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It's on 278 kHz and transmits 100w according to ACMA

(oh and good luck with your studies)

Cool. I i-gated the Mt Barker digi direct this morning.

2012-11-09 17:56:29 UTC: VK6RAA-3>APOT21,WIDE3-3,qAR,VK6UFO-4:!3439.25S/11738.47E#12.9V 21C
2012-11-09 18:26:39 UTC: VK6RAA-3>APOT21,WIDE3-3,qAR,VK6UFO-4:>Mt Barker Tracker2 APRS Digi - OF85TI

Now $20 at Karrinyup DSE.

Zebedee wrote:

nachoman wrote:Section of St Georges Terrace in the CBD currently closed. Twitter has more.

According to the various news outlets it's because of "an incident"

How I love that term, it could mean almost anything!

Could be a cracked iPod screen. That's definitely 'an incident.'

This is quite important, as the laws of physics outline that as you move away from the fixed infrastructure point the data rate to a mobile unit falls away. Try it with your own Wi-Fi connection - move away from the service point and watch the data rate fall down fairly quickly. The same will happe...

Ham College's VK6RIB information beacon is now on APRS. Look for the question mark symbol labelled "145.575rx" ( see aprs.fi here ) This should come up on APRS-enabled radios and work with the QSY button (except for the FTM-350 which doesn't decode frequency objects apparently) Anybody wit...

Helitak_670 wrote:2nd Alarm scrub/grass fire Roe Hwy x Berkshire
Belmont been sent to a fire Roe x Kalamunda I think.

There was a report of one around Tonkin and Horrie Miller at 1.30PM just before I was passing that spot. Sus.

Good deal! I did the same at the Stirling Hwy and Balcatta stores. Just waiting for those UBC-355XLTs to plummet.

Karrinyup also had a UBC73XLT for $49.

I got one of these for cheap from dse a while back. Handy for my desk at work. Also, easy to add a discriminator tap.

Isn't the fixed wing Polair 64? I seem to remember... or maybe I'm imagining.

dsjmd45 wrote:What frequency range is being used for the digital - the standard 468 Mhz converted, or something completely different ?

Something different

S5 with my FT7800 and high-gain antenna up high in Ballajura.

Yeah, unfortunately it's just as easy to unlock them again

Well that explains why the drive home this arvo at 3.30 was more like 5.30. Royal show goers will be thrilled