Congratulations to a new member Tony VK5FBIC for obtaining his foundation licence, all the best and welcome to NERC
Graham VK5GW generously gave away a Yaesu hat, so some lucky person scored that.
Phil Stoor gave a presentation along with Rob a talk on a frequency generator
Rod VK5zrk
Gave a talk on a project, that Rod and a few other members have been putting together.
a frequency generator.
Phil Stoor VK5SRP gave a presentation on Lighting strikes and what severe damage they can do.
Phil also went on to talk about the video space woman, who describes space weather, which can be very helpful to Ham radio operators.
Here is some more info courtesy of National Geographic on lightning
Committee members required !!! Hi to all members of NERC, committee positions need to be filled Urgently.
We need at Least a President and a secretary, please put you hand/s up.
The club needs new members, if you have ideas to attract new members put your hands up, with suggestions, the club requires some younger people to take over positions with great new ideas, and give the senior members a break, we thank them sincerely for all the work they have personally put into the club.
Everyone involved in Electronics has heard of this mans name, he is a great Australian, I am talking about Dick Smith, yes the original owner of Dick Smith, when it was a real electronics enthusiast shop. Talking about Amateur radio.
Price is $34.50 through WIA, check with NERC club secretary, we usually have these in stock.
1) During the sinking of the Titanic , the radio officer called for help – which was mostly received and he (and radio) were responsible for saving many lives. Shortly following that event, the vital importance of radio was widely recognised and radios and radio operators became a vital member of ships’ crews.
Another vital importance that ameteur radio plays, is in times of disaster, even the NASA space station uses amature radio operators to keep the vital communications links open.
2) In Hurricane Katrina recently in the USA – for the first few days Amateur Radio was responsible for some of the early communications. The internet, optical fibre and or microwave links are relatively complex and fragile structures and readily fail in time of natural disasters. Amateur radio is quite robust. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9228945/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/t/ham-radio-operators-rescue-after-katrina/#.WqIRUGcUlaQ
3) Almost every Astronaut and Cosmonaut is a Amateur radio Operator.
4) The video protocol that was used to bring the signals from the Moon landing (Slow Scan TV) was developed by Amateur radio Operators for Amateur radio experiments in TV – NASA borrowed it.
Now some practicle info on Morse Code
And from logs record from the Titanic
Learning Morse code
And a way to visualize morse code.
A Foundation licence manual is produced by the Wireless Institute of Australia for $30
Today tonight ran this story on NASA Communications via hams
Topic Presenter Contact via Date Completed
Regulations Peter Watts OK for 12th Jan. (Away Feb) 12/01/2018 12/01/18
FT8 Charlie VK5KDK 09/02/18
Fun Cube Peter Watts
UHF David Minchin VK5KK Phil Storr
Digital voice Ben VK5BB
Antennae Mike VK5ZC Les VK5KLD
Antenna Analyser John VK5COR EU1KY
Smith Chart Vidx3 Alan Wolfe (You tube) Rob VK5RC
First Aid ?”Dennis ?les
Equipment Review ? Stu
Telemetry ?Matt AREG
Show and Tell Everyone
Quiz/Pizza Nite
Volt-nuttery Rob VK5RC
Apps design Person suggested by Paul VK5PH or Sue Southcott AHARS
J Pole (20min talk) T Quick
Construction
2 Metre beam Phil Storr
DATES
FEB 9th FT8 Charlie
FEB23rd Smith Chart Rob
MAR 9th Mike macguire Antennae
MAR 23r ??John Ant Analyser
APR 13th
APR27th
Your local Amateur radio club can help you with that curiosity. If you live in Adelaide South Australia, come along to the northeastradioclub.org.au
Introduce your self, and be welcomed in to the wonderful world of electronics and radio communications.
Here are some of the tools required to get you started with electronics.
Authors note: I will correct the orientation of photos.
A very simple and highly portable antenna can be supported by a Squid pole. These antennas consist of a long wire, spiraled up the squid pole, and coupled to your portable radio, achieve extremely good results.
Here is footage courtesy of one of members Stu as he is known VK5STU with his daughter helping him.
