Welcome to VK2NET, this website is dedicated to the hobby of amateur radio and some other associated areas of my personal interest, please bookmark it for future reference and call back often. I will be adding new features all the time.
Throughout this website there are many areas of an educational nature, hopefully not too technical but certainly highly interesting and entertaining. I’m just an ordinary bloke, like many thousands of others spread across the length and breadth of Australia and throughout the world, who by and large live by a code and enjoy our hobby. I’m very much a learner and will always be, I’m an experimenter and I talk a lot, this of course makes amateur radio the perfect hobby for me, so please make contact if you hear me on air and let’s have a chat.
My current radio is a Kenwood TS-480SAT that runs through a MFJ-948 tuner and is hooked up to a very long, long wire. I’ve had good and bad luck with antennas and the development of them is an ongoing and continual study for me. I’m a member of a sensational radio club at Hornsby (HADARC) and I really look forward to their meetings twice monthly. I also have a page on QRZ.Com check it out here. The story will continue, I have no idea of the next twists and turns but you can rest assured that it will involve a radio of some description. I also have a forum where a group of really great people exchange ideas, please visit it and become a member at: The Forum
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Sunspot Plotter
The sunspot plotter is easy to use. For example, select your birth date from the pull-down menus and the plotter instantly shifts to the day you were born:
The red curve traces monthly-averaged sunspot numbers tabulated by the Solar Influences Data Center in Belgium. Data points go all the way back to 1755, so you can investigate the relationship between solar activity and many historical events: Do stocks crash during solar minimum? (Some people think so.) Did NASA send astronauts to the Moon during Solar Max? Thank you and full credit to SpaceWeather.com.