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| 2025-01-08 09:59:51 | literatesavant@mastodon.au | 2 | Success! | This week I am working on the second #HC02S by monitoring some HF beacons. I'm using a web SDR near me, since I don't have my HF antenna up at home yet. For you non-hams, there are automated stations around the world that broadcast on these fixed frequencies at set times in rotation. They send their call sign, and then a long dash/tone at 100 watts, 10, 1, and 100 mw. By monitoring them for a few minutes, you can get a sense of what countries you have a radio path to at that time on that band, a |
| 2025-01-19 13:10:36 | literatesavant@mastodon.au | 3 | Success! | For #hamchallenge week 4 I'm supposed to research the history of my call sign. |
| 2025-01-19 13:12:14 | literatesavant@mastodon.au | 3 | Success! | For #hamchallenge week 4 I'm supposed to research the history of my call sign. Well, I have two. My original US call is KJ6AKQ, and I know it was a new sequential one issued to me. It's also hilariously long-winded when sent over CW, but the rhyming KJ and AK have a nice swing when spoken aloud. When I moved to Australia I was able to get the Advanced license here automatically as a result of having a US General-class license. I just had to apply and show evidence. ... HC04S |
| 2025-04-19 00:49:04 | literatesavant@mastodon.au | 29 | Success! | Reposting this to get credit for Ham Challenge HC29S!I've done a lot of SOTA this week! I was camping with the family in Mt. Buffalo National Park over the weekend, and managed to activate The Horn and The Hump, both 10 pts. Then yesterday I went out for a day of activating with VK3HN and @vk3kr, and we covered Federation Range (8 pts), Mt. Strickland (6 pts), and Mt. Donna Buang (8 pts).I had little or no cell service at all of these, so self-spotting was difficult, and I was wishing I had set |
| 2025-04-20 11:48:46 | literatesavant@mastodon.au | 16 | Success! | Uploading my logs for last week's various SOTA activations. I note that I worked ZL2STR who was in POTA park NZ-0020 - Tawharanui Regional Park. So I can count that for HC16S! #hamradio |
| 2025-04-25 09:35:24 | literatesavant@mastodon.au | 17 | Success! | Week 17 of the #hamradio #hamchallenge (HC17S) is to find the repeater closes to you. Technically, the one closest to me is VK3RDQ, but I can't hear it from my location. This is perhaps not surprising, as it is only 68m elevation. The next closest is probably VK3RML or VK3RMS. I can hear their IDs from here with my HT. However, like in many places these days, there is very little activity on any of these repeaters. There are at least seven which are probably reachable from the metro Melbourne ar |