Goooooood Moooorning Berrima! Cold again this year. A contingent of 4 brave members spending the 3 days/night at the Berrima scout hall represented the MWRS fro the Trans-Tasman Low Band Contest. An addition 4 members came for a visit on Saturday. It was cold but luckily the fireplace and plenty of firewood helped survive the weekend.
VK TRANS-TASMAN CONTEST
VK Trans-Tasman contest on Saturday, 20th July 2024.
The contest is made up of 3 individual two-hour blocks.
You are able to work another station once per band and mode in every block. Every different Prefix used by VK or ZL stations is a valid multiplier and credit can be claimed once per band per block.
Contest Time
Start Time is 08:00 UTC and finish time is 14:00 UTC
Categories
(160, 80, 40m, All Mode)
A. Single Operator – High Power
B. Single Operator – Low Power (100 watts)
C. Single Operator – QRP
E. Multi-Operator – Single Transmitter
F. Multi-Operator – Multi Transmitter
Full contest rules: https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/transtasman/index.php
Short video: warming up for the contest: https://youtu.be/oop1Cb6i2tU.
As usual, a casual Friday dinner at the local pub, followed by a Saturday morning/afternoon set-up in preparation for a 18h00-00:00 local time contest Saturday evening.
Check out the installation on this youtube vide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlAZfVyvrDk
The club’s OCF is now using the newly refurbished balun by Greg VK2XE. Read about the refurbishing process on the John Moyle Field Day post https://www.mwrs.org.au/2024/03/16/vk2mb-p-on-air-for-john-moyle-field-day/
From Russell VK2BYN at 16:02 (20-Jul)
I just worked the blokes in Berrima on 40 m, fabulous signal from Greg’s 7610 and the club’s OCF antenna. The Trans Tasman contest starts at 6.00 pm E.S.T. tonight until midnight on 160, 80 and 40m so give them a call if you get a chance. They should have lots of fun and do well tonight, good luck. 73
In attendance over the weekend:
Greg VK2XE
Declan and Kara
Geoff VK2WA
Andy VK2EAH
Philip VK2APL
Nick VK2FS
Zara VK2ZYP
Jeff VK2MZZ
Phil VK2JPK
…and the results are in: VK2MB earned second place in the Multi-Operator Single Transmitter section:
Kara went back to Bowral with Declan and Matt his carer. They stayed over there because of bathroom access at the hall.
Antenna images are above. Phil has some more we will add those.
Balun for the 80m OCF has been rebuilt since John Moyle Field day and working perfectly. Before the contest I tested transmit and receive on some DX contacts on 20m, 12m and 10m. Yes 12m. A commemorative station for the King of Thailand’s birthday.
https://dx-pedition.blogspot.com/2024/07/hs72king-special-callsign-from-thailand.html
I love the vid showing antennas & also the physical condition with the wind etc. I think I got you guys on all three bands from my home QTH in Frenchs Forest. We’ll done all
Great. More photos pls (where is Kara?)
Pic of antennas?