Patrick VK2PN, along with Miro OK1NG, will be active on Lord Howe Island from 23-30 May, operating as VK9PN. They will also take part in the CQWW WPX CW contest. Chris VK3CY will also be there from 27 May – 2 June for the contest. Operations will be from 160m through to 10m, mainly on […]
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MWRS lectures on YouTube
As you probably know already, the third Wednesday of every month is given over to a lecture, usually to a technical topic, something related to Amateur Radio, or some other subject of general interest. Recently, the club decided to restore the old, but sporadic, tradition of recording lectures on video, for later viewing and to […]
January 2012 Lecture – DXepedition to Timor-Leste by Bernd VK2IA
VK2IA tell’s us about the 4W6A DXpedition to Timor-Leste at the January 2012 Lecture night held at the Societies Terrey Hills radio shack. For more information visit the DXpedition site at http://www.4w6a.com/. You can see the lecture here: [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMDKIeOpBH8&feature=plcp[/tube] https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.298628616902678.61853.298022756963264&type=1
10th annual Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend
To celebrate International Lighthouse and Lightship weekend on 20-21 August 2011, the Manly-Warringah Radio Society once again operated a portable shortwave radio station from Barrenjoey Lighthouse at Palm Beach. The Society aims to make radio contact with as many lighthouses and lightships as possible over the course of the weekend. Last year, we took to […]
2011 AGM
Thus spaketh MWRS President, Tim Jensen VK2BT: As you all may be aware, instead of our “normal” Business Meeting, we will be holding our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday 13th July 2011. The location will be the Terrey Hills Girl Guide Hall (i.e. our usual meeting venue). The time will be from 8 pm. […]
Antenna Wire: Stainless Steel vs. Copper
Recently, the club’s email reflector has been buzzing with discussion of the best wire for use in dipoles, both temporary and permanent installations. Many opinions were bandied back and forth, the details of which can be found in the reflector archives of YahooGroups under the subject line, “Dipole Wire”. Tim VK2BT offered some of the […]
Geoff VK2MIA’s Time Lapse experiment
Geoff VK2MIA brought his fancy camera and tripod up to the club on Wednesday, and did some time lapse photography outside the club house, while the others were inside playing on the HF radio. He uploaded the resulting video to YouTube, which you can see below. The object of attention is the club’s TH-6 tri-band […]
Scouts visit to build RDF antennas
This week’s club meeting was devoted to a group of visiting Scouts, who had come to construct radio direction-finding (RDF) antennas for an upcoming fox hunting event. The two metre band portable yagis were constructed from plastic tubing with steel tape measures re-purposed as antenna elements. A bit of wire for tuning stubs, some coaxial […]
Easter 2011 mini-DXpedition to Coolah Tops
The Easter/ANZAC Day long weekend was an ideal opportunity for a club mini-DXpedition. This report from Tim VK2BT: We had a great break camping at Coolah Tops over the break. The weather and the HF propagation were perfect! Many skeds on 7045 on 5W and even down 2.5W. Spoke with Andrew as he drove across […]
March 2011 – 5th Wed – Morse Key display night
The club’s Morse Code enthusiasts were out in force on Wednesday night. Yves VK2AUJ had declared the evening a competition to see who had the best Morse Key display. All manner of keys were produced from an antique light-signaling device, to a paddle keyer built mainly from LEGO bricks (and a few microswitches), to one […]
The first grant awarded to Lachlan VK2FBAH
The first winner of the Society’s First Amateur Radio Licence Youth Grant (FARLYG) is Lachlan Boyle, who now sports the callsign VK2FBAH. We don’t expect Lachlan to hold the callsign for too long, as he is already studying Swainston’s tome in order to upgrade his licence! Lachlan’s dad, Jim, is also a licensed Amateur, holding […]
Column 8 awards PhD to club member
Most Sydneysiders will be aware that the Sydney Morning Herald’s popular feature, Column 8, is a kind of clearing house for matters both trivial and of great import regarding comings and goings around this great city. Club publicity officer/attention whore, Richard VK2SKY (with the help of several club members) was recently awarded a rare and […]
VK2MB 2010 Christmas net
The club Christmas 2010 net on 40 metres had the following checkins: VK2PN Patrick (net control) VK2NRA Richard VK2ZZM Bruce VK2BT Tim VK3XAS Andrew, portable in Thredbo VK2SKY Richard VK2HU Noel VK2AGS Gerry VK2BYN Russell VK2MP Mark VK2HL Horst VK2SX Dom VK6TSK/2 Stefan There were probably others, but we couldn’t hear them. Sorry! Propagation was […]
Working bee report: the tower is UP!
Today’s working bee saw a number of routine maintenance jobs completed, like clearing the leaves from the guttering before the bushfire season cuts in, cutting up old tree branches for the BBQ and bonfire (for use outside of Total Fire Ban periods, of course), general cleanup in the clubhouse, etc. BUT… the big one was […]