Kosciusko Planning Documents

Mt Kosciusko Trip

Mount Kosciusko - Planning
Status

Updated 11 December 2004





We had a meeting at the Scout hall on the 10th Dec to plan out the key points
for the Mt.K trip to be undertaken next year.



The key dates are as follows, We will post more details over the next few days
and try and answer questions if you have any.

We would very much now like to firm things up. So please put your names forward
and try and pick something you would like to do as things get expanded.

Here are the dates so you can start planning.



The main trip will be on the weekend of the John Moyle contest (Friday the 18th
March to Monday 21st March).

Gunter and Roger (and othe takers if you want) also plan another
reconnoiter trip on foot on the first weekend in February.

Basic trip schedule for main trip in march will be:

Friday 18th - trip to Cooma and establish
base camp at Cooma.

Saturday 19th - Early start to be at Charlottes
Pass gate by 9am for trip BY CAR out to Seamans Hut & Rawson Pass to establish
camps below the peak for camping areas and HF. - Some work on summit in the
afternoon.

Sunday 20th - main work on VHF & UHF on
summit. Early start for those attempting records etc on VHF and UHF

Monday 21st - Close mountain camps and head
home

We will be making entries into John Moyle from the combination of camps at the
Mountain and Cooma.

There are opportunities for camping at Gunters at Cooma or to those suitably
equiped, camping at Mt.K.

For the radio activation attempt at Mt.K there will be car access for heavy
equipment.

For others planing day trips to visit people should be prepared to hike out
and back from either Charlottes Pass or Thredbo.

Mt. Kosciusko Equipment
& Operator

updated December 11, 2004

We also need to know who is available for the various bases (Sydney,
Cooma, Seamans Hut, MT. K summit)

and what equipment you can make available.

Here is the list of participants so far, please e-mail Bob VK2BYF with corrections and additions.

Summit

6 13 165E 59 64 614N

36,27.423S 148,15.775E

beam 060 to Dry Plains - 68km

Seamans Hut Base

Dry Plains Base

6 73 733E 59 96 787N

36,09.486S 148,55.883E

Sydney Bases

• Operators To receive SSTV pix and post to BMARC website
• Monitor node 6000 for traffic from the DXpedition members
• Update DX cluster and relay information

Brad VK2QQ and Bob VK2BYF are working on the bandplan to be used for the radio
operations.

145.500 FM primary Intercom/liaison channel

145.525 FM secondary Intercom/liaison channel

145.360 FM backup Intercom/liaison channel

70cm

439.000 FM primary calling and working channel

439.250 FM secondary calling & working channel

432.100 SSB Primary calling channel

432.200 SSB secondary calling channel

432.300 SSB chat channel

2m

146.500 FM primary calling and working channel

146.550 FM secondary calling and working channel

146.600 FM backup channel

144.100 SSB primary calling channel

144.200 SSB secondary calling and working channel

144.300 SSB backup & chat channel

6m

52.525 FM primary calling channel

53.500 FM backup channel

50.100 SSB primary calling channel

50.200 SSB secondary calling & working channel

50.300 SSB backup channel

20m

14.070 SSB PSK31

14.230 SSB SSTV

14.330 SSB Voice +- QRM

40m

7.035 SSB PSK31

7.135 SSB voice +- QRM broadcasters

7.230 SSB SSTV