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                                                                 VK5SW           Rob  Norman

 

Welcome  to  my  Website

 

I'm  57  years  old,  live  with  my  partner  Lisette  and  put  up  'brush'  fences  for  a  living  here  in  Adelaide,  the  capital  city  of  South  Australia...

Although  we  live  in  Adelaide,  I  operate  Amateur  Radio  at  our  property  which  is  about  150  kilometres  from  the  city  near  a  town  called  Morgan...   We  have  about  450  acres  which  is  'Mallee'  country  and  we  use  it  as  a  'getaway'...   Recently  my  brother inlaw  and  I  put  up  a  colorbond  shed  and  it's  here  that  I  operate  Ham  Radio...

I  received  my  full  call  in  1970  at  the  age  of  19  and  now  operate  mainly  CW  and  PSK31...  The  radios  in  use  here  are  an  FT1000MP  Field,  an  FT897  and  also  an  FT450...   The  computer  is  a  Dell  laptop  running  the  MixW  2.18  software  for  the  digital  modes...   There's  no  electricity  supplied  to  the  area  so  the  radios  are  run  from  a  large  12 Volt,  670 Amp Hour  battery  as  seen  in  the  photo...   It's  charged  by  a  solar  panel  which  is  on  the  roof  of  the  shed...

 

 

                                       

 

                                                          

                                     

                                        

 

The  antenna  is  a  multiband  HF  ground plane  using  the  Hustler  6BTV  vertical  with  2  radials  per  band.  It's  up  on  a  pole  at  a  height  of  7  metres.  

 

                                     

 

A  summer  sunrise ...

 

                                      

 

 

                                                           

 

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Ham Radio Links

Solar Cycle 24                                                 ARRL                                                          QRZ.com                                         

SSTV                                                              eHam.net                                                      QSL Works

DX Zone                                                         Ham Radio Manuals                                      MixW - PSK31

Hustler Antennas                                             SteppIR Antennas                                          Hy-gain Antennas                                                                          

Yaesu Australia                                               VK Classifieds                                               Wireless Institute of Australia                                                                                                     

"Amateur Radio Today"  -  Video                                                                                          "Radio Hams"   Film

 

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I  hope  you  enjoy  this  website.  The  background  music  is  called  "John  Dunbar's  Theme"  from  the  Film  "Dances  with  Wolves".

Please  feel  free  to  sign  my  Guestbook  or  send  me  an  email  and  I  also  hope  to  hear  you  on  the  air  soon.              73's        Rob    VK5SW                            

   
     

                                                        Visitors  since  March  2008.

 
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