The next meeting of the Amateur Radio Experimenters group will be held on Friday 17th April. The venue as always will be the Reedbeds Community Hall, 19 Fitch Rd, Fulham SA 5024.

The meeting will start at 7.45pm with a short business meeting, and will be followed by a technical presentation by Andy VK5AKH on installing and using SDR radios as pan-adapters on your HF station. Andy will also give some insight on the benefits of using this technology when working HF.

HF Pan-adapter display captured from the 20m HF band

After the meeting there will be cake and coffee available as well as many members ready for a chat.

If you want directions to get to the meeting give VK5ARG a call on the Summertown 439.900MHz repeater (91.5Hz CTCSS).

The next meeting of the AREG will be held on Friday February 20th at the Reedbeds Community Centre, Henley Beach South, starting at 7.45pm (location details are available via the contact us page).

The topic this evening will be “Cellular Communications Systems” presented by Grant Willis, VK5GR, and will take a look at the history and evolution of cellular networks in Australia from the early VHF party line system through to today’s modern 4G LTE 300Mbit/s networks. Both the history and technology will be discussed. Hope to see you there!

Happy new year and welcome to 2015.

This post is just a reminder to members and visitors that the next AREG general meeting will be this coming Friday the 16th of January starting at 7:45pm.   Details of where the AREG meet can be found in the “contact us” section of the website.

This month we have the first business meeting of 2015.   As is usual of this time of year at the first meeting we will have a lot to discuss and plan for the coming months, especially since there was no December meeting.

The business meeting will be followed by coffee and cake.

We hope to see you there.

73, Matthew VK5ZM

UPDATE: The slides from Mark VK5QI’s talk can be found here.

Just a reminder that the next AREG general meeting will be this coming Friday the 21st of November starting at 7:45pm.

This month we have a short business meeting, guest speaker followed by coffee and cake.

You can find out more details here

Hope to see you there.

73, Matthew VK5ZM

The next AREG General Meeting is on Friday the 21st of November, at the Reedbeds Community Hall doors open 7:45pm.

This month there will be a short 30 minute business meeting held starting at 8:00pm sharp.  This month we will try a new format for the meeting in an effort to streamline proceedings.

This month we have arranged Mark VK5QI to present a technical talk entitled “<Insert Radio Name Here> – A open source teaching SDR for Linux Conf 2015”, starting at 8:45pm.

In this talk Mark will discuss the Softrock-based SDR he is developing for the Open Radio Mini conference, to be held at “Linux Conf 2015” in Auckland, New Zealand. Some basic SDR theory will be covered, along with some demo’s of the prototype kit.

We’re certainly fingers crossed that by the time our meeting comes around that this radio has a project name !

After the presentation there will be the usual  “rag chew” over coffee, tea and cake until stumps.

We look forward to seeing you there.

73, Matt VK5ZM

The next General Meeting is this Friday, 17th October, at the Reedbeds Community Hall, 7:45 pm.

There are no formal planned activities for this month other than a short sharp and shiny General Meeting.

During the general meeting we will be covering club business, upcoming technical talk discussions, which will then be followed by a general “rag chew” over coffee, tea and cake.  With luck a few members might even bring their new Elecraft toys, you know who you are !

We look forward to seeing you there.

73, Matt VK5ZM

The next General Meeting is this Friday, 19th September, at the Reedbeds Community Hall, 7:30 pm.

There are no formal planned activities for this month other than a short sharp and shiny General Meeting.

During the general meeting we will also be covering club business, further discussion after the AGM, and the general “rag chewing” over coffee, tea and cake.

We look forward to seeing you there.

73, Matt VK5ZM