Biography

Kimberly Olsen

Thanks for looking me up on QRZ. Hopefully you haven't just referred to me on air as him, a common error, due to my voice being not so feminine. Strangely I never get referred to as him on the phone, so it must be a bandwidth thing. Either that or my heil PR781 is just too good on lower frequencies hihi.

I live in Sydney in a small but lovely unit that belongs to a friend. I work in an important area of social justice and inclusion in the health sector. I am also a public speaker and consultant in the field of Diversity and Inclusion and Gender Equity.

(please don't call me Kim except on CW)
I used to live on acreage in North QLD and had all the space in the world for a large shack and huge antennas. When I first moved to Sydney, I could not work much HF at all as I had was a small mobile HF antenna that was not allowed to protrude from my semi enclosed balcony.

Despite that I worked CW back to my friends 2000 kilometres away thanks to the height of the building. I lived in hope that I could change that and get a better setup sometime towards the end of 2016. It took until March 2018 to finally get the space to set up a reasonable shack and a small HF antenna. I started off mainly working 2m and 70cm and some 20m but I did listen to 40m and 80m nets, particularly those from my home town. When conditions allowed I operated 80m CW and sometimes JT65 and FT8 using a homebrew trapped vertical on a 9 meter squidpole strapped to the clothes line.

I've since modified that antenna to work better on all bands and to extend to 160m- no mean feat in my tiny yard (10 metres x 1 metre). The only thing I have to do now, is reduce the noise. I have my eye on an MFJ1026 to do that.

I look forward to getting back to doing SOTA and Parks. I am regional manager for SOTA regions VK2/IL and VK2/SY.

I am a member of the following clubs -

Amateur Radio New South Wales http://www.arnsw.org.au/
Hornsby and District Amateur Radio Clubhttp://www.hadarc.org.au/
ALARA http://www.alara.org.au/

I recently became interested in DMR and look forward to making some contacts via that system. I recently purchased a D-Star rig and can't quite get my head around operating it yet. I work long hours and have 3/4 of a full time study load so I do radio when I can.

When I lived on acreage I had a keen interest in AM on 80m and 160m. I love to restore older radios and have a Johnsone Viking Ranger II that needs some work along with a Hammarlund HQ170 and a near full FT101E station. I also restore receivers.

My ham radio website is http://www.vk2kmi.me

I am a very keen blogger https://vk2kmi.wordpress.com/

and Tweeter https://twitter.com/vk2kmi

I also contribute a section to the WIA National News "YLs Around the World."

I like to restore all kinds of radios. So far I have restored 3x FT101B and E, a 1951 Hallicrafters TO Keyer, a Hammarlund HQ170, a Johnson Viking Ranger II, a 1936 Pilot MW SW Receiver, a 1935 Ultimate AU MW Receiver and a range of others.

I recently became interested in DMR and look forward to making some contacts via that system. I recently purchased a D-Star rig and can't quite get my head around operating it yet. I work long hours and have 3/4 of a full time study load so I do radio when I can.

When I lived on acreage I had a keen interest in AM on 80m and 160m. I love to restore older radios and have a Johnsone Viking Ranger II that needs some work along with a Hammarlund HQ170 and a near full FT101E station. I also restore receivers.

My ham radio website is http://www.vk2kmi.me

I am a very keen blogger https://vk2kmi.wordpress.com/

and Tweeter https://twitter.com/vk2kmi

I also contribute a section to the WIA National News "YLs Around the World."

I like to restore all kinds of radios. So far I have restored 3x FT101B and E, a 1951 Hallicrafters TO Keyer, a Hammarlund HQ170, a Johnson Viking Ranger II, a 1936 Pilot MW SW Receiver, a 1935 Ultimate AU MW Receiver and a range of others.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

In Use
Icom IC706MKIIG
Icom IC703 (SOTA rig)
Kenwood TM-D700 (APRS and 2m FM)
Icom ID4000

In Storage until I get a bigger place:
Johnson Viking Ranger II (love that rig)
Hammarlund HQ110 Receiver
Yaesu FT101E with Scope, Phone patch/speaker
Hallicrafters Vintage Keyer
Barrett 950 Land Mobile and 20189 autotune antenna
Barrett 550 Land Mobile
3 element StepIR