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A Woman’s Prerogative

I was originally going to archive this blog and made an announcement that it would not be updated any longer. Then I changed my mind. I am sorry to say that many of the older posts have lost YouTube content due to me deleting my YouTube account. I could not bear to see myself, such is the nature of gender disphoria.

I have now decided that this blog should become my own again. I changed the  name of the blog to match my new callsign. There is not much I can do to change the old posts to match my affirmed gender nor my new name.

I have moved from acreage in a regional city to a one bedroom apartment in Australia’s largest city. My partner and I lost our business, almost all of our possessions and personal wealth due to my depression, anxiety and panic attacks due to gender disphoria. My new location, housing arrangements and budget mean that I will not have the impressive station that I once had. I will have to find new ways to operate and new interests within amateur radio.

For those of you still interested in what I post, thank you.

(I since moved to Gunnedah NSW where I can pursue my gliding goals and now to Singleton)

Kimberly  VK2KMI/VK4KIM ex VK4MDX

When Almost Everything that Can Go Wrong, Does Go Wrong.

I’ve been challenged by a number of fairly costly things going wrong lately, from expensive drone repairs, to expensive aircraft repairs, to now what seems to be a possible expensive ham radio repair………….

………but then

But then……

The Patient is Doing Well

I’ve just come out of surgery for skin cancer. I’m sore and unable to do much walking. Instead I’ve been working on some things for my businesses, one of which is to repair this very expensive drone that I use at www.skyspec.com.au.

In the previous post, you can learn about what went wrong with the drone and why I’ll never buy another #Sensfly product. I’ve replaced the motor and fuse board and reassembled the drone. Some tests will be done over the next few days.

During surgery

Recovery after surgery

The Shack is a Mess But I’m ReConfiguring It

It’s been a while. I’ve been so busy creating and working on my businesses that I’ve not been in the shack much but I have enjoyed a few sessions on the HHH Net which is always great. Especially hearing that big signal from Chuck all the way over here in Oz.

I’ve purchased myself a new iMac for the shack and converted the old iMac over to Windows 10. Interesting that the RAM management of the latest Mac OS is so crap for old iMacs that windows 10 runs HEAPS faster on them. I do remember a time when Macs were all about utility. The new one is at least in my fave colour. Many of you will recognise the theme of my qsl card being used as wallpaper.

QSL card theme expanded to wallpaper

I’ve also been very busy with my other new purchase, affectionately known as TiKy. I’ve been creating a few YouTube videos featuring her.

See it at Fly Like a Girl – Fearless and Fabulous on YouTube

My work on my Drone Services Company is also proceeding nicely. We recently did some reporting on a civil works project that we used as a kind of case study at www.skyspec.com.au/civil-works/

Soon I’ll begin the repairs on my vintage radio equipment and bring that back into the shack

These are Johnson Viking Ranger II
Hamarlaund HQ170
Drake TR4C




Aviation- Love of flying is a disease, some people catch it and others don’t. It’s incurable.

Now that I’m back from the remotest parts of Australia, I thought I’d spend some time updating my blog. I’ve obviously not done much with respect to ham radio while I was away, although I do have a HF radio in the 4wd. It is a Barrett 950 coupled to a Barrett 2019 autotune antenna and it workd fabulously.

I did break the 2.7m stainless steel whip on some low trees on the Canning Stock Route, so I have a new one on order. That will be a job I’ll have to attend to soon. The other job I have to attend to is the annual inspection of my sailplane. She is affectionately known as Peggy. She is a Centrair Pegase 101A, what the Americans call a Pegasus.

I completed a wing refinish on that sailplane recently. Well I’ve almost completed it- I have the wet sanding and polishing to do yet. Thinking of my other interests, which include soaring and aviation in general, I though I’d introduce you to my other interests which I document on several YouTube channels. I’ll just list the aviation based ones for now and one other. If you’re intertested in any of these, please do subscribe.

Soaring Sisters



Pilot Kimberly

On the Wallaby

Been a While

The last few years have been incredibly hectic. I completed some very high level projects in the corporate world in Sydney while rebuilding my businesses. On April 6 I decided to retire from working for others and to concentrate on my business interests. I runs several-

Olsen’s Tours and Training
LearntoTow.com.au
Truweigh Mobile Caravan and Vehicle Weighing and
Skyspec Drone Services

So I don’t have as much time for radio as I would like.

Anyway, I’ve been working in the remotest parts of Australia and have now returned, so hopefully I can do a few more radio projects now.

Thanks for the comments.

BTW, if you are wondering why there is now no Twitter feed in the right column, it’s because of Elongated Muskrat’s lies about free speech while banning words and supporting transphobes. All he wants is your money. He can go get X’d.