I was at the Dawn Service in Castlemaine Victoria on Anzac Day this year. It was a modest service that included an acknowledgment of first peoples and was very respectful (no booing). There was also a speech by a young First Nations student who acknowledged the contribution of indigenous Australians who fought in the wars long before indigenous Australians were accepted/recognised as Australian. It was entirely appropriate. Lest we forget. #ANZAC
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-27/rsl-australia-to-review-welcome-to-country-policy-for-anzac-day/106612798

Had fun this morning activating #SOTA on Mt Tarrengower near Maldon in Victoria. The view from the lookout tower is truly spectacular. #hamradio

adventures in pixie land part 2. I have created a DDS so I can tune into pretty much anything between 80m and 10m using the pixie. #AmatuerRadio #Ham #DDS #pixie #CW. The DDS is my own design using an esp32c3 with the display on I2C and the AD9851 on SPI. I have got 3GPIO pins left on the controller so I should be able to make a band switch for the output tuning (as well as a case to mount everything in. The whole thing is powered by 3x18650 cells in series, and I’m using a repurposed USB cigarette lighter charger to make a 5V rail for the esp32. Needs a few suppression caps on the supply rails.

I thoroughly recommend this movie. #PrimeMinister
A documentary about the five years #DameJacindaArdern was PM in #Aotearoa #NewZealand. You get to see up close what an incredible operator she is.
There are only two sessions and the second one is today. If you are in South East Melbourne it’s showing at Classic Cinema in Elsternwick.

Adventures in pixie land. Now I just need to get up to speed with #CW
#amatuerradio #hamradio #pixie #homebrew

#RideToWork #Biketober
Great morning for a ride

The Australian Parliament is awash with funds from the Gambling lobby. #Labor won’t dare touch the golden goose. But they are a bunch of career politicians, with very little apparent awareness of the damage done to ordinary Australians by gambling. Peta Murphy has been forgotten. Gambling is not part of sport and never will be, despite the best efforts of the gambling lobby. Good on #Pocock and the other independents for taking a stand. #Auspol

Made an #Unun for HF (64:1 impedance ratio). Still needs a bypass capacitor (on order) to deal with the leakage-inductance of the transformer winding. But the VSWR of 1.09 (according to #NanoVNA) at 5.5MHz into a 3.9k load looks promising. #Hamradio #AmatuerRadio

#Auspost notification in my inbox this morning #auspol #uspol #tariffs