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Old 05-03-13, 11:41
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Default Last functioning Aust CMP Sigvan off-air

Andrew Tostevin of South Australia has posted on the Yahoo WS19 Group that he will be making the final transmissions from his Aust C15 Sigvan on Sun 10th Mar 2013, using original transmission record pads, and filming and photographing the event for posterity (for the non-Radio types, I will summarise the relevant bit from this announcement HE IS SELLING THE C15 AFTER 10th MAR!):

"--THE LAST WORKING WW2 RADIO TRUCK IN AUSTRALIA IS GOING OFF AIR FOR GOOD ON SUN NIGHT - -

WOW !! - THIS WEEKEND THERE IS A BIG EVENT AT REYNELLA, SOUTH OF ADELAIDE CITY. IT IS CALLED " FESTIVAL OF HISTORY" AND MANY INTERSTATE CLUBS ARE COMING OVER. OFFICIALLY ITS ACTIVE AS AN EVENT FROM 10 AM UNTIL 4PM CENTRAL SUMMER TIME, BUT FROM A RADIO VIEWPOINT, I WILL BE ON AIR AT RANDOM TIMES FROM 0800 TO 8PM SA LOCAL TIME.

ADELAIDE IS IN A GMT +1030 ZONE. GMT ON-AIR TIMES ARE WIDER RANGING AND TO MAKE IT EASY:

FRIDAY GMT 0400-0800 HRS TESTING -TUNING-[AFTERNOON BEFORE EVENT LOCAL TIME]
2130-2359 HRS EVENT DAY 1 LOCAL TIME [EARLY MORNING LOCAL TIME]
SATURDAY GMT 0000-0930 HRS EVENT DAY 1 LOCAL TIME [AFTERNOON LOCAL TIME]
2130-2359 HRS EVENT DAY 2 LOCAL TIME [EARLY MORNING LOCAL TIME]
SUNDAY GMT 0000-0930 HRS EVENT DAY 2 LOCAL TIME [AFTERNOON LOCAL TIME]

ANDREW VK5WT/M [THAT'S ME ] WILL BE OPERATING AT MAXIMUM CAPABILITY. THE QSOs WILL BE RECORDED WITH PENCIL ON A WW2 MESSAGE FORM AS IN WW2. IT IS A SIMILAR SIZE CARD TO A QSL CARD, AND WILL BE TREATED AS THE QSL CARD FOR THE DAY. IF YOU WISH ME TO QSL, IT WILL BE DIRECT, AND I WILL POST IT OUT ABOUT 2 WEEKS AFTER THE EVENT, TO AN ADDRESS THAT YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO GIVE ME BY EMAIL BEFORE I GET TO IT, ON tosty@internode.on.net

I WILL BE MONITORING ALL THE TIME USING THE WW2 SETS.

we will be off air officially from 10 pm until 8 am , but otherwise give us a call on 7060 khz YOU MIGHT HEAR THE AM GUYS !! MANY PHOTOS WILL BE TAKEN AND SOME VIDEO OF THE EVENT AND BEING ON AIR,

IS THE LAST TIME THAT VK5WT 's 2 WHEEL DRIVE WW2 CHEV RADIO TRUCK
WILL BE ON AIR...[ITS A C15 Canadian Military Pattern, HOLDEN REAR BODY
ITS COMING UP FOR SALE AFTER THE EVENT TO ALLOW VK5WT [THAT'S ME ] TO GET ON WITH OTHER URGENT PROJECTS AROUND THE HOME.

