ILLW – International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend Personally, I think ILLW stands for It’s Likely Lousy Weather! This year was no exception. Dom VK2JNA, Geoff VK2TGO and Geoff VK2AVR assembled at Staging point #1 (the coffee shop) just before 8am Saturday morning. We continued to Staging point #2 (Palm Beach carpark) where we met […]
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2013 – 2014 – Repeater Update for Up the stick!
The last year has been pro-ductive for our repeater site, with several notable up- grades. The biggest up- grade was the replacement of our main VHF antenna. We were using a 5/8 wave- length amateur-grade verti- cal that had been in place several years, but the per- formance was degrading. Inspection revealed it was full […]
Lazy Sundays (hunting QRM)
Everyone has a different idea of Lazy Sundays. For Tim VK2BT, Geoff VK2AVR, Charlie VK2GMT and El Presidente (Carlo) VK2MXC, this past lazy Sunday was an opportunity to chase some interference problems. Our VHF repeaters (analog and DSTAR) have had an issue recently – when both are keyed there is audible “splatter” on the analog tail […]
February 2014 Lecture – 630m band
On Wed 19th Feb Nick VK2DX gave a technical lecture on the 630m band (472-479kHz). His lecture covered suitable transmit and receive antenna options (they are different!), as well as hardware and software for scanning the band visually. He also spoke of propagation characteristics, usually this band propagates via ground wave with a path loss […]
VHF/UHF Summer Field Day 2014
MWRS operated portable during the Sunday morning segment of this year’s Summer Field Day, from the oval behind our club rooms. This oval is at a high point in Terrey Hills and provides a good outlook in all directions. Operators were Nick VK2FS, Geoff VK2MIA, Matt VK2RQ and Carlo VK2MXC. In addition we had several […]
2013 Jamboree On The Air (JOTA)
JOTA time already?? MWRS has hosted activities for the Scouts and Girl Guides for several years and this year was another busy and fun experience! We had around 180 kids come through the hall over the weekend of 19th-20th October. MWRS put on a variety of activities such as: Build a VHF station – Connect […]
MWRS President on 2UE, wrapping up ILLW for 2013
Listen to 2UE interviewing MWRS President Carlo Nizeti after International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend (ILLW) After a very successful weekend up at Barrenjoey Lighthouse, we had a chance to talk with 2UE about ILLW and ham radio in general. Listen to the interview by clicking here
MWRS President on 2NSB FM99.3 this afternoon, 4:30pm for World Amateur...
Tune in to hear our Club President Dom Bragge talking about World Amateur Radio Day this afternoon at approx 4:30pm on 2NSB, 99.3MHz FM. Listen to Dom Bragge’s interview by clicking here To celebrate the big event MWRS is holding a BBQ this Sunday 21st April, from 3pm. Anyone is free to attend but please […]
VHF/UHF Field Day – Summer 2013
Nick VK2FS and Geoff VK2MIA activated the oval just behind MWRS’s repeater site for the last 3 hours of the summer field day (Sunday 9am-12pm). The name of the game was to get some antennas in the air, make a couple of contacts and see if we could better our last score on 23cm. Unfortunately […]
JOTA 2012
Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) is an annual event in which about 500,000 Scouts and Guides all over the world make contact with each other by means of amateur radio. Radio signals carry their voices to virtually every corner of the world! The MWRS will once again be supporting this global event over the weekend […]