by VK4OE » Fri Feb 15, 2019 5:46 pm
Hello to all readers.
The date set for this "Microwave Activity Day" is part of a schedule of similar outings that is published on the Brisbane VHF Group web pages. These are all on Sundays because taking microwave gear portable is greatly to be preferred in the daytime and, as Scott has suggested, MAD participation has been shown to be better on this day of the week.
As for me, weather permitting, I intend to return to Kamarun Lookout (QG61NU), just to the North of O'Reilly's at the edge of the Lamington National Park. I should have available all microwave bands from 1296 MHz to 76 GHz inclusive, with liaison on 146.55 or 439.0 MHz FM simplex. Someone recently suggested that we vacate 146.5 FM for MAD liaison due to the main calling simplex channel (146.5 MHz) often being used by different Southern VK4 and Northern VK2 stations for 'chatting' on weekends.
My mobile phone 0428191066 sometimes is usable at that location, the difficulty being that quite a number of Telstra bases are all strong at that site - using text messages seems to be more effective than voice calls. I should be operational from around 11:00 a.m. onwards.
Here's hoping that lots of challenging contacts will be had by many participants on the day!
Cheers and 73,
--Doug, VK4OE.