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The South East Radio Group (SERG) has club rooms in Mount Gambier, a town of 24,000 people near the South Australian border with Victoria.

The 46 year old club provides a focus for the pursuit of amateur radio as a hobby and with approximately 40 members within a 100km radius it is an active one. The members have an enthusiasm for construction, satellites, repeater systems, VHF, UHF, DXing, foxhunting and EPIRB location.

The club has good links with local emergency organisations where our members' speed and accuracy in locating emergency beacons (EPIRBS) and providing radio support has been of great help in emergencies.

The annual South East Radio Group Convention in June is a highlight on the calendar and this attracts wide interest, especially as it is the occasion for the Australian Fox Hunting Competition.

Meetings

The club meets on the first and third Fridays of each month at the club rooms just north of O'Halloran Tce, Mount Gambier. The club rooms are located in the community centre (the old Reidy Park Junior Primary School at the rear of the current Reidy Park Primary School).

Meetings start at 7:30pm.

The first meeting of each month is usually an activity night while the second meeting is a business meeting.

Club Activities & Events

The club is active in a wide ranging way. Active participation in the VHF/UHF field Days is one of the highlights with many successes being achieved in the competition.

The SERG runs the very successful National Fox Hunting Championship as part of its Queen's Birthday Holiday Convention held on the long weekend each June.

The club forms up the Emergency Headquarters Unit for South East SES. It is adept at tracking EPIRBS and assisting with emergency communication having a special emergency comms trailer ready to go at a moment's notice.

A series of weather stations broadcast weather around the South East via the packet network.

The SERG supports beacons on 144.550, 432.550, 1296.550 MHz from its site at Mt Graham near Millicent. At the same site is our IRLP (node 6875) /Echo Link repeater (node 282157) VK5RSE 2 metre repeater on 146.8.

The club also supports linked 2 metre repeaters VK5RMG (146.900MHz) at The Bluff between Millicent and Mt Gambier, VK5RKN (147.375) near Robe, and links to Naracoorte VK5RNC (146.650) and Willalooka VK5RBT (147.350).

The club has a UHF repeater running on the water tower on the side of the Valley Lake, Mt Gambier on 439.825MHz.

Members are also active in EME and satellite communication.

South East Radio Group Location

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Training Courses And Assessment Information

Club assessors Trevor Niven (VK5NC) and John Drew (VK5DJ) provide assessments on demand. From time to time the club runs a course to support future amateurs. David Giles (VK5DG) assists in the process.

Approximately 30 new amateurs have resulted from the club's work over the last two years.