Day 2 of the series. This one never quite got as many views as the first.
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Day 2 - we leave the campsite via 42 Mile Crossing, discover an oil rig that never pumped any oil, learn of the legend of a bushranger on an ostrich and find a historic well.
XSS Adventures - One weird trick for filter-less multi operation HF
This one actually took place before the Grampians series but wasn’t finished until afterwards.
It’s unique in featuring a diagram drawn in ProCreate, not really the style of later diagrams.
First use of the Pixel 4 XL to film some 4K footage.
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Our current position in the sunspot cycle is not a great one for long distance communications, but F layer propagation is not the only method by which HF radio can work.
Day 4 and the last part of our Grampians adventure, beginning with a climb of Mt William, before visiting the Gulgurn Manja shelter, the Ngamadjidj shelter, Bilimina Falls, the Buandik Shelter and Paddy Castle. Then on Day 5 it’s time to pack up, air the tyres up to highway pressure and head home.
Grampians, VIC - Boronia Peak, Phillips Island Track, Taylor’s Track, The Tunnel Walk
Notable Equipment
Garmin eTrex
Camera(s) Used
2x GoPro Hero 8
Software Used
Final Cut Pro
Subscribers when released
22
Trivia/Background:
First one where we’ve really split up and gone in different directions, showing me on foot.
First to feature the iconic yellow Garmin eTrex 10 GPS unit.
This was also the first video to use music from artlist.io instead of Icons8 Fugue - as a result of the different commercial agreement, crediting the individual tracks is no longer required (but if you want to know for this or any future videos, contact me and I can look up what it was).
Day 3 of our Grampians Adventure begins with one of us climbing Boronia Peak while the other goes for a drive, then we do a bit more driving and check out a tunnel.
Grampians, VIC - Silverband Falls, Brambuk, Boroka Lookout
Notable Equipment
Codan 7727TB
Camera(s) Used
2x GoPro Hero 8
Software Used
Final Cut Pro
Subscribers when released
20
Trivia/Background:
Having no idea about pacing, this one was released the day after the previous video.
The Codan 7727TB appears in this video, I’m not sure if it’s featured again outside this series, as it is generally easier to use the icom 7100 in the vehicle with an external antenna.
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After setting up and staying the night, we further explore the Grampians, visiting Silverband Falls, Lake Bellfield, Brambuk, Venus Baths and the Boroka Lookout, before heading back to the campsite to make some contacts on the radio.
Melbourne, VIC to Grampians, VIC including Boreang Campground, McKenzie Falls, Zumsteins, Reed Lookout, The Balconies
Notable Equipment
First video where we camp somewhere
Camera(s) Used
2x GoPro Hero 8
Software Used
Final Cut Pro
Subscribers when released
21
Trivia/Background:
The first multi-part DropTableAdventures video, and the first where we camp somewhere.
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We set up in the Boreang Campground and begin exploring the Grampians, visiting Mackenzie Falls, Broken Falls, Zumsteins, Reed Lookout and The Balconies.
First video to take place outside Victoria (not that two was really a precedent…)
Visiting family in Adelaide, we wanted to show what the 4WD could do.
Although SA has a lot of 4WD destinations, none are around Adelaide, so we booked in at this private conservation reserve.
Unusually, the camera is on the outside of the vehicle for some of this.
The rear HF whip snapped at some point on this journey, and may well still be out there.
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A trip out to and around Saunders Gorge in the Adelaide Hills.
Music:
Cities Beneath by This Patch Of Sky
Temptation - Instrumental Version by Ride Free
Eden Hazard by OK Otter
Hell Yeah - Instrumental Version by Ride Free
Following on from Track10, the previous video, a few weeks later, this video was a brief update in the park as to future plans.
The expressed sentiment that this channel would focus on equpiment and XSS Adventures would focus on travel did not occur.
Also, little did we know that an impending pandemic would totally demolish all plans for the mentioned Cape York trip, nor that we’d end up doing the Canning Stock Route before it.
Early on we didn’t quite know who’d do what, so we both produced a version of this video - there was a similar version of it uploaded on XSS Adventures with different music and a very different mood.
It would later be remade in ‘DropTableAdventures - Not From The Archives - The Track 10 video, but edited like it was made in 2001!’ using Final Cut Pro 3.0 on a PowerBook G3 Pismo.
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Today, we drive trek 10 from the book “4wd Treks Close To Melbourne, 3rd Edition” from Boiling Billy, taking us on an adventure between Daylesford and Castlemaine, by what is most certainly not the most direct route but possibly a fun one.
Music:
00:00 - Pentagram by Audionautix (Audionautix.com CC-BY)
03:40 - Take The Air by Stage Engine (from Icons8 Fugue: https://icons8.com/music/author/stage-engine)
08:48 - Voiceless by Stage Engine (from Icons8 Fugue icons8.com)
11:21 - Prosthetic Valve by Stage Engine (from Icons8 Fugue icons8.com)
