PASSED CALL BACK IN THE EARLY 70'S BUT DUE TO WORK, I COULD NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE HOBBY, ESPECIALLY WORKING FOR MYSELF IN THE BUILDING INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYING TRADES MEN ALONG WITH CONTRACTORS. PREVIOUS CALL VK2SLO

Helping others get into Ham radio along with building antennas / equipment / building towers and erecting them.

Our Amateur Radio station consists of: Kenwood TS-2000 / Kenwood TS-50 / Kenwood AT-50 / Kenwood TS-480sat / Emtron Amplifier / Kenwood TM-D700A 2mt 70cm / Yaesu FT-212RH Mobile / MFJ-986 Differential" 3KW Tuner / Yaesu G-1000S Rotator / Swan WM-2000A Peak Reading Meter / MFJ-616 Speech Intelligibility Enhancer / Emtron EPS-30 Power Supply / Dick Smith D3800 Power Supply / Powermaster 25AMP Power Supply.

Antennas: Hy-Gain 204BA / 3 element 15mt mono band yagi / 40mt loop / 80mt Dipole / 17mt Dipole / 6mt Vertical / 2mt "J" Pole / 5 Band No Tune antenna, covering 40/20/17/12/and 10mts fed with 450ohm Ladder Line 1 to 1 Balun and 50ohm feedline, This was designed by Bill Wright.

In our mobile setup we run a TS-480sat along with a Kenwood TM-D700A 2mt 70cm / Also GPS.
Our HF antenna is the Hustler brand with resonators for 80/40/ 20/15/10mts. SG-7500 2mt 70cm mobile antenna.
I also have home made HF mobile whips to cover all bands including the WARC bands.

Hunting and target shooting along with clay and skeet shooting.

VK2ARK = The Amateur Radio Kandos Group.
Pacific Inter Island Net.