[AusNOG] For AusNOG amateur radio licensees

[Greg Lipschitz]

Very Jealous! 

I'm squeezing my 20/40/80 Trapped Dipole on to my small suburban block of 618m2! :P

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Wheeler [mailto:rossw at albury.net.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 18 April 2013 8:18 PM
To: Greg Lipschitz
Cc: Kai; ausnog
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] For AusNOG amateur radio licensees



> In the burbs of Metro Melbourne there's nothing but QRM from frikken plasma screens and dodgy imported electronics.
>
> I might get some good contacts on my travels to and from Albury 
> tomorrow. Last time I had a great QSO working a pileup on 20m mobile 
> off the Codan near Benella.

Hah!  For years, I coveted what I have now.
Off-grid, nearest powerline is hundreds of metres away.
My home is *inside* an underground, burried, bunker - with enough steel to be a formidable faraday cage. For 15 years I ran one of Australias half dozen or so LPATS (lightning tracking) sensors, and had so little QRM they were able to run maximum gain, minimum squelch and picked up strike info from NZ to WA, the equator to antarctica. I'm on 22 acres, and I still don't have the rhombic I always said I'd have if I had the space for it!

Something to aspire to one day I guess.