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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