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MWRS Assists CREST for 2025 Convict 100 Setup

MWRS Assists CREST for 2025 Convict 100 Setup

CREST NSW is providing safety communication support for next weekend’s Convict 100 mountain bike marathon. On Saturday 26 April 2025, as yet another excuse to get out portable and play radio, several MWRS members assisted setting up fixed and mobile repeater sites to provide reliable coverage for the 100km event. Teams were deployed to several […]

April 2025 – Lecture – Dom VK2JNA trip to the tip

April 2025 – Lecture – Dom VK2JNA trip to the tip

This April lecture was an impromptu one by Dominic, so actually happened on the fourth Wednesday (23-Apr-2025). Dom reports on adventure and the trials and tribulations that invariably come with a 3500km drive from Sydney to “The Tip”, i.e. Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland (https://maps.app.goo.gl/CQaxeqhsh4956…. If you’re into travel, 4WD adventures, and of […]

Club members support CREST at 2024 Convict 100 event in St Albans

Club members support CREST at 2024 Convict 100 event in St Albans

This weekend, 4-5 May 2024, St Albans just north of the Hawkesbury River is again hosting the Convict 100 mountain biking event. Our friends at CREST are again providing safety communications, and spent last weekend and yesterday (Friday 3 May 2024) setting up repeaters and other gear along the course. Of course, the multi-talented Manly-Warringah […]

26-Aug-2023 University Sydney Open Day

26-Aug-2023 University Sydney Open Day

The University of Sydney held its annual open day on the 26th, hoping to entice a new crop of students to pursue their higher education there. There was something of a carnival atmosphere to the event, with most faculties having a light-hearted element to their displays, such as LEGO tables and fairy floss offerings somehow […]