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Default [VK2TPM] Radio communication with friends in NSW


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Radio communication with friends in NSW

Posted: 06 Jun 2020 12:19 AM PDT
http://blog.marxy.org/2020/06/radio-...ds-in-nsw.html

I'm now 709km away from my ham radio buddies in Sydney. Propagation is not
great and my antenna, for the next few weeks, is a very poor end fed
hanging out the window.

Stephen, VK2BLQ, is humouring me and we've been trying to establish digital
radio communications via 40m.

We can hear each other on WSPR, best reception was -6dB. We tried Olivia
8/250, Stephen could decode me but alas, I can't