25 February 2009
Future Plans - Feb 2009
It's been very quiet on the amateur radio front. I have yet to lay the concrete foundation for the tower. It seems we have been getting bill after bill since Christmas and the funds for amateur radio will have to wait.
I was hoping to have the tower up and a new antenna by the time the ARRL Int'l DX SSB Contest started in early March. That's definitely not going to happen.
Chelsea VK4FWCC and I will still be competing in the 2 big contests of March, the ARRL Int'l DX SSB Contest and the CQ WPX Contest along with the John Moyle Memorial Field Day Contest in mid March. For the ARRL Int'l DX SSB Contest, it will be Chelsea doing all the operating using her new callsign running only 10W. For the field day, we will use both callsigns to give out as many QSO's as possible. For the really big one, the CQ WPX Contest, we will use my callsign running low power 100W.
After speaking to some well respected VK contesters and dx'ers, I plan on getting a HB35C 5ele tribander for the tower. I definitely expect everything to be up and running for the new VK Shire Contest in early June.
On another note, my brother Steve VK4VSP sent me an email today to say that he received in the mail a Certificate of Merit for the small effort that we put into last years CQ WPX Contest.
I was hoping to have the tower up and a new antenna by the time the ARRL Int'l DX SSB Contest started in early March. That's definitely not going to happen.
Chelsea VK4FWCC and I will still be competing in the 2 big contests of March, the ARRL Int'l DX SSB Contest and the CQ WPX Contest along with the John Moyle Memorial Field Day Contest in mid March. For the ARRL Int'l DX SSB Contest, it will be Chelsea doing all the operating using her new callsign running only 10W. For the field day, we will use both callsigns to give out as many QSO's as possible. For the really big one, the CQ WPX Contest, we will use my callsign running low power 100W.
After speaking to some well respected VK contesters and dx'ers, I plan on getting a HB35C 5ele tribander for the tower. I definitely expect everything to be up and running for the new VK Shire Contest in early June.
On another note, my brother Steve VK4VSP sent me an email today to say that he received in the mail a Certificate of Merit for the small effort that we put into last years CQ WPX Contest.
03 February 2009
Chelsea VK4FWCC
A quick check of the ACMA website this morning confirmed that my oldest daughter Chelsea was issued with her foundation licence callsign VK4FWCC.I actually noticed yesterday that she had been allocated a callsign but there was a problem........she had been issued a callsign with a 5 letter suffix (very rare in VK) VK4FACRP. In fact, VK4FCRP was her second choice after VK4FWCC but a quick phone call and a chat with Jackie at ACMA sorted everything out.
I reckon this weekend we might be spending some time in the shack getting her callsign out on the airwaves.
Well done Chelsea.
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