Category Archives: field and portable

SOTA activation at Mt Stromlo, Canberra – 22nd March 2013

Posted on 24 March, 2013 by andrew

I was running late for this activation and had not been up to the mountain for quite a few years.  In fact I had not seen the level of destruction by the 2003 bushfires, I might have postponed seeing that … Continue reading →

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SOTA activation at Black Mountain, Canberra, 8th March 2013

Posted on 9 March, 2013 by andrew

Delayed by work, I did not have enough time to walk up the mountain from the base so I settled on a walk from the parking area and lookout that is 2/3 the way up the mountain.  The road to … Continue reading →

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Vk1 SOTA activators – progress to 7th March 2013

Posted on 7 March, 2013 by andrew

After 5 weeks of the VK1 SOTA association being active, this shows the scores to date for the 9 activators who have recorded their activations on sotadata.org. Pos Call Summits Score Av/summit 1 VK1DI 13 60 4.62 2 VK1NAM 23 … Continue reading →

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SOTA activation Mt Ginini ACT VK1/AC-008, 3 March 13

Posted on 4 March, 2013 by andrew

This was a joint activation with Andrew Moseley VK1NAM.  We met at 6:30am at Weston, ACT, and arrived at Mt Ginini around 8am.  Ensuring we complied with the SOTA rule of entering the activation zone on foot, we parked about … Continue reading →

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SOTA activation combined with special event call Vi100ACT, 1 March 2013

Posted on 2 March, 2013 by andrew

The Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club received authorisation to use the callsign Vi100ACT during the month of March 2013, to recognise the Canberra Centenary.  I volunteered to coordinate the roster of members who were keen to use the callsign during … Continue reading →

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SOTA Activation at Mt Rob Roy, 1105m ASL, 22 Feb 2013

Posted on 22 February, 2013 by andrew

I was advised by Andrew VK1NAM that this hill was fairly difficult due to not only the climb needed (I measured about 420m, from car park 685m to summit 1105m) but the number of steep sections in the path.  He … Continue reading →

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SOTA activation Tuggeranong Hill 15 Feb 2013

Posted on 17 February, 2013 by andrew

This activation was on Friday evening after work, similar timing to the Majura exercise a week earlier.  The climb was not as long but had some slippery rocky sections. I had forgotten to put the 2m hand held radio back … Continue reading →

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SOTA activation at Mt Majura ACT VK1/AC034

Posted on 9 February, 2013 by andrew

Walking tracks around the adjacent hills of Mt Ainslie and Mt Majura and to the top of each provide SOTA activators with ready made trails, with some steps where needed.  The ascent from street level to mountain top for Majura … Continue reading →

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SOTA goes live in VK1 – a day of firsts

Posted on 1 February, 2013 by andrew

The documentation was cleared during January 2013 by the SOTA management team after some amendments and updates. VK1 was then given a start date of 1st February. To make the day memorable we encouraged VK1 activations via email lists and … Continue reading →

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Holiday constructed 40m dipole

Posted on 1 January, 2013 by andrew

Quick and easy 40m dipole with plastic souvenir road sign as centre insulator Continue reading →

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