At the August 2026 lecture, Mal gave a short talk and live demo coding with Claude Code. Claude, and specifically Claude Code, is an AI agent that can assist with coding. Claude Code is a command-line tool that can also integrate directly into IDEs like Visual Studio Code or JetBrains IDEs (e.g. Android Studio, PyCharm). […]
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MWRS POTA at Karuah Park 14-Aug-2026
Greetings Operators, The rumours are true. The myth. The legend. The man who refuses to operate from the comfort of a padded seat in his shack. Professor Portable will strike again. This Friday, the Professor loaded up the mobile command centre (The Rav4) and head into the wild. The mission? Conquer the 40-metre band in […]
MWRS POTA at Carrington Park, Hornsby 7-Aug-2026
It may have been a chilly 8 degrees celcius when we started, but the cool start to the day didn’t dampen the enthusiasm for those enjoying portable activities this morning, despite the traffic noise from the adjacent motorway at Carrington Park Wahroonga, it soon warmed up to be a pleasant morning for radio activity. With […]
July 2026 – 5th Wed – Weird & Wonderful Electronics
Held on Wednesday 29-Jul-2026, the Weird & Wonderful Electronics show & tell items. The invites were soooo comprehensive, please refer to the bottom of the post for what the members had to read to get ready for this event. From Mal VK2TMF A clock and 2 unknown tubes. From Clifford VK2CLF The items demonstrate the […]
MWRS Donation to WA Army Museum Foundation
On Wednesday 4-Feb-2026, a tribute was held at the club premises for Irene May Wood who served in the 2nd Signals Battalion in WW2. In March 2026, the tribute document was handed over to the Fremantle Army Museum of WA Foundation for review since Irene May Wood came from Collie, a small town in WA. At […]
MWRS POTA return to Ruddock Park 24-Jul-2026
By Popular Request, the MWRS POTA retuned to Ruddock Park on a very cold Friday morning. A chilly start for the day, but it soon warmed up – although with Professor Portable (Colin VK2JCC) absent but listing on his SDR radio from Albury, we had four stations operating from Ruddock Park, followed by good coffee […]
2026 Trans Tasman Low-Band Contest
Following the July 2026 Buildathon at the club, some members stayed on to take part in the Trans Tasman contest. In previous years we have travelled to Berrima and the Watagans for this contest held Saturday 18-Jul-2026, however as it clashed with the Buildathon, it was decided to run the contest from the club house. The […]
July 2026 Buildathon
It all started with a survey on the projects members would like to undertake in 2026. A lecture in June explained to all what would be involved in building the projects that scored. A register sheet was then shared with the club members: 29 people ordered 45 kits, 15 people registered for the assisted buildathon […]
MWRS POTA – Interstellar Briefing
Greetings, Earthbound Operators, It is time to extract ourselves from our dark, electromagnetic caves and simulate human interaction on actual green grass. The planetary alignment dictates a morning deployment on Friday 3 July 2026, at 0800 hours. Behold the strategic masterplan for Ku-ring-gai Bicentennial Park: A few were absent today, so only 3 of us […]
MWRS Saturday 27-Jun-2026 Exams
Many thanks to Mark VK2MP our MWRS Training Officer and ACMA accredited assessor who ran the assessment session on Saturday 27th June assisted by Jeff VK2MZZ and Brian VK2AXC. Glenn – Advance Theory, Regulations and Practical – ALL PASSEDOscar – Foundation Theory, Regulations and Practical – ALL PASSED They are both looking forward to ACMA […]
MWRS POTA at Ruddock Park, Westleigh 26-Jun-2026
A fun day was had by all at Ruddock Park, Westleigh, then to a warm cafe. Mostly used were inverted V antennas. On site to set up from about 8:00 am for a 9:00 am net. Attendees were: The rain held off and conditions were good into Central coast and Port Macquarie. Great bscn and eggs and coffee […]
Friday at The Brickpit – Portable Radio with Style
Article from Colin VK2JCC aka Professor Portable – Friday 12-Jun-2026 If there is one thing that can be said about the Friday 40-metre portable operators, it is that no two stations ever look the same. This week’s gathering took place at The Brickpit, Thornleigh, with the net being expertly controlled from the comfort of Cherrybrook […]
May 2026 Hamfests Galore
“The reports of my death were greatly exaggerated”* … who said ham radio was dying when a small city like Sydney can run 2 (TWO) hamfests on the same day and have armies of people attending, notwithstanding the fact that a group of keen amateurs were able to attend both of them. Was this done […]
MWRS POTA – Hornsby Quarry 22-May-2026
Brian VK2AXC Dropped in just in time to see MWRS members signing onto the HARDARC Net 9am on 7.106MHz, Friday 22-May-2026. Colin VK2JCC (Professor Portable) chose a great venue, and it was filled with six participants spread around the park grounds in sunny conditions. Brian left at 9:30 just as the rain drops started and […]
February 2026 Lecture: Field Programmable Gate Arrays: Zero to Blinki...
The February lecture presented by Clifford VK2CLF is now up on our YouTube channel, VK2MB-TV. Software Defined Radios rely heavily on digital signal processing. The high data rates require specialised hardware, usually a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Programmed in Verilog or VHDL, these chips run complex computations in parallel synchronous logic, unlike the sequential processing of conventional computer […]