Over the past 10 years or so, I've created this Website, about 150 music
slideshows and videos and written Amateur Radio books sold on
Amazon, Worldwide.
Now I'm traveling around Australia with my Caravan in tow.
I interview people on my travels, making Youtube videos as I
go. The intention is to
highlight Amateur Radio and this Country and help others to feel good and uplift People around the
World. I hope my efforts do that for You.
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This Website can also be viewed comfortably
on Your Smart TV. Go to ' Internet '
and search ' VK5SW.com.
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The Music Slideshows
and Videos are also best viewed on Your Smart TV. Go
to ' VK5SW ' on ' Youtube. '
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There are about 150 of them.
The various background music tracks' volume will
need adjusting. You need to be in the mood but when You are, I think You may enjoy them.
Website updated 23rd Nov. 2021.
You may be interested in my
Youtube Channel and 4 pages of Uplifting Music
Slideshows which I have created over quite a few
years. There would probably be about 150 different
videos which vary widely in scope but all endeavor
to provide a good feeling experience. Please Rate
them. Same videos on
both but different layouts. Click the Radios. They
open in a new Window but they're best viewed on a
Smart TV. Go to ' VK5SW ' on Youtube.
G'day again Everyone. I'm an Australian Amateur Radio Operator. My
name is Rob and I was fully licensed in 1970 when I was 19. My age
is now 70. As a young person, I used to rifle through our local
rubbish tip with my friend 'Lee' who lived across the road from us
looking for discarded radios and electronic bits and pieces. While
in my bedroom tinkering with an old short wave radio found at the
tip, I was eventually able to listen to Radio Hams talking to each
other from around the World. It was very exciting for me in those days to tune into an
Amateur Radio Operator located in a different country. I asked
myself - 'how does the radio signal get here?' At that time I also
read a book which I had found in our High School library called
'Adventures in Electronics' which inspired me. With my interest
kindled, I pursued the hobby and have now been an Amateur Radio
Operator for 50 years. The background noise level on Radios here
where I live in suburbia is horrendous, usually S9. You simply
'can't hear a thing' on the Radios. Electrical interference
from power lines, TV's and you name it prevent Radio Communications
here. In the old days there were no such problems for me. The radio
background noise level was low. Not so these days but fortunately
today my Ham Radio Station is remotely controlled via
the Internet, in my case a distance of about 150 klms - between the
home Qth in Adelaide and our bush block in the country. There is
plenty of room for Antennas at the block too and the background
noise level on the Radios there is Strength Zero depending on QRN,
static. You can basically 'hear a pin drop.' This is the beauty of
remotely controlling your station. The property is isolated and
about 10 klms from the nearest town, so a Wireless 4G Internet
connection is used at the Radio End. The main station there runs an
IC-7300 or IC-7600 Radio. Antennas include a 6 band HF Ground Plane,
a 300 foot per leg Vee Beam and a 2 element, 5 band HF Cubex Quad
antenna. By clicking on the links at the bottom of each page of this
website, information can be found which may be of help to you. Among
other things you can find information about remotely controlling
your station and setting it up to run on solar power. I would also
like to mention that licensed Amateur Radio Operators Worldwide are
nowadays able to pay money online to remotely operate, via the
Internet, very capable Amateur Radio Stations located in the USA. If
interested click
Remote Ham Radio.
Their site will open in a new window. I also want to make mention of
the page on this website called 'Music Slideshows.' I've spent some
effort in making it with the intention of creating a good experience
for You. Please rate
the various pages and feel free to sign the
Guestbook.
If interested in my
Solar Powered, Remotely Controlled Station
via the Internet, see below.
73/88. Rob,
VK5SW.
The home location from where the Radio, 100 miles away, is Remotely
Controlled via the Internet.
All Videos here are best viewed on Your Smart TV. Go to Youtube
on Your Smart TV
and search ' vk5sw '
My Latest Caravan Trip from Adelaide to Renmark in the River Land
Area. The first time I have used my new GoPro Camera
which includes High Definition Video of chatting with Wonderful
People in the Area. Created 3rd. Dec. 2021. Runs 40 minutes.
My small Solar Powered, Amateur Radio Shack in the Outback.
Nov. 2021. Runs 5 minutes.
My Caravan Trip to Seaside town Port Lincoln.
Nov. 2021. Runs 10 minutes.
