The University of Sydney held its annual open day on the 31 August, and members of the Society came along to operate the club station VK2MB/p.
Professor Philip Leong is the Director of the University’s Computer Engineering Laboratory. He’s also VK2APL, and a member of the Society, so VK2MB was there to help him tempt some of those prospective students into engineering, and also into the hobby of Amateur Radio.
There was something of a carnival atmosphere to the event, with most faculties having a light-hearted element to their displays and as in the past the MWRS has been invited to display some radio equipment and skill.
The station also did some work on 20m FT8, managing a few international contacts:
BG5VCU posted a few pictures on X as well:
Nice to hear that you were up and running at the bopen day and Carmel was on VK2VMP nice to have made contact with a few of you. I was mobile out and about from East Ryde to Castlecrag and to BMARC Hamfest.
73 Ian VK2AMZ.
Great to work you via P25 from (near) Wagga.
Thanks for the contact Bob.
Also great to meet you last week aboard HMAS Vampire!
73 Richard VK2SKY