[Waverley ARS] Macquarie Lighthouse Operation today Sunday

[Simon Buxton]

Hi

I spent a couple of hours at Macquarie light today and climbed up to the 
light platform with Jack and a few others for his ATV distance 
experiment to Norah Head. The Sydney Harbour Trust allowed us to do this 
as part of their open day. This was very successful and I have posted a 
few photos of this and the ground activity on the club picture gallery. 
No doubt others will provide pictures of the Hornby Light activation on 
Saturday which I was unable to attend.

Thanks to Laurie and others who organised the event and the dozen or so 
members that attended.

On another topic, I joined a regular 80 metre net at 20:30 this evening 
and have never found propagation so bad - stations in the Sydney area, 
normally 59+ were down to 23 and very noisy, and it wasn't only a 
problem at my QTH as others were getting the same effect. I see the IPS 
has a warning out for poor HF conditions.

73 Simon

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