I repaired the broken wires on my 2 element, 5 band, HF Cubical Quad Antenna. August,
2021. Click.
The first ever video I made showing the Solar Powered
Amateur Radio Station and it's Location in the
Bush.
2011. 10 Years ago. Runs 7 minutes.
One of my Music Slideshows which I made on 2nd Oct. 2021.
The
Expanding Universe is incomprehensibly vast and about 13.8
Billion years old. There are at least 100 Billion Stars in
our Milky Way Galaxy alone and according to current
estimates, there are about 2 Trillion Galaxies in the
Our Universe. Aprox. 100 Billion Stars per
Galaxy.. Can You comprehend that. I cannot. I have no idea... Click Deep Field.
They
say that there are more Stars in the Universe than grains of
sand on Planet Earth. The circumference of the Earth is
about 40,000 klms. High frequency radio waves, being
electromagnetic radiations travel at the speed of light,
about 186,000 miles per second, basically being received
instantaneously around the World. Depending on the relative
position of Mars from Earth, radio waves can take up to
about 20 minutes to reach the Red Planet. The Space Craft
Voyager 1 has been traveling away from Earth for over 40
years, having been launched in 1977. It's currently in
interstellar space and over 13 Billion miles away. It's
radio signals take something like 19 hours to reach home.
Due to the time delay in Radio Communications, as we
strengthen our influence in Space, a new form of
Communication will need to be invented. If interested in a
new Communication System, click on the link 'Quantum Radio'
and go to the bottom of the page. In my opinion this will
involve mental telepathy or quantum mechanics communication.
If we can befriend ourselves and then each other here on
Planet Earth, then our destiny lies out there in Space.
Exploring and discovering. As the sailors of years gone by,
so the sailors of the sky will open our lives to new
possibilities.
Imagine for
a moment, what
this World of ours would be like without Radio
Communications. They're vital to our way of life and without
our current understanding of our place in the Universe which
is largely due to Radio Communications, we would still be
living in the 'dark ages'.
Consider how dependent Defense Forces are on Radio
Communications. Imagine also being in a small life raft,
winds howling and freezing cold in the middle of the
Atlantic Ocean with waves towering overhead. The Radio or
Beacon on board could be Your Lifesaver. Radio to the Rescue
again. Italian inventor and electrical engineer, Guglielmo
Marconi is credited with the first transatlantic telegraphic
radio communications in 1901 and now the hobby of Amateur
Radio has been around for well over 100 years. Amateur Radio
Operators have contributed to our current understandings of
Radio Communications. We stand on the shoulders of those who
have gone before us and their hard work and contributions.
It is apparent that Amateur Radio can be a gateway to the
advancement of Humanity. Looking towards the future, we need
to see over the horizon to the possibilities and the hope
which is there.
Visionaries
of the sky will
be expanding our horizons and developing more advanced Radio
Systems means that we will be able to do more than we
currently can.
It's in our nature to go beyond.
Nowadays, remote
control of Amateur Radio Stations is a reality and remote
control of advanced technologies in Space also require Radio
Communications. The more aware we become of Space and what
may be out there, the less self-centred and mentally
constricted we will be. TV programs and films such as 'Star
Trek' and 'Star Wars' help in this regard.
'Looking
back we can see that our Earth is just a pale blue dot in an
ocean of darkness.'
All of our entire
lives and experiences are contained in that single blue dot.
As we slowly further Our Reach into Space, Radio
Communications of one form or another will help us to
broaden our horizons and we will realize, if we survive long
enough, how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of
things. Perhaps one day with this more expansive view of our
insignificance, we will be able
to see more clearly how futile it is not
to work together and may then gradually leave conflict
behind. We are all really 'Children of the Universe' and
subject to It's Universal Laws of Life. The consequences of
our expansion into Space would mean that Radio
Communications could Save our Civilization because without
them we would feel as though we were the Centre of the
Universe, not knowing the vastness beyond and we would not
be able to leave our home, Planet Earth. Radio
Communications always have been and always will be a means
of Humanity expanding and moving forward.
A Hero of mine, apart from my Parents, Olivia
Newton John, Walt
Disney and others is Dr.
Michelle Simmons, Professor of Quantum Physics who won the
'Australian of the Year' Award in 2018.
Originally from the UK, She inspires me because of the Person She Is
and search ' VK5SW.com.
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There are about 150 of them.
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