This week your committee came in early on a frosty morning to clean out the club's storage cupboard. It has built up over time and disposal of much of it was well over due. Our featured speaker this week was new member Peter Gray (VK3...) who is an experienced cyber security professional. Peter talked about how hacking and the various attacks to get our data or more directly money, is now an international business run by organisations that have sales and technical support departme...

Committee members Graeme, VK3CDO and Peter, VK3TPM undertook a field trip to evaluate some options for a future field trip and possible camp out. First we headed to Monument Hill Reserve near Kilmore. There is a nice bluestone tower structure that could be good for VHF activity. Our Meshcore devices were pinging away during our stay as well. We had a VHF contact with Joe, VK3MAB, from the top of the tower. Next we hung an end fed wire from a tree branch over to a squid pole attach...

A great meeting in Woodend this month. Joe opened the meeting and accepted a generous gift from Pam McDiamid after the sale of gear from the late Graeme McDiamid, VK3NE. Pam said that throughout his life Graeme had greatly enjoyed the activities and fellowship of the club and she wanted to give back something in return. We are deeply grateful for the generous donation and are looking for ways to best invest it in the club. Barry, VK3BRT, represented the club at the recent Dayton Ha...

A varied meeting at Woodend today. There were some left-over items from the Graeme VK3NE SK auction and we welcomed new member Wally Fiedler who is on the way to getting his call. FreeDV version 2.3 was downloaded, installed and the initial configuration done before a live audience. The club has purchased some useful items of test equipment including a nanoVNA, a tinySA and a HackRF Portapack Mayhem. Peter VK3TPM went through the amazing range of capabilities of this device and de...