On Sunday 26 February 2023, the Society will be celebrating 100 years of Amateur Radio on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The first meeting of the Manly & District Radio Club took place at the Presbyterian Hall, Raglan Street, Manly on 26 February 1923, marking the start of organised Amateur Radio in the area. More details on […]
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Author: Yves Bernier
7-Nov-2022 – 1st Terrey Hills Scout visit to MWRS
The Terrey Hill scouts visited us at the clubhouse Monday 7-Nov-2022 7pm – 8pm Members In attendance: Sean – VK2THT Testing equipment demonstration of waves stationDes – VK2TGJ Build a mobile station and on air experience outdoors stationLeo – VK2LEO Morse code stationPhil – Vk2BDF […]
15-17 July 2022 – Trans-Tasman Low Band contest – Berrima
Jeff VK2MZZ raised the idea of MWRS heading to Berrima Scout camp to enter the Trans Tasman contest of 2022. A bunch of us signed on for a full weekend – many of us have done it before & the challenges are there (but small) & the reward is high. The w/e starts with pub night on Friday […]
April 2022 Lecture – Apollo Mission Tracking: Overview and Anecdotes
For those of us who missed it, the speaker, Mike Dinn, was a British avionics engineer who migrated to Australia in 1960. He worked on aircraft flight testing at RAAF Laverton near Melbourne for five years, before landing a job as Deputy Station Director at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex at Tidbinbilla, which tracked the […]
Mar 2022 – 5th Wed – Aerials
The club’s motto is “any aerial is better than no aerial”. Bring them on, big & small, long & short, commercial grades or home built, temporary or permanent, stealth and invisible, macho UHF CB bigger than the bull bar aerial, water base! Best display by vote, best story by the nominated judge. We had an interesting […]
Xmas BBQ Sunday 19-Dec-2021
As per tradition, the MWRS Xmas party was held the Sunday prior to Christmas. Well attended considering many members had clashes with many other parties. In attendance (in callsign order): list under construction – not sure I (VK2SKY) have everyone, and partner names – help me out here, please! After the BBQ, and while the […]
VK2YU Home brew M0MCX DX Commander
Home brew “DX Commander” 7m antenna – November 2021 … Australian date & time Firstly, this build is a copy of a commercial antenna so ALL credit to the design and effort of the idea all goes to the designer: Callum McCormick, M0MCX https://www.m0mcx.co.uk The original build information is here https://www.m0mcx.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/DXC-Rapide-User-Guide.pdf Note there are several […]
November 2021 Lecture – Amateur Remote Station
Presentation by Steve Kennedy VK6SJ from Future Systems. Firstly talk about Remote Stations & secondly about how Future Systems supplied SDR radios can help you do that. Watch it on VK2MB-TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIPAOl27HXc
Oct 2021 APRS 2m iGates update
People are out and about again … or fcalls are now discovering the digital world. iGates connected to the internet typically provide 2 types of coverage: position packets heard directly; position packets sent to aprs-is, typically digipeated by an internet deprived aprs receiver. In October 2021, our vk2mb-2 2m iGate has sent a record 26,000 […]
Sat 16-Oct-2021 Spring Working Bee
Heaps of clearing around hall. Jobs done included: all gutters cleaned out; 3/4 rooftop on Southside cleaned off (all that could be reached from the ladder); Shed roof now spotless (you could eat off it); Some branches trimmed, loose timber; 4 bazillion pine needles taken to the tip; more stuff piled on outdoor fireplace; other general […]
2/3 Oct 2021 Oceania Contest
By Dom VK2JNA After the fun 7 weeks ago of the Australian based RD contest I thought I’d have a crack at the Oceania DX contest (phone). AntennasLots of dreaming & a little last minute 2nd antenna building happened to complement my main endfed 40/20/10 dipole. I again used the 12m spiderbeam popup mast, this […]
15-Sep-2021 Lecture – Gliding off to War (WWII)
1-Sep-2021 lecture – The Side Slippers
RAAF 3 Squadron “The Side-Slippers” – James Oglethorpe – Manly-Warringah Radio Society lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKXiLUlbfaA
APRS iGates 6 months on (Sep 2021)
It has now been 6 months since we had the internet installed at the hall. HF (VK2MB-6) and 2m VKF (VK2MB-2) APRS IGates were also commissioned at the hall to support the APRS traffic. Note that the club has also been running a 2m APRS IGate (VK2MB-1) at the repeater site since April 2013. The […]
14/15 Aug-2021 Remembrance Day Contest
2021 RD Contest in a Covid lockdownby Dom Bragge, VK2JNA.21aug2021 We’re all trying to be good citizens & staying at home as much as possible. When not at home, we’re masked up or exercising alone or just in family groups of one household. This has become a bit tiresome 7 weeks in with no end […]