Getting Started with Meshtastic

At the May 2024 SARTS quarterly meeting, Andrew Young kindly shared the wealth of information he has collated for SARTS members and a wider community of local people interested in building a vibrant LoRa based Meshtastic network in Singapore. This document is updated regularly as Meshtastic is evolving fast, so anyone interested is invited to join the 9V1 Meshtastic telegram group, which holds regular meetups and is coordinated through the LPWAN & IOT Interest Group Singapore, a community aligned with but independent to SARTS.

https://www.sarts.org.sg/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Getting-Started-with-Meshtastic-in-Singapore.pdf

SARTS and Singapore Scouts

For decades SARTS and Singapore Scouts have run successful JOTA (Jamboree on the Air) and, more recently, also JOTI (Jamboree on the Internet) events. Samuel Lau 9V1BX, working with 9V1FH, 9V1ST and others, set out to explore if there could be a way to deepen the relationship by empowering scout leaders to build Amateur Radio related activities into what the scouts already do. At the May 2024 SARTS Quarterly meeting Sam shared this presentation he used to introduce a series of activities at a joint activity session held on 11 May 2024.

SARTS monthly meeting Feb 2021

Our February 2021 monthly meeting was held via Zoom. James, 9V1YC, emphasized again that SARTS has a drop in members and that we need member contributions helping to keep the club active and growing. If you are not a member yet and want to apply for SARTS membership, or you haven’t paid your annual dues, please do it online using our application/renewal web form.

Roland, 9V1RT, gave a short status report about our repeater. Klaus, 9V1KG, updated on the latest developments of the website.

Haoyan, 9V1HY presented about our SARTS QSL buro. As a member you can send and receive QSL cards free of charge via the buro.

Klaus presented about his experiences with software defined radios (SDR) and active antennas on Shortwave (HF).

You will find a copy of the presentations under the category SARTS Talks.

SARTS Meeting Jan 2021

The January 2021 meeting was held virtually via Zoom. It was also the 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM).

SARTS Council 2021

The following members were confirmed serving as SARTS officers for 2021

  • President: James Brooks 9V1YC
  • Vice President: Benjamin Koe 9V1KB
  • Hon. Secretary: Jeff Yeo Nai Kwang 9V1AS
  • Asst Secretary: Aaron Wong 9V1AW
  • Hon. Treasurer: Harish Pillay 9V1HP
  • Council Member: Roland Turner 9V1RT
  • Council Member: Chu Haoyuan 9V1HY
  • Council Member: Arnold Cabahug 9V1CD

Office Bearer 2021

  • Examination (RAE): Ben, 9V1KB
  • Outward QSL Manager:   Kurita 9V1XX
  • Inward QSL Manager:  Chu Haoyuan, 9V1HY
  • Awards Manager:   Ben, 9V1KB
  • IARU Liaison Officer:   Jeff, 9V1AS
  • Webmaster:   Klaus Goepel, 9V1KG

The next monthly meeting will take place on Feb 25th, 2021 via Zoom.

AGM to be held on 28 Jan 2021

We will have our SARTS Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Jan, 28th, 2021. Due to the pandemic the meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. Members already received the meeting id and passcode via email.

Nominations

The following have been nominated by the council to serve for the 2021 work year:

  • President : James Brooks 9V1YC
  • Vice President: Benjamin Koe 9V1KB
  • Hon. Secretary: Jeff Yeo Nai Kwang 9V1AS
  • Asst Secretary : Aaron Wong 9V1AW
  • Hon. Treasurer: Harish Pillay 9V1HP
  • Council Member: Roland Turner 9V1RT
  • Council Member: Chu Haoyuan 9V1HY
  • Council Member: Arnold Cabahug 9V1CD

Agenda

  • Confirmation of the Minutes of the 50th AGM held on 24th Sep 2020 2.
  • Matters Arising from the Minutes of the 50th AGM 3.
  • To consider and accept the Council’s Annual Report for 2020
  • To consider and accept the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31 Dec 2020
  • Election of Council Members and Office Bearers for 2021.
  • Welcome address by new council members
  • Election of Hon. Auditor for 2021
  • To consider the matter of monthly meetings by Zoom until such time when eyeball meetings may be resumed.
  • Any other business

SARTS Meeting Oct 2019

Meeting was conducted by VP Sato
SARTS Shirts and Caps donated by Matt 9V1MH ready for collection
Visitor Ron DU3T
Visitor Michael ZL1UOM
Distribution of Membership Cards
Ogie 9V1OG gave a talk on supporting the Scouts JOTI/JOTA 2019
Group photo with our visitors

See you at the next meeting !