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Darwin Amateur Radio Club https://vk8da.com My Radio Club Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:27:38 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 10m Beacon received from Spain https://vk8da.com/10m-beacon-received-from-spain/ https://vk8da.com/10m-beacon-received-from-spain/#respond Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:18:42 +0000 https://vk8da.com/?p=1519 Ramon EA3TI posted a YouTube clip of his IC-7300 receiving the club beacon on 10m. Good to hear it from the other side of the world!

Thanks for letting us know about it Ramon!

 

Cheers

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ69atRUi80

]]> https://vk8da.com/10m-beacon-received-from-spain/feed/ 0 CQ 2019 World-wide DX contest SSB https://vk8da.com/cq-2019-world-wide-dx-contest-ssb/ https://vk8da.com/cq-2019-world-wide-dx-contest-ssb/#respond Sun, 12 Apr 2020 05:05:36 +0000 https://vk8da.com/?p=1480 Congratulations to Phil VK8MC on his achievement in the CQ 2019 world- wide DX contest

]]> https://vk8da.com/cq-2019-world-wide-dx-contest-ssb/feed/ 0 DARC AGM Wednesday 4th march 2020 https://vk8da.com/darc-agm-wednesday-4th-march-2020/ https://vk8da.com/darc-agm-wednesday-4th-march-2020/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:23:23 +0000 https://vk8da.com/?p=1429 Continued]]> Members of the Darwin Amateur Radio Club are hereby advised that the Annual General Meeting of the Darwin Amateur Radio Club will be held at the club rooms at Knuckeys Lagoon on Wednesday 4th March 2020 at 7.00pm

Nominations must be received in writing for anyone wishing to hold a position or be on the committee.

Please forward nomination forms to the secretary before 27 February 2019

Members requiring any business to be raised at the AGM should forward it to the Secretary no later than 9th February 2020.

In order to vote at the AGM, members must be financial.

Regards,

Peter Clee VK8ZZ
Secretary of the Darwin Amateur Radio Club

]]> https://vk8da.com/darc-agm-wednesday-4th-march-2020/feed/ 0 New Location for Weekly catch up https://vk8da.com/new-location-for-weekly-catch-up/ https://vk8da.com/new-location-for-weekly-catch-up/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:47:42 +0000 https://vk8da.com/?p=1409 Continued]]> Tea, Coffee and maybe even some AR related commentary!

10AM until about 1PM each Thursday morning at the 97.7FM Radio studio (downstairs) located at 44 Dripstone Rd, Casuarina.  (This is to the right of Casuarina Baptist Church)

Visitors are very welcome.

]]> https://vk8da.com/new-location-for-weekly-catch-up/feed/ 0 DARC and Environmental Sustainability https://vk8da.com/darc-and-environmental-sustainability/ https://vk8da.com/darc-and-environmental-sustainability/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:38:06 +0000 https://vk8da.com/?p=1404 Continued]]> Yes, the World Solar Challenge is on once more! And they needed our help.

The Cambridge University Eco Racing team required two Raspberry Pi Zeros, but where were they going to find them in Darwin?  Yes, that’s correct, DARC naturally!  The Jumbo Spot uses a Rasberry Pi Zero W and I (VK8MT) have/had one and so did Ian (VK8LOL). We dismantles our Spots in the name of environmental sustainability and for the sake of all humanity.

The World Solar Challenge starts on Sunday and is a sun powered car race from Darwin to Adelaide (about 3000km). 

]]> https://vk8da.com/darc-and-environmental-sustainability/feed/ 0 Listen at your own risk! Podcasts by VK8VWA https://vk8da.com/listen-at-your-own-risk-podcasts-by-vk8vwa/ https://vk8da.com/listen-at-your-own-risk-podcasts-by-vk8vwa/#respond Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:06:43 +0000 https://vk8da.com/?p=1369 Continued]]> On the club-night of 3 July 2019, Phil VK8VWA provided insight into the world of AR related Podcasts.

ARRL Doc

A number of which are listed below : –

I trust you find these entertaining and informative!

Cheers

Mal

]]> https://vk8da.com/listen-at-your-own-risk-podcasts-by-vk8vwa/feed/ 0 Bombing of Darwin https://vk8da.com/bombing-of-darwin/ https://vk8da.com/bombing-of-darwin/#respond Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:40:06 +0000 https://vk8da.com/?p=1329 Continued]]> DARC held a field day on 19 February to commemorate the 77th year since the bombing of Darwin
Brian VK8BL and his team set up at the Qantas hanger in Philips St, which was bombed in 1942.Contacts were mainly made on the 20M band.
A Government Community Benefits Grant provided funds to buy Foundation Manuals which were available for purchase by those interested.

Peter VK8HPB
Foundation Manual
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The results were

  • President:    Brian Bates VK8BL
  • Vice President: Gary Gibson VK8BN
  • Secretary: Paula Chappel VK8ZI
  • Treasurer: Ray West VK8RW
  • Public Officer : Phil Brennan VK8VWA
  • Station Manager: Patrick Daley VK8ZMX
  • Committee:
  •  Tom Fitzgerald VK8NTF
  • John Matthews VK8AL
  • Mal Good VK8MT
]]> https://vk8da.com/agm-2019/feed/ 0 FT4 beta release https://vk8da.com/ft4-beta-release/ https://vk8da.com/ft4-beta-release/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2019 04:54:31 +0000 https://vk8da.com/?p=1321 Continued]]> Phil VK8VWA reports that there is a new mode out called FT4. It’s currently beta release. It’s a contesting version of FT8 with a 6 second T/R sequence. It will be interesting to see if it overtakes FT8.

 

More info can be found here.  Also, See Joe Taylor (K1JT) chatting about FT8 and the new FT4 in the clip below.

]]> https://vk8da.com/ft4-beta-release/feed/ 1 The truth about space junk https://vk8da.com/the-truth-about-space-junk/ https://vk8da.com/the-truth-about-space-junk/#respond Sat, 13 Apr 2019 02:09:45 +0000 https://vk8da.com/?p=1311 Continued]]> I’m a fan of ‘Conversations’ on ABC, with Richard Fidler (and now also Sarah Kanowski). This week (10th April) Richard’s guest was the a space archaeologist, Dr Alice Gorman. It’s a fasinating conversation with mention of Amateur Radio and the Australis-OSCAR 5 satellite.

You can listen to it here!

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