I’ve been planning a trip to the Kimberley for a while now, and part of this process has been setting up the car. Satellite phones are now common, and many people have moved to this technology for remote area contact, but many still use the good old RFDS/HF radio phone network. I was lucky enough to come across a reasonably priced second hand land mobile radio and auto tune antenna with many features including Ham bands and GPS tracking. The idea of remote area contact, the tracking features, the ability to make phone calls and keep in touch with parents and have them contact us while at the far end of the country is appealing. The ability to have one neat ham radio in the car with an auto tune antenna, full ham access and these other features was great. Added to this, a number of my ham friends use codans and have setup selcall which is handy for those bands as well. Elder Scrolls Online Tamriel Magnet Link. Its been the ideal car setup.

Codan Land Mobile Radio. I was lucky enough to come across a reasonably priced second hand codan. If you are looking for software updates and programming. CODAN LIMITED. 81 Graves Street. Newton SA 5074. VOICE: 703-361-2721. FAX: 703-361-3812. Internet Address/Web Site: www.codan.com.au. Code 704—Vehicle interference suppression kit. NGT System Programmer (NSP) package. Includes: ▫ NSP software CD. Codan provides a range of software applications for email and data communications as well as GPS tracking.

There are a number of 4WD/HF clubs in Australia ( and ) that offer a license and access to the RFDS network, Selcall as well as daily check in skeds, tracking and Phone interconnect. For the first year, i’ve joined both of the above clubs, but so far have a leaning to the HF Radio Club, they are a little less formal on the skeds, and offer real GPS tracking from their website, as well as substatitally cheaper access to the telephone interconnect. The down side with HFRC is they only have 4 base sites through Australia, and the feedback on a number of 4wd forums is their far north west Kimberley coverage isn’t great.