Members of the Amateur Radio Experimenters Group (AREG) will be activating the club call VK5ARG this weekend (4-5th October) for the Oceania DX SSB Contest. We will be operating from Younghusband, approx. 80km east of Adelaide, SA.
AREG will be entering the contest as a MULTI-ONE team, and the main operators will be Matt VK5ZM, Mark VK5QI, Josh VK5JO and Theo VK5MTM. We will mainly be focusing on the 20m band, but hope to work a few VKs on 40m also.
Hope to hear you on the bands!
The weekend of the 5th and 6th of April was the one year anniversary of the VK5 Parks award, which encourages portable operation from South Australia’s National & Conservation parks. ‘Activators’ operate portable from within parks, while ‘Hunters’ make contacts with activators. Awards are available for both activators and hunters, and also for making park-to-park contacts.
Andy VK5AKH and Mark VK5QI decided to give the AREG club callsign (VK5ARG) a workout by activating as many parks as possible in a single day. They set off Sunday morning at 7:30AM, and by 8PM had activated 20 parks. Emphasis was placed on fast activations, with about 5 contacts made per park.
The parks activated were:
Some pictures from the day are shown below:
This year for the John Moyle Memorial field day 10 members from the Amateur Radio Experimenters Group (AREG) and 3 Members from the Elizabeth Amateur Radio Club (EARC) decided to combine efforts under the AREG club call-sign VK5ARG.
The Para-Wirra recreation pack, 30km north-east of Adelaide, was chosen for its low noise floor and relatively close location to the city. Theo, VK5MTM has produced a video showing the events of the weekend:
A great weekend was had by all, and we totalled 927 contacts across the HF bands.Thank you to those who attended, lent us gear and to all those stations we worked. Please submit your log and we hope to see you next year.
Thanks to the hard work of Ben, VK5BB, our IRLP node is back up and running on VK5RSB 70cm. The usual access conventions apply, and currently no access code is required (though this will change shortly).
To accommodate the (often quite busy!) drive-time nets, the IRLP node is automatically disabled between 7AM to 9AM, and 4PM to 6PM. Enjoy the node, and please make sure you identify before using it, even if just checking the node status!
73s, Mark VK5QI
AREG Secretary
Due to interference issues, the VK5RSB repeater (Summertown), now requires a 91.5Hz CTCSS Input tone. Please update your radio memory channels accordingly!
– VK5QI, on behalf of AREG.
A reminder for you all. The next AREG Meeting is Friday, 16 March 2012, at 8:00pm and it will be at the Reedbeds Community Hall, Phelps Court, Fulham.
This coming meeting will be a general meeting, minimum business. So members and visitors are encouraged to bring along a show and tell item. Give a 3 minute talk on your item of interest.
We will also be following up on outstanding “Action” items from previous meetings.
So come along and visit at an AREG meeting, find out what AREG is up to and participate in an evening with other amateur radio operators. Coffee, tea, cake will be on for supper along with general rag chewing.
73, Ben VK5BB
A reminder for you all. The next AREG Meeting is Friday, 19 August, at 8:00pm and it will be at the Reedbeds Community Hall, Phelps Court, Fulham.
This meeting will be the AGM, with elections for new committee personnel, annual reports etc. The business part of the meeting will be kept as short as practicable thus allowing for social interaction.
There is a possibility that we may be able to have some sort of presentation to round out the evening. More information when available.
So come along and enjoy an evening at an amateur radio meeting, meeting members of AREG and other visiting amateurs who may attend.
Coffee, tea and cake will be on for supper.
73, Ben, VK5BB