Biography

Status
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Active HF (10m - 80m) with JT Modes / VHF (VK3RWZ) / DMR (VK3RWV - SysOp)
Monitoring VK3RWZ (24 hrs/Mobile) and VK3RWL (2/70) Repeaters.

Email: vk3vm @ hotmail.com (QSL's preferred this way)

Amateur Radio Licence Assessor (Please contact via vk3vm @ hotmail.com) or via phone details at http://www.amc.edu.au/industry/amateur-radio .

Activities
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- Fairly quiet at the moment
- Re-investigating some old SDR projects !
- Working on getting some towers here so the 20m 3-element can go up !

Gripes
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- Amateurs that use "contacted before" facilities. Very rude.
- Arrogant Amateurs that use terms such as "LID"
- Political Amateurs - Amateurs that are never seen on air !
- Arrogant Amateurs in general !
- Political Amateurs that try to dumb down AR (turn it to CB)

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Usual Equipment: Yaesu FT-101E, Yaesu FT-991, Yaesu FT-897D, Yaesu FT-7900, G59 SDR, SDRCube

Operational Equipment: FT-991 with WWulf 5 Band Vertical; "80m" Doublet

Antennas: Werner Wulf 5-Band Vertical (covers 80m-10m), TZ-WD-4080 Trap Dipole (down), 80m Doublet, 40m 1/4 Vertical, 2/70 4 element (towards Mount William), X50 for VK3RWV - The DMR-MARC Repeater [ I own but do not fly an old G5RV - the most over-rated antenna ]