Category Archives: Meetings

December Meeting – An introduction to FDM 3D Printing by Bob VK5FO

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Update: The talk was recorded and is available below!

The next AREG meeting will be held on Friday the 20th of December at the Fulham Community Centre – Phelps Court, Fulham, with doors opening at 7:00 PM, and the presentation kicking off at 7:30 PM. Everyone is welcome!

This month’s presentation will be by Bob VK5FO, giving us an introduction to Fused Deposition Modelling (filament-based) 3D printing. Bob will cover some of the entry-level printers available, different filament types, and how to get started using designs you can find online.

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.

We won’t be holding a general business meeting this month – instead there’ll be time after the presentation for a catch-up before we break for the holiday season.

We’ll be back in January with a lightning talks session, on all of our holiday amateur radio projects!

73, Mark VK5QI

November Meeting – The new M17 digital voice mode!

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This talk was recorded, and is available here: 

The next AREG meeting will be held on Friday the 15th of November at the Fulham Community Centre – Phelps Court, Fulham, with doors opening at 7:00 PM, and the presentation kicking off at 7:30 PM. Everyone is welcome!

This month’s presentation will be by Tony VK3JED, giving us an introduction to the M17 digital voice mode. Tony will discuss the history of this mode, how it differs from other existing digital voice modes, and how you can get on air using this mode. Tony will also demonstrate the first commercial radio with M17 included, the CS7000!

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

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

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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

September Meeting – Adam VK2YK/VK5GA – “The GreenGube (IO-117) Experience!”

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Adam’s presentation was recorded and is available here:

The next AREG meeting will be held on Friday the 20th of September at the Fulham Community Centre – Phelps Court, Fulham, with doors opening at 7:00 PM, and the presentation kicking off at 7:30 PM. Everyone is welcome!

Adam’s portable setup for working IO-117 and other satellites

This month’s presentation will be from Adam VK5GA/VK2YK on operating the GreenCube (IO-117) Medium-Earth-Orbit amateur satellite!

Adam will give a run down on his journey and experience so far with IO-117 (Greencube) Digipeater satellite, including info on his setup and issues encountered along the way. He will provide a brief update on health of the satellite at the moment.

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

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

August Meeting – Andrew VK5CV – “From Electric Eels to Human Treatments”

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The next AREG meeting will be held on Friday the 16th of August at the Fulham Community Centre – Phelps Court, Fulham, with doors opening at 7:00 PM, and the presentation kicking off at 7:30 PM. Everyone is welcome!

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This month’s presentation will be from Dr Andrew Russell, VK5CV, titled “From Electric Eels to Human Treatments” – A history from the earliest observations of physical and animal electricity to state-of-the-art cardiac therapies. Andrew is a cardiologist, and this sure to be an interesting talk, with a topic a bit different to our usual fare!

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

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

Next AREG Meeting: July AGM and Grant VK5GR: The Flinders Island DXPedition

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Update: This presentation is now available on Youtube (thanks Hayden!):

The next AREG meeting will be held on Friday the 19th of July at the Fulham Community Centre – Phelps Court, Fulham. This will be the AREG’s Annual General Meeting, which will include the election of the 2024-2025 committee.

This months presentation will be from Grant VK5GR, on the Flinders Island DXpedition, which occurred back in April 2024:

Grant will take you on the journey the team followed to bring the VK5FIL IOTA and WWFF project to life and tell the stories of the fun had along the way. VK5FIL was the first time IOTA OC-261 had been activated since 2013 and so it was in high demand. Whats more, the three parks that covered parts of the island had never been activated before adding even more interest for the WWFF community.

Doors open at 7.00pm and the presentation kicks off at 7.30. 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, and will also be recorded for release on the 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

June Meeting – Adventures in the Microwave Bands by Iain VK5ZD

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The presentation from this meeting was recorded and is now available on Youtube! (Thanks Hayden!) Unfortunately we had network issues when recording, so the audio has some corruption – apologies!

The next AREG meeting will be held on Friday the 21st of June at the Fulham Community Centre – Phelps Court, Fulham, with doors opening at 7:00 PM, and the presentation kicking off at 7:30 PM. Everyone is welcome!

This month’s presentation will be from Iain VK5ZD, on his adventures in microwave operation over the years:

This talk will be about the many and varied pieces of equipment I’ve used over the years to delve into the world of microwave communications. Starting with a 10 GHz wide-band FM system used in 1987, I will be discussing the various pieces gear I’ve used for all bands from 1.2 GHz through to 134 GHz.

If you’ve never come along to one of our meetings, we’d love to see you there, all guests are welcome at the hall. For our remote members, the meeting will be broadcast via Zoom.
Unfortunately we are not able to live-stream this talk on Youtube, but will make a recording and upload it later.

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