Hepburn Tropo Maps – DX on VHF
You can work stations on 2M, 220, 440 and above hundreds, even thousands of miles away! How? Using tropospheric ducting propagation! In this video I show how to use the…
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June 21, 2021
Australia to New Zealand on 2.4 GHz?
Join us for a portable adventure trying to send our 2.4 GHz (13cm) ham radio signal from Tasmania, Australia (VK7) to New Zealand (ZL). On December 13th 2020, Hayden VK7HH…
December 21, 2020
FM Broadcast Radio – DXing
Often, during the summer months, it is often possible to hear FM broadcast stations from far and wide thanks to the Ionosphere and Troposphere bending signals over the horizon. There…
November 18, 2020
500km (310 miles) on the 2.4 GHz and 3.4 GHz Ham Radio bands! 👨🚀🛰️
Last night, 22nd of October the Hepburn charts had a prediction of strong to very strong tropo ducting enhancement over Bass Strait. I promptly got in contact with Rod VK3BQJ…
October 24, 2019
Sporadic E out of season – Spring 2019
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…
September 16, 2019
More tropo openings – weekend of 18th/19th March
Hepburn indicated good tropo conditions across the Tasman and Bass Strait over the weekend of 18th/19th of March. On Friday beforehand I got confirmation that ZL3TY would be operating from…
March 20, 2017
Evaulating weak signal LNA performance – 144MHz
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…
January 18, 2017
Trying to predict Sporadic E MUF rising on 2m
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…
January 12, 2017
Evaluating 144MHz station performance
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…
January 3, 2017
Sporadic E opening 31 Jan to ZL
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…
January 1, 2017