Famparc News Journal of the Frankston & Mornington Peninsula Amateur Radio Club

Inside this issue:

FrontPage 1

About Us 2

Prez Sez 3

Summer Field Day 4

QSL of the Month 5

Back Page 6

Classifieds 5

STOP PRESSSTOP PRESSSTOP PRESSSTOP PRESS

We score the

points in the

field day

WE NEED

A NEWS-

LETTER

EDITOR

Nothing Else

I’m GONE

VK3FRC

Jan –Feb 2008

Volume 32 Issue 1

Summer Field Day FAMPARC Having Fun

Here’ Gerard VK3GER racking up the points on 70cm

How’s been flashing around fences

The things that matter at VK3FRC Please After Hr Numbers Above

All Surface Mail & QSL

P.O. Box 65

Patterson Lakes Vic 3197

E-MAIL vk3frc@qsl.net

Web www.qsl.net/vk3frc

Club Call VK3FRC

Net: Tuesday Evening @ 8:15pm, on 146.425 Mhz

8:45 on 3.647Mhz

Net Control Bill VK3MMM

Committee Membership

Famparc News Page 2

Please After Hr Numbers Above

The club location is St Leonards College, Cornish Campus Riverend Rd Bangholme Melway Map ref 93 J11 or UBD Ref Map 276 A3. Please note carefully Sth heading

traffic, take Wells Rd not the freeway.

Follow the road into the college, observing speed limits, take a left turn at the roundabout , go left around to the car park and turn left at the tennis courts, then follow slowly to the club. In winter please do not park on the grass and please angle park on Saturdays Please note carefully South heading traffic must take Wells Rd not the freeway. We would be happy to see members, guests and anyone interested to come along to FAMPARC

President Bill Grypstra VK3MMM 9781 2886

Vice President Allan Bengtsson VK3AB 9584 5685

Secretary David Mcaulay VK3EW 0417 358 095

Treasurer Brian Rich VK3VBJ 9870 4437

Committee Member & Contest Manager

Roy Seabridge VK3GB 5971 4782

Committee Member & Micheal Lammer VK3UUU 0428 880 500

Committee Member & Class Instructor

Ken Halse VK3ZER 9773 2563

Committee Memeber Andrew Stewart ( Mud) VK3AEJ TBA

Other Committee Positions….. Note these are A/H Numbers

Exam / Class Admin Temporary

Allan Bengtsson VK3AB 9584 5685

WIA Assessor Tonga Makawe VK3SJ 9728 8010

VK3 Nominated Assessor Peter Willmott VK3TQ 0409 017 349

Public Officer Jeff Fletcher VK3EUL 0419 877 447

QSL Manager Bill Grypstra VK3MMM 9781 2886

Equipment Officer Bill Grypstra VK3MMM 9781 2886

Well members, here we again...another year gone. Happy new year to all you guys. I hope Santa bought you all the elec-tronic toys you hoped for !!!! We welcome another new member, Rod Wall, VK3BKO….. On behalf of the club Rod, we extend a warm welcome and hope to see you on Satur-day mornings.

Now on a more serious note, Peter VK3TQ has been doing a sterling job producing the newsletter , unfortunately he has not been able to continue with it due to weekend family and work commitments, so, with 75 member-sthere must be someone that can take over, surely all you boys who spend so much time on your computer could have a go, Peter will give you all the help you need. We don't want to see the newsletter go down the gurgla so please if you can find the time on a few hours every 2 months. Its not hard I tell ya. By now the contest boys have run the suim-mer field daY competition last weekend, they tell me it was good fun, learnt a bit about 23cm and hard a good time, not sure about the point score, but I tell ya we gave a go!

Congratulations the the Mudmiester Andrew Stewart now VK3AEJ Well done muddy, and also our guests and members from Icom.

