WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

A very sad loss indeed. He will be truly missed.

My condolences to his family.

It's my understanding that the site was unsuitable and was abandoned early in favour of finding a new site. More soon. It was doing rather well, while the ducting was happening. Unfortunately very little APRS users on the road. I did hear it on my way to and from Perth. The return afternoon journey...

Well for one, APRS had been operational in the Midwest for many months now. I run the local IGate and soon an SGate.

What's happening over the next week or so is a trial to see how the voice repeater and APRS system can be expanded to give continuous coverage between Perth an Geraldton.

robbage wrote:I'm told all you need to do is set your APRS frequency to 145.825 and no obstructions and you'll have a pretty good chance of hitting it if it's in your airspace? (Assuming the other locals aren't pounding it every 3 seconds)

You also need to change your path from Wide1-1, Wide2-1 etc to ARISS.

Reconfigured my Yaesu FTM-350R for this pass.

It's all too easy

Duncan VK6GHZ APRS via ISS overhead in the Gascoyne.


vk6ghz-2 by dracoz, on Flickr

VK6ZMS wrote:That would be me and VK6FDX trying to have a QSO on it.

Ah, not working too well then

I'm hearing 2m & 6m beacons from both VK6RPH and VK6RBU!

VK6ZMS wrote:VK6ROO in Gero is making it to Perth.

The receiver is rather unhappy though. I'm hearing it key up but no voice

VK6RAP into Gero atm

More tropo tonight on 2 metres. APRS and several repeaters.

Hearing VK6RPH 2 & 6m beacons and VK6RBU 2m beacon.

Spoke to Jeff VK6AX via Rolystone.
No-one else though. Pity as was perfect to liaise a 6m contact.

73,

Maarten VK6MP and myself, both in Gero, just made contact via VK6REX in Exmouth.
About 2x3 each way.

73,

My mistake, it was ROO. I have it tagged on my IC208 as "Gerro" :-) 6RGN is the one that shares the same freq with Kal and Katanning? ROO is 146.775 RGN is 147.000 Shared as you mentioned. I guess everyone was busy this morning as not to hear you. I was in Three Springs. Bit hard to hear ...

robbage wrote:Got into 6RGN while driving past Observation City but they must have been asleep

6RGN? Where's that, hihi
Very few monitor that one now as 6ROO is the repeater of choice.
Once 6RGN gets upgraded and antenna raised quite a few more metres, then there will be more interest

73,

Not FM or a repeater, but:
Vk6RBU 144.560 519 into Geraldton.

Spoke to Duncan VK6GHZ recently about APRS via ISS.

He sent me this screen capture taken a few weeks ago.

VK6GHZtoISSviaVK3 by dracoz, on Flickr

The phantom repeater kerchunkers always come out when a duct is running. :-s Yes, guilty as charged :roll: Was a good night though. Briefly spoke to Martin VK6ZMS via VK6RFM earlier on. Later, for at least an hour up to midnight, Paul VK6WZ via VK6RCT :) Maarten VK6MP then continued to chat to Paul...