Fresh Water Kimberly region

Lat year Mitchell Plateau had a creek but it's not for drinking purposes - only cooking. Other than that we never experienced any problems

Allyn were you able to source drinking water in the region or did you take it all in ??Carpe Diem

Took plenty with us as sometimes you're required to go a couple of days but had no problems filling up when required.

All that is really useful info 'n good tips. Thanks all.
I just wasnt sure about the reliability of supply of good fresh.
I also like the idea of the Noble cask water as a backup, also minimises rubbish.Carpe Diem

Hey Cocka,
when you going GRR, might bump into you.Gibb River in July.
Chris

Hi Chris
We should get away from Syd in a couple of weeks. Head up through the channel country to The Alice/Tanami/Halls/Broom/ Cape Levique then GRR/Kalumbaru/MtElizabeth to Walcott Inlet+all the deviations eastwards along GRR. Should be in the area abt 6-7 wks. We allow about 6 days to Broom. So should be there roughly 3 wks from now.
We usually travel with open channel 40 on both 27 &47 mg radios. Does this suit the local conditions ??
I just put a special post on the forum.Carpe Diem

Almost same as our route up there being Broome - Cape Leveveque (Kooljamon resort)- gibb river-mitchell plateaux/kalumburu then on the rest of it to Elquestro.
We're travelling with another 4x4 and we usually operate on 22 AM and 22 UHF.
Conditions won't cause any difference - their range will be same as the city except you're not likely to get repeater stations up on the GRR for the UHF. I don't know if your AM has upper & lower sidebands but I'm 99% guaranteed to pick up eastern states users between say 10am and 3 pm during the day on the lower band. Obviously you'd always have a sat phone or HF radio + EPIRB for safety.
I'll keep an eye out for you, we'll be on GRR roughly between the 30th July and 16th of August.
We'll look out for your NSW plates and say g'day if we spot you.
regardsGibb River in July.
Chris

Thanks for the sound comments John.

Chris it's always good to be able to put a face to a name and share mutual experiences around a camp fire. We will have among other things an Oz tent strapped on the top which is fairly recognisable also.
I'm a bit intriegued as to why you choose ch 22. It is a regognised dedicated channel for telementry/telecommand operations.
Also my 27mg is SSB, but whilst I understand what it is I'm not fully understanding it's operation when you refer to " ..... on the lower band".
Ch 15-40 are SSB operative with 16 & 35 designated "call" chns.
I generally use 40 on the 47mg as the "road' chn.
Could you explain the 'lower band" comment.

Carpe Diem

Hi cocka,
We have a UHF Uniden Sundowner radio and a Uniden AM USB/LSB radio.

In regards to using 22 UHF we generally use it as we tend to chatter alot and don't want to upset the truckies and other users on the highway channel ie 40.
I wasn't aware of the telementry/command issue as nobody has ever made us aware...or we've never interupted them.

If it's busy we just up or down a channel.

With the AM C.B. as you probably know is the old citizen's band line of sight type stuff. On our Cbs though there is a switch for upper and lower sideband - these bands actually skip off the ionosphere and as previously stated best transmissions for myself are late morning to mid arvos.

I'm no einstein when it comes to radios but I would suggest looking up the following: this is a similar set to what I've got; www.premiere-electronics.net/uniden_radios and look up post ID 14536 (old soldier).
Not being ignorant but I've heard some talk about the type of radio you have got (a new version incorporating UHF and AM bands?) I've yet to have a gander at them because they're confusing to me.

RegardsGibb River in July.
Chris