The intent of this blog is to document my travels around the Australian bush. Most of my bush travel is in Victoria and usually includes gold prospecting but, sometimes, I leave the detector and pan at home and just take off in the four wheel drive (4WD) to somewhere which takes my fancy.
Often I travel into places which are difficult to access and require a 4WD vehicle. Normally I travel alone and my camps are no more than a clearing in the bush, hopefully by a river or dam. I rarely see other people in these places and like it that way.
I have arranged this blog such that I can update it via e-mail. Although my campsites almost never have mobile phone coverage I do have a facility which allows me to send e-mail over HF Amateur Radio and that will work from anywhere on the planet - let's see you do that with your iPhone :)
Any "Comments" made in the blog are also relayed back to me via the same mechanism but please note I cannot directly reply to comments although I can make a new blog "Post". I have enabled anonymous comments but please put your first name or callsign in your comment in order that I know who you are. Also, be aware that comments are public and may be read by anyone.
Of course you may e-mail me directly, and privately, over the HF radio link but you will need to work out my e-mail address - hint: "winlink dot org" is the destination and e-mail should be sent to (@) my callsign.
Then you need to avoid the spam filter; this web page will assist:
http://www.winlink.org/HELP
**PLEASE** no attachments, images or HTML and the like - e-mail over HF is brilliant but it's slooow....
You have probably arrived at this blog via my website:
http://www.qsl.net/vk3ufo/
and that site will normally provide my current precise location on Google Maps via another miracle of technology - the Spot Messenger. Visit the "Bush radio schedule" page then click on the "My location" link to see where I am.
Jim - VK3UFO
