12-01-2017, 08:25 AM
Well I am going to call "chicken" on going portable this time around, however I will still operate from the home QTH on the various bands 6M up to 10.3GHz for the Saturday afternoon evening segment. We are currently going through a heatwave here in SE Q'ld and since my participation is provisional on it being "fun", the current weather outlook is not my picture of it. I have ventured forth for FDs in similar conditions over a number of years and have no intention of repeating it this time.
The BOM forecast for Saturday is as follows... Southeast Coast area : Min 22 Max 39 Hot. Possible shower.
Hot. Partly cloudy. Slight (30%) chance of a shower inland in the afternoon. Near zero chance of rain elsewhere. The chance of a thunderstorm in the afternoon and evening. Winds north to northwesterly 15 to 20 km/h tending north to northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h during the day. Overnight temperatures falling to the low to mid 20s with daytime temperatures reaching 35 to 40.
On a brighter note, this week I have reference locked my two IC-706 series transceivers using a frequency tripling arrangement (i.e. injection at 30.000 MHz), an original IC-706 plus the later IC-706Mk2G, so that there is no frequency drift or dial inaccuracy when used standalone (Mk2G) on 6/2/70 or as the microwave IF radio (706). I am working on the IC-7400 shack radio locking (32.000 MHz via a homebrew PLL synthesiser referenced to the 10.000 standard) again today and have it locking but not totally happy with it as yet. It should be ready to use over the FD weekend as a home station on 6 & 2 but reference locked so drift free and ready for some digital mode operations.
Good luck to all participants (& don't forget to transfer the log entries into Ross Hull contacts)
73 Doug VK4ADC
The BOM forecast for Saturday is as follows... Southeast Coast area : Min 22 Max 39 Hot. Possible shower.
Hot. Partly cloudy. Slight (30%) chance of a shower inland in the afternoon. Near zero chance of rain elsewhere. The chance of a thunderstorm in the afternoon and evening. Winds north to northwesterly 15 to 20 km/h tending north to northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h during the day. Overnight temperatures falling to the low to mid 20s with daytime temperatures reaching 35 to 40.
On a brighter note, this week I have reference locked my two IC-706 series transceivers using a frequency tripling arrangement (i.e. injection at 30.000 MHz), an original IC-706 plus the later IC-706Mk2G, so that there is no frequency drift or dial inaccuracy when used standalone (Mk2G) on 6/2/70 or as the microwave IF radio (706). I am working on the IC-7400 shack radio locking (32.000 MHz via a homebrew PLL synthesiser referenced to the 10.000 standard) again today and have it locking but not totally happy with it as yet. It should be ready to use over the FD weekend as a home station on 6 & 2 but reference locked so drift free and ready for some digital mode operations.
Good luck to all participants (& don't forget to transfer the log entries into Ross Hull contacts)
73 Doug VK4ADC
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