As mentioned Tom set up his radios at the meeting and thoroughly enjoyed himself.
I received the following email from him and wanted to share it with you all.
“G’day Graham, thank you for hosting me on Friday night. It was a great experience to meet you and fellow amateurs and talk about HAM radio topics.
I took some photos of the night you might like to see.
I will pass on the details to CRARC members if they want to get more detail on the balun building exercise!
Cheers and 73s
Tom.”
Last Friday saw 10 people winding a 49:1 Balun and end fed antenna. We also had some small items for sale and to top the night we had a visitor Tom VK1CAT from Canberra, with our help he set up his portable radios. There was something for everyone. A great night , a special thankyou to Ian VK5CZ for his presentation on how to build the antenna an balun.
A VK5.au Event
GODS Day (Picnic at the Park)is upon us again on Sunday 20th October 9am.
We are setting up at Parra Wirra National Park. As usual Tea coffee and snags in rolls.
There will be two Icom 7300 set up to use of you can come and set up your own set. Or just bring yourself and a chair and enjoy the company
Email Mick to confirm attendance VK5MCH@VK5.AU
The following post is from VK5.au posted by Mick VK5MCH
All credit to Graham VK5GM for finding this little gem.
It’s a tree lopper, 8 piece fibreglass.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/335421206912
A bit of a description.
The poles are made of fibreglass 2mm thick. The rod diameter is 25mm and each pole is 1 metre long. The poles are screwed together using steel coupleings. The threaded portion is 31mm with the outer diameter of the steel coupling 34mm.
The lopper portion can be dismantled leaving a pulley to be attached at the top of the pole for hoisting the antenna and unun/balun.
Its a very strong pole when assembled. Using 2 or 3 extra poles you could get a decent 11/12 metre mast.
A guy ring could be be made from 1mm stainless steel to fit between the screwed sections. I can get these laser cut so everything is standard.
These are considered quite reasonable.
Currently the fees are:
Fees are due after the July Annual General Meeting each year and if paid before the September meeting a discount of $5.00 applies.
An email will be sent shortly detailing the renewal process.
We look forward to your continued patronage
A big thankyou to all the NERC members that assisted in setting up our display at the the Volunteers Day at the Golden Grove Recreation and Art Centre. We had HF up and running, unfortunately the centre appears to be a Faraday Cage. We had several handheld running on simplex. A big thankyou to Darren VK5DP and Ross VK5WRP and his carer Gary VK5SIX for presenting showing the public that people with disabilities can become active in the hobby. Trevor VK5ATQ and Paul VK5PH set up Morse code. All in all an excellent day.
After a little wait we have our VK5RHO 2metre (VHF) repeater back online. You can access it by tuning your radio to 146.850MHz with a -0.6 MHz offset and a tone on your transmit of 91.5Hz.
