Next Club Meeting 11/10/24
As mentioned there will be a Gold coin donations for bits and pieces from the deceased estate. Also there will be several drawers of components up for grabs available early in the evening.
$20 each for the big ones. $15 each for the red one and $7 for the small one.
$40 for the antenna
This coming club night Tony VK5FBIC will be presenting an old interview of Horst VK5HY done a few years ago.
Horst talks about his journey in life, personal and technical. We hope to present a copy of this to Horst who has not been getting about much with his health
ALSO we have small items on a couple of table from the deceased estate sale most will be a gold coin donations with a few pieces being individually marked.
Bring a pocket of coins and grab a bargain
I have been tasked to promote one of our late members radio equipment for sale’
There is a comprehensive list of equipment. There is a total of 51 items up for sale. Multiple Transceivers, small linear amps RM Italy, antenna tuners and more. They have come from and active amateurs shack and are believe to be in good working order. If after purchase an Item was found to be faulty we would look at a refund.
A reserve price list has been made based on very reasonable value.
If you are interested to see an inventory list, go to VK5.au Forum https://vk5.au/forum/index.php?topic=296.new#new Contact details have been posted there
The items will be available to be picked up from the Campbelltown area. Also to arrange viewing of the item/s of interest. Unfortunately the items for sale will need to retrieved by Brian from their location to be viewed or picked up.
All offers will be considered.
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.
