News and Events
- Up Coming
Events
Nov Dec APC News is in production and will be in the post Monday 9 Nov
20 Nov - General Club meeting. Subject to be advised
VHF / UHF Spring Field day
contest.
Contact Gerard VK3GER, Lee VK3GK or Ian VK3IFM if you want to get
involved with this club field day. Good fun.
18 Dec will be our Christmas Breakup at the Club rooms
The Science of Radio Communications
Operating the club station VK3APC as a special event station during the International Museum Weekend
on Sunday 21 June 2009. Ron VK3AFW at the microphone with Colin VK3UDC looking after the Museum.
On
Tuesday 17 March the members and friends from MDRC Tuesday morning group
visited the Point Cook RAAF Museum. The group is pictured with 4 RAAF
Black Hawk helicopters in the background. He had a very knowledgeable
volunteer guide take us around the displays and answered all our questions.
Before returning we enjoyed the active flying display of a replica Sopworth
Pup . thanks to John Kirk
for arranging the visit.
The Club activated our call
sign VK3APC on Saturday the 17 Jan for the VHF UHF Summer Field day
contest. Gerard VK3GER, Ken VK3CEK, Lee VK3GK and Ian
VK3IFM were in attendance. We made some improvements on our
first field day and a great day was had by all. VK3XPD were
operation at our location. We paid then a visit and and
checked out their setup. Plenty of scope to improve our
operations and looking forward .
(left VK3APC setup, Right VK3XPD
working 3.5GHz)
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Club entered the VHF/UHF Spring Contest this year. It was held
on the weekend of 15 - 16 October. A number of members visited the
site on Saturday including Denis VK3BGS and thanks to him for the
photos. Operators were Keith VK3CWT. Gerard VK3GER, Lee
VK3GK and Ian VK3IFM We operated for 8 hours. The
break-down was 19 contacts on 6m = 79 points, 15 contacts on 2m =
135 points, 11 contacts on 70 cm = 255 points, and 8 contacts on 23
cm = 304 points. So a total of 773 points. Thanks
to all that participated. - Certificate - Official Results - |
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Extract from the "Kingston Your City" of August 2008 Featuring two of our club members. |
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Keith became Treasurer in July 1999 As club treasurer and later was President from 2001 to 2003, Keith served with distinction. He was loyal, passionate, professional and a strategic thinker. As President Keith always saw the bigger picture. What was good for amateur radio and he was respected within and outside the MDRC. One of Keith’s outward looking MDRC initiatives was the APC News broadcast Keith co-established in 1999. APC News won instant acceptance with listeners and readership in the state and beyond. APC News ran for four years. Keith wrote and presented 200 broadcasts involving over 100 hours of air time and 600 000 words. This required a professional level of commitment which will always be remembered. Keith wrote was 'Ham Sandwich'. A product of Keith's perceptive mind and sharp wit, 'Old Man Ham Sandwich' caused many a laughter. Other club activities Keith immersed himself included the Tuesday night meetings, crystal set competitions at the club's Hamfest, appearance on Southern FM Community Radio, promoting the Club at the St Kilda Hobby Show, ATV and more. More recently he has attended the MDRC's Tuesday morning meetings. Keith served amateur radio well, being a member of the Moorabbin & District Radio Club, the Wireless Institute of Australia and the CW Operators QRP Club. He was a great friend to me. He will be missed. |
The
earliest entry against Keith’s name was 17 May 1996 $50.00 for
classes.
Hamfest was very well attended this Year with Trading underway. At the BBQ were Tony VK3CAT, CohenVK3FCLL, Mason VK3FMLL and Graeme VL3GL
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Club members meeting together on Tuesday morning for Coffee and a chat. A good time was had by all. An open invitation to members and friends to attend at 10:00am each Tuesday at the Club rooms. Photo taken by Ken VK3CEK |
Are
you interested in building Amateur Radio stuff ?
The Club is looking
of express-of-interest from people
that would want to be involved and construct some gear.
The idea is that a is :-
- Selected project that a number of people want to build. Possible examples are (1) a Cobwebb beam antenna for 20m to 10m (2) an simple SWR meter. (3) a 6m beam (4) Station Power supply etc.....the list could go on.
- We will go through the theory of operation and understand how the selected project works.
- Acquire the material in the required quantizes.
- Construct the project. With the requires testing and calibration along the way.
- You take home a piece of Amateur gear to use in your station.
Do this >>> Email your details to VK3IFM@wia.org.au or call Ian on 040 780 5210
Subject to interest this will kick off on Friday 5 Sep at 8:00PM with an information and decision on the first project .
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