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Quick Review : LDG AT-7000 Tuner

Today I had a chance to have a play with an LDG AT-7000 Tuner. Iniitally, I was sceptical.. but I must say – I was quite impressed at the end of it all.

I made up a YouTube video of me playing with it and various antennas etc.. plus all my comments are are [...]

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My Magic Longwire

Well today I went out to O’Briens Crossing in the Wombat State Forrest to have a look how much water was flowing after the recent deluge. Since moving to the area in 2000 I’ve never seen O’Briens flowing all that much and have often seen it dry with just a few stagnant ponds of [...]

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PICAXE - you got to get into these!

Well my background is in electronics and Radio.. but I got out of that a long time back – around the time that computers came to the fore. I never forgot Ohms law and basic electronics but lost all the advanced stuff. I remember back in the days I used to think – if [...]

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A longwire - so simple, so effective

Lions Head LongWire - 4

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 [...]

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My Mobile Rig Setup

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 [...]

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D-Star anyone..?

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 [...]

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