Hello Club Members, Fellow Amateur Operators, and Everyone!
This is John, VK5RJ with this week’s news from the AHARS. Lunch at the Blackwood RSL was well attended by the regular crowd, and it was great to see the ladies attending. Good conversation and some planning for the NanoVNA session developed. On that note, for anybody interested in learning what a NanoVNA does, and how it can be used, make sure that you come along to the May Saturday Technical session, on the 6th at the Blackwood Uniting Church. This will be a practical hands-on workshop on how to use a NanoVNA to analyse the performance of an antenna, and how use the information it displays. There will be a number of units available for you to have a play with, and a number of antennas and other things to test on. Lots to learn. You may want to buy one after this session! Also, in June and August, John Dawes will be running some classes on “Learning about Radio” and “Writing for Radio”. More about this in future bulletins. These will be limited space events, so you will have to book a place when we get all the details sorted. These will be held as the Saturday Technical Sessions for June and August. See the Flyer attached to the email! Don’t forget that if you want to reserve a table at the AHARS Public Buy & Sell on Saturday the 15th of July, you need to drop an email to VK5JB, on geoffb.100@bigpond.com . He will get back to you and confirm your booking. Payment will be made on the day at the venue. Again, please see the attached flyer to this email. Also, great news that Mas Oikawa (JA7FAS/VK5FAS) will be making a return visit to SA and will be happy to address us at one of the monthly meetings later in the year, He will speak about his experience going back over 53 years. Mas is now in the ARRL DX Hall of Fame, having recently achieved his ARRL #1 DX Certificate (340 countries confirmed in mixed bands/modes). What a great achievement! If you are requiring access to the ARRL, please get in touch with Hans (VK5YX) vk5yx@wia.org.au and he will provide you with the details. As always, if you have anything of interest, or any exciting news, please let me know so we can share things with all our members. And that's all for now from me, so keep looking at the emails, and listening to the Sunday broadcast, and stay away from COVID and other nasty bugs. Cheers & 73 from VK5RJ and AHARS for this week.
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This is John, VK5RJ with this week’s news from the Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society. The Special Meeting was held Thursday evening, prior to the monthly General Meeting and the issues as advertised were dealt with. All issues were resolved and the motions moved and accepted as detailed in previous emails to members. The Monthly General Meeting was held after that, and the usual business and reports from everybody were made. A number of points to be noted are: For anybody undertaking activities in the Clubs name wishing to be covered by the club insurance should that be required, the committee must be notified before the event. Paul, VK5PH is going to generate a survey to ask the membership what activities and specialities they are interested in. This will be both hard copy on paper as well as electronically by email. Geoff, VK5JB has managed to find a source of reasonably priced bumper stickers for AHARS, and in the near future they should be available at the club meetings for around $3. Possibly later we may also look at a generic Amateur Radio sticker. Any ideas for a slogan…. “Amateur Radio, still works in Emergencies!” ????? We are also looking at the possibility of re-invigorating the Repeated sub-group so that current and future activities happening to the linked repeater network can be reported back the general community. This would hopefully have representation from all clubs in SA. Secretary and Treasurers report for the month were accepted. Reports from the Training, Presentations and Speakers, Repeaters and the Big Buy and Sell sub-committees given. A question re access to the ARRL was answered in the affirmative as VK5JAK has recently got the details from VK5YX to enable access. Graham Dicker gave an excellent presentation on Electrical Safety, and there was much very good advice contained in the presentation. If we take the advice and follow all the recommendations we should all be safe! There are also a number of recent changes to Australian Law which mean that a lot of the old tried and true methods of connecting the 240V power are now no longer legal. Make sure you have the required insurance cover. The night rounded out with excellent supper. Also note that the Saturday Technical session for May, on the first Saturday of the month will be a practical hands-on workshop on how to use a NanoVNA to analyse the performance of an antenna, and how to interpret the graphs that it displays, and what they mean. There will be a number of units available for you to have a play with. Should be very interesting. Also, in June and August, John Dawes will be running some classes on “Learning about Radio” and “Writing for Radio”. More about this in future bulletins. These will be limited space events, so you will have to book a place when we get all the details sorted. These will be held as the Saturday Technical Sessions for June and August. As always, if you have anything of interest, or any exciting news, please let me know so we can share things with all our members. And that's all for now from me, so keep looking at the emails, and listening to the Sunday broadcast, and stay away from COVID and other nasty bugs. Cheers & 73 from VK5RJ and AHARS for this week. Hello Club Members and Fellow Amateur Operators,
This is John, VK5RJ with this week’s news from the Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society. Easter is over, and hopefully you had a wonderful break and are refreshed and ready for the next exciting thing to come around, which must be Anzac Day! I know my maintenance work on the antennas was well worth the effort! We desperately need somebody to put their hand up to act as our Table Booking Admin for the Public Buy and Sell. This would all be done via email, and should not be an overly onerous task, so if you think you might be able to help, please let either myself or Geoff (VK5JB) know. We need to sort this out so we can get on with the advertising flyers. The Special Meeting will be held next Thursday evening, the 20th of April, prior to running the monthly General Meeting. We will be addressing the issues that were advised via the attachment to last week’s New Brief email, which I will again attach to this week’s. Graham Dicker will be doing his presentation on Electrical Safety, which is a must for all operators, and will be very informative I’m sure. Lunch was enjoyed by the regular crowd on Friday at the Blackwood RSL, although numbers were a little down on the day. Don’t forget the excellent information on the AHARS Web and Facebook pages, and we thank Paul (VK5PAS) for his excellent work administering them. As always, if you have anything of interest, or any exciting news, please let me know so we can share things with all our members. Well, that's all for now from me, so keep looking at the emails, and listening to the Sunday broadcast, and stay away from COVID and other nasty bugs. Cheers & 73 from VK5RJ and AHARS for this week. Hello Club Members and Fellow Amateur Operators,
This is John, VK5RJ with this week’s news from the Adelaide Hills Amateur Radio Society. Hopefully you are all having a great Easter break, either away and relaxing for the weekend, or like me, doing a few projects around the place. Always a good chance to check out and do some maintenance on the antennas and other bits and pieces when you have a few days off. While there hasn’t been a lot of activity in the last week, there has been quite a lot of planning activity happening for the Public Buy and Sell event, and things are progressing steadily, thanks to Geoff (VK5JB) and his helpers. We would still love to hear from any members who might be able to lend a hand with the set up and running of this event on the day. Get in touch with either Geoff or myself if you can. We are again giving notice that we are holding a Special Meeting prior to running the next monthly General Meeting, and this will be held on the night of the 21st of April as there are a few things that need to be dealt with. There are some minor wording changes that need to be corrected in our Constitution and we need to accept and ratify the minutes of the 2022 AGM. Lunch at the Blackwood RSL will be on again next Friday the 14th, so please let the RSL know if you are coming along. Drop and email to rslbwood@bigpond.com.au. Don’t forget the excellent information on the AHARS Web and Facebook pages, and we thank Paul (VK5PAS) for his excellent work administering them. As always, if you have anything of interest, or any exciting news, please let me know so we can share things with all our members. Well, that's all for now from me, so keep looking at the emails, and listening to the Sunday broadcast, and stay away from COVID and other nasty bugs. Cheers & 73 from VK5RJ |
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