On-Air

The Elizabeth Amateur Radio Club maintains and operates a number of repeaters, beacons and other gateways for both voice and data on a wide range of amateur bands in the Northern suburbs.

The WIA Sunday morning broadcast is relayed at 9am every week on some of the clubs repeaters.

The club also has on air nets using the VK5LZ club callsign on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday on the month. Details of these nets can be found on the upcoming events page.

Below are the details of the club's equipment. You can find information about the club's sites here.

Repeaters

Callsign Band Output Input Location Coverage Operational ERP HASL Timeout
VK5RLZ 6m 53.775 52.775 Water Tower Adelaide North Y ? 73m 5min
VK5RLZ 2m 146.625 146.025 Water Tower Adelaide North Y ? 73m 4min
VK5RLZ 70cm 439.975 434.975 Water Tower Adelaide North Y ? 80m 3min
VK5ROC 70cm 439.950 434.950 Lower Light Adelaide Plains Y ? 52m 4min
VK5RLZ 23cm 1273.550 1293.550 Water Tower Adelaide North Y ? 73m 5min

Beacons

Callsign Band Freqency Location Operational ERP HASL
VK5RLZ 10m 28.260 Water Tower Yes +38dbm 73m
VK5RLZ 23cm 1,296.555 Water Tower Yes +16dbm 73m
VK5RLZ 13cm 2,403.550 Water Tower Yes +8dbm 73m
VK5RLZ 9cm 3,400.550 Water Tower No - 73m
VK5RLZ 6cm 5,760.550 Water Tower No - 73m
VK5RLZ 3cm 10,368.550 Water Tower No - 73m
VK5RLZ 1.25cm 24,048.550 Water Tower No - 73m

Packet Radio

The Elizabeth Amateur Radio Club operates a packet radio BBS (VK5LZ) on various bands. The BBS is linked into the worldwide network.

WIA Broadcast

The Wireless Institute of Australia 's Sunday morning broadcast is relayed the following frequencies at 9AM Sunday morning with a call back following the South Australian news:

  • 439.975 MHz - VK5RLZ - 70 CENTIMETRES - with call back.
  • 145.000 MHz, no callback
  • 1.843 MHz LSB - 160 METRES - with call back.

2.4GHz Wireless

The EARC is experimenting with 2.4GHz networking in association with Air-Stream, a community based Wide Area Network. The EARC's equipment is part of the Air-Stream network which is growing all the time and is under constant development. The EARC is looking forward to using the High Speed connectivity for club activities. Who knows, our meeting might even be streamed over the WAN or a backbone for the Sunday morning broadcast. For more information check out the air stream website.

Access Point:

  • Sector Horizontal Polarization: East
  • Omni Vertical Polarisation: East to South West