Last Wednesday evening a small group of members gathered at the REAST club rooms to disassemble the DATV studio, in preparation for the rear shed being redeveloped by Tasmanian Maritime Radio (TMR) to move their operations hub into.

Amateur Television has played a large part of REAST, with the first broadcasts occurring from VK7OTC in 2005, in a makeshift studio, before moving to it’s own studio in 2010. Broadcasts started out as analogue before moving to DVB-S then DVB-T transmissions.

Digital Amateur Television broadcasts are planned to make a return in 2017 with the studio relocating into space currently used by TMR after they move to the redeveloped rear building. It will be an exciting time with the opportunity to rebuild the studio.

REAST club rooms will continue to open on Wednesday evening with other activities including satellite communications, software defined radio and homebrewing, along with all the regular show-and-tell and discussions you know and love!