Radtel Perth Base

Submitted: Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:19

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anglepole

On a recent trip to WA I had great difficulty in accessing Radtel's Perth Base. I once got a feeble selcall return on 8 mhz. I had no such trouble with the VKS base at Perth.

Has any one else had this problem?

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Reply By: blue one - Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:16

Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:16

Mate,
I was up around Alice, Birdsville etc and had no problems raising Perth.

Even get them some days from Sydney.

Cheers

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Reply By: MEMBER - Darian (SA) - Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:43

Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:43

Can you recall time of day and distance involved at the time ?

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Follow Up By: anglepole - Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 at 20:10

Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 at 20:10

Hi Darian,

I have had no problems getting into Radtel's Bases elsewhere. Infact Derby and CAB bases were good.

The time of day was usually mid morning and late afternoon. I have to say checking call back with VKS Perth operated as I would expect.

After trying the Radtel Perth base regularly over 3 weeks (90-3000kms) it would appear to me to be some what inadequate.

However I take note of the reply that at least one other user has found it OK. I also take note of the other reply about antenna orientation. If the antenna points Northeast it may not be a great signal due north.

Thanks

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Reply By: Member - Mike DID - Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 at 13:47

Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 at 13:47

It depends on the type of aerial each base is running.

One might favour close-in signals and one may favour more distant signals.

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Reply By: MEMBER - Darian (SA) - Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:18

Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:18

I did use Radtel a few years back - the service worked quite well overall - HF is of course quite variable in performance due to a number of factors, including the actual location of the base hardware - with these networks though, you can pretty well tap in via one base or another at any time. Generally, VKS737 base operators report HF conditions currently as being quite 'long' - when I used Radtel from central and southern Oz, I was a lot better off using Charters, middle of the day, on those higher frequency numbers. The airwaves were much cleaner in the middle of the day (at that time, I found asian sourced interference on Radtel's frequencies early and late - other networks suffered too of course - propogation for that 'interference' at noon was poor though, so unheard), and my reach to Radtel was good on those higher frequencies - Charters being further away was a whole lot better than the Alice at that time. Hmmm - maybe you were a bit close, for these times, for Radtel Perth ?

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