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There will be an inspection of items for the blind auction at the shack on the 11th of September starting at 9.00 AM. Remember to bring a mask and observe Covid rules.
The next lunch at the Blackwood RSL will be on Friday the 27th of August. These lunches are booked for noon at the Blackwood RSL. If you wish to attend the lunch you should book with the RSL on 8278 6253 or via email at rslbwood@bigpond.com. This makes catering easier for them. The September General Meeting will be a members Show and Tell on the 16th of September. This will be our last General Meeting in the Blackwood Community Centre. All future General Meetings will be at the Blackwood Uniting Church, the Church by the round about. Cheers Phil Storr PO Box 501 Modbury South Australia 5092 philipstorr.id.au philstorr@adam.com.au VK5SRP
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Pat has found us a new excellent venue for our General Meetings, just down the road from our old meeting hall. It is the Blackwood Uniting Church Hall, at the round about where you turn right to head down Shepherds Hill Road. Not far from our old meeting hall. The sticking point in finding a new venue was Thursday nights. We could get Wednesday or Friday nights and Christine would not have been available to look after supper and we know how much members look forward to supper and a chat after the guest speakers and other activities. The new venue has a spectacular kitchen facility, a built in video projector and good sound system. The only task we have in setting up the hall is putting out the chairs when we get there at 7.00 PM and sweeping up any mess we make when our meeting is finished and sanitising the chairs we used. General meetings start at 7.30 PM and we open the hall at 7.00 PM to setup. We will appreciate help in setting up and cleaning up at the end of the meeting. Looks good for our August the 19th General Meeting still at the old venue, our second to last meeting there. We have Grant, Andy, Steve and Oly, four fellows from AREG, who took part in the A35JT Tonga expedition, telling us a great story. Keep an eye on your emails just in case covid scuttles this plan. We have not negotiated storage for our magazines at the new venue and we will be shifting the BIG cabinet to the shack and members will be able to access the magazines from there on the second and fourth Saturday mornings. I am sure we can find someone willing to look after the latest magazines and bring them to meetings ! We went back to the Blackwood RSL on the 13th of August and hopefully we can continue with the second and fourth Fridays from then on. I do not know about the RSL opening for the Christmas/New your period and will publish the dates when I get a reply from the RSL The AHARS shirts are ready and Pat has delivered some of them at the coffee mornings and at the recent General Meetings. If you cannot collect them at a meeting please email Pat to make other arrangements. patstorr@adam.com.au . The undelivered ones will be available at this weeks general meeting. They can be posted to you for $12.00. The Ironstone Range site now has two KIWI SDR receivers and with a loan of some newer batteries it is now on line 24/7 depending on the amount of sunshine we get each week. Barry is still working on the KIWI SDR hardware and we will soon have three receivers at the site. If you have been having difficulty getting onto the remote SDR’s here is the address: http://119.40.104.179:8073/ I may have got this wrong on a recent Sunday broadcasts ! My email address for this month is still philstorr@adam.com.au. -- Cheers Phil Storr PO Box 501 Modbury South Australia 5092 philipstorr.id.au philstorr@adam.com.au VK5SRP   The next lunch at the Blackwood RSL will be on Friday the 13th of August, yes that is this week. These lunches are booked for noon at the Blackwood RSL. If you wish to attend the lunch you should book with the RSL on 8278 6253 or via email at rslbwood@bigpond.com. This makes catering easier for them.
