Redcliffe & Districts

Radio Club Inc

 

REDFEST 2019 13th April

The REDFEST Amateur Radio Hamfest will be held on
Saturday the 13th April 2019 at 9:00am.
You will find us at The St. Michael'sCollege on the Bribie Island Road.
On the Bruce Highway take Exit152 and take the Bribie Island Road.
St Michael's College and Abbey Museum are well sign posted on the left.
RF Solutions will be there. There will be prize raffles on the day.

VENDORS admitted at 7:00am, $10 per table.
BREAKFAST is served at 8:00am
REDFEST opens at 9:00am, $5 entrance.

We start selling tables on the 11th March.
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CLUB WEBSITE:www.redclifferadioclub.org.au and
we are also on Facebook.

There will be a raffle drawn at 10:30AM.

Raffle First Prize:
TYT MD-380 UHF 400-480Mhz TxRx
5W Digital Mobile Radio (DMR)
Value $130.00
Some Specifications:
Frequency Range 400 to 480MHz.
Digital and Analogue Mode,
can easily migrate from analogue to digital.
Complies with Digital Protocol:
ETSI TS 102 361 -1/2/3

The radio will be pre-programmed and will be plug and play
straight out of the box.

Google: TYT MD-380 UHF 400-480Mhz
for more details.

Tickets will be sold at the entrance to REDFEST 2019
on the day.

$2 for 1 ticket, $5 for three tickets and $10 for six tickets.

To win it you, must be in it.
To be in it, you must be at
REDFEST 2019 on Saturday the13th April.

 

Many thanks to Phil VK4KD for the work done on our new web site which will be up and running in the not to distant future.

Steve VK4SJH will be responsible for the content of the Club Web Site. Until the new site is finalised he will attempt to keep the current web site up to date  with relevant information as much as possible.

If you find anything on the old web site that should be taken down then please let Steve know via email.

He is looking for any useful input from the club members that may be added to the new club web site.

Steve's email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

The 2018 AGM was held on the 20th of August, and elections held for the Executive for the next 12 months.

The results of the election are as follows:

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A big thank you for the outgoing committee members and congratulations to the incoming executive.

VK4RBN 147.000 should now be providing a much better service. The old Tait T800 has been replaced with a modern Hytera RD982.
The Tait's recent poor performance was found to be due to a blown power amplifier stage.
The fact that the PA's 59 milliwatts of RF output (QRP, anyone?) could be heard at all is a testament to the quality of the antenna installation and its location!
The Hytera is currently putting 250 times that power into the cans, so the signal should be booming in all over SEQ.
Please feel free to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any feedback on its performance, we'd greatly appreciate it.

VK4RRC 146.925 loan repeater has failed (also a dead PA); an old Philips FM814 is temporarily in service. 91.5Hz output tone is currently not available on this dinosaur, but at least Echolink/IRLP is now back online. The regular Spectra MX25 is expected to return to service shortly.

VK4RRC 438.325 is functioning correctly; Echolink/IRLP is however unavailable.

For anyone who missed Bob's excellent intro to Linux and Amateur Radio, or for those who would like to revisit it, the presentation is now available (in PDF format) on the Tech Talks page.

Thanks again to Bob for a well-presented and humorous introduction to the topic. Hopefully it inspires a few folks to make use of those old laptops and PCs gathering dust in the shack!

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Meetings & Nets

Club House is open every Monday evening from 6:30pm

Note: new schedule as of 2018!

1st Monday - General Chit-Chat
2nd Monday - Fox Hunt
3rd Monday - Business Meeting
4th Monday - Tech Talk
5th Monday - General Chit-Chat

 

And also open Wednesday mornings from 9am to 12pm

Click here for Clubhouse location

Nets

Sunday evening

7.00PM - 2 metre FM repeater - 146.925MHz (-600kHz offset) - 91.5 Hz CTCSS required - IRLP 6404, Echolink 44666

Wednesday evening

7.30PM - Trivia Quiz - 70cm repeater - 438.325 (-5MHz offset) - 91.5 Hz CTCSS required - IRLP 6400, Echolink 4464

8.00PM - 2m repeater - ATV net - for vision tune your STB to 446.5MHz DVB-T (point your antenna towards Oceanview)

 

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