Installing poorly built antennas since 1994! Pixie QRP 7Mhz CW Kit. The other week, talk on the australian ham radio Facebook wall turned to kit radios and the Pixie QRP Kit. A number of options were shown and talked about, after a search and comparison, I chose to purchase this Versions of the kit from This eBay seller. One of my local Ham radio club members sent me a link to these nifty PowerPole PVC Boots. Why? IC9100 Firmware Update E3 2015.

SOTA, Hiking, National Parks. VK3ZPF Android SOTA logger app. Finding time away from work and family to work on the app. Getting the main user interface to work across multiple devices.

I recently obtained a Yaesu VX-8DR, primarily for use on SOTA activations. The radio has the six metre band, which is a bonus as SOTA is presently running a six metre challenge. By David Fannin which uses an arduino to process the standard GPS messages from a UBlox GPS and convert them to the Yaesu protocol. It looked like a great place to start, although the end solution had to be reasonably compact.

Mt McLeod trig and Ovens Valley. Four Summits on the AAWT, March 2015. I had notice that a number of summits sat on or near the Australian Alpine Walking Track. Lake Cobbler would make and excellent base camp for a number of day trips which would easily pi.