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VK9WBM – Willis IslandTuesday Dec 01, 2009
Following info from Dale, VK4DMC
David Burton has been posted to the Bureau of Meteorology station on Willis Island for the next 6 months and will be operating with the call-sign VK9WBM.
The station was first set-up in 1921 by the bureau and over the years, many of the officers posted there were amateur radio operators. Willis Island was last activated by the Bavarian Contest club in 2008 where they made 95,178 contacts.
David has just arrived at the weather station and will be setting up an amateur radio station shortly.
The station consists of a IC-718 and an Alinco DX70 (kindly loaned to him by John Roberts VK4TL).
He will be activating the HF bands and also will be active on 6 metres using a 2 element quad.
QSL manager is Dale VK4DMC.
Station details will be placed on QRZ.com in the near future.
The posting is for 6 months and David will endeavour to come on air as frequently as his duties allow him to.
Dale, VK4DMC
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I have had unexpected problems and I am slowly getting on HF but I am not there yet.
I cannot erect a mast, the soil is coral rubble and sand and will not hold a guy peg. I tried 3 star posts on each guy but they still pulled out.
The soil is a bone dry insulator and I have been unable to get any viable earth.
The longwire has worked 2 stations and is to be removed and replaced with a balanced antenna. This will take a bit of work as I have no ATU except the Icom AH4, an unbalanced only auto ATU.
On 6m I am unable to mount the beam anywhere useful. It can only point out to the ocean. I have built a 300ohm slim jim and worked about 40 stations, mainly VK2 but with some VK3,4,5 and one ZL2. Listen for me in the afternoons on 6m, between 0400z and 0900z.
I will update again when I am reliably on HF. This will be 40m and harmonics only.
BCNU
Dave, VK9WBM