Events Listing.
Tamworth Radio Club Monthly meeting.
1st Friday of each month at the Oxley Scout Group Club-house, Carthage
Street East (top of Hall Street) 7.30pm start. Cuppa and Bickies
afterwards.
Archived Minutes can be found here
Technical Hands On Workshops.
Keep watching this space..
Tamworth RC Home-hosting.
1st September to 31st January - Tamworth RC
Home-hosting.
Courses, Classes & Exam schedules.
Foundation Licence.
Standard & Advanced Licence.
Assessments.
John Moyle Field Day Contest 2007 - VK2BTW
This year the Tamworth Radio Club had a
interesting day out for the John Moyle Field Day Contest 2007. We
operated under our Club Call of VK2BTW.
The day started at approx 9.15 am at our
designated contest site of the Moonbi Lookout (just north of Moonbi) with
the contesting party arriving on-site to erect some extremely "high-tech"
paraphernalia, here is a list of the equipment we contested with and our
efforts for the 6 hour "bash". Contest time for the 6 hour's were 12 noon
till 6pm 17 March.
- Multi-band full-wave loop up at about 15-20ft. Strategically
positioned around "convenient" tree's.
- 8 Element 2M Yagi with "Armstrong" rotator system up at about 20ft.
- Multiband Collinear many for 80M and 20M.
- Yaesu FT101E Transceiver with separate speaker.
- Yaesu FT 847 2m SSB..
- Icom 7400.
- Icom 910H for 2m SSB.
- 3.5KV Petrol Generator.
Antenna's were erected in no time at all it was time to fire up some
gear and do some testing.
The site has a 11KV Line running down the side of the hill only 100m
away and nothing was heard on the radio's on any bands which was
pleasing. John VK2JH started with a couple of QSO's at
approximately 10.30 to get some audio and signal reports and with that we
were all pretty excited by the reports and the noise situation.
2m SSB on the other hand was quite for the day and reports from other
clubs said the same,, BUT we managed to make 6 good contacts and raised a
lot of enthusiasm and idea's for next year. Many people came to the
lookout from the public during the day and had a good snoop around at
what was going on....... and many questions were asked, just another
great way to take Amateur Radio out to the Community.
40M yielded approx 95 contacts and a handful on 80M and 20M each.
VK2BTW - On-site at the Moonbi Lookout - Locator QF59NA
The Contesting Partners in Crime for 2007.
Left hand side HF operation with some VHF. Right
Hand side VHF and some HF.
From Left. Lindsay VK2WJD - Brian VK2FOG -
John VK2JH
Brian VK2FOG fine-tuning the "Armstrong" rotation system on 2m.
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