AREG’s Radio & Electronics Sale – Saturday October 26th – Door Prizes!

AREG’s Amateur Radio & Electronics Sale will be held on Saturday the 26th of October, at the DogsSA Training Facility in Kilburn as a car boot sale format. Gates will open at 9:30AM for sellers, and 10AM for buyers.

The entry fee will be $5 for buyers, $10 for a seller car park spot, with an extra $5 for a trailer spot. We’ve still got some car spots available, so email vk5arg@areg.org.au to reserve your spot!

AREG are happy to announce that our door prizes this year will be $150 & $100 vouchers from TET-Emtron

We will also be holding a raffle for a Codan 9350 HF Auto-tuner antenna, courtesy of Dean from HF Radio Solutions! Tickets will be $5 each, available at the entry ticket table, and also at the AREG table.

 

 

 

AREG’s Radio & Electronics Sale – Saturday October 26th 2024 – VKRadio, Microwave & EME Demos!

AREG’s Amateur Radio & Electronics Sale will be held on Saturday the 26th of October, at the DogsSA Training Facility in Kilburn as a car boot sale format. Gates will open at 9:30AM for sellers, and 10AM for buyers.

AREG are happy to announce that VKRadio are joining our lineup of commercial retailers at our upcoming Radio & Electronics Sale!

VK Radio is your local Yaesu and SDRPlay dealer, and has also been providing reliable repair services for commercial and amateur radios since 1989!

The entry fee will be $5 for buyers, $10 for a seller car park spot, with an extra $5 for a trailer spot. Car and Trailer registrations are filling up fast, so email vk5arg@areg.org.au to reserve your spot!

Microwave Band and EME Demonstrations!

Our outdoor sales area will also be host to microwave band demonstrations from Nik VK3BA, Iain VK5ZD and David VK5KK! Come along and find out how you can get active in the GHz bands! David will also be bringing his 10 GHz Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) setup, and will be attempting to make some contacts throughout the day.

 

 

 

October Meeting – Working rare DX (and VK9CV!) with FT8 – Grant VK5GR

The next AREG meeting will be held on Friday the 18th of October at the Fulham Community Centre – Phelps Court, Fulham, with doors opening at 7:00 PM, and the presentations kicking off at 7:30 PM. Everyone is welcome!

WSJT-X 2.7.0 RC-5: Revolutionizing DXpeditions with SuperFox Mode - Unicom RadioVK9CV – Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Grant will discuss what the different multi-stream FT8 systems are, and provide some tips on how to work out which mode a DX station is using. He will also introduce the new Superfox mode and explain what makes it tick.

Grant is also operating on the upcoming Cocos Island VK9CV DXpedition, and will give us a brief on what they will be doing on the island, and how to best find them on the bands, including some tips for alerting the VK9CV team when 6m opens to Cocos Island.

If you’ve never come along to one of our meetings, we’d love to see you there, all guests are welcome. For our remote members, the meeting will be broadcast via Zoom.

After the talks we’ll all be given an opportunity to have an eyeball QSO among ourselves whilst enjoying a tea or coffee and a biscuit.

73, Mark VK5QI

AREG’s Radio & Electronics Sale – Saturday October 26th 2024 – Registrations Filling up Fast!

AREG’s Amateur Radio & Electronics Sale will be held on Saturday the 26th of October, at the DogsSA Training Facility in Kilburn as a car boot sale format. Gates will open at 9:30AM for sellers, and 10AM for buyers.

Come grab all your shiny new radio bits from Elite Communications, check out the microwave band operation demos from Nik VK3BA, find a bargain from the many private sellers in the car/trailer area, and have an eyeball QSO with fellow amateur radio operators!

There’ll also be door prices from TET-Emtron and HF Radio Solutions!

The entry fee will be $5 for buyers, $10 for a seller car park spot, with an extra $5 for a trailer spot. Car and Trailer registrations are filling up fast, so email vk5arg@areg.org.au to reserve your spot!

 

Saturday

October 26th

2024

We hope to see you there!

Next Fox-Hunt – Friday 4th October – CANCELLED

UPDATE: Unfortunately due to many key people being unavailable this Month, we’ve had to cancel this month’s hunt. We’ll be back again on the 1st of November!

AREGs next car-based fox hunt will be held this coming Friday the 4th of October. We arrive at the start location around 6pm, and depart at 6:30 PM. Don’t forget to bring your torch, it’ll be dark!

We are also looking for volunteers to hide the foxes each month. If you would like to give this a go, please contact Mark at vk5qi@rfhead.net

Fox, Hunting.

Our start location is the Beaumont Road carpark, off South Terrace in the southern CBD Parklands. 

We’ll have three foxes deployed around the Adelaide area, on both the 2m and 70cm bands, so come along and have a go!

Area where the foxes might be hidden.

The frequencies will be:

  • 145.300 MHz (1W transmit power)
  • 144.390 MHz (100mW transmit power)
  • 439.400 MHz (50mW transmit power)

As usual, liaison will be on the VK5RSB Summertown 70cm repeater which operates on 439.900 (-5MHz) 91.5 CTCSS. Please come up on the repeater so we know who is out hunting, and how you are faring throughout the evening! If we don’t hear from your, we may recover the foxes before you find them!

We also have a mailing list, and a Facebook Messenger group – please contact Mark VK5QI (vk5qi@rfhead.net) if you would like to be added to this!

The event is open to anyone with radio direction finding equipment, with the foxes hidden within the bounds shown on the above map. We would love to see you there!

73

Mark VK5QI

AREG’s Radio & Electronics Sale – Saturday October 26th 2024 – Registrations Now Open!

AREG’s Amateur Radio & Electronics Sale will be held on Saturday the 26th of October, at the DogsSA Training Facility in Kilburn as a car boot sale format. Gates will open at 9:30AM for sellers, and 10AM for buyers.

We will be inviting all of the SA Radio Clubs to participate, and we’ll also have a number of commercial vendors including Elite Communications, with more to be announced soon!

The entry fee will be $5 for buyers, $10 for a seller car park spot, with an extra $5 for a trailer spot. We’re now accepting bookings, so email vk5arg@areg.org.au to reserve your spot!

Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to the event!

Saturday

October 26th

2024

We hope to see you there!

VK5RWN DMR Connectivity Failure – under investigation

The VK5RWN DMR repeater has developed a fault and has lost connectivity with the Internet. A site visit this evening confirmed that the repeater unit was no longer getting access to the site router. We appear to have had an ethernet port failure but are still trying to prove where the problem lies.

Meanwhile VK5RWN DMR is still on the air, but is only operating in local mode until we can restore the internet connectivity. Apologies for this break in transmission and we will attempt to restore service as soon as we can.