In the April lecture, John Mobbs spoke about Television Manufacturing in Australia – yes, it used to be done here! John originally came to Australia when his employer, Marconi Wireless, was acquired by the medical colour TV unit of the company Smith Cline and French, who brought him out here. The rest, as they say, […]
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Category: Lectures
Presentations usually held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month
March 2023 Lecture – History of Luna Park
Lecture by Zara VK2ZYP, on the History of Luna Park, the place Sydneysiders have gone “Just for Fun™” since 1935.
Lectures Online – Something Old, Something New…
Two lectures have been uploaded to VK2MB-TV today. One lecture sat unnoticed on an SD card since it was recorded in February 2022. Sorry about the delay, but better late than never! David VK2CZ did a presentation on Antenna modelling software for Radio Amateurs. The “New” one is last month’s lecture by Zara VK2ZYP, on […]
February 2023 Lecture – Lost Women of Rabaul
Lecture from Rod Miller, VK2ZZM about his new book, The Lost Women of Rabaul. An early draft of the book became the basis for the ABC’s award-winning production, Sisters of War. Watch Rod’s lecture on VK2MB-TV. You can also watch Sisters of War on ABC iView.
January 2023 Lecture – Troubleshooting Roman Dodecahedrons
The club’s first lecture for 2023 was presented by Gavin Smith, who spoke on the topic, “Troubleshooting Ancient Roman Dodecahedrons”. Most of us know that a dodecahedron is a three-dimensional shape having twelve faces, each of which is usually a pentagon. But, did you know that many mysterious bronze dodecahedrons, dating back to the Roman […]
September 2022 Lecture – Test & Measurement
Philip Leong VK2APL reports: The Club was pleased to welcome Mr Chi Xu, Sales Director, AppVision Australia. Chi has been working in the RF industry for 15 years, as an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) engineer, RF System Integration Engineer (National Instruments) and RF Specialist (National Instruments Australia). Chi gave an enlightening talk on electronic […]
April 2022 Lecture – Apollo Mission Tracking: Overview and Anecdotes
For those of us who missed it, the speaker, Mike Dinn, was a British avionics engineer who migrated to Australia in 1960. He worked on aircraft flight testing at RAAF Laverton near Melbourne for five years, before landing a job as Deputy Station Director at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex at Tidbinbilla, which tracked the […]
May 2022 Lecture – Holograms, Artificial Stars, and Killing Drones
Last night (18 May 2022), in place of the usual lecture at the clubhouse, we got to visit the MQ Photonics Research Centre at Macquarie University for a presentation about lasers and photonics. Our hosts, Professor Helen Pask and some of her team of researchers, gave us a wonderful show of the wonders and applications […]
February 2022 Lecture – Antenna Modelling
David Burger VK2CZ spoke about professional antenna modelling and optimisation using the “HOBBIES” [link unreachable] software package. “HOBBIES”, or “Higher Order Basis Based Integral Equation Solver”, can be used for antenna design and placement, EMI/EMC analysis, and many other applications. David’s lecture includes several practical antenna design examples, including: – 80m Bobtail– 160m inverted L– […]
November 2021 Lecture – Amateur Remote Station
Presentation by Steve Kennedy VK6SJ from Future Systems. Firstly talk about Remote Stations & secondly about how Future Systems supplied SDR radios can help you do that. Watch it on VK2MB-TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIPAOl27HXc
15-Sep-2021 Lecture – Gliding off to War (WWII)
1-Sep-2021 lecture – The Side Slippers
RAAF 3 Squadron “The Side-Slippers” – James Oglethorpe – Manly-Warringah Radio Society lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKXiLUlbfaA
June 2021 Lecture – Sir John Madsen (1879-1969) – Radio & Radio Resear
In 1927 Sir John returned to research work having made original contributions to physics in conjunction with W H Bragg (1905-1911) starting in Adelaide at the University involving radioactivity & Rutherford’s nuclear atom in 1911. At Sydney University Sir John, as first & only Professor of Electrical Engineering in any Australian University until 1946, was […]
May 2021 Lecture – Ice Boat
We had a blockbuster lecture lined up for Wednesday 19th May 2021, Professor Simone Douglas, daughter of our honourable member John Douglas VK2ZWD. Watch video of lecture on VK2MB-TV Check out Professor Douglas’ details here: https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/faculty/simone-douglas/ Professor Simone Douglas will talk about her art + science project Ice Boat. Situated near Broken Hill and 7 years in R&D, Ice Boat will […]
August 2020 Lecture – Commercial Blasting with Explosives
The 19 August 2020 MWRS lecture was held … as expected … on a video conference platform! Check it out on VK2MB-TV.