Peter's Ham Radio pages
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Location: Barossa Valley, South Australia VK5PJ is active on 50 / 144 / 432 & 1296 MHz First licenced as: VK6ZSP (1979-1982) then VK8ZLX (1982-1994) then VK6ZLX (1994-1996) and VK5ZLX (1996 to 2005) for a brief time in 1990 as VK9ZLX Lord Howe Is.
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Grid Square: PF95mk | |
| Lat: 34º 33.69 South | ||
| Long: 139º 02.56 East | ||
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Polners
Trig, is just up the road from me and is my closest
"high spot". It is also blocks my path to the North West :-( Lucky
for me the land owner is not apposed to me going portable at the Trig,
which I did on the VHF field day, Jan 2005 |
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| QSL Info: P.O Box 614 Tanunda, S.A Australia, 5352 | Elevation: 523 Metres ASL at base of trig point | |
| Tower and antennas | |
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The first tower I looked at was way too rusty to work with, so I left it alone. |
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Here is the tower I actually bought. |
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| What it has taken so far to get it to this stage | |
| Here is what has going on during 2004 | |
| Here is what has going on during 2005 | |
| What can I say, here is where it comes to life | |
| At last we get some yagi's and a rotator, now this looks promising | |
| The M2 is up, worked the first JA for many years and things start to look good, then a small hiccup | |
| One Man Tower 2020 |
A One Man Tower (OMT) joins the family in 202 for 50 MHz EME. |
| Southern Cross Tower info | PDF scans of some information from Southern Cross |
| Help on selecting a rotator pipe | Yes there is more to it than just going to metal land and getting a length of water pipe (like I have done previously) |
| Driling round booms for a yagi | Some helpfil ideas on how to drill a round boom for a VHF / UHF yagi |
| Photo's of the JIGS | a random selection of photo's from my jigs for drilling round booms |
| 50 MHz Yagi | M2 6M2WL 50 MHz yagi prepares to go up at the Barossa QTH |
| 6M2WL Feed re-work |
re-working the feed block of a M2 6M2WLC yagi to eliminate bad connections |
| Repairing the 6M2WL | Since 1989 the M2 6M2WL 50 MHz yagi has seen some windy times so some repairs were needed, |
| YU7EF Yagi project | My version of the YU7EF yagi antennas |
| 432 MHz yagi | Based on a K1FO design but it does not use insulated elements and a folded dipole |
| Mast Head pre-amps | Still an on-going project to put up quality home built masthead amps for 144, 432 & 1296 MHz |
| Shack and General info | |
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Progress and growth of the shack |
| General pics | A collection of pictures from the past... Northern Territory & Western Australia |
| Trig Point Hill | Radio related photos from around the current QTH in the Barossa Valley |
| The new Shack's progress | Yep its been a while but here is a Oct 2009 update |
| The Shack's progress in 2011 | I had three weeks of leave so started on some shelves for the shack |
| Contact Logs VK8ZLX |
All of my VK8ZLX logs |
| Contact Logs VK9ZLX | All of my VK9ZLX logs |
| V360 |
NEC V360CL amplifier for 144MHz (ex TV channel 5A) |
| TVI filters | As we live in a fringe area, our received signal is not very good, here is one way to help it |
| LARCAN power Amps | Here are some resources abou the ex-TV transmitter LARCAN 1KW pep amps for VHF lowband (including 50MHz with mods) |
| 2019 Fire damage |
In
Feb 2019 a fire damaged the
radio shack, leading to 5 months of dealing with my insurance company
(not good for your mental health I can tell you) I have decided to not
add photos as it just proves to be a trigger for bad memories even 5
yeats later (2023) |
| Station Earthing |
It has taken me a long time to get this but finally the station gets a decent earth for the operating bench |
| Links | |
| Tropo Charts | William Hepburns tropo predictions |
| VK Spotter | VHF / UHF realtime logger |
| VK Classifieds | Buy and sell, plus lots of other resources |