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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 Good day folks, this is Phil VK5SRP with the latest news from AHARS.
Looks like the problems with the AHARS web site has been fixed, BIG thank you to Paul and his expert friend. You should have received and email with the latest calendar on Wednesday. If you did not receive this email then I do not have your current email address. I have had a complaint the Anne Jolly Hall at CRAFERS is too far from our heartland for some of our members to go. I have been sent details of two other halls in our area by the council and AHARS has used both of these in the past. One is now not suitable as our membership has grown to more than double what it was when these venues were used by AHARS and the facilities are primitive. The other we were visiting on Tuesday the 20th but the covid lockdown has put a stop to this. When the lockdown is lifted we will visit this venue and hopefully book it for the next two years of General Meetings ! At the July the 15th General Meeting Dean VK5LB introduced us to his latest toy, a Hack RF rig. Pity the weather was so bad, we only had about half our usual attendees at a general meeting. On 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 next lunch at the Blackwood RSL on Friday the 23rd of July has been cancelled due to the lock down. Stay in touch to find out when we can resume this popular activity. The brunch at the shack on Saturday the 31st of July has been cancelled due to the lockdown. We do not know if it is going to end on time. 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 has been down, off and on, due to insufficient battery power. We have been given some BIG batteries and with some other additions we should soon have sufficient 12 Volt power to keep the site running all the time. Barry is still looking for people to help assemble the PCBs for this project. Contact Barry if you think you have the expertise to help assemble these PCB’s. You will need to be able to work with surface mount components and have suitable tools for this work. Keep an eye on your emails and an ear on the Sunday broadcasts to find out what AHARS is planning for 2021. My email address for this month is philstorr@adam.com.au. That’s all for this week, 73. -- Cheers Phil Storr PO Box 501 Modbury South Australia 5092 philipstorr.id.au philstorr@adam.com.au VK5SRP TO ALL AHARS MEMBERS:
Are you able to help Hermanus (VK2IXV) with the following query? "Hello John, I wonder if any of your AHARS former PMG employees knows about the meaning of the markings on PMG Morse keys. I have seen so far on PMG Morse keys: I have come across several S123 markings on PMG keys as follows.: My PMG key: S123 6 C2044-40 Ron McMullen’s key #345: S123 7 C2644-40 Ron McMullen’s key #501: S123-8 C2344-40 Ron McMullen’s key #625: 123-6 C4875 46 The 2 keys of Kees VK1KVS: S.123-6 C.3423 42 and S123-6 C3984 44 You see that S123 is common amongst all the above PMG keys. Was it a PMG catalogue or warehouse order number? Would somebody know please? Thank you and 73, Herman Willemsen VK2IXV Kiama NSW" I have been in contact with Doc, who is unable to help. Please reply direct to Hermanus if you can help, hermanusw@gmail.com John Elliott VK5EMI Thanks to Geoff we have found a new venue for our General Meetings and a BIG thankyou to Geoff, Christine and Barry for visiting the site last Thursday before our General Meeting to look it over and to take some photos to show at that nights club meeting. The response from all present was favourable and I have now started the process of booking the Anne Jolly Hall at CRAFERS. Behind the Church of the Epiphany at Crafers
This venue is easy to access, take the freeway to the Crafers exit, at the roundabout in Crafers, turn off towards Mount Lofty Summit, then IMMEDIATELY turn left into Epiphany Place. Follow the road a short distance to the church driveway on the right. The Anne Jolly Hall is behind the church. A big thank you to Brian VK5VI for his presentation on the South East Radio Groups linked repeater network in the south of our state at last Thursdays General Meeting. This net is soon to be extended into Victoria. At the July the 15th General Meeting we will have a talk by Dean VK5LB introducing us to his latest toy, a Hack RF rig. On August he 19th, we have four fellows from AREG who took part in the A35JT Tonga expedition, telling us a great story. The next lunch at the Blackwood RSL will be on Friday the 25th of June. 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 AHARS shirts are ready and Pat has delivered some of them at the coffee morning and at the recent General Meeting. If you cannot collect them at a meeting please email Pat to make other arrangements. patstorr@adam.com.au The latest AHARS calendar is on the web site. It is version four and can be accessed by: Clicking on the upcoming events tab at the opening page and then under the BIG PDF logo you will find a PDF file called AHARS Calendar_ 2021 and a version number. Click on this file, this is the calendar. The Ironstone Range site has been down, off and on, due to insufficient battery power. We have been given some BIG batteries and with some other additions we should soon have sufficient 12 Volt power to keep the site running all the time. Keep an eye on your emails and an ear on the Sunday broadcasts to find out what AHARS is planning for 2021. My email address for this month is philstorr@adam.com.au. That’s all for this week, 73 Cheers Phil Storr PO Box 501 Modbury South Australia 5092 philipstorr.id.au philstorr@adam.com.au VK5SRP Techo sessions do not start yet, only the coffee and chat mornings on the second Saturday.
Cheers Phil Storr PO Box 501 Modbury South Australia 5092 philipstorr.id.au philstorr@adam.com.au VK5SRP We have been under the impression for some time the shack site may be sold and redeveloped but the ladies who look after the hall are putting up a fight to keep the facility as a training and archival storage site for the Girl Guides. They have a lot of equipment and historical artefacts stored in their shed on the site. AHARS members have had several work bees to clean out and repair and make this shed much more secure over the past ten years.
We are now planning on starting our coffee and chat sessions at the shack on the second Saturday of the month, the first for 2021 will be June 12th. The AHARS shack is used for coffee and chat sessions, assessment and training and for technical update sessions. We have several technical sessions planned but have not been able put them on the 2021 calendar yet. We have some excellent STEM kits for basic training built by Jim VK5TR and we are planning on using these later this year. The June General Meeting we were going to be a presentation by Joe and Julie, two visitors from Victoria and their presentation was to be entitled Amateur Radio For Kids. The covid lockdown in Victoria has put a stop to this but Brian VK5VI has put his hand up to do a presentation on the South East Radio Groups linked repeater network in the south of our state. This net is soon to be extended into Victoria. AHARS is planning on having a silent auction soon and John VK5EMI is busy making up a list of the more valuable items that are stored in various members QTH’s and in the shack, mostly from deceased estate collections. The next lunch at the Blackwood RSL will be on Friday the 11th of June. 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. Please keep your subs rolling in. If you do not have access to on-line banking you can send us your payment to the AHARS post box, AHARS Inc, P.O. Box 401, Blackwood, S.A. 5051. Subs are now $25 for WIA members and $30 for no WIA members. The latest AHARS calendar is on the web site. It is version four and can be accessed by: Clicking on the upcoming events tab at the opening page and then under the BIG PDF logo you will find a PDF file called AHARS Calendar_ 2021 and a version number. Click on this file, this is the calendar. Keep an eye on your emails and an ear on the Sunday broadcasts to find out what AHARS is planning for 2021. My email address for this month is philstorr@adam.com.au. That’s all for this week, 73. -- Cheers Phil Storr PO Box 501 Modbury South Australia 5092 philipstorr.id.au philstorr@adam.com.au VK5SRP |
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