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Photographs through the decades

For year's 2010 - Onwards

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Looking back to 1961 - 1999 follow this link For the years 2000 - 2009 follow this link

This page is under continually under construction as more photographs are found of past club activities (Last updated: July 2011)

We are hoping to build these pages into a photographic walk down memory lane.

The archive photos were becoming such a large file we have broken them up into three sections - first is the 1961 to 1999 era.... then 2000 to 2009 and the final section is 2010 onwards.

If you have any photographs of club activities which you think should see the light of day, please contact the Webmaster and we'll see about uploading them.

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2010 We begin a new decade, build a new repeater site

and celebrate our President John (Rusty) McGrath VK4JM being recognised by
the Bundaberg Regional Council as 2010 Senior Citizen of the year

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And sadly we lost our most senior member and long time supporter Keith Haverfield VK4APQ

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VK4APQ Keith Haverfield SK
Keith was a past President and the man who conceived and oversaw the Mt Goonaneman tower project in the 80's.
He will be greatly missed

	We remembered the past with a display of a 1964 Deltahet project by former member Arch Lewis VK4IL (SK)
On hearing the news that we'd lost the HBARC-BARC interclub challenge a quick thinking member found some tissue	And we all had a good cry
It was true... the Hervey Bay Club burglars had stolen the trophy!	President's agree the Trophy goes back to HBARC. A gracious VK4JM passes the Pat Dryden Trophy to Wade VK4WM
But look what we WON !
Mt Watalgan site of new repeater VK4RBW	VK4RBW ICOM Repeater, ARCOM controller & Duplexer
Plaque acknowledging significant funding for the project by Bundaberg Regional Council	There were a couple of short speeches
President Rusty McGrath VK4JM gave the opening address	30 members and guests made the journey up to the mountain for the event
The Mayor Cr. Lorraine Pyefinch was the guest of honour
Rusty VK4JM with Mayor Lorraine Pyefinch as she switches on VK4RBW	With the words "VK4RBW is now on the air" Lorraine Pyefinch officially opened the newest club repeater
Presentation of a gift to the Mayor to mark the occasion
An afternoon tea on top of the mountain	We even managed "posh" cups and saucers
Linda Sullivan (WICEN T-shirt) & Joscelyn VK4JJ provided the afternoon tea service	Club members mingled with dignitaries and explained the club's activities
	View from the top of Mt Watalgan
New WICEN T-Shirts were on parade VK4NK & VK4MAX
The Mayoral Gift	August saw the Lifestyle EXPO as part of Seniors Week
Laptops display club photos and webpages	WICEN suitcase station, No19 Military Mobile unit & FT401
FT401, IC735 & Kenwood Antenna Tuner	Display material including Brochures and Foundation Training manuals
Coax samples, Morse Keys (from Murmansk Arctic convoy ship and home made project)	QSL Card display, selection of photos of club activities and Yaesu 857D (in WICEN portable configuration - with power supply, tuner, transceiver and meter)
Dummy load projects and MFJ Antenna Analyzer	Photos and two club antenna projects. Copper dual band and 2M fox hunt yagi
Rusty VK4JM talks to interested visitor
VK4UD Bob takes visitors on a tour of the display
Joscelyn VK4JJ greets visitors to the display	VK4UD keeps an APRS display running on laptop and display screen. VK4BRG kept his flight simulator "in the air" so we had live tracking data to show the public

Mt Goonaneman working Bee in September	Installing smooth panels to prevent climbing



Installing extra security to windows
New RCD protected power points	Gardening
Chipping nasty weeds
	The TV Broadcast tower on Mt Goonaneman
	Bringing home a four section tower
	October and it was time to go to JOTA 2010
Each year members set up equipment at Wyper Park and play host to Scouts and Guides	The highlight this year was talking to a group of Scouts camping in Sherwood Forest
And once again it was Xmas. 2010 @ the Railway Hotel	Decorations and ...
Club logo prizes	There was Trivia - which was won by Judy De Serio

And more gifts (Anne Fresta, Judy De Serio & Linda Sullivan (standing)	VK4UD makes sure VK4EMU has his head screwed on !!