Icom M.D. Takashi Aoki is now VK3NON

Yohji Murakawa is now VK3YOM and member Mike Justin is VK3AMJ

Thanks to Ken (Zeragi) VK3ZER and Graeme VK3GL from MDRC

Graeme and Ken are talking about another course for 2008, Start booking now to get that FULLCALL

Well that’s all for now,

See you all at the club, even you Lozza

Prez Sez with Bill VK3MMM

“I’m very

busy”….

“What do you

do”

Volume 32 Issue 1 Page 3

“It’s a waste of time I tell Ya”

Summer Field Day 2008

Volume 32 Issue 1 Page 4

Summer vhf/uhf field day contest 2008. On Saturday 12 th January your club entered the Summer VHF/UHF Field Day Contest. The operators were Stjepan vk3tsn, Gerard vk3ger, Andrew vk3aej and Roy vk3gb. We were lucky by having two helpers Ken vk3zer and John vk3jjo.

We all arrived at an earlier time of 8.00am at the operating site which was Mt Martha Golf Course. This time we had three mobile towers. On one tower we had two beams for 2 metre. The second tower supported two beams for 70 cm and the third tower had a 6 element 6 metre beam. I think we all agreed we need more practice in the setting up of these antennas or additional help from club members. Ken vk3zer who use to be employed by channel 7 and was responsible for outside broadcasts noted our effort in setting up and re-ported we could do much better. I am pleased to report Ken has offered to set out a programme of how to set up an outside field day event professionally.

The contest went well and we were very lucky the 2 and 6 metre bands opened up into vk4 land. One vk8 gave us some points too, however, as much as we tried no vk7s were logged on 6 metres. The 70 cm band was active, however, we did struggle with only 35 watts output. Stjepan reports he could hear stations but they couldn't hear us. Some attention for the next contest is required.

The weather was kind to us as it was calm and warm. I shudder to think how different it could have been if it had been a windy day. Two towers were at 50 ft and the tower with the 6 metre beam about 35 ft. Our score was not as good as the Spring field day contest. This appears due to the lack of sufficient new squares coupled with insufficient operators and possibly compounded by a very enjoyable BBQ.

Despite his damaged knee Ed vk3ed had his wife drop him off at the site. Ed very kindly took many photo's and a video which will shortly be available to club member. Thank you Ed.

Thanks to all club members who called in and gave us some points. It was a great day out however, it was a shame there were not more club members to enjoy it.

Roy vk3gb (contest manager)

Volume 32 Issue 1 Page 5

HAPPY

Birthdays

January Bruce VK3UV

Rod VK3CR

Barry VK3MAX

Craig VK3JCH

Jen VK3MJF

John VK3JJO

Barry VK3BAP

Brian VK3VBJ

Roger VK3HRS

February Jeff VK3EUL

David VK3EW

Stephan VK3GTR

Greg VK3KV

Peter VK3FPTR

Happy Birthday and have

a great day

QSL of the month

CLASSIFIEDS For Sale

Diamond X-200 Vertical Base Antenna, no longer required as have upgraded. Little use and in good condition $150.

ADSL Modem—Dlink, with Ethernet and USB Port $30

Wanted RT85 70cm UHF Commercial needed

Wanted… Antenna switch (1GHz) with female N’s

Peter VK3TQ 0409 017 349

For Sale

Phillips FM 92 2m Remote or local

Ruben VK3PRA

The Back Page VK3FRC

St Leonards College Cornish Campus Riverend Rd Bangholme Vic 3197

President 9781 2886 Secretary

Courses / Exams 9589 4470 Assessor 9589 4470 0409 017 349

Were on the Web

Dudes ….

www.qsl.net/vk3frc

0417 358 095

BENGTSSON’S REPAIR SERVICE LOAN CAR

ALAN VK3AB , A SNIPPET OF HIS YOUNGER DAYS IN SOUTH GIPPSLAND, JUST KEEPING HIS CUSTOMERS HAPPY

Brian and the Treau

sers report

at the AGM

Little

Red

Riding

Hood