Devil News AR Magazine Feb

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from AR Magazine 1987 Feb pages 54 & 55 -

( not titled in magazine but Devil News )

Attendances are really looking up for the club with
22 attending the recent meeting to hear guest
speaker, Peter VK7PR from the Northern Branch.
Repeater 3 has been misbehaving lately (a fault
has developed in it), by sending spurious noise
when operators are transmitting. The RAD control
unit has been improved and a one second pause
is required to reset the repeater between overs.
It is easy to see that the bands have began to
improve as there were 196 incoming QSL cards.
The Radio Room is still progressing well and
donations are still being received, for which we
thank the donors. Frank VK7ZFH, gave a black
and white television set, two pieces of test
equipment and some rolls of RTTY paper whilst
John VK7KDR, gave a two metre high rack on
castors to house some of the equipment.
The Club sadly farewells Frank VK7ZFH, and
thanks him for all the work and time he has put
into the Club as News Officer. Frank has moved to
VK1.
One of the repeaters on Mount Duncan recently
had a very close shave when a large tree fell
barely missing the cable and guy wires. Fortunately,
only the wires suffered slight strain.
The Clanger Award for the month was presented
to John VK7KDR, for using the hand-held rig with
an insulator on the battery pack, and for his
donations to the club rooms.
Guest Speaker, Peter, explained where membership
fees, recently increased to $35, go to. A
lively discussion followed on pensioner concessions.
Peter also discussed State Council
Policies and some policies are to be printed and
given to each branch for easy reference by
members. Peter then gave a talk on satellites and
his trip around the world in 1984, illustrated with
slides.
The Branch AGM, which was to be held in
December, will now take place in February.
Contributed by Max VK7KY and Greg VK7ZBT      AR