The SARL Diary of Events 2016
The SARL Diary of Events for 2016 can be downloaded here.
Read MoreYear End Function
The club held it’s year-end function at Lynwood Sports Club. In spite of many apologies, about 30 of us attended with family members. A good time was had by all, and the catered braai was as good as always!.
Read MoreLightning Damaged World’s View RTCM
Lightning strike at 16h42 at World’s View damaged the RTCM on the 145.750MHz repeater. ZR5S and ZS5ML went up on Monday morning, and found that there was a lot of other damage as well to the others on the tower. It looks like the damage came through the electrical supply, rather than from a strike […]
Read MoreNew Committee Decision
The new committee has decided to keep the portfolios the same as last year, with the exception of Louis Friedemann, who became silent key last month: Chairman, Technical Shaun Rudling ZR5S Vice-Chairman, Technical, Website Mike Lauterbach ZS5ML Secretary, Treasurer, Asset Treasurer Mike Boast ZS5BGV Clubhouse Des Mullen ZS5DDM Digital Stanley Marx ZR5SEM Events Marjoke Schuitemaker […]
Read MoreDMR Repeater Testing At Groenekloof
Shaun moved the DMR repeater to Groenekloof for testing. The city centre is shielded from the Windy Hill tower, and the uhf signals were not good there. First impressions are that signals in Pmb are now stronger from Groenekloof. More testing is required.
Read MoreDMR Communications Problems
DMR communications have been disappointing, as we battled to trigger the repeater. We hoped that this was due to a faulty antenna. Also, the routing problem was still there as we could not be heard on the Durban DMR. We (ZR5S and ZS5ML) went to the repeater this afternoon armed with connectors and another second […]
Read MoreOur chariman, ZR5S writes: At short notice, I decided to go up to the Windy Hill high site to install our new Pietermaritzburg MotoTRBO DMR repeater. I was lucky to have ZS5ML Mike to join me. We had it fired up within an hour. On the trip back to Pietermaritzburg, I tried many times to […]
Read MoreEliminating RF Feedback Problem
ZR5S, ZS5RT, ZS5S, ZR5BR, ZS5SK and ZS5ML travelled up to our Richmond repeater to separate the antennas, hoping to eliminate the RF feedback problem at this repeater. Shaun (ZR5S) and Terry climbed the tower and raised the top antenna to the top, after the “ground crew” fitted a new longer cable with new connectors to […]
Read MoreLynwood Sports Club Meeting
We had a very interesting meeting at Lynwood Sports Club, where Pravin, ZS5LT presented an interesting talk about his balloon launching. He was accompanied by Chris, ZS5CGW.
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