Life Members

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We are proud to recognise and congratulate the following individuals who have earned Life Membership with Shepparton and District Amateur Radio Club. Their dedication, commitment, and contributions have been invaluable.

Allan, Jan & Max are SK's

If you know of any other members that have been recognised as life members with the club ,please add a comment

 

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If i remember correctly Lnne Champness was also inducted as a life member

 

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does anyone any have photo's of the above members to add to the archives?

 

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If i remember correctly Lnne Champness was also inducted as a life member

Lynn was made an Honorary Member at one of our Christmas Meetings ( 2023 at The Royal Mail )

 

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Here is Barry VK3KBY getting presented with his Life Membership Award

Max VK3DSF

Pat VK3OV and Max VK3DSF With their awards.

Jan VK3ALF

MIght be a few others floating around... I'll check later.

 

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Ron Burns VK3COP

 

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looking at the history page on the SADARC websiite
Max VK3DSF was heavily involved with the construction of our repeater hut on Mt Wombat
and Barry VK3KBY was also involved

 

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looking at the history page on the SADARC websiite
Max VK3DSF was heavily involved with the construction of our repeater hut on Mt Wombat
and Barry VK3KBY was also involved

I don't remember Max being involved in the construction of the Mt Wombat Hut at all? Maybe he was involved in some way or other years later?

Pat VK3OV built the original power supply, I build the Cavities and modified the FM828 front end which was supplied by Geoff VK3ZNA
Laurie Gleeson VK3KL supplied the Phelps Dodge 6 dB colinear, Bruce Gillies VK3AGG mixed the Cement, Huntly Vroland VK3ZE and I did the Concrete roofing. Doug Johnson VK3YMG drove the sand and cement to the top of the hill with some hair raising driving skills. John VK3XJB, Neil VK3XNW and many others worked on building the site. Not forgetting, Wayne VK3XQA ( now VK3GMV ) chose the location.

John VK3XJB did the repeater controller using an FB1 board, he used the same board for the UHF CB repeater controller much later.
The FB1 was an early version of the R6511AQ board running Forth Software.

 

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I think Max received the HM for his weekly running of the Club Net.
Cheers
Geoff vk3zna

 

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I don't remember Max being involved in the construction of the Mt Wombat Hut at all? Maybe he was involved in some way or other years later?

my mistake ,I did a quick google on the call sign and it came back with a newsletter from 2019, which is where I got the "heavily involved" part from

http://www.sadarc.org/files/NewsLetter/year2019/7%20Complete%20newsletter%20July%2019.pdf

 

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I don't remember Max being involved in the construction of the Mt Wombat Hut at all? Maybe he was involved in some way or other years later?

Pat VK3OV built the original power supply, I build the Cavities and modified the FM828 front end which was supplied by Geoff VK3ZNA
Laurie Gleeson VK3KL supplied the Phelps Dodge 6 dB colinear, Bruce Gillies VK3AGG mixed the Cement, Huntly Vroland VK3ZE and I did the Concrete roofing. Doug Johnson VK3YMG drove the sand and cement to the top of the hill with some hair raising driving skills. John VK3XJB, Neil VK3XNW and many others worked on building the site. Not forgetting, Wayne VK3XQA ( now VK3GMV ) chose the location.

John VK3XJB did the repeater controller using an FB1 board, he used the same board for the UHF CB repeater controller much later.
The FB1 was an early version of the R6511AQ board running Forth Software.

geez what an effor that would've been going up to the mountain, I have driven up there a a few times but can't imaging the effort that would've gone in to carting all the construction equipment up there , great job all

 

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geez what an effor that would've been going up to the mountain, I have driven up there a a few times but can't imaging the effort that would've gone in to carting all the construction equipment up there , great job all

With most of us being 40 years younger helped a bit.