Name: | Dale |
QTH: | Adelaide |
Country: | Australia |
Grid: | PF95IH |
Web: | https://dale.id.au/ |
Email: | Hidden |
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Licensed since: | Hidden |
ITU: | 59 |
CQ: | 30 |
IOTA: | OC-001 |
About:
G'day, my name is Dale and I live in Adelaide South Australia. I consider myself a geek, tinkerer, and a hacker. I have been using Linux on and off since 1998, but since about 2005 it has been my primary operating system of choice and Debian my preferred distribution, but I using a fork called Devuan at moment as it has no systemd.
I have been into amateur radio for a long time, but only in April 2011 I got my ticket. Also have an interest in tinkering with electronics and collecting World War Two era wireless sets. I am rather fond of the clandestine sets of the era like the ‘Type A Mk III’. I am also fond of the the wireless set WS 122 which is a Australian miltary radio that was produced in 1945 in Adelaide and Melbourne.
Since 2011 I have helped out WICEN with communications for the Scouts RallySA. I also help by promoting Amateur Radio at events like Science Alive, and Adelaide Mini makers Faire.
Since late 2020 I have gotten into some the digital, I have built myself a couple Pi-Star hotspots with MMDVM hats on Raspberry Pi 3B+ to access the DMR networks for FreeDMR and DMR+, on both networks you can find me on talkgroups 505, or on 969 on FreeDMR. I also interested setting up a DMR to YSF.
Setup:
I not have much of a setup at the moment and it all WIP as you can tell from the header image, but I am building on it slowly as time and monies permit.
The station run off of solar and battery, and on averge I am running QRP of 5-10W, 5W is mostly used on JS8 and FT8, and 10W on SSB.
- Yaesu FT-857D
- Yaesu FT-450D
- MFJ Versa Tuner 2 manual HF turner
- Yaesu FT-7800
- Yaesu FT-60R handheld
- Baofeng GT-3TP handheld
- Retevis RT3S GPS handheld, like to have OpenRTX when M17 is available, OpenMDUV380 Experimental firmware is available now
- Radioddity GD-77 handheld, with the OpenGD77 firmware
- AnyTone AT-D878UV handheld
- Homebrew 40m band centre fed dipole with access 15m (not in operation 2021/11)
- homebrew 2m/700mm J-Pole
- Diamond X-50M Dualband 2m/700mm Base Antenna
- 40m-10m EFHW with 49:1 transformer (not yet up in the air)
- 80m-10m EFHW with 64:1 transformer and common mode current choke (in operation as of 2021/11)
Propagation:
Calling frequencies (MHz) per band per mode:
All the frequencies are all WIP
== CW == | |
160 1.808 MHz 80 3.528 MHz 40 7.028 MHz 30 10.118 MHz 20 14.058 MHz 17 18.085 MHz 15 21.058 MHz 12 24.908 MHz 10 28.058 MHz |
ARNSW Auto-Training Parks and SOTA |
== SSB == | |
ANZA net: Traveller’s net: Parks: SOTA: |
IARU Region III emergency centre frequency: Australian Scout HF Calling Frequencies: |
== Digital == | |
RTTY: PSK: PSK31: SSTV: |
JT65 *: JT9 *: 160 1.8366 MHz 80 3.5686 MHz 40 7.0386 MHz 30 10.1386 MHz 20 14.0956 MHz 17 18.1046 MHz 15 21.0946 MHz 12 24.9246 MHz 10 28.1246 MHz |
FT8 *: 160 1.840 MHz 80 3.573 MHz 40 7.074 MHz 30 10.131 MHz (DX), 10.136 MHz (Gen), 10.140 MHz (Contests) 20 14.074 MHz 17 18.100 MHz 15 21.074 MHz 12 24.915 MHz 10 28.074 MHz APRS:
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JS8 *:
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== AM == | |
160 1.825 MHz Melb coffee break net 1030-1200 local. Daylight hrs only Mon-Sat. |
Source | Activity | Date time |
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DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7074.0 VK3MAG FT8 -10 -> POTA VK-0363 1003Z | 2023-01-13 10:03:00 |
DXC | DX de K7PTC: 7073.8 VK5ZSH 1415Z | 2022-09-09 14:15:00 |
