Kim Briggs VK7KB gave a fantastic presentation on support the Scientific Program run by the Australian Antarctic Division with some communications references as well.
Kim started off with the Aurora Australis ship and the many different aspects that it is used for and how it is used. It is a very versatile ice-breaking science platform that is leased from P&O.
Throughout the talk there was references to the many many projects and programs that Kim has been involved in – from camera mounts, trawling, echo sounder refits, operating maritime mobile, calibrations, battery packs, data collection, whale recorders, Conductivity, Temperature, Depth instruments, etc. Kim has been involved in it!
We ran out of time for the communications presentation so we have booked Kim in for that presentation next year.
We finished of with many questions and ran a video from one of the trawl camera showing the sea bed at a variety of depths down to over 500m.
A huge thanks you to Kim and we look forward to the sequel.
The talk was videoed and will be played at this Wednesday night’s DATV Experimenter’s night.
(73, Justin, VK7TW)