VK3VCM Operating Portable HF Amateur Radio from Portarlington, Australia 3/1/11

Craig VK3VCM operating portable HF from the beautiful seaside village of Portarlington on the Bellarine Peninsula in the State of Victoria, Australia. I was on-air with my Kenwood TS-590s running 100 watts into a Buddipole Deluxe configured as a dipole on 40m. This video is to show some of the guys who chatted to me on the day, my location, station set up & proximity to the city of Melbourne. While Melbourne is only 30kms across the water, it is 102km via road as you have to travel from Melbourne to Geelong, then onto the Portarlington Road which takes you along the Bellarine Peninsula & Portarlington. So close to home in Melbourne, but so far away.

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• Portable
• Buddipole
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• VK3VCM
• VK7FTTT
• VK3FTFM
• VK3NBL
• Ham
• Kenwood
• TS590
• TS-590
• Park
• Seaside
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[UZI9MMAUTO]

Hey Guys- I was wondering if one could help me? I was watching a show "Dirty Deeds" and they showed a Car Radio that has a Big Set of Bands on it. NOT your usual Am/FM but id say 7 or 10 Rows if Bands.. Show mentions Australia- What kind of car radio is this? Common,old? The car was form the 1950's but show made in 2002- THANKS! Any Ideas?

[craig3008]

@UZI9MMAUTO I've not seen the movie but what I think it may have been is in fact a normal AM radio. Here in Australia we have 6 States & 2 "Territories". Early AM radios here had all stations for each state listed on the radio dial on a separate line. So there would be up to 8 rows of all stations listed by name. AM radio station callsigns in Australia have 1 number & two letters. The number denotes the state EG 3AW (3 = Victoria) 4BH (4 = Queensland), 6PR (6 = Western Australia). Craig VK3CRG

[spellgrounds]

cool set up ! I always liked listening to the WA police on my Uniden scanner, that was until they went digital and encrypted their systems

[craig3008]

@spellgrounds Yeah they did the same here in Melbourne... I understand why the police did that of course...but it does spoil it for us non-criminal types! :-)

[aka572]

I'm curious as to what you use to power your radio. Running 100 watts must use a few amps. I'm guessing a small 12V battery with maybe even a solar panel.

Enjoying watching your videos and thinking about getting back into ham radio in portable mode as they don't allow antennas in my neighborhood.

73 KD4ID

[TheKC1ML]

Hi Craig. Thanks for the vid's on the Buddipole. I just ordered the Mini Buddipole for portable use. Looking forward to going portable.

[craig3008]

@richiejp1 How nice of you to say. The weather has been a bit ordinary (as have the HF conditions!) lately..so unfortunately not too many new videos of late. But more will be put up eventually. Regards, Craig VK3VCM

[melbourneradio]

You sure do get around Craig!

[vk3ye]

Luxury - a chair and table to operate from! Great video Craig.

[markbeermonster]

Beautiful, amazing place to operate from Craig

Thanks for sharing

73 de M0VST