Meeting April 2004

Summary of the NERG Meeting held on the 15^th April 2004

Our April meeting was held one week later than normal (April 15) due to our regular date of the second Thursday of the month falling on the eve of Easter and that it was not a convenient date for many. I am please to report that although with the change in date and it being a school holiday period, many members were still able to attend.

The guest speaker this month was Roy Gilmour, Lead Auditor with SAI-Global who spoke not of his current work in auditing companies wishing ISO…. Accreditation but rather on some of his many earlier exploits. Roy’s early career started in Metallurgy in Scotland but quickly progressed into investigative and experimental work with BHP then over to the Victorian Government via the CRB etc. Due to his extensive knowledge in Non Destructive Testing (NDT) especially in checking of metal welding of high pressure boilers and heat exchangers used in nuclear power plants, he was approached by the International Atomic Energy Agency affiliated with (but not under direct control of) the United Nations. Roy told of how he went for one year that actually became five years, travelling and training throughout S.E. Asia on construction and safety in building components used in nuclear power plants and other nuclear devices. From this his discussion drifted back to the investigative work he carried out on the failures of the Kings then West Gate bridges. One comment by a NERG overheard later was that he may use other routes now Hi, Hi.

We thank Roy for his most interesting talk.

Our Secretary, Mark VK3XXX advised that due to his imminent QTH change to Hamilton, that he must relinquish the position and that temporarily, our IRLP node was out of action being actually literally in his car boot.
All NERG’s do thank Mark for his tremendous drive and input both with our radio and our computer projects, we will miss his input but I am glad to say that we will not lose Mark completely as he will remain a valued member.
I do believe that Mark has arranged for both a new home for the IRLP node and for the filling of the role of secretary, more on this later but thankyou to Mark and to all concerned.

One more item of good news was that Russel Ward, VK3DRW, the weekly news broadcaster on 80m of the Astronomical Society of Victoria, has joined the NERG as a member. Russel came to the NERG October last year and gave us an eye-opener of a talk on Astronomy, we welcome Russel.

The NERG do offer an invitation to any person interested in Amateur Radio to visit us on any club night.

Don
VK3KDT

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