If you have any photographs that you think are of our VK6 History please send them to me.
will2@iinet.net.au
Historical Photographs
VK6BE 144 MHz transmitter 1960s
The two metre transmitter is what I used in the mid 60s through to the 70s.
The first valve is a 12AT7 reactance modulator. The 6146 output ran about 20 watts on 144.
The transmitter sent CW or NBFM.
Later I put a Class C high power final on it, home brew of course, using a QQEO7/50 at 120 watts and lecher lines.
Don VK6HK on left with Alan VK6ZWZ holding beacon antennas for VK6RPH ready for installation at STW CH9 mast.
Beacon VK6RBS Busselton...144, 432 and 1296 antennas plus 432 & 1296 multipliers in the box at bottom.
I believe the site has changed. Photograph taken about 1995 looking South.
Ces Whalley VK6KK...Photograph taken early 1950s...?
later photograph of Ces Whalley VK6KK...Circa 1960 or 1970...?
Wally Coxon VK6AG.
His first callsign was XYK in 1914.
Wally was foremost in the development of broadcast radio
and amateur radio in Western Australia from the 1920's.
To read more about Wally Coxon click here.
Mac McDonald's (VK6MM) Radio Society of Western Australia membership certificate.
The Young Australia League building in Murray street Perth, built 1924.
The Y.A.L. Building as of 2010. It is heritage listed.
Amateur Radio dinner menu held at 618 Hay street Perth, 1952