Now I need to buy one! View the lecture on VK2MB-TV! The ICOM 7300 session/lecture was originally planned for the HF Month – March 2017 – however as the Wyong field day is at the end for February and many members wanted a reason to grab one at the field day, a lecture/review of the […]
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Workbench Cam
The clubhouse is now equipped with a Workbench Cam! Remember these evenings where everyone crams around the table at the front of the hall to witness the opening an interesting box or the soldering iron trying to fix a broken device. And how about these lectures where the presented gear is on the table and […]
Terlin Antennas – getting SWR down
Dom (17-Jan-2017): Before heading off on a 2week trip to the (quite hot) Red Centre I was just doing a quick sweep of my HF antenna at lunchtime. Although I have a nice dip at 7060, it doesn’t go very low, about 1.65:1. This limits my BW on 40m a bit. Antenna Mounted on bullbar. Any […]
Phone chargers for the car!
Two recent camping road trips where we relied on the travel time to charge our 2 phones convinced me to build a linear 5v power supply. We use an AM Airband radio in the car that is very sensitive to RF from typical switch modes phone chargers. The IDLA charger we bought even overrides our car […]
December 2016 Lecture – FlexRadio 6000
On Wed 21 Dec 2016, Steve Kennedy VK6SJ attended the MWRS to show the FlexRadio 6000 series to club members. Steve is the distributor for these new SW defined radios in Australia as well as being a Hustler Antenna distributor. Members who came along heard & saw what all the fuss is about with SW defined […]
October 2016 Lecture – Quad-copters
On Wednesday 19-Oct-2016, Simon Mitchel vk2yu gave us a lecture on the Quad-copters and drones. Watch it on VK2MB TV.
25-Dec-2016 Xmas Net 0900 local (Sydney, Australia)
Ho ! Ho ! Ho ! Everyone, Another successful M.W.R.S. Christmas net this morning but unfortunately local signals were in the noise a little. Bruce 4MQ had a great signal as did Yves and Connie using the club station. My list of stations participating may not be complete, please add anyone I’ve missed, VK2’s DF, […]
26-Oct-2016 Killarney Cubs’ vist 7-8:30pm
On Wednesday evening the 26-Oct-2016 we had Killarney Cubs visiting us – 16 all up. This is unusual for us for a Wednesday evening but good coincidence with freebee evening. The Cubs were full of beans as always, thanks for all the early helpers. And thank you for the nice campfire. (archived picture)
Now you’ve done JOTA, what’s next?
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Prep for Jota 2016
We spent the “free bee” Wednesday evening of the 28-Sep-2016 preparing the kits for JOTA 2016. This involved opening packs, programming the devices for JOTA, testing and repacking. The evening was quite entertaining with David Hayes M0GDX and Bea, visiting from Sheffield and members of Sheffield & District Wireless Society (www.sheffieldwireless.org). Group picture from the […]
Sat 8-Oct 2016 – Summer Prep Working Bee – from noon
Saturday 8-Oct-2016 has been declared the Summer Preparation Working Bee. It is also a good timing to get the place in good shape for JOTA. Showed up: Connie CON, Yves AUJ, Mal TMF and Samuel, John ZWD, Richard NRA, Richard SKY, Tim BT, Charlie GMT, Bob RL, Michael UCT, Geoff AVR On the list so far: Hall’s general indoor clean up, including dishes (cups, cups and more […]
29-Oct-2005 – Tribes of Sydney – MWRS
Each Saturday the Daily Telegraph peels back the veil to reveal Sydney’s societies. From groups of just a dozen to organised clubs with hundreds of members, these associations go unnotices by the majority of Sydney residents … until now. MWRS – These guys are a chatty bunch, albeit slightly nerdy (picture is a giveaway!!!). They […]
Nov 2016 – 5th Wed – Military Communication Gear
35 people attended the evening with a total of 112 votes. We had quite a collection, including a WWI spark radio transmitter and its receiver. The winner was Bob Anderson with a briefcase size steam powered generator to recharge the radio batteries. Get ready for our 5th Wednesday of the quarter! Wednesday 30-Nov-2016 […]
Mon 29-Aug-2016 Brookvale Cubs
The Brookvale Cubs paid the MWRS a visit! Were presents: Des TGJ, Jeff MZZ, Geoff AVR, Yves AUJ, Dom JNA, Richard NRA, Rod MZ. Glen Satchell sent us the following review: I’d just like to thank you for a wonderful evening tonight. Really great to see the cubs so engaged – you seem to have the […]
W/E 20-21st August 2016 – ILLW
We had a great weekend up at Barrenjoey, filled a few pages of the log book and ticked off a bunch of lighthouses. Richard NRA had some early success with his portable SOTA station while the rest of us battled high winds putting up the main station antennas. We got on air a bit late, but we […]