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2. ODDS AND SODS
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2008 Buy and Sell
BIGGER
and BETTER!
Please note this event in your diary. |
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REPORTS
WORKSHOP: 2 metre Beam Assembly. – August 2.
After a lot of preparatory work, sorting out the design, and sourcing
materials, etc, AHARS finally got it all together (pun intended) for the
assembly of 25 top quality antennas.
Jim (VK5JST) and Barry (VK5ZBQ) were the driving force behind this successful
and important project.
Thanks to Saint John's School Belair for the use of their excellent workshop.
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Hans, YX, (left foreground) supervising Yagi Assembly gurus Jim (JST) and Barry (ZBQ). These two Photos courtesy of Rob Gurr (VK5RG). |
All had a great time at the excellent technical
workshop of Saint John’s School, Belair. |
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RECENT MEETINGS:
June –
The Heart at Radio Frequency.
Andrew Russell. A gifted speaker and scientist to
boot, Andrew took us on a whirlwind tour of the many clever monitoring machines
available to Modern Medicine. Perhaps an unintentional outcome of the talk was
the understanding of just how much effort and science has to go into those
machines, and hence an appreciation of why they cost so much.
July - Display of Members' Equipment.
The usual range of interesting and useful
gear was paraded by its proud owners. From a handy automatic repeater timer to a
3 KW dummy load, the presentations for all items were received with enthusiasm
by those present.
August. The Weekly Broadcast.
Brian (VK5VI), from NERC,
explained how the Sunday morning broadcasts are put together for our benefit.
There’s a lot more to it than one would guess!
We were also pleased to have Wally and
Margaret, who “splice” the various club offerings into one computer file for
broadcast.
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WICEN
For
photos and reports on the rally (and various other activities), please
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TRAINING DAY In preparation for Rally SA (and similar field activities), WICEN held a training day on June 1 at Glenelg Scout Hall.
For full details and photos, please go to: |
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W.I.A. MID-YEAR DINNER.
This very
successful function was organised by Paul (VK5PH) and the WIA Advisory Board.
The venue was the Mount Osmond Golf Course clubrooms.
The food – its quality and quantity – served in splendid surroundings, made for
a memorable occasion. The consensus after the lunch was “let's make this an
annual affair”.
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Lucky cap winners: Robin (VK5ATT), Bruce (VK5FBAB), David (VK5OV), Jim (VK5JST) and Wal (VK5TW-”Tangled Whiskers”) showing off their luck. |
NOTE: There are more
photos of this event on the WICEN website.
http://www.sa.wicen.org.au/
RING REX!
Got some dead
PC’s or other electronic stuff?
Phone Rex on 0410 094 101.
He will pick up anything.
The good news is that most of what he picks up goes on to other lives,
rather than wastefully into landfill.
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Much of the innovative projects that the members
create can be seen on-line at:
The OH3NE
club home page is at URL: The English language page to the above three URLs: http://oh3ne.ham.fi/wiki/index.php/OH3NE_ENGLISH#Home_page (Leigh is off to Finland in a few weeks, where he’ll catch up again with the club members, and in particular, his prime contact, Pekka OH3GDO.)
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The clubroom of the Tampere Radio Club.
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 Pekka and Leigh at OH3NE. |
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ON-LINE TIDBITS:
TONNE SOFTWARE
The Integrated Circuit
Celebrates its 50th Birthday
RFCAFE Thanks to Leigh - Ed |
ALARA meets.
(ALARA = Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association)
The Australian ALARA meet was held from September 12th to 14th in Tasmania.
About seven AHARS’ YL’s - plus OM’s - ventured south for discussions and a bit of
serious fun. Following that event, many toured the island state, risking
frostbite and chilblains, but enjoying some beautiful scenery and
camaraderie.
Hans and Lesley, and Keith and Jeanne kept in contact via radio to their VK5
friends.
Soon after that, starting on October 3rd, some
of our VK ladies will head off to “Jo’burg” in South Africa for their
INTERNATIONAL YL MEET
(
http://www.sarl.org.za/public/_news/AutoArticle.asp?ArtNo=1 ).
Following that meet, many (including Christine, VK5CTY) will do an organised
tour from Jo’burg down to Durban then on to Cape Town.
All of this will be in the unbeatable company of fellow amateurs – the best way
to travel!
Expect a report in the December Newsletter.
SAFETY ISSUE
Some
plug-in type room fresheners have been known to cause
house fires. The plastic they are made from is THIN. An insurance investigator
said that in every case he’d investigated, where a freshener was believed to
have caused the fire, there was nothing left to prove that the freshener had
ever existed. When the investigator looked in the wall plug of a recent house
fire, the two prongs left from the plug-in were still in there.
The unit in this case is a Glade
Plug-In.
It seems that there is no safety cut-out on the units.
Thanks to Ron Lloyd (VK5LOY) for this important information.
(The standards
for imported items are so often well below those demanded of Australian-made
units. – Ed.)
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STUNNING PUNNING
(Warning - not for the faint-hearted). |
LICENCE MATTERS
FOUNDATION LICENCE TRAINING
DECEMBER 13 and 14th.
Please contact Sasi Nayar or Barry Williams (Back Page) for further details
UPGRADE:
Congratulations to Denis Haseldine, for attaining his Advanced Licence.