A Warm Welcome to Our New Member
Koos (ZS5KDK) handing over certificate of membership to Richard (ZS5RMN).
Read MoreUpdate on MARC meetings
Good morning all , MARC meetings take place every 3rd Saturday , every 2nd month at 11.00 hrs at the Lynwood Sports Club PLEASE DIARIZE FOR 2025 : 18th of January * [ changed to Saturday 25th of January ] 15th of March 17th of May 19th of July 20th of September, which will be […]
Read MoreAGM September 2024
Thanks to everyone who made it to the AGM during these cold and snowy times. There has been an urgent snow warning, keep safe everyone. There has been over 20 cm of snow in Himeville and possibly even more in places around Southern Drakensberg.
Read MoreSetting Up The Estcourt Repeater
After the MARC meeting ZS5KDK and ZR5S were hard at work testing and programming the Estcourt repeater system. After some successful pings between the handheld radios belonging to ZR5CAT and ZS5KDK the extremely successful meeting came to an end and a date for the Install was in progress.
Read MoreDr. Jon Rash (Part Time At SANSA)
Lovely day with our guest speaker, Dr. Jon Rash, who spent 1975 at the SANAE base and got to know the importance of radio amateurs. He Was member of the expedition for Rhodes University ( ionosonde) Got his PhD in ‘oblique incidence sounding” , involved in various aspects of the UNDN ( now UKZN) space […]
Read MoreAllocating Portfolios Meeting
The committee held a meeting and allocated the following portfolios:Chairman Koos ZS5KDKVice Chairman Mike ZS5MLSecretary /Treasurer Mike 5BGVMarc Coordinator Marjoke ZS5VNew Members DES ZS5DDMWeb Site & Hamnet Coordinator Mike ZS5MLTraining Shaun ZS5STechnical and Repeater Maintenance Shaun ZR5SDigital Stanley ZS5SEMPRO and Events Willem ZR5ZS.
Read MoreFirst Meeting Of 2016
We held our first meeting at Lynfield Sports Club. Various issues were discussed in the committee meeting, like replacing the ageing fence at Groenekloof. The general meeting was not well attended (one extra member joined the present committee members) and the meeting adjourned not long afterwards.
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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