Web Links and Places of Interest

Kurrajong Radio Museum
     An easy drive into the foothills of the Blue Mountains via North Richmond takes you to the Kurrajong Radio Museum. It is now open to the public and displaying an extensive array of Ex-Military and Commercial radio equipment. Much of the equipment is connected and in working order, also check out the rebuilt sound studio.

     Ian VK2ZIO and friends have put a huge amount of work into this facility . It is intended to be open most weekends, but check first on 02 4573 0601. You can email him on  vk2zio@yahoo.co.au  or check out his new website at http://www.vk2bv.org/museum/  .

Very good photos of recent Radio Experimenters and Homebrew Group meetings, also of the ARNSW VK2WI site at Dural - Courtesy of Peter Marks VK2TPM
http://web.mac.com/petermarxy/iWeb/Site/HomeBrew.html

Some Photos from John VK2ASU at our April 2007 Mini Field day
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/ARNSWHomebrewgroup/

An excellent site run by Alan VK2ZAY with lots ands lots of very practical projects (don't know where he gets all the time to do them)
http://www.vk2zay.net

Also by Alan VK2ZAY a whole page on our April 2007 Mini Field day
http://www.vk2zay.net/article.php/122

A Blog run by Peter VK2TPM with some good info on programming and use of AVRs
http://marxy.org/

An "Antennablog" by VK3ZDD: Understanding, designing, constructing and using antennas.
http://www.antennablog.com

Ham Radio and Blokes Stuff by VK4HAM: information relating to my hobby Amateur Radio. Information includes details about dxpeditions, contests, reviews and much more.
http://blokesstuff.blogspot.com/

Peter VK2EMU found this interesting site for Ham and other interests, good multi 813 Tube PA.
http://members.westnet.com.au/page3/index.htm

New (June 2009) Seppo VK2SMA Check suggests checking out the site http://www.boondog.com/  which has some great ideas - look at the tutorial link. I had problems using Firefox but IE worked fine to access this site.

New (June 2009) For an interesting on-line Ham magazine go to http://ham.france.free.fr/crbst_17.html  although the mag is originally in French this page has the English versions for download as PDF © files (first one is about 21meg but rest are only 2.5 to 3meg) and just submit your email address to get new issues emailed to you automatically.

Brian VK2TOX just found a web site that you might be interested in, especially the "rev heads" (car enthusiasts) amongst us but also has some interesting information for Hams regarding vehicle installations and test gear.
http://autospeed.com/S_3/cms/section.html   and click on Tech Features to find nearly 1000 (yes one thousand) pages of hints and tips for car owners/enthusiasts. Especially interesting for Ham Radio people as it covers lots of electrical/electronics stuff. Pages on using tools and test equipment, building/installing various electronics kits, installing electronic gear in vehicles. Even full instructions on how to mount a full sized PC in your boot and operate it while driving. A page on external mods to an old PC PSU for the workshop, also a page on mounting UHF radio gear in the dash, lots and lots of stuff. The site seems to tied into Jaycar/Electus and a mail order site called http://store.voltelectronics.com.au/  many of the kits etc are certainly Silicon Chip projects, the site looks very SilChip, maybe developed/maintained by the magazine.
If you find a series of interest (Multimeters, oscilloscopes or "Making Things" do a search up in the top RH corner as there appear to be both older and newer versions of the pages on the site. Also each ":page" of items appears a little random as items are definatly repeated throughout the nearly 100 screens of articles.

Don't ask me how I found it as I was looking for some woodworking plans for workshop equipment and just "dropped" into the site. Now if I could just find the site I located late one night on a very nice parametric audio equalizer (and thought I had saved) I would be very happy.
Happy wandering and make sure you have space on your drive to save the pages, "cause there are lots of them.

Some more URL's to have a look at, thanks Ashley.


Ashley has a "thread" running on www.austech.info in the "Electronics" section under the title of "PICs for newbies" on writing code for PICs, looks good. Also lots of other neat stuff on the same site

You already know http://www.satvg.org website of the Sydney Amateur TV Group who run the VK2RTS Television Repeater located at Lawson, Sydney

another is http://www.funbusters.net/wireless/ the "802.11b Wireless LAN Web Page" with some interesting ideas such as a WIFI VSWR / Power meter  and ideas on making your own printed circuit boards

Pictures from various towers etc. http://www.funbusters.net/pictures/places/360.html
Simple page on Space diversity http://www.funbusters.net/satellite/2dish.html

There are also a couple of other forums and pages around.
www.hamforum.com    www.vklogger.com  and  www.vetrun.com which is a "Free to Air Satellite forum" for the Asia Pacific area.

Time Signal and Frequency Standard Transmissions on HF (USA, Canada and China included)
Very useful information can be found on the following sites
http://tufi.alphalink.com.au/time/time_hf.html
http://www.smeter.net/stations/hf-time-frequency.php
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/time.htm
 

The Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Groups web site now features a new automated radio prediction service. This is very easy to use and it clearly informs you as to what bands are open and closed and weather it is day or night for the best operation. Simply go to www.mncarg.org  and find this great service on the front page.

So now you will know what frequency to pick for those all important contacts.

The web site has also recently had the links page and photo galleries updated with an expanded range. The Amateur Video section is growing by the day and the links to other amateur radio societies around the world are found here as well.

Information supplied by Gary Ryan VK2ZKT Group President (3rd May 2009)