DXC | DX de YC1JEL: 21074.0 VK5ZSH FT8 -21dB from PF95 1395Hz 0059 | 2022-09-02 00:59:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7110.0 VK4AAC WWFF VKFF-0823 0519Z | 2022-08-20 05:19:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7090.0 VK3BJA au0012 0510Z | 2022-08-20 05:10:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7105.0 VK3SRC AU0051 0402Z | 2022-08-20 04:02:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7140.0 VK3ILH AU0055 0347Z | 2022-08-20 03:47:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7140.0 VK3ILH 0346Z | 2022-08-20 03:46:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7120.0 VK5ARC Nerung lighthouse 0322Z | 2022-08-20 03:22:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7144.0 VK2YK/5 SiOTA VK-GPS5 0653Z | 2022-04-10 06:53:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 71440.0 VK2YK/5 VK-GPS5 SiOTA 0640Z | 2022-04-10 06:40:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 21252.0 VK5ZSH QRP calling CQ 0225Z | 2022-04-06 02:25:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7128.0 VK5ZSH QRP Calling CQ 1528Z | 2022-04-03 15:28:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 28480.0 VK5ZSH QRP Calling CQ 0553Z | 2022-04-03 05:53:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7090.0 VK5CZ/P VK5/SE-014 0513Z | 2022-04-03 05:13:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 3680.0 VK5CZ/P SOTA VK5/SE-014 0504Z | 2022-04-03 05:04:00 |
DXC | DX de DJ9UN: 7180.0 VK5ZSH 34 2115Z | 2022-04-01 21:15:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7180.0 VK5ZSH QRP calling CQ 2113Z | 2022-04-01 21:13:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 3677.0 VK5ZSH calling CQ 1044Z | 2022-03-26 10:44:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7173.0 VK5ZSH calling CQ 0841Z | 2022-03-25 08:41:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7122.0 VK5ZSH calling CQ 0831Z | 2022-03-25 08:31:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7144.0 VK2VAR/P WWFF VKFF2547 2323Z | 2022-03-23 23:23:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7105.0 VK3SRC/P VK-TNH3 SiOTA 2313Z | 2022-03-23 23:13:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7144.0 VK5HAA/P WWFF VKFF-0790 0322Z | 2022-03-20 03:22:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 3631.0 VK2RT/P calling CQ John Moyle 1438Z | 2022-03-19 14:38:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7177.0 VK5ZSH calling CQ 1330Z | 2022-03-18 13:30:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7144.0 VK4MUD/P WWFF VKFF-1195 0850Z | 2022-03-18 08:50:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7144.0 VK5HSX/P WWFF VKFF-1782 0045Z | 2022-03-16 00:45:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7157.0 VK5RS calling CQ 0742Z | 2022-03-12 07:42:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7156.0 VK1DA/P VK1/AC-023 / WWFF VKFF-0054 07 | 2022-03-12 07:25:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7139.0 VK4AAC/P WWFF VKFF-0746 0545Z | 2022-03-12 05:45:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7130.0 VK5AV/P WWFF VKFF-1697 0741Z | 2022-03-10 07:41:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7144.0 VK5HSX WWFF VKFF-0911 0750Z | 2022-03-09 07:50:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7093.0 VI2022PRIDE Special event calling CQ | 2022-03-05 08:37:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 71440.0 VK3GJG/P Calling CQ Parks 2101Z | 2022-02-26 21:01:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7144.0 VK3GJG/P WWFF VKFF-0020 1012Z | 2022-02-26 10:12:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 3610.0 VK7ADQ/2 Very nice copy 1906Z | 2022-01-31 19:06:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 71440.0 VK2HBG/P WWFF VKFF-1956 0724Z | 2022-01-29 07:24:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7114.0 VK3TCP/P VK3/VS-008 0754Z | 2022-01-02 07:54:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7095.0 VK3ZPF/P VK3/VT-016 0148Z | 2021-12-31 01:48:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7135.0 VK3ZPF/P VK3/VT-013 0024Z | 2021-12-31 00:24:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7144.0 VK3PF/P VKFF-0620 0507Z | 2021-12-26 05:07:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7144.0 VK3PF/P VK-HWG2 0548Z | 2021-12-24 05:48:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7144.0 VK3ZK/P WWFF VKFF-2148 0437Z | 2021-12-22 04:37:00 |
DXC | DX de VK5ZSH: 7145.0 VK3DQW/P 0724Z | 2021-11-29 07:24:00 |