Biography

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Melbourne Electronics and Radio Club - Secretary

Radio Bucket List

Contact the International Space Station (NA1SS)
Bounce a radio signal off the Moon
Speaker to a Ham operator in Antartica
Experiment with Digital Modes
Build a UHF or HF antenna and make successful contact
Track and collect a weather balloon
More to follow ......


Biography

Currently I work as a Security Guard and a Professional Photographer, to see some of my work via Gurushots and Instagram

At a young age I was introduced to the 11m band (27 MHz) and scanner radios. Since then my interests in Radio's and Communications has grown quite considerably.

Around my mid 20's I joined the Australian Army Reserves where I as part of my training I opted to become a Regimental Signaler. This only encouraged my love of radios.

My radio collection covers a wide range. (HF, UHF/VHF/MW/LW/Satellite). This also encompases analogue and digital. Within the collection are are variety of modes. There is also a small array of Raspberry Pi's and Linux laptops that deal with ADS-B, AIS, POCSAG and other systems such as OpenwebRX, Hamclock. A Meshtastic node called "Vicscan" is also running from my current location.

Feeds I host for LiveATC - YMML, also provide AIS feeds to AIS friends, AIScatcher, ShipXplorer. ADS-B feeds to ADSBexchange, FlightRadar24

I manage the web-based forum www.vicscan.com and also recently rehosted a copy of Shortwave Listeners Delight at shortwaveld.com. With all that I maintain an edition of HamdashBoard for Australia can be found at vicscan.com/hamdash

Current member to the Mebourne Electronic and Radio Club (MERC) and using the callsign VK3FSK on a Friday nights after 7pm (+10Hrs UTC) on HF bands 20m and 40m or using FT8

My main amateur radio is a Yaesu FTM-100D/R which I currently run as a node on Wires-X. Further more I have a Kenwood TS-670 and a Xiegu G90 for HF and TM-241A for 2m band.

Equipment

Official Listing of all Scanners and Radios - https://www.vicscan.com/radset/

Amateur Radio - Base Stations
Hiroyasu IC-980-Pro
Kenwood TM-241A
Kenwood TS-670
Yaesu FTM-100D/R
Xiegu G90 Transceiver

Amateur Radio - Handhelds
TYT MD-UV380
Baofeng UV-5R
Quansheng UV-K5
Quansheng UV-K6
Radtel RT-860
Radtel RT-950 Pro

Military Radios
Racal PRM-4720A FM Radio
ARC-51BX UHF - Control Module (US Military)
Collins AN/ARC-159 UHF Control Module

System Monitoring
Uniden BCD396T
Live365 YMML Aviation Feed
Raspberry Pi 4 running ADSB.IM - ShipXplorer and FlightRadar RTL-SDR
AIS: AIScatcher Feeder
ADS-B: ADSB-Exchange
ADS-B: FlightRadar24
ProScan -Uniden 436-PT
BroadCastify LiveFeed