[OZAPRS] VK2RCC not working

[Ian Bennett]

Hi Ray,
	Thought of you as we were traveling through.
	A 6ft whip wound using the recipe I found should be fine. A mate (Steve; VK2ZSZ) wound one for his
father-in-law tuned to the VKS-737 8MHz freq and it worked a treat, so I reckon one on 30m would be
a hoot.
	I'll send you the details off list.
	You still owe me a tour of the "tank" ;-)

Ian

On 07/01/14 19:02, Ray Wells wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> Saw you pass through Kempsey yesterday. I'm in town these days and not on the property.
> 
> I have a bit of a problem with HF antennas on the Hyundai. A bullbar mount is not possible due to a
> ladder style rack mounted on the nudge bar to support the kayaks and the body shape doesn't lend
> itself to body mounting. I have to be content with a roofbar mount and that limits the 30m whip to
> about 4-5ft stainless steel unit that's bottom loaded. I'm working on a 2m 5/8 whip and replacing
> the coil with whatever is need for resonance.
> 
> Regards,
> Ray vk2tv
> 
> On 07/01/14 15:18, Ian Bennett wrote:
>> Liz,
>>     As mentioned previously, I use a Wagner 1729 for my HF APRS. It is an old crystal controlled unit
>> built in Australia in the 70's I believe.
>>     Any of the old Wagner/Codan radios used for SES/RFDS work in that period can be coaxed into
>> working
>> in the 30m band however the output filters may need a tweak if you are fussy about efficiency.
>>     Just feed the AFSK tones from your tracker of choice into the mic input, adjust the level so you
>> are just under ALC threshold and that's about it.
>>     I had extra mounts welded on my bullbar to accommodate the APRS whip and multiband HF antenna
>> (was
>> a FAMPARC, now a Tet-Emtron two piece) which I use for voice and data from my IC-706MkIIG.
>>     I found a recipe for winding a HF whip (can't remember where I found it but happy to share if
>> anyone is interested), which is aimed at the old 6ft whip used for 27M CB. In short, you pull it to
>> bits and use the blank to replace the windings.
>>     I was given a 2m long whip wound for 4055KHz, so I removed all the wire and rewound it for
>> 30m. It
>> has served me extremely well on many trips.
>>     Don't get caught like I did and tune the antenna bare, then apply the heatshrink. Tuning the
>> thing
>> was the longest part of the process as I had to readjust every time I added a length of heatshrink.
>>
>> Ian
>> VK1IAN
>>
>> On 06/01/14 17:43, Liz wrote:
>>> On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 12:55:20 +1100
>>> Ray Wells <vk2tv at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi John,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your input.
>>>>
>>>> Please understand I was not being critical, I really do understand
>>>> the problems that distance can create, and gear does go down. My one
>>>> regret is that I was unable to experience "normal" vhf aprs coverage
>>>> in that part of the state because I think it would have been even
>>>> more impressive than it already was.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ray vk2tv
>>> I agree with Ray. APRS coverage on VHF is improving, but the more sites
>>> we have, the more times we will have breakdowns.
>>>
>>> I, too, "need" HF APRS for some places I go which are out of reach of
>>> all VHF repeaters, the mobile telephone systems etc.
>>>
>>> If I went the 30 metre route
>>> what antenna? (mounting it is problem number 1)
>>> and what gear?
>>>
>>> Liz
>>> VK2XSE
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