The June lecture, Build Projects for the Shack by Richard VK2ARH and Simon VK2YU, introduced two new club projects: an NTP (Network Time Protocol) Clock for the shack, and Pi-PicoRX, a software-defined radio receiver based in the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller. You can watch the lecture on VK2MB-TV. The lecture proved very popular, and another […]
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April 2016 Lecture – Mad Max Fury Road – Behind the Scenes
The April 2016 lecture, Mad Max Fury Road – Behind the Scenes, by Greg Roberts VK2TPL and Jack Swart VK2TRF, is now available on the club YouTube channel, VK2MB-TV. Greg is the MD of Lateral Linking, which provided sound mixing for the film, winning one of those Oscars. Jack was cinematographer on the film, which also picked up a nomination for […]
May 2016 Lecture – Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Erika Davies from Macquarie University presented our May Lecture on MRI machines: “Have you damaged your knee? Slipped a disc? Regardless of the specifics, many of us have had first-hand experience with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but not many of us are aware that this extremely pricey bit of kit is essentially a collection of amplifiers […]
March 2016 Lecture – History of AR in NSW (Tim Mills VK2ZTM)
January 2016 Lecture – VLF signals, receivers and antennas
A very interesting lecture from Geoff VK2TGO this month on what can be heard on the VLF band (below 22kHz, which is essentially the audio band except in RF!). Sferics, Whistlers, the Dawn Chorus.. our planet makes a lot of noise!! Unfortunately the video cut off at the 18 minute mark but it is a great […]
October 2015 Lecture – Jo Harris – History of Wireless in Australia
Jo Harris (ex VK2KAA) shared a history of early wireless in Australia with us, including the first direct contact between Great Britain and Australia. Check it out here!
April 2015 Lecture – BALINT SEEBER – The ISEE-3 Rescue & Software Defi
(Lecture video) Ever wanted to communicate with a NASA space probe launched in 1978, or spoof a restaurant’s pager system? There are surprising similarities! How about use an airport’s Primary Surveillance RADAR to build your own bistatic RADAR system and track moving objects? What sorts of RF transactions take place in RFID systems, such as […]
March 2013 Lecture – Mesh Potato and wifi mesh 101
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 […]
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