Bryn VK4GF and Eddie VK4TJE will be at the Alexander High School this Saturday 4th November from 9AM to about 11ish to assist any prospective Standard or Advanced licence candidates with the equations presented in the the Standard and Advanced exam’s formula sheets. Eddie will probably be there from about 8:30AM to allow visitors through…

Congratulations and a big thank you to all BDARS members that participated in the 2023 JOTA/JOTI Scouts Jamboree of the Air yesterday. BDARS sent two teams, each team looking after the radio training and experience for the local scout troops meeting up at the Redlands Karingal Scout Campsite. The troops were drawn from Scout/Guide camps…

A reminder that that our October Tech Nite is on tonight. From 7 pm for a 7.30 pm start, Redland Museum.Our Guest Talk will be from Bob VK4YA “AI and How to Access It”. Bring along your laptop or tablet and we’ll make it an interactive session, with some hands-on experimentation. It will be a…

Our club meeting last night was interesting as always. We have several forthcoming activities: Sat 7th Oct – HF radio play at Redland Museum in the afternoon Sun 19th Nov – Fundraiser sausage sizzle, Bunnings Capalaba Sat/Sun 25/26th Nov VHF-UHF Field Day Sat 2nd Dec – BDARS Xmas Lunch, 12.15 at Redlands Sporting Club Russ…

Saturday 2 December. From 12.15 pm at Redlands Sporting Club

Yes, the International Lighthouse & Lightship event is on this weekend. BDARS will be operating a club event at Cleveland Point lighthouse and as much participation as possible from club members is welcomed. Schedule: – Pickup time at the Museum 0700 – Event start time at the Lighthouse 1000– Operating bands 40m & 20m, with…

A big thanks to BDARS members Eddie, Steve, Bill and Grant who met representing the club at the ‘Switch on to Science’ event held at the Redland Museum. BDARS Grant VK4JAZ demonstrated Morse Code to several youngsters who were fascinated by the ‘secret code’. Some mums and dads remembered when they were kids playing with…

A reminder that our August General Meeting is on Monday night at Redland Museum, from 7 pm for a 7.30 pm start. Our guest speaker tomorrow is Diane VK4DI on contesting and logging. Plus we’ll have time for a little general business, member’s “Show and Tell” items and a good catch up with your club…

Yes, on Saturday 19th, we will be operating HF from the beautiful Cleveland Point lighthouse. It’s the International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend. We will be there from 10 am to 5 pm (come earlier and help us set up!). All BDARS members, other club members and the public are welcome – you can have a go…

A fascinating talk tonight by Russ VK4DCM on amateur SSTV. Most of us didn’t realise it was this easy. The software like MMSSTV makes it so simple to both receive and transmit images. And then, there is a steady update of SSTV images being captured by volunteer amateur stations. These are displayed on www.worldsstv.com. Yet…

Our July Tech Nite is on tomorrow – 7 pm for a 7.30 start.  Redland Museum, Cleveland. Our feature will be a session on Slow Scan TV by Russ, VK4DCM. Plus a chance for members’ “Show and Tell”, ask questions and chat with your colleagues on tech issues.

BDARS members gathered yesterday for a quick and simple working bee. We moved our club collection of antennas, coax and other contesting gear from our old container storage to our new site at Redland Museum. A big part of our club assets is the eskies and other gear we use for running fundraising sausage sizzles…

Here’s a perfect birthday gift – a BDARS name badge. Tom VK4HTE discovered these, available from Pacific Trophies in Capalaba.

A great night at BDARS last night, with WIA director Peter VK4EA addressing the group. Peter talked about the great work that WIA does in representing all Australian radio amateurs, whether members or not. In particular, Peter highlighted the work done by WIA volunteers in defending our spectrum allocations. WIA (like BDARS) relies heavily on…

BDARS will hosts Mr. Peter Schrader, director of the Wireless Institute of Australia at our Monday night meeting. When – Mon, 3 July. Where – Redland Museum,60 Smith St, Cleveland QLD 4163, Official meeting starting at 19:30 , doors open from 19:00. The entire night will be devoted to the WIA Guest speaker, Mr. Peter…

Last night’s Tech Nite turned out be one of our best ever. We had close to 30 attendees. The highlight was the talk by Ian VK3BUF & Paul VK2APA on Radio Amateur Society of Australia (RASA). Ian and Paul ran through the really practical ways that RASA is helping our hobby. There’s heaps more to…

Another round of successful training on the club’s FlexRadio 6400 HF station this afternoon. This 100 watt HF station is available for all BDARS club members to use .

An update to our agenda for next Monday night. We will have a guest talk by RASA representatives – Ian VK3BUF (RASA Secretary)and Paul VK2APA (RASA President). Radio Amateur Society of Australia Inc is one of the two national groups representing our hobby. Ian and Paul will update us on their perspective on the licence…

A big turnout tonight for our weekly net on 3.570 MHz. We had 12 stations check in, all with good strong signals, well above the noise level. All amateurs are welcome to join our nets, and they run weekly.

We had a busy meeting last night, covering lots of ground.  Highlights were: New Members.  We welcomed Rohan from Kenya, not yet licensed but keen to get started.  And Chris VK4EO, returning to the hobby after some years of inactivity. Contests.  Shires Contest this weekend.  BDARS will operate from the Museum veranda on Saturday (2pm…

Yup, our June General Meeting is on next Monday 5th June.  Redland Museum, 7 pm for 7.30 pm start.  Visitors and guests are welcome.  A packed program this month, and we’ll touch on:

David VK4ZF, Eddie VK4TJE and Bob VK4YA spent a good morning up at the Mt Cotton remote station site to install antennas for the ADS-B Aircraft tracker, GPS, and the homebrew lightning detector. Russell, station manager, also attended to keep an eye on us all and to fix up a little more capability of the…

BDARS successfully ran another refresher and exam day at the Alexandra Hills State High school on Saturday. Thank you Eddie VK4TJE and Bryn VK4GF our Maritime College appointed assessors – both active club members for running the session . Also thanks to all the brave candidates for giving it a go: The hobby warmly welcomes…

Yes, this Saturday at the Museum workshop 27th May, 1 pm to 3.30 pm (in keeping with Museum hours). BYO radio/power supply/antenna. It’s time for some radio action plus a chance to chat and learn from your colleagues. See you there!

Here is an extract from the Oceania DX Contest 2022 results. Here you can see the other stations that were in our section M2 (multi operator two transmitters) This is the Raw data and I assume it will be formalised soon. Whilst our score does not put us in the first three positions I think…

A busy Tech Nite last night. The bulk order of 9 and 10 metre squid poles was delivered – making lots of our members happy portable operators. We’re planning a working bee at our Mt Cotton site Sat 27th May for antenna maintenance and upgrade. Our BDARS store is running with stocks of coax and…

Another good day at the Museum on Saturday afternoon. A good turnout and some interesting antenna experimentation.

Our May meeting was vibrant and diverse, with a good turn-out. We introduced our new BDARS Shop/Storekeeper – George VK4GNGGeorge is taking over running the BDARS store (coax, connectors, BDARS shirts and the like. If members have any suggestions for other items the BDARS store should stock, please let us know. One thought is a…