I've heard plenty of stories from amateur radio operators about the good old days of 6 metres, particularly back in the 1970s and 1980s. Stories of turning on a radio,…
Over the past few weeks I have been running a WSPR transmitter, using 50W predominately beaming toward VK2. An interesting thing occurs on this path. These are the stations that…
I conducted some recent tests with VK7MO who was running a low powered transmitter on WSPR (100mW). This gave me the opportunity, among other things to evaluate how well my Minikits…
On 12/01/17 a large number of stations started to be reported on 6 metres WSPR. At around 0913UTC I received a text message from a local amateur who was hearing…
Having had some success now via Sporadic E to VK4 and tropo to VK3, I decided to do a more in depth evaluation of my take off angles and ability…
On the evening of 31st January there was a small opening to ZL on 6m as indicated by my WSPR reports - although not overly strong. Several mainland stations were…
On Friday morning 23/12/16 tropo across Bass Strait looked promising. I got in contact with VK3WE who had just recently installed a 2m yagi to do some tests on WSPR.…
On Friday 25th of November 2016, Sporadic E opened up with huge signals on 6 metres initially, then extending to 2m around midday. VK3's were regularly working VK4 on 144.1,…