31 PM:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> All I can say is WHOA!@#!  Very temporary replacement for the balun
>> (buggered if I can find my heatshrink box, OR my self-amagamating  
>> tape
>> :( ) :
>> http://photos-f-0.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-
>> snc1/v4704/250/124/506862762/n506862762_1874629_2686781.jpg
>>
>> Turned on the transceiver, hit tune on the AT-897, which took it  
>> about
>> two clicks, then TX on AM, and my current 50mv of 50hz ripple turns  
>> into
>
>> a fun 120mv of 10mhz with 50mv ripple, but I'm pretty happy with  
>> that..
>> Pressed send beacon on UI-View, she TX'd happily without messing up  
>> my
>> monitors, killing my mouse, or dumping crap to the serial ports,  
>> and by
>> the time firefox had loaded up, there was my packet sitting on  
>> aprs.fi!
>>
>> VK2TDG-15>APU25N,GATE,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK4UN-4:=3312.35S\15130.12E- 
>> Testing on
>
>> HF {UIV32N}
>>
>> Now I'm even *hearing* other stations! (well its either that or  
>> pagers..
>
>> there's plenty of somethingorother that sounds like a machine gun.. )
>> Though the DCD light on the MFJ isn't coming on, so I'll have to  
>> grab a
>> couple of recordings and shove them through the spectrum scope in
>> audacity and see what shows up :)
>>
>> So one more question ;) What's a 'good' but not overly expensive  
>> antenna
>
>> for 30m, which will happily be mounted on one of the roof racks on a
>> commodore wagon, or on a boot side-mount on a commodore sedan? :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Damien
>>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information.   If  
> you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately  
> via return e-mail and then delete the original e-mail.  
> EnergyAustralia has collected your business contact details for  
> dealing with you in your business capacity. More information about  
> how we handle your personal information, including your right of  
> access is contained at http://www.energy.com.au.
> _______________________________________________
> Ozaprs mailing list
> Ozaprs at aprs.net.au
> http://aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs

_______________________________________________
Ozaprs mailing list
Ozaprs at aprs.net.au
http://aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs