ERB Meeting 21 September 2013

ERB had a monthly meeting at Arrowe Park in Benoni today.

Check out the pics of members at the meeting

HAMNET Gauteng South Storage Facility under Construction

Good News....

The construction of the HAMNET Gauteng Storage facility is underway. The storage will be situated on the small holding of OM Chris ZS6COG (Moi... Me... Ekke)

Shown below are some pictures of worker Lucas  (right hand man and trusty worker of note) busy treating wooden poles which will be used for the construction.

The space occupied by the store will be 9 meters x 8 meters. Roof height will be 2.6 metres at the back and 3,7 meters at the front.This will allow easy storage of the HAMNET Gauteng South Trailer. Also included under the roof will be the storage bin. A postform top and shelves will be included after re finishing and paining is done.  More pictures in the weeks to come. Stay posted.. HiHi.

  

ZS6ERB Club 675 hosts 76th AGM

Saturday 31 August 2013 saw the hosting of the 76th Annual General Meeting of the East Rand Branch of the South Africa Radio League.

Affectionally known as ERB or Club 675 this little club has had its ups and downs. Happily I can report that we are heading up again.

Decisions taken at the AGM include the registration of ERB as an NPO, building ournew clubhouse, expanding the committee and getting down to playing some serious radio.

We really want to engage our neighbours more this year as our sister club KARTS in Kempton are kicking ass and they are doing some serious activities. They are inspiring and we will try and equal them this year. Go KARTS!! Come on ERB... let go for it!!

Below are some PICS of HAMS seen at the AGM.

For more details and info go to www.zs6erb.co.za and check out the online page!

Radio Museum News

Donations coming in steadily

Hi All

Thanks to the radio amateurs that are donating radios to the Ditsong National War Meseum.

We received another two artefacts this week which will be delivered to the museum. ONe of these is a bona fide russian radio to boot. Cool.

If you want to donate your russian wartime radio, take it directly to the museum where you will do some paper work for the official handover. Also remember that you do not have to donate, you can loan the radio too.

HAMNET STORE UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Shown below are some pictures of the HAMNET GS store being refurbished .

Some time ago we decided at HAMNET meeting, that we need a central store to place .

OM Koos  ZS6JPY  placed a container at my plot some years ago, and this bin is now the shell for the new store being developed. These are the before  pictures.

Radio Museum Construction going strong

Here are some pictures of the progress of the Ditsong Radio museum exhibition which will include HAM Radio.

HAMNET Gauteng South Springs Girls High Mountain Bike Race

HAMNET GS offers community communications support to Springs Girls High School

HAMNET volunteers offered community support through communications to the Springs Girls High Mountain Bike race on 24 August 2013 from 06:00 - 14:00.

Communications capabilities provided include point communications from 6 positions on the race and tactile communications capabilities to the Helivac Marshals and race organisers at the venue.

 Race coordinator Koos ZS6JPY of HAMNET GS standing at JOCC.

OM Willem ZS6WIM manning JOCC during the race event.

A special word of thanks to the volunteers that manned the outposts during the race. These are:
JOCC

• Michelle ZS6TO, Koos ZS6JPY, Willem ZS6WIM

Outposts

• Pieter ZS6PHL, Glynn ZS6GLN, Shal ZS6MED, Marc ZS6MDH, Silas ZS6YFH, Johan ZS6DMX, Hentie ZS6HPL, Pieter ZS6VRK

If I missed anyone, please e-mail me at zs6cog@gmail.com

HAMNET GS meets regularly on the first Thursday of each month at the 9th Benoni Scout Hall at 19:00.

If you want to come to a meeting feel free to contact me at the mail adress above.

Radio Museum gets a cool design!

Radio Museum at Ditsong

Display Design Completed

The Ditsong National Museum on War History is adding a radio exhibit to it's display.

 You can see the design rendering of the space where the radios and history will be displayed in.

 Amateur Radio will also find it's place in this space with a fully functional radio station operating on ZS6NOM to be established on the display floor. Radio amateurs will be invited to operate from here and QSL cards will be exchanged.

 The space will be interactive and will showcase radio to the youth with an interactive display and kids will be able to learn more about radio and amateur radio as a hobby and means of communication.

The project involves the role played by radio in the freedom struggle. It will feature radios and stories related to the apartheid era and will host military radios.

We are still looking for military style radios and specifically radios from Russian origin. If you can donate or loan equipment to the museum, please come in contact with myself or take your items directly to the museum in Johannesburg, behind the Johannesburg ZOO.

My e-mail is zs6cog@gmail.com.

A special thanks to the Convergence Partner Team and the DOC, Patrick Msomi who is spearheading this endeavor.

HABEX at Naional Science Week 2013

National Science Week 2013

HABEX Goes to Sci Bono

This week the HABEX team is out and about at Sci Bono. We are raising awareness of Amateur Radio and the High Altitude Baloon Experiment. Hampie ZS6HJF seen below is helping out this week. Mariska will also be joining later in the week.

Come and visit us until Friday 2 August at Sci Bono Discovery Centre in Mirriam Makeba Street in Newtown.