Last weekend Homebrew Hero Peter Parker VK3YE hosted another of his amazing twice-yearly QRP events. It was at a park near the iconic Chelsea Pier in Melbourne. Peter Marks VK2TPM sent a very nice write-up with pictures:
http://blog.marxy.org/2017/02/qrp-by-bay.html
And a nice audio report:
http://s3.marxy.org.s3.amazonaws.com/audio/QRP_By_the_Bay_2017.wav
Peter Marks reports that most of the on-the-air activity was on the 120 foot ham band (40 meters for you modernists). Many BITX40's were on display.
Re: 15-meter POTA SSB population
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You said: *"Funny .. even the ARRL has removed the de facto 21.430 MHz AM
Calling frequency"*
I don't remember the ARRL ever Id'ing an AM "Calling Frequenc...
2 hours ago
Nice! 120 foot band! I like it! Now if we can get metres instead of meters? They're entirely different beasts :( . I know, your spell-checks show an error, but that's US-centric software, Yank-glish, and and the Internet in general for you.
ReplyDeleteReally makes me wish I could (afford to) GOTA!