My SOTA adventures and project notebook. Trapped five band EFHW SOTA antenna. Touch Paddle for MTR 2. VK SOTA CW practice files. Welcome to my SOTA and project blog! Use the menus above to select pages of interest. The header photo was taken at Mt Loch during the activation on 10 July 2013. The background photo is from the top of Mt Tabletop during the 10 August 2013 activation.

I recently obtained a Yaesu VX-8DR, primarily for use on SOTA activations. The radio has the six metre band, which is a bonus as SOTA is presently running a six metre challenge. By David Fannin which uses an arduino to process the standard GPS messages from a UBlox GPS and convert them to the Yaesu protocol. It looked like a great place to start, although the end solution had to be reasonably compact.

Summits On The Air and other playgrounds. Mt Marulan and Towrang Range 9 Aug 2015. The summits chosen near Goulburn are around 100km from Canberra so well within RF range. It was an early start to get to the first one well before UTC rollover.

My adventures with Amateur Radio and Geocaching! My new Pathtag has finally arrived! June 24, 2015.

The operating position on Briarty Hill with the kids in the background. Activated across 31 December 2013 and 1 January 2015. I tuned up on 40 metres and logged my first. Once the New Year arrived, I held my frequency and worked 10 SOTA stations straight in as many minutes. The following 30 minutes settled down to a comfortable pace with seven more S2S stations worked. When the New Year rolled over I worked a total of 29 contacts with 16 unique summits. As soon as the FT-817 was.

Amateur Radio, SotA, Camping. The VK6 SoTA programme has started and thanks goes out to everyone who made it possible. Anxious to get started, I thought a trip up to Mt Dale on my day off would be a great beginning. I have been here a few times before, once camping and a few other times chasing thunderstorms. After an initial flurry of contacts on 40m I tried 15m.