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Toowoomba Endurance Horse Riders Hip Pocket Challenge 2024
Brisbane Area WICEN Group (Inc.) once again assisted at Southbrook (approximately 26km west-south-west of Toowoomba, as the crow flies) with the running of the Hip Pocket Challenge, run by the Toowoomba Endurance Horse Riders Association. This was done in collaboration with Ipswich WICEN. Brisbane and Ipswich WICEN had assisted here nearly 12 months before, and thus we return to help with this year's event. On this occasion, your correspondent is working the check-point rather than the […]https://brisbanewicen.org.au/2024/03/23/toowoomba-endurance-horse-riders-hip-pocket-challenge-2024/
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On the check-point, I ran a cross-band set-up. Normally, I use 439.500MHz as my cross-band local frequency, which in SE Queensland so far, has worked out okay.
However, according to the band-plan, that is a repeater output frequency.
There are two repeaters that use it: VK2RCG in Sydney and VK3RGL in Geelong. I'd be mighty impressed if 5W FM reached either of those from Brisbane.
Nonetheless, #IpswichWICEN came up with this handy list of 70cm frequencies for cross-band usage -- appropriate for SE VK4, possibly elsewhere too.
I have re-created the file in LaTeX. I'll get the source up somewhere soon and the PDF on the Brisbane WICEN site.
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Well, another #EmergencyCommsExercise at Southbrook, ~27km south-west of #Toowoomba. Members of both #BrisbaneAreaWICEN and #IpswichWICEN are here. I am just meeting the new neeeeigh-bours (#horses). I guess we'll find out why the long faces.