REAST End-of-Year Sausage Sizzle / BBQ – Wednesday 3 December 2025 It’s time to fire up our brand spanking new BBQ and celebrate another huge year for REAST! Join us at the Queens Domain Clubrooms for a relaxed lunch and evening of food, laughter, and radio-infused storytelling as we wrap up 2025 in true REAST style. There are two sessions to suit everyone: WAGs (Wednesday Afternoon Group) – from 12 noon for lunch and early banter. WEGs (Wednesday Evening Group) – from 6 pm for the twilight feast and tall tales. Come along, grab a snag, and relive a year packed with projects, presentations, propagation, and plenty of good company. Bring your appetite, your sense of humour, and maybe a story or two from the shack! See you there. REAST Committee

REAST will be holding a Standard, Advanced Licence & Regulations Assessment Day. Assessments commence at 10AM. If you would like to participate in this session then please contact Reg Emmett VK7KK – REAST Learning Organiser on email: reast.assessor@gmail.com or mobile: 0417 391 607 at least a week prior to the session. Courses available There are a range of options available to study for amateur radio examinations. We recommend the Silvertrain for Advanced and Standard Training material and courses. More information can be found at: https://www.silvertrain.com.au/ An alternative is the Radio and Electronics School courses for Standard and Advanced training material. More information can be found at: www.res.net.au Happy Studying

To fine tune and discuss any cleansing, tweaking and other leading to the new membership year. Bring a bite to eat while chatting?? What twaeks need to be done for the front facing members side of Tidy Reflect new costs in all comms Cleanse member data Prep for the auto member renewal comms Plus any other bits and bobs we should do prior to the member renewals going out, including what has already been done, what needs to be done and hopw we are going to do it.  

REAST Forum Night – EMR Safety Quiz Night! Wednesday 12th November 2025 7:30pm @ Queens Domain Clubrooms + Livestreamed Following the hit September session with Phil VK2ASD and Justin VK7TW on how to assess Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) safety from your transmitting antennas—it’s time to put your knowledge to the test! Think you know your exclusion zones from your field strengths? Can you decode duty cycles faster than FT8? Time to break into teams, battle it out over buzz-worthy EMR quiz questions, and win some great prizes! Whether you were at the September session or not, this is your chance to learn, laugh, and level-up your RF safety smarts in a fun and interactive night. Quiz. Learn. Win. See you there—on site or online!

Phil Tyson from the Sound Preservation Association of Tasmania (SPAT) (https://www.soundpreservation.org.au) will be giving us a visual and audio presentation on the history of commercial broadcast radio. This presentation was originally put togther for the ALARA Meet back in November 2023 and was a fantastic insight into early commercial broadcast radio with a focus on the women involved. There were so many great comments about the presentation that we have managed to get Phil back to give us an updated presentation. Please note this presentation will be only presented in the Queen’s Domain Clubrooms and will not be streamed or recorded. See you there. REAST Committee

REAST will be holding a Foundation Training and Assessment Day. Foundation Licence training commences at 9AM and Assessments commence around 1PM. If you would like to participate in this session then please contact Reg Emmett VK7KK – REAST Learning Organiser on email: reast.assessor@gmail.com or mobile: 0417 391 607 at least a fortnight prior to the session. Foundation License Handbooks are stocked at the Queen’s Domain Clubrooms which is open on Wednesday from 12Noon-2pm and 6-10PM. There are credit card facilities available and the price is $35 or they can be ordered through the WIA, see the Foundation Manual Page. Courses available There are a range of options available to study for amateur radio examinations: A Self Study Manual is available for the Foundation Licence REAST Foundation Licence Training Videos – 10 REAST YouTube videos WIA Foundation Licence practice examinations Other self study options – self study – there are many courses of study available through books, the Internet and CD-ROM; or, By completing correspondence courses; or, Study in a radio class. Please contact us for more information Happy Studying

Curious about the AllStar Network and how it’s revolutionising amateur radio? Join us for a deep dive into this powerful and flexible linking system that’s connecting amateurs around the world like never before! Whether you’re new to AllStar nodes, want to build your own, or are already active and keen to share tips and tricks—this forum is for you. Topics include: What exactly is AllStar and how does it work? Setting up your own node (hardware/software options) Linking repeaters and hotspots Use cases for contests, emergency comms & everyday QSOs Integration with EchoLink, HamVoIP & more Bring your questions, experiences, and ideas for an open Q&A and demo session! AllStar: It’s not just a node—it’s your gateway to the world. Let’s demystify it together on October 8th 2025 from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain Clubrooms and streaming. Streaming Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnPrDOKSDsY 73, REAST Committee

REAST Annual General Meeting 2023 The REAST AGM will be held on Saturday 18th February 2023 at 1pm in the Queen's Domain Clubrooms. Before the AGM there will be a BBQ from 12 Noon. Please accept a free ticket so we can cater for this event. The ordinary business of the annual general meeting is to be as follows: * to confirm the minutes of the last preceding annual general meeting and of any general meeting held since that meeting; * to receive from the committee, auditor and servants of the Association reports on the transactions of the Association during the last preceding financial year; * to elect the officers of the Association and the ordinary committee members; * to appoint the auditor; The annual general meeting may transact special business of which notice is given in accordance with these rules. A nomination form for officers of the Association is available from the REAST Website - https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/upcoming-events/... and is to be signed by financial members of the Association and returned to the Secretary by 8 February 2023. See you there. REAST Committee

REAST - 7 December - Club End Of Year BBQ from 5pm at the Queen’s Domain Clubrooms This is a catered event.  Please grab a free ticket so we can get an indication of how many will attend.

Plenty will be happening again this Wednesday evening at the REAST clubrooms.  Come on up and enjoy the fun, frivolity and experimentation, and much much much more.

This Saturday Shack session will be a meetup of the SDRSIG. We will demonstrate the automatic detection and extraction of signals using gr-inspector. To use gr-inspector we need to compile it as an OOT (Out Of Tree) Module so we will also show you how to use the PyBOMBS system to compile GNURadio and help getting all your dependencies for using OOT Modules. It is recommended to bring along your laptop loaded with Linux (eg Debian or Ubuntu 16.04) and your SDR to follow along!  

We are running a digital mode net, called FSQ Fridays from 20:00 Australian Eastern time on 2m USB – 145.225MHz. We may switch to FM at some point as some net users might only have FM capable stations. At 20:30 we will switch to 7104kHz USB. Feel free to join in. Check in online in our Matrix chat room at https://riot.im/app/#/room/#vk7:matrix.org especially if you need help or would like an online signal report if you are having trouble being heard. To use this mode, we recommend a recent version of Fldigi. The theme of this shack session is to help those new to digital modes to get their equipment ready for upcoming FSQ Friday nets.