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Category Archives: LiveStream
AREG Video: Amateur Microwave Experiments on 241 GHz
On the 20th of February 2026, AREG was introduced to the world of Amateur Radio microwave experimentation on the 241 GHz band by David VK5KK and Iain VK5ZD. Here is their story!
AREG November Meeting – SA Repeater Network and the VK5RSB Repeater Rebuild
The next meeting of the Amateur Radio Experimenters Group will be held this coming Friday, November 21st . The presentation this month is by Dean VK5HQ who will take people through the work that the AREG Repeater sub-group has undertaken at Summertown to rebuild it and prepare it to become the SA Repeater network hub repeater. He will also take you though the rest of the linked repeater network sites to give you an understanding of the reach and operation of the central SA network.
The meeting was held at the Fulham Community Centre.
A copy of the presentation is available here
Next Meeting Friday Oct 17th – Digital Amateur Television
The next meeting of the Amateur Radio Experimenters Group Inc will be held on Friday October 17th at 7.30pm. Doors will open at 7.00pm. The venue will be the Fulham Community Centre, Phelps Court, Fulham.
Introducing Digital Amateur Television
The topic this evening will be an introduction to 445 MHz (70 cm band) Digital Amateur Television, presented by Steve VK5SFA. Steve will present his journey to establishing an ATV transmission capability, including the various challenges encountered along the way.
Steve will also discuss how to get involved in receiving ATV on the 70cm band, and if you bring along your DVB-T set top box he will help you leave with it programmed ready to receive the local Adelaide ATV operators. The usual retailers are still selling the Laser STB-9000 for about $40.00 which will directly receive 70cm ATV if you want to get on board.
Update: a copy of the Youtube presentation is now available here:
Homework
Below is a list of terms used in DVB-t2 television broadcasting. I will not be going into any great detail about how DVB-t2 actually works. It is a mature technology and there is plenty of information on the Internet.
Feel free to conduct your own research if interested.
- 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)
Next Meeting Friday 19th September 7.30pm: Foxhunting at the National Championships
The next meeting of the Amateur Radio Experimenters Group will be held on Friday 19th September 2025. The venue is the Fulham Community Centre, off Phelps Court, Fulham. Doors open at 6.30pm and the meeting starts at 7.30pm.
The presentation this month will be given by Mark, VK5QI and Grant VK5GR who will take everyone through what happens at the National Amateur Radio Foxhunting Championships, held in Mt Gambier over the June long weekend each year.
Tea/Coffee and refreshments will be available. After the presentation a short business meeting will be held.
We hope to see you there (at the ex Reedbeds Community Centre – now Fulham Community Centre).
AREG March 2025 Presentation: RADE – Machine Learning for Speech over HF Radio
At our March meeting we had an excellent presentation from David Rowe, VK5DGR, on the new Radio Autoencoder digital voice mode! Thanks very much to David for giving the presentation, and pushing the state of the art in Amateur Radio!
This presentation was recorded, and is now available for viewing on Youtube:
Next AREG Meeting: Neil VK5KA – Measuring your Transmitter Quality – Friday 17th February
The next AREG meeting is this coming Friday, February the 17th at the Fulham Community Centre – Phelps Court, Fulham.
This month’s presentation will be from Neil Abraham, VK5KA, on the topic of transmitter quality measurements. Neil will cover practical methods of testing and optimising your transmit system, from the audio going into it, to the radio signals coming out of it. If you want to be sure your on-air signal is clean as a whistle, this is a talk not to be missed!
Doors open at 7.15pm and the presentation kicks off at 7.45. Everyone is welcome to attend. 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!
The presentation will also be live-streamed on Hayden VK7HH’s HamRadioDX Youtube Channel.
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