{"id":7226,"date":"2025-03-25T11:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T02:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/?p=7226"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T23:45:00","slug":"vk5rmg-relocated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/vk5rmg-relocated\/","title":{"rendered":"VK5RMG relocated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The big move to another location on The Bluff was completed on 23\/3\/25.<\/p>\n<p>A great turn out of helpers attended, all contributing in some way.<\/p>\n<p>The new location is now running entirely on solar power. This will save nearly $1000\/year in power costs. We have a wonderful new sponsor in the form of LimeFM, they&#8217;ve provided the space on the tower and the use of their battery room for our equipment in exchange for the maintenance of their equipment and solar system. We both benefit, we&#8217;re both winners.<\/p>\n<p>A few small matters to tidy up e.g. improved DC distribution in the hands of Norbert VK5MQ and some antenna cable work by Peter VK5BE will be done over the next week or so. At present the 70cm link to Naracoorte is disconnected due to some work to be done on the connector and shortening of the heliax.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great result and due to some shortening of cables we seem to have also improved the coverage a little &#8211; a great bonus.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cabinet 1: UHF\/C4FM, Cabinet 2: Two metre + 3 links, Cabinet 3: Solar power with Nick VK5NJS and Tim VK5AV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Some of the crew: Klaus VK5UKK, John VK5DJ, Tom VK5NFT, Maxwell VK5AC, Peter VK5BE, Nick VK5NJS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"397\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-2.jpg 397w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-2-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 85vw, 397px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andrew VK5VKC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/serg.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bluff-25-3-25-5-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John VK5DJ, Norbert VK5MQ, Nick VK5NJS connecting and wiring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serg.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}