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Despite the cold and wet conditions on Thursday10 August there was no wind.

Several PARG members braved the cold to set up PARG1 on the Manduarh Foreshore after Paul VK6LL towed it down from the SES HQ.

 

Members in attendance were (in no particular order) Martin VK6MJ. Maurice VK6HLY, Jerry VK6LJC, Graham VK6MG, Peter VK6PBS. Fun was had by all. Complimentary coffee, soup, bacon, and egg rolls also helped.

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PARG has established a permanent West Australian Winlink Radio Mail Server node, to allow emergency and non-emergency WinLink-to-email conversion for remote station use.  See the WinLink, RMS and Digipeater page which you'll find linked to the WinLink page WinLink.  The Group is also investigating options to establish a Remote HF station for members' use (updated 27Mar23).

 

​PARG is now full-steam ahead to establish an HF capability at the Mandurah SES Headquarters for future emergency services' support, PARGESS exercises, a WinLink Radio Mail Server.  See: HF Antenna for SES HQ (updated 26Mar23). 

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UNUN Kit. (updated 15Nov22)  UNUN Kit

And speaking of antenna experiments - this kit is likely to be of interest to members building end-fed half wave, inverted L, Marconi-Tee or similar high impedance antennas.

 

WinLink Information. (updated 9Nov22)   Winlink Information

WinLink how-to information compiled by PARG's WinLink coordinator, Jenny VK6JEN.

 

Fox Hunting. (updated Aug23)   Fox Hunting

Fox hunting information and resources, compiled by PARG's Fox Hunting coordinators, Peter VK6PBS and Jenny VK6JEN. PARG Fox Hunts will be run in both Rockingham and Mandurah through Spring, Summer and Autunm. You are welcome to take part. It will end with a BBQ. Bring along your friends and family for a day out. Bring your bathers and towels too.

 

QRM Hunting. (updated Nov22)   VK6JEN QRM Hunting

VK6JEN's findings when tracking down mains-borne interference.

 

AllStar Node - AllStar. (Updated 27Jun23)

An AllStar Node has been added to the VK6RMH repeater to connect it to the South West AllStar network.  The AllStar page (AllStar) has been updated and you can now click on a hyperlink on the page to access the Node’s bubble chart - so you can see what hubs and nodes our repeater is connected to.  PowerPoint slides from a presentation to PARG by Mark Bosma VK2KI / VK6QI about the AllStar Node are summarised on the page, and the presentation itself can be downloaded from the link at the bottom of the page. We've also started a list of AllStar Technical Notes (AllStar Technical Notes) from sources like the HamVOIP and ARM-AllStar forums.

 

Near Vertical Incidence Skywave Articles - Near Vertical Incidence Skywave Propagation. (Posted 2 June 22)

An interesting and readible Dutch PhD paper encompassing a series of articles on experiments with NVIS propagation.

 

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