Good news for HF APRS users: a new receive-only Igate (Internet Gateway) is being tested at the clubhouse. Using the callsign VK2MB-6, the gateway is currently connected to the main club HF rig and TH-6 antenna, beaming west, but will eventually be coupled to a CODAN 7004 crystal locked receiver with its own single band […]
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WICEN FEBEX2 exercise at VK2MB, 9-10 Jan 2021
The weekend of the 9th and 10th of January was WICEN’s FEBEX-2 communications exercise. A year since the catastrophic NSW bushfires, and with COVID locking down everything since, WICEN felt the need to get members active in sharpening their message passing skills, trying out any new portable gear, and experimenting with new modes. It was […]
ARNSW/WIA Club Expo, 26 May 2019
The Wireless Institute of Australia’s held its Annual Conference and AGM in Sydney this year, in association with the Waverley Amateur Radio Society‘s centennial celebrations. As part of this weekend event, Amateur Radio New South Wales hosted a Clubs Expo at the VK2WI site in Dural. Of course, local clubs were invited to attend, and […]
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ARNSW 40m dipole “buildathon” — 10-March-2019
Amateur Radio New South Wales held a 40 metre dipole “buildathon” at Dural earlier this month. The event was aimed at helping Foundation licensees get onto HF, though some Amateurs with other licence grades turned up too. From our club, Sajith VK2FAST and Shaun VK2XPP participated, and Richard VK2SKY came along to “hold hands” and […]
Vintage Radio hacking
The latest club project is to get this old box singing again… …and no, it doesn’t do D-STAR. Not yet, anyway! 6-feb-2019 Our Valve radio expert, Roger VK2GHB, visited the Historical Radio Society meeting last Saturday & bought them out! We now have a great kit of parts for refurbishing the STC Model 549. Roger […]
Tela-Verta 144P
I picked up a Tela-Verta portable battery operated AM Broadcast valve receiver at the last Trash & Treasure. The radio is not in very good condition, however got it going with a bit of TLC! It distorsions a bit, but I don’t have any circuit diagram for it, this is the only reference I could find about […]
May 2018 – 5th Wed – Crystals
Another great show and tell night up at the club! Russel was the overall winner of the Tecsun DE13 Emergency AM/FM/SW Solar Powered Radio. [Thanks again Garry and Tecsun Radio Australia for the donation.] Shaun VK2XPP judged the “Hurricane” as telling the best yarn of the evening with a few others being highly commended. I […]
µBITX project
Just had to build one of these www.hfsignals.com/index.php/ubitx/. So here is my µBITX project, for the price of 2 crystals for a Codan lunch box, I get a full HF rig! It had to go into an ammunition box, a bit tight in one of the dimensions, and if I was to do this again, […]
Welcome to Ozy Radio
11-May-2018 – OZ Radio is back on air http://tecsunkiwisdr.hopto.org:8073/?f=4835.00amz9 At a September 2017 MWRS meeting discussions about a new SW broadcaster got our short wave listeners all excited. It seems that *Ozy Radio* is starting up on some recently vacated Radio Australia frequencies of 3210 kHz (night) & 5045 kHz (24hr). It seems they are just warming up […]
MWRS live audio streams
VK2RMB 2m repeater Audio from the club’s 2m repeater VK2RMB is now streaming online 24/7. The audio feed is provided via Broadcastify at https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/popout.php?feedId=26259. Or, you can download an app such as Scanner Radio on Google Play, or Scanner Radio Deluxe on the iOS App Store. In either case, simply search for VK2RMB to find the audio feed. You can […]
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 […]
Now you’ve done JOTA, what’s next?
Get your licence with the Manly-Warrigah Radio Society! The society conduct regular weekend training to gain your licence, visit our Become a HAM FAQ.
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 […]
