John was a member of the North East Radio Club and was a long serving Amateur Radio Operator.

Unfortunately he suffered with Parkinson’s and spent his final years in a nursing home at Ingle Farm. He was a keen amateur and had his radios setup at the nursing home you would hear him frequently coming up on the liked repeaters.

Thanks to Tony VK5FBIC he was able to attend one of our Saturday afternoon meetings late last year, he arrived in style in and access cab. I spoke to John and he was over the moon to catch up with old faces.

Unfortunately I have no further details about any memorial services

Vale John

Our first Coffee club for the year had an excellent turn out. It was good to see so many there.

Hi Everyone,

Well another year is almost gone and Xmas is almost upon us (I’m still getting over the last one!)

Next Friday night 12th December will be our breakup get together

This is an invitation to Club members and your Wives, partners or friends to come to the hall at Capulet Cres for a great breakup.

Mick VK5MCH (Vice President) will be the Quiz Master for a quiz night. Your table will be competing against the other tables and the winning table will receive a prize for the highest score. The questions are going to be general knowledge only. 

The menu will be our usual Chicken, Chips, Pizza and salads.

Brian VK5VI has volunteered to make a potato salad. We are asking for some volunteers to maybe make some coleslaw or other small salads. If you can bring something let me know at jagsthree@…

We are asking for $5 per head for the evening, which is in line with previous years

Volunteers Wanted This year we are asking for 3 volunteers to man the food table……….. If you wish to volunteer you will get free entry to the event. If you can volunteer let me know at jagsthree@…

In summary:

When: Friday 12th December at 6.30pm

Where: Clubrooms at Capulet Cres

Cost: $5 per head

Quiz Night: Run by Mick VK5MCH

Door Prizes: Multiple door prizes to be drawn

Coffee Club:

The last meeting is on Wednesday 15th December 2025.

There will be a spread of eats to celebrate the end of year.

The next Meeting will be the 14th January 2026

I hope to catch you all before Xmas, If for some reason I can’t, I wish you and your family a wonderful Xmas and festive season.

Cheers 73’s

Graham Kimber VK5GM

President NERC

A great day at the Highlander Hotel for our luncheon, a really great attendance and great company.

Our next meeting is being presented by Adam VK5GA. at 7.30pm

One of Adam’s passions is Satellite Communications

He will be telling us all about this interesting subject and the equipment he uses.

On our Saturday meeting  the  29th November at 2.30pm Adam will be setting up his equipment to show us how it is done.

So I hope to see you there.

This morning we received the details for his funeral service.

For those wishing to attend.

It is to be be held at Harrison Funerals 63 Golden Grove Rd, Ridgehaven SA 5097 

(Golden Grove Rd into Jack Lane, then into the carpark)

Date: Tuesday 11th November 2025

Time: 2 pm.

Regards

Graham Kimber VK5GM

President NERC

Hi Everyone,

It is with great sadness that I have to announce the passing of Horst today. Ruth contacted us to let us and several of the Radio Club community. I just wish to extend our heartfelt sympathies to Ruth and their family at this difficult time. For those of you who new Horst he was a quiet intelligent character that loved to encourage new members. Unfortunately his health had been failing him in recent years. The North East Radio Club was a better place with him in it. He will be missed.

Vale Horst

Graham Kimber VK5GM

Sir Lunchalot has issued his decree. There will be a luncheon at the Highlander hotel Holden Hill on the 31st of October. Hope to see as many as possible.

See you all there

Hi All,
Over the last couple of weeks we have had reports of  intermod
interference on the tail of our 70 cm repeater, most likely from a
commercial trunking system, most probably the SAGRN about 3km away.
To alleviate the problem we have replaced the duplexer, added an
isolator to the transmitter output, and invoked tone access to the
receiver using the standard tone frequency of 91.5Hz.
The delay in taking action to fix the intermod problem was due to the
time to purchase the isolator. We regret the inconvenience so far and
would like to hear reports of the transmission quality after the fix.
We would also ask that you pass on any further issues to us.
Cheers
Graham Kimber VK5GM
President NERC

Steve entertained us with a presentations of the in’s and outs of Digital Amateur Television. He went to a significant effort setting up his transmitter and showing the block stages of equipment. A lot of detail was given about the importance of filters due to being allocated only 1Mhz below the commercial frequencies. Steve is keen to get more amateurs involved even if receiving only, (this can be done with a cheap Laser set top box and manually tuning it to 445.5Mhz). A really huge thankyou to Steve for an entertaining and informative evening.

Steve has provided a list of topics that would be useful to study up on if you are interested in Amateur TV:

• DVB-t (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial)
• Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (COFDM)
• QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) 
• QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation)
• MER (Modulation Error Ratio)
• FEC (Forward Error Correction)
• Guard Interval
• Carriers (2K & 8K)
• PID (Packet Identifier)
• LCN (Logical Channel Numbers)