My interests are satellites, HF Digital, SSTV, VarAC, Morse (badly), Fusion, voice etc. Operated as E6SP Niue 🇳🇺 April 2024. Returning 2026.
Christchurch City, New Zealand
Joined May 2018
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ZL3GAV Gavin 🇳🇿🇦🇺 retweeted
Amateur radio and SSTV fans: here we go again.
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ZL3GAV Gavin 🇳🇿🇦🇺 retweeted
All I managed from the overnight Shortwave Radiogram program over WRMI, 0800-0830 UTC, 5850 kHz. Transmission in MFSK32/64. Decoded most text (examples in FLdigi panels) but only 5 of the images, and those all very noisy. QTH Vancouver. MLA-30+ loop antenna. SDRplay RSPdx tuner.
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Latest ISS satellite 🛰️ SSTV project. Decoded via MMSSTV, Doppler adjustment with PstRotator, FT-991A and Diamond X300 vertical. Here is the raw image example, and after software cleanup.
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ZL3GAV Gavin 🇳🇿🇦🇺 retweeted
I hope to explain this more when I get a chance. N6UA @dtabor gave me plenty of field data for a start to this crazy experiment. 😃
What is with these many You Tube amateur radio content creators that produce asinine one hour plus videos, and think anyone is going to watch them?
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The Ham Radio Record No One Expected Me to Break youtu.be/Y1wlKOrDJm8?si=JeYZ… via @YouTube
This is an excellent presentation by @HamRadioDX well worth watching, as opposed to the typical YouTube dross.
Thanks Hayden
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Using FT-991A and Diamond X300 vertical antenna (hardly optimal😮) with MMSTV and PST Rotator for doppler received this SSTV image from UmKA1 (RS40S) satellite🛰️ For comparison is the AI clean up of the original image...
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What Ham Operators Heard The Night Nazis Invaded Poland 🇵🇱 youtu.be/EONs_3d81RA?si=paJv… via @YouTube
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ZL3GAV Gavin 🇳🇿🇦🇺 retweeted
KE9V Jeff's thoughts about the DXCC Honor Roll. I think it is time to let the 'younger' hams achieve the top award. Or do we have to wait until the current holders become SKs before making a change? #hamradio ke9v.net/2026/08/09/honor-ro… @arrl
The best explanation on You Tube that finally provides an accurate intelligent clarification of a topical issue that is often confused.
Counterpoise vs Radial vs Ground Plane: What's the Difference? youtu.be/L_EZaxv_tPI?si=UuT4… via @YouTube
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ZL3GAV Gavin 🇳🇿🇦🇺 retweeted
Starlink New Zealand
BREAKING: Starlink becomes New Zealand’s largest rural internet provider. 🇳🇿
• Starlink now has 27% share of NZ’s rural broadband market.
• Share jumped from 19% to 27% in one year.
• Satellite broadband connections rose from 56,000 to 85,000, up 52%.
• Around 72,000 are rural residential fixed connections.
• Starlink Residential averaged 226 Mbps download speed.
• That is around 4x faster than rural 4G FWA at 56 Mbps.
• NZ now has the highest satellite broadband uptake per capita in the OECD.
Starlink is helping rural families, farms, and remote communities get fast internet where traditional networks struggled.
Used Grok to clean up image received from SSTV event on ISS. The before and after…@PeterVogel
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LEO satellite operators could be beyond Australian data laws itnews.com.au/news/leo-satel…
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That will be a bonus for upcoming E6SP Niue 🇳🇺 visit in July. The existing 4G network was OK, and for streaming on Clublog, but prone to micro outages. share.google/ZxEQh4DQi6VQsiy…