The next General Meeting is on August the 19th. We have four fellows from AREG who took part in the A35JT Tonga expedition, telling us a great story. The AHARS shirts are ready and Pat has delivered some of them at the coffee mornings and at the recent General Meetings. The undelivered ones will be available at next weeks general meeting. If you cannot collect them at a meeting please email Pat to make other arrangements. patstorr@adam.com.au. They can be posted to you for $12.00. -- Cheers Phil Storr PO Box 501 Modbury South Australia 5092 philipstorr.id.au philstorr@adam.com.au VK5SRP The recent lock down messed up our plans for visits to alternative general meeting sites, these had to be cancelled. I am now negotiating to see some other venues during the next week. The sticking point is so far not one of the venues I have contacted, have Thursday night available. The only night Christine has available is Thursday and we do not want to go without our supper ! I have cancelled all the events on the calendar for last week and this week, the coffee and chat and the lunch at the RSL. Will wait and see how next week looks before I put any gathering back on the calendar. Keep your eyes on your emails and your ears on the Sunday Broadcasts I am hoping we will be out of this madness by the August the 19th General Meeting. We have four fellows from AREG who took part in the A35JT Tonga expedition, telling us a great story. Keep an eye on your emails just in case covid scuttles this plan. The AHARS shirts are ready and Pat has delivered some of them at the coffee mornings and at the recent General Meetings. If you cannot collect them at a meeting please email Pat to make other arrangements. patstorr@adam.com.au The Ironstone Range site now has two KIWI SDR receivers and with a loan of some newer batteries it is now on line 24/7. Barry is still working on the KIWI SDR hardware and we will soon have three receivers at the site. If you have been having difficulty getting onto the remote SDR’s here is the address: http://119.40.104.179:8073/ I may have got this wrong on last weeks Sunday broadcast ! Many of you would have heard about the disaster that happened to Trevor’s, VK5TW IC-7300. I have attached he latest version of this document to this week mass email. It was not sent out with last weeks email. I was waiting on a new document that indicated the serial number from which this modification was done in the ICOM factory. Many of you will find your IC7300 has this modification already done at the factory. I have attached the document to this email. My email address for this month is still philstorr@adam.com.au. -- Cheers Phil Storr PO Box 501 Modbury South Australia 5092 philipstorr.id.au philstorr@adam.com.au VK5SRP 
The recent lock down messed up our plans for visits to alternative general meeting sites, these had to be cancelled. I am now negotiating to see these venues early this week.
I have cancelled all the events on the calendar for this week, the coffee and chat and the lunch at the RSL. Will wait and see how next week looks before I put any gathering back on the calendar. Keep your eyes on your emails and your ears on the Sunday Broadcasts I am hoping we will be out of this madness by August the 19th. We have four fellows from AREG who took part in the A35JT Tonga expedition, telling us a great story. Keep an eye on your emails just in case covid scuttles this plan. The AHARS shirts are ready and Pat has delivered some of them at the coffee mornings and at the recent General Meetings. If you cannot collect them at a meeting please email Pat to make other arrangements. patstorr@adam.com.au The Ironstone Range site now has two KIWI SDR receivers and with a loan of some newer batteries it is now on line 24/7. If you have been having difficulty getting onto the remote SDR’s here is the address: http://119.40.104.179:8073/ I may have got this wrong on the Sunday broadcast ! Not much else today so I have room for a commercial. “I have a 12 Mtr tower with 5 Mtr winch up mast. I was going to get it removed and scrapped. It has a crows nest at the top and it breaks in two making 2 by 6 Mtr lengths. If someone wants to remove it they can have it. I live at Currency Creek near Goolwa SA 5214 contact Geoff geoffapap@gmail.com” This note from Phil VK5QT may help someone who has a problem with an FT707. Yaesu FT 707 with a runaway digital display. Phil was talking to one of our club members during a Friday lunch about a FT707 problem. He does not remember who it was. The problem is. After some use as a mobile unit, the frequency and display became unusable when the set started to warm up. The fault was traced to a filter coil solder joint under the RF board close the connector (J 05). The solder connection was fractured and this was rectified with a cleanup and fresh solder applied. Many of you would have heard about the disaster that happened to Trevor’s VK5TW IC-7300 but just in case you have not I have attached the story to this email. I have tried to have this document put on VKHAM web site but it is hard/impossible to find there. My email address for this month is still philstorr@adam.com.au. Cheers Phil Storr PO Box 501 Modbury South Australia 5092 philipstorr.id.au philstorr@adam.com.au VK5SRP |
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