This months lecture is by Carlo & Glen who show off the Mesh Potato project to club members. The Mesh Potato is a device for providing low-cost telephony and Internet in areas where alternative access either doesn’t exist or is too expensive. It is a marriage of a low-cost wireless access point capable of running a […]
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Presentations usually held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month
January 2013 Lecture – Sonar and Submarines!
We kick off the MWRS lectures for the year with Richard VK2NRA explaining some of the uses for side scanning sonar and how the Navy finds things lost under the waves. A big thanks for preparing this interview on short notice Richard. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UOrBTWWWGA[/tube] Click here to view on You-Tube
September 2012 Lecture – Helicopters 101
Always wanted to get helicopter lessons but couldn’t afford it … come to the September lecture, you’ll get your first lesson for free … the classroom lesson that is. Yves had to deliver 22lectures to gain his helicopter instructor rating. The first lesson is the most often given lesson as many people get this as a gift, or […]
August 2012 Lecture – Now we are thinking with Hydrogen!
This weeks lecture is explosive. Our guest speaker presented his prototype for a system that converts water and electricity into Browns Gas, a form of Hydrogen. This rig can cut steel and melt glass and tungsten like butter. A technology that could revolutionise how industries carry out their work whilst reducing emissions of CO2 and NOX […]
July 2012 Lecture – Balint Seeber & Matt Robert – what you can do with
This months lecture was a little different to the usual. Mal (VK2TMF) brought along a great presentation by Balint Seeber and Matt Robert who discuss what you can do with Software Defined Radio. Balint runs the spench.net website and created the awesome RFMaps tool: Balint Seeber’s Aviation Mapper lecture. Whilst you’re at it, here is […]
MWRS lectures on YouTube
As you probably know already, the third Wednesday of every month is given over to a lecture, usually to a technical topic, something related to Amateur Radio, or some other subject of general interest. Recently, the club decided to restore the old, but sporadic, tradition of recording lectures on video, for later viewing and to […]
January 2012 Lecture – DXepedition to Timor-Leste by Bernd VK2IA
VK2IA tell’s us about the 4W6A DXpedition to Timor-Leste at the January 2012 Lecture night held at the Societies Terrey Hills radio shack. For more information visit the DXpedition site at http://www.4w6a.com/. You can see the lecture here: [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMDKIeOpBH8&feature=plcp[/tube] https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.298628616902678.61853.298022756963264&type=1