I’ve gotten into the habbit of carrying with me a longwire. It’s really quite simple. I went to middy’s and purchased a full roll (100mtrs) of reasonably heavy but not too heavy wire, stranded of course. On the end of that I added about 40 Mtrs of light line, just the stuff you can [...]
Interesting what you see when you monitor the POCSAG pager networks.. I became aware of this large new DC-10 aircraft that will be used in Victoria this year to help with fire fighting.
I wonder why the government would do this, a DC-10 must cost a ton to run? I’m sure the Skycranes are [...]
I’ve done a lot of research and a lot of thinking about what to have in my Mobile Rig and why and have now got myself to a situation where it’s a pretty damn good setup and works very well. So I’ll share some thoughts here and if what I have learnt can be [...]
A friend of mine (VK3VCS) said to me some time back, Maaate you have to go D-Star, it’s ‘the thing’ and so cool. Much better than IRLP, you can do Data, GPS, tracking etc, and there is a Node within eye sight of you!
I was sceptical. I said, what’s the point of doing [...]