FREQUENCIES -

BEFORE I START - THE WW2 GEAR IS BETTER OFF ON THE CRYSTALS [STABILITY] + [SPEED] ESPECIALLY FOR AN EVENT, WHERE I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO READ THE COUNTER ALL THE TIME, SO IF YOU NEED ME TO QSY PLEASE LOOK AT MY CRYSTAL-AND HARMONIC CHANNELS LISTING AND
SUGGEST ONE OF THEM IN PREFERENCE TO VFO. I WILL VFO AS NEEDED, BUT THAT'S NOT MY PREFERENCE, AS WE WILL HAVE MANY PEOPLE WATCHING, AND I WOULD PREFER TO CLICK OVER TO THE NEW FREQUENCY AS I WILL STILL HAVE TO RETUNE AND NET, WHILE TALKING TO THE SPECTATORS,
SO HELP ME OUT HERE, AND THERE MIGHT BE ISSUES WITH VFO ON THE DAY.[HOPE NOT]

ALL THE CRYSTALS ARE IN THE MAIN 112 SET, SO IF I AM ON AIR ON THE FS6 IGNORE THIS LIST.

MARTIALS/TRUCK/LOCALS 27 MHZ CH 11 AM [27.085 MHZ] CB & QSYs [CALL CHANNEL]

AMATEUR RADIO XTAL-FREQUENCIES-AND DESIGNATED CHANNELS WORTH LISTING :
3523 XTAL N1 CW ONLY
3527 XTAL N2
3530 XTAL N3 OR N6 CW ONLY EVENT CHANNEL FOR 80 MX AT NIGHT
3614 XTAL N4
7046 [3523 XTAL N1 ]
7056 [3527 XTAL N2 ]
7060 [3530 XTAL N3 OR N6 ] EVENT/CALLING CHANNEL FOR BOTH RADIOS
7125 [VFO]/COUNTER= AM NET, AND THE TRUCK WILL BE A VISITOR TO THE CHANNEL.
7130 [VFO]/COUNTER = A QSY - AM CHANNEL
7228 [3614 XTAL N4 ]
14020 [VFO]/COUNTER CW ONLY
14092 [3523 XTAL N1 ]
14108 [3527 XTAL N2 ]
14120 [3530 XTAL N3 OR N6 ]

RADIOS: FIRST AND LAST TIME THE FS6 WILL BE MOBILE ON 40 M [BAND SHIFTED] VFO POWER OUTPUT 10 W CW, 6 W AM.THE TRASNMITTER AND RECEIVER ARE NOW WORKING BETTER THAN ORIGINAL WITH THE CHIRP MOSTLY CURED ON THE RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER, BUT IT WILL DRIFT SLOWLY, AND I DO HAVE A FREQ COUNTER WITH ME, SO I'LL TRY TO ANCHOR IT BACK TO DESIGNATED FREQUENCY..SO LET ME DO MOST OF THE
CORRECTING, AND STAY PUT ON THE DESIGNATED FREQUENCY, LESS WORK FOR YOU,

AT5-AR8 SYSTEM KNOWN AS A 112 SET IN THE ARMY -WITH SPECIAL JUNCTION BOX POWER OUTPUT 40 W ON CW [LESS ON AM]. THE 112 IS THE MAIN SET, AND HAS A SLIGHTLY SAD GENEMOTOR, ON THE TRANSMITTER
BECAUSE ALL THE ORIGINAL WAVE-WINDINGS ARE STARTING TO LET GO...
IT APPEARS THAT THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP IT RUNNING IS SHORT OUT THE DEAD LOOPS AND GET A LINK ACROSS THEM TO HOLD THE VOLTS...AS SHE TURNS...SAD BUT TRUE.

MODES- APPROX 50 % OF THE TIME I PLAN TO USE CW TO RE-ENACT AS MOST TRAFFIC WAS CW IN WW2 WITH AM BEING THE SMALLER PART OF RADIO TRAFFIC AT THE TIME.

FOOTNOTE - I WOULD PROBABLY BE ON AIR A BIT LATER AT THE END OF EACH DAY, DEPENDING ON OTHER COMMITMENTS , EG PHONE LINES REPAIR ETC.-WE ARE USING A LOT OF FIELD TELEPHONES.

The qsl message form is a genuine WW2 message form, and will be filled in with times, callsigns as per QSL and more.

See you there on air - Regards Andrew VK5WT / M [for Mobile]"
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