In Dec2010 we installed an APRS Digipeater on Mt Watalgan VK4RBW-3 to add to our existing unit in Mt Goonaneman VK4RBU-3	Then we installed an APRS i-Gate on VK4BW as the clubrooms
Success - VK4BW successfully routing APRS information to the internet	and it's beaconing from the correct location
The APRS set up at VK4BW clubroom
In December we held a WICEN Open Day	With 21 attendees they formed 3 teams
The new Yaesu FT-857D portable stations	VK4JRO tunes in a unit
Visitors from Bundy & Hervey Bay look on	VK4DAD, VK4FKEV & VK4BRG work on another unit
It was time to go outside and erect the E.N.V.I.S. 40M Dipole	Teams followed simple training sheets
The Dipole is complete	A last minute run through on RF safety and the day was complete

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All visitors to the open day received a mug courtesy of Yaesu [Vertex Standard]

2011 we begin the year with floods but will finish on a high note

It's our 50th anniversary year!

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and to celebrate we're planning a reunion luncheon in October... but more on that event later

Between Christmas & new year 2010 the Burnett River rose causing flooding to parts of Bundaberg and effectively cut the town in two. The involvement with SES showed us that our plans for portable station enclosures had to be re-thought. We could no longer go with the plan for fabric cases or cheap alternatives. We needed something more substantial to withstand being handled and carried in a floodboat whilst being 'spritzed' with torrential rain and boat spray.

Mark Sandford (husband of VK4ION) agreed to undertake the task and he set up a production line in the workshop.

Cutting all the timber and carefully numbering the matching pieces	Using jigs to keep the pine as straight as possible while it was drilled and screwed
Deep bottom, narrow top - the two boxes fit together in a neat plan	Sanding so the pine would looks its best with a clear waterproof coating
Applying coats of maine varnish	The portable station is fixed permanently to a removable shelf
Portable station on the removable shelf can be used in the box or taken out	What's underneath the shelf? Everything an emergency radio communications operator needs to set up a portable station
The three finished portable stations in robust, weatherproof cases	The effort that went into the construction means we can take our new portable stations into the field, be it flood, fire or cyclone, we'll be ready. Thanks Mark!
May 2011 time for another working bee on Mt Goonaneman. With the extraordinary wet season the undergrowth had encroached onto our site and was covering our guy supports. It was hard work clearing the boundary	Gil Forgan was a guest on the mountain and he fitted a new log to tidy up a retaining wall
Councillor Lynne Forgan was a guest of the club but she certainly worked hard on the day... she deserved to have her coffee break up on the roof surveying the magnificent valley below	Linda Sullivan core fills the besser blocks in the top retaining wall. It was mothers day but these two mothers were certainly working hard for the club.
Cleared boundary and treated pine log installed	Everything is neat and tidy and will be fine for a few months
July 2011 BBQ at Buxton with Hervey Bay club	Bob VK4UD, Rusty VK4JM, Mark, Steve VK4KUS & Bill VK4XZ enjoying the sunshine
Enjoying a cuppa	President of Hervey Bay, Wade VK4WM caught lurking near OUR banner... could this mean he wants to join our club?
Hervey bay members (not the ginger one - that's Lorraine's pooch)	Sausages were the order of the day it seems, Steve, Mark and Ross chat while stirring the BBQ
More Sausages	Hervey Bay Secretary, Norm Vk4NP, Bob VK4UD and Wade VK4WM
It was time to present the Pat Dryden trophy to Hervey Bay in recognition of their win in the Harry Angel Sprint interclub challenge. Rusty was gracious in defeat, Wade was cocky!	Wade demonstrates the secret weapon used to secure their win... some new fangled thing called a Morse Key... it'll never catch on!
Rusty appears eager to accept the trophy for second place.	And yes, it's the revamped Try-Arder cup
Rusty recounts how after only a year of being nurtured by the Bundy club...the little cup has grown, blossomed and become our bejewelled Princess	The Try-Arder cup trophy as it is in 2011... what will the future bring?