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I have been working on a new version of the calendar incorporating changes we made at the last committee meeting. I will send this out to the web site this coming week and to Paul to update the web site.
Andrew Russell’s talk at the last General Meeting about the VLF and LF bands was very good. I will ask him to give us a PDF version of it to put on the web site. We had two visitors from Kenya, a very experienced operator, Max Raicha Call Sign 5Z4MR and his son, Anand who now lives in Australia. It was just as well Christine came to help Pat with the supper that night, she was brought up in Kenya and still speaks fluent Swahili, the native language of this countries people. Max was very impressed with her language skills after many years and they had no trouble communicating in that language. At the next General Meeting on the 19th of May Dean VK5LB will show and tell us about the antenna tuning units he has made. Sorry to Dean, he must have missed my message about the change of speaker for the night, he is the speaker for the May meeting. Thank you if you are one of the people who have volunteered to do a session at a general meeting. Presentations usually last about 45 minutes to one hour and can be radio and electronic subjects or general interest topics. As there are five Saturdays in April and this means we can have a fifth Saturday brunch at the shack on that day, the 30th of April. Starting time will be 10.00AM and please book your place with Pat - patstorr@adam.com.au. This could well be the last such event at that venue. The local National Trust people are keen to get us to use the Watchmans House in Coromandel Valley, not far away from where we now meet but the ladies who look after the shack want us to keep using it for as long as it is available. The next lunch at the RSL will be on Friday the 13th of May at 12 noon and the next social gathering at the shack will be on Saturday the 14th of May at 10.00 AM. We are going to start all the Saturday Morning shack sessions at 10.00AM in future. I am hoping we can re start our technical talks at the shack on the fourth Saturdays soon. I have had some interesting topics suggested in response to my call for speakers at General Meetings. One or two of the topics would be more appropriate for a technical session at the shack. While we are talking about the shack, have you booked for the Brunch next Saturday morning ? Wishing you all a pleasant week, stay safe and away from covid, Phil VK5SRP -- Cheers Phil Storr PO Box 501 Modbury South Australia 5092 philipstorr.id.au philstorr@adam.com.au VK5SRP
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Barry VK5BW is making progress recovering from the Stroke he had recently, we wish him all the best and hope for a full recovery soon. Barry was allowed to go home last Thursday and he is very pleased, the food in the hospitals was almost in edible.
Our Secretary Glenn VK5GLM is taking over looking after the repeater network, he has a similar technical background to Barry and Barry will be able to school him up on the repeater network. I have put together the calendar for 2022 after having enough responses to my call for people to put a hand up to do presentations at the general meetings. Thank you if you are one of these people. Presentations usually last about 45 minutes to one hour and can be radio and electronic subjects or general interest topics. I emailed out a PDF file of the 2022 calendar on Thursday the 24th of March. If you did not get this then I do not have a current email address for you. Please send your email address to philstorr@adam.com.au The next lunch at the RSL will be on Friday the 22nd of April at 12 noon and the next social gathering at the shack will be on Saturday the 23rd of April at 10.00 AM. We are going to start all the Saturday Morning shack sessions at 10.00AM in future. I am hoping we can re start our technical talks at the shack on the fourth Saturdays soon. I have had some interesting topics suggested in response to my call for speakers at General Meetings. One or two of the topics would be more appropriate for a technical session at the shack. Pat tells me there are five Saturdays in April and this means we can have a fifth Saturday brunch at the shack on that day, the 30th of April. Starting time will be 10.00AM and please book your place with Pat - patstorr@adam.com.au. This could well be the last such event at that venue. We have one promising venue as a replacement for the shack but we are still negotiating for it and other sites. I noticed at the General Meeting not everyone put their name on the attendance register. This is important, this covers us for our Public Liability Insurance which this year has cost over $400 and is necessary coverage for our use of the venue Wishing you all a pleasant week, stay safe and away from covid, Phil VK5SRP Cheers Phil Storr PO Box 501 Modbury South Australia 5092 philipstorr.id.au philstorr@adam.com.au VK5SRP |
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