28-10-2018, 05:53 AM
Hi all,
Now I'm back from Croatia, a 12 day holiday trip, an update:
My "parrot" repeater on 7177 has been running 24x7 for two months now
with signals received on Sunday mornings from VK3 and VK5 but nobody
has yet triggered a "repeat". (except Hil VK2AZ 5km away)
Have a look at Codan's website and see their use of TWELP 600 digital mode.
We hams can be at the cutting edge of this Digital "revolution".
As you know, HF is "fickle" but offers long distance communications to a Skip Zone.
If we place a repeater in this Skip Zone, stations in a wide area can communicate via
this repeater. Perhaps a repeater in Central Australia (Alice Springs or Broken Hill)
could service all Australia.
Any thoughts?
Frequencies and times:
7177 here in Emu Plains is just not working. Do we have an 80m frequency for a night time net?
Should I move to 20m, 14236 in the daytime?
I'll have to do this manually, but being retired, not too much problem.
Alan VK2ZIW
Now I'm back from Croatia, a 12 day holiday trip, an update:
My "parrot" repeater on 7177 has been running 24x7 for two months now
with signals received on Sunday mornings from VK3 and VK5 but nobody
has yet triggered a "repeat". (except Hil VK2AZ 5km away)
Have a look at Codan's website and see their use of TWELP 600 digital mode.
We hams can be at the cutting edge of this Digital "revolution".
As you know, HF is "fickle" but offers long distance communications to a Skip Zone.
If we place a repeater in this Skip Zone, stations in a wide area can communicate via
this repeater. Perhaps a repeater in Central Australia (Alice Springs or Broken Hill)
could service all Australia.
Any thoughts?
Frequencies and times:
7177 here in Emu Plains is just not working. Do we have an 80m frequency for a night time net?
Should I move to 20m, 14236 in the daytime?
I'll have to do this manually, but being retired, not too much problem.
Alan VK2ZIW