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Christmas Greetings, 2025 Meetings and Other Info

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Hi Everybody, Merry Christmas to you all, I hope your stockings are bulging in the morning. There will be a coffee meeting on 01/01/2025 at the Gisborne CFA. 10 am start. The 2025 January meeting will be at Mt Macedon 18 January 2025. This is our annual family day and members and family are all welcome. I will send out a reminder closer to the date of the meeting. For those interested in following the Sydney to Hobart yacht race the link below lists the frequencies involved. htt...
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Club Christmas celebration

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This week's club meeting was our traditional social event featuring a quiz from Quizmaster Joe who put a wide variety of question to the competing table. Topics included physics, computing, art, geography and astronomy. Once again, the ladies table won hands down. Table 6 was more puzzled than most. This year we had a BBQ which was a great success. This year's event was the best turnout in living memory.
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Behind the weather – with VK3EN

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At this month's meeting at Woodend we were honoured to have a presentation from popular ABC TV weather presenter, Paul Higgins, VK3EN. Paul took us on a journey through the history of weather prediction in Australia. The technology used to predict the weather and portray it graphically has changed dramatically over the time Paul has been involved. Starting with simple maps with velcro'd temperature in the days of standard definition TVs through to the era of computer graphics with the...
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Saturday Meeting 16 November 2024

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Hi Everyone, This Saturday is the second last meeting for 2024. Where has the year gone? The guest speaker this month is Paul Higgins VK3EN. Many of you will have seen Paul on the ABC presenting the weather until he retired earlier this year. Paul's interest in radio goes back many years. Paul was with the ABC for 40 years and is guaranteed to have some interesting stories to relate. Venue: Woodend RSL hall Woodend.Time: 10am Regards,Graeme VK3NE,Secretary, MRARC.
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24GHz, A510 set, home brew AM meeting

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A bottler of a show and tell meeting at the club this month. Craig Norris, VK3CDN, from Icom gave us one of the first demonstrations of the new 24GHz features of the IC-905 (with transverter). Graeme, VK3CDO, showed a Vietnam era portable military radio set called an A510 which was in beautiful condition. Put beside an IC-905, I think we could tell which radio he'd rather have in damp jungle conditions. Peter, VK3TPM, showed a home brew antenna hoisting drone and a home brew AM tr...
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Saturday Meeting, 19 October 2024

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Hi Everybody,The next meeting is this Saturday. Venue: Woodend RSL Hall.Time: 1000 Hrs. The meeting will be a show and tell event. Club member Graeme VK3CDO will be demonstrating an ex army 510 set. Please bring along any project you are working on. After the meeting some members have lunch at one of the local cafes, everyone is welcome to attend. Regards,Graeme VK3NE,Secretary, MRARC.
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Bring “show n tell” for the next meeting

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Saturday's meeting will be a "show n tell". You are encouraged to bring along items of interest, projects complete or not, interesting equipment or accessories. Here's a few previews. Graeme VK3CDO will bring an AWA made military radio A510. "The A510 wireless set was a crystal controlled, low power light-weight transmitter-receiver, designed primarily for use by long range infantry patrols. It could be used as a man packed station on the move, in a vehicle, or as a ground station...
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