SERG Licence Page

The South East Radio Group provides a licence examination service to interested members of the community. The club has copies of the "Foundation Licence Manual, Your entry into Amateur Radio". These are available for $17-50 at club meetings held in the SERG Clubrooms, Old Reidy Park Junior Primary School Buildings, O'Halloran Tce, Mount Gambier. Our postal address is PO Box 1103, Mount Gambier SA 5290.

For the SERG year September 2005 to August 2006 the following people have successfully completed their foundation Licence under the guidance of SERG. Special thanks to our registered WIA Assessors Trevor VK5NC and John VK5DJ supported by Invigilator Dave VK5DG.

Brian Middleton VK5FROB, John Reeves VK3FXJR, Bill Jackson VK5FWEJ, Ian Bishop VK3FNBL, Paula Williamson VK5FOXX, Linley Pollard VK5FRED, Sarah Collie VK5FIRE, Tom Wilson VK3FLAM, Bill tully VK5FWST, Andrew Jackson VK5FLCS, Shane Miller VK5FGTS, Warren Drabsch VK5FSCH, Max Costa VK5FMAX, James Prime VK4FJIM, Bob Prime VK4FBOB, Paul Excell VK5FLOP, Graham Fartch (awaiting call), Robert Stewart passed theory.

First Foundation Licence Class 11 Dec 2005
Back row: John VK5DJ (assessor), Tom, Brian, John, Linley, Dave VK5DG (Invigilator), Trevor VK5NC (assessor)
Front row: Sarah, Bill, Paula, Ian

Those wishing to gain a Standard or Advanced licence are invited to enrol with the Radio Electronics School in Queensland here and obtain the two CD set for $25. Full details are available at the website. This is a responsibility of the individual. At the conclusion of the learning program the club examiners, Trevor Niven, John Drew or David Giles will conduct the examination. Fees for the examination are:

The SERG is offering tuition in two ways:

• by contacting the volunteer tutors Trevor Niven VK5NC (87232432), Col Hutchesson VK5DK (87255527), or John Drew VK5DJ (87332138)
• a regular Friday night session will be held to assist people struggling with an area of learning. These sessions will be held on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month at the clubrooms at 7.30pm. Volunteer helpers will be on hand to provide the support and help you over any hard to understand bits.
• before each ordinary meeting at 7.00pm a SERG member will be on hand to help with problems until the club meeting starts at 7.30pm. Club meetings are held on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month except December and January where only one meeting is held for each month - the first Friday of December only and the 3rd Friday only for January.
• in addition to the Foundation Handbook from the WIA via SERG, CDs available from the Electronics and Radio School, Fred Swainston sells the Radio Theory Handbook for Amateur Operators. This is available from Fred for AUS$60-45, see Fred's website at http://www.silvertrain.com.au/

Club meetings:

People of all ages are invited to join the South East Radio Group, visitors are welcome and we hold twice monthly club meetings at our excellent clubrooms. Usually we have activity nights on the first Friday of each month and our business meeting on the 3rd Friday.

Here is the program for this year 2006-2007:

2006

1st Friday October: Visit to the Mt Gambier Telephone Exchange

3rd Friday October: Business meeting

1st Friday November: Steve VK3YYV presents PCB making and an SWR bridge construction

3rd Friday November: Business and continuation of Steve's construction plus repeater network with John VK5DJ

1st Friday December: Christmas dinner, venue to be advised.

3rd Friday December: no meeting

2007

1st Friday January: no meeting

3rd Friday January: Packet radio with Wayne VK5ZX

1st Friday February: Tune a rig night with VK5DK and VK5ZOO

3rd Friday February: Business meeting

1st Friday March: UHF radio with Trevor VK5NC and Col VK5DK

3rd Friday March: Business meeting

1st Friday April: Making a UHF beam for tracking

3rd Friday April: Business meeting

1st Friday May: Using the beam for tracking practical

3rd Friday May: Business meeting

1st Friday June: Packet/weather and Convention

3rd Friday June: Business and Convention reflections

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