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Current Connection – Wireless NBN-WB200 Plan @ 25 Mbps / 5 Mbps with 240 GB / 2,000 GB Data Allowance;

iPhone 6 on Telstra 4G

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Update:18012018

After having continual delays with streaming content running tests again to determine what throughput I am getting;

Next Morning;

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That evening;

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4G Telstra at the same time;

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Later that evening failed to even complete a speed test with NBN.

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4G at the same time worked.

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So basically its quicker to tether to the phone than have wireless NBN.

Next morning….

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same day 7:00pm the throughput had halved;

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26012018

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27012018 Morning

Updated Modem firmware.

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Afternoon degrading allready;

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28012018 evening. NBN outage

October 20, 2013

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JOTA 2013 – Call Sign: VK3SBA Mount Beckworth

The 56th Jamboree On The Air – 19 and 20 October 2013.

Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) and Jamboree On The Internet (JOTI) is an annual event in which Scouts and Guides from all over the world make contact with each other by means of amateur radio and internet. This is my seventh year of involvement. I ran a small station for Ballarat District scouts from Mt Beckworth. This was a JOTA only station running in conjunction with Cohan Shield activities. Also ran fox hunting as a Cohen activity with 2 ventures Paddy and James from Creswick as the foxes. This was well received by the scouts and I will expand for next year.

Yaesu FT897 running off batteries onto a full size G5RV. Worked a treat.

Got 60+ scouts over Saturday and half of Sunday. Would receive up 6 to 12 at a time and had an hour. Getting scouts to talk on the radio is worse than pulling teeth. Least this year there were no computers to distract them. Once the fox hunt was off and running, I would call for a JOTA contact and then have each scout talk in turn. Only got a handful of contacts. It is important to ensure that all the scouts got a talk even if only ‘hello’. Once going there were a couple that showed interest and even came back after tea for 20m DX.

40m was very busy with JOTA stations. Finding a free frequency was a challenge. Contacted a couple of SOTA stations on Saturday but space and time was tight. During the course of the day talked to a couple of stations who normally would be out activating or chasing SOTA and picked up a couple of SA NP activations.

Call Sign: VK3SBA Mount Beckworth

Scout contacts included,

VK2SCJ – Badgereys Creek

VK3SCG – Gilwell Park Scout Camp

VK3SAT – Mafeking Rover Park

VK3SAH – Bendigo

VK3SAW – Western Region JOTA Grampians National Park

VK3SAY – Diamond Creek

VK3SBH – Box Hill

VK3SRG – Sunraysia District Scouts

VK6SH – Miles in WA (VK6FLYD & VK6FAME)

VK7SDL – Leven

Other JOTA contacts include,

VK5PET – Peter in Strathalbyn

VK7TAZ – Kevin in Launceston

VK8DA – Darwin Amateur radio Club with Guides

ZL1UPJ – Jonno in Hamilton North Island New Zealand

ZL3MF – South Island New Zealand

20m contacts Saturday night with some interested scouts included,

OE4RLL -Austria

9A284A – Croatia

SQ9ZAT – Poland

JA2UMV – Japan

We are introducing Ham Radio to gen Z .They are growing up with a highly sophisticated media environment. They carry computers in their pockets with world wide instant communication abilities so the relevance of radio has to be demonstrated. You have to keep it short and to the point. Talking to others with the same interests that they have and don’t already know with a run of wire was of interest.

This is exhausting work. Finished up Sunday lunch time and went home for a sleep.

Working on the next generation of SOTA operators !

Allen

October 13, 2013