My ' Ham Shack in the Australian Bush ' is located on our 450 acres of arid ' mallee ' country which is near a town called
Morgan... It's about 150 kilometres north east of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia ( VK5 )... We live in Adelaide
but every few weeks or so we come up here to get away from the city for a while and to get on the radio... Since there
is no available electricity supply here we're using ' Solar Power '...
At present we have a 20 by 35 foot colorbond shed with a concrete floor, gas stove, fridge and the usual comforts...
Being in the ' Middle of Nowhere ' here the background noise level is ' Strength Zero ' on the radios which are
an IC-7600 and an FT-450... I operate mainly morse code and also the digital modes for which I use a Dell laptop
computer running the MixW software...
Everything is powered by a large 12 Volt, 670 Amp Hour, lead acid, deep cycle battery which is charged by the energy from
the Sun via an 80 watt solar panel up on the roof of the shed...
The Icom IC-7600 is an excellent radio...
The antennas in use here are a multiband HF ground plane using the Hustler 6BTV vertical for the lower bands and a
2 element, 5 band, HF Cubex Quad at a height of 10 metres...
