My weekend radio adventure at the Convict 100 by Dom VK2JNA A successful event. Some incidents but nothing major: broken thumbs, collar bone, many scrapes & scratches & broken bikes. Didn’t have to evac by helicopter anyone (this time). I took out a few people by road from CP18 with roof rack stuffed with bikes. […]
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Items relating to times we get out of the shack and operate from the field
John Moyle Field Day 2021
(Update, 20 April: Rod VK2ZZM has uploaded a video of the event.) The worst rainstorm weekend of the century was not going to put a damper on the MWRS attempt at the John Moyle Memorial Field day 2021 the 20-21 March 2021 Thanks to Rod (and his magnificent shed) for hosting us! We could operate […]
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 […]
VHF/UHF Spring Field Day Contest 2020-11-28/29
Here are a few shots of our recent Field day operation at Mount Allyn. Fantastic views from this location! And being at this altitude, the weather was (mercifully) much cooler than down on the flat. Participants were: Nick VK2FS and Zara VK2FZYP Greg VK2XE Andy VK2EAH Steve VK2KFJ Tim VK2BT Although we weren’t favoured with […]
John Moyle Field Day 2020
Over the 21-22 March 2020 weekend, the MWRS activated a “portable” station at the Polblue Campground in the Barrington Tops National Park. Where present: Andrew VK2EAH Connie VK2CON Greg VK2XE, Declan & Cara Nick VK2FS Phil VK2APL Rod VK2ZZM Ross VK2FRET Tim VK2BT Yves VK2AUJ Zara FZYP We piled up 229 contacts thanks to Ross […]
23-Nov-2019 VHF/UHF Spring Field Day
The Spring VHF/UHF Field day ran over the 23/24 November weekend. Although this is a 24 hour contest, traditionally we have entered into the 8 hour section either on the Saturday from midday or on the Sunday from early morning. This year MWRS ran on the Saturday afternoon covering 6m/2m/70cm/23cm. For the last couple of […]
International Lighthouse Weekend 2019
VK2MB at Barrenjoey Lighthouse 17-18 August The Manly-Warringah Radio Society has participated in the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend since 2003. We were back again this year again! As in previous years, we activated the historic Barrenjoey Lighthouse at Palm Beach, some 30km north of Sydney (lighthouse code AU0046). We were a bit short-handed this year, as a number […]
20/21 July 2019: Trans-Tasman Low Band contest report.
(by Greg Lee VK2XE) Once again, the Manly Warringah Radio Society decided to operate the Trans-Tasman Low Band contest as a portable station. This year we operated again from the Berrima Scout Camp which is just outside of town and located along the bank of the Wingecarribee river. In conjunction with the contest we held […]
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 […]
12-Jan-2019 VHF/UHF Summer Field Day
The VK2KFJ team worked from Mont.lambie Saturday 12-Jan, caught up with Gerard vk2io portable at Mont Trickett up back of Jenolan Caves. Did some microwave contacts saturday night, plus some more the following morning. The VK2KFJ team spotted an orange glow on Saturday night, to the south, got up 6am to investigate and found a fire in […]
ILLW 2018: VK2MB at Barrenjoey Lighthouse
Report by Philip Leong VK2APL and Tim Jensen VK2ETJ The Manly-Warringah Radio Society has participated in the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend since 2003. This year we hosted our friends Lindsay VK2AMV, Dave VK2JDS and Garry VK2FGAZ from the Amateur Radio Central West Group. As in previous years, we activated the historic Barrenjoey Lighthouse at Palm Beach, […]
2018 Trans Tasman 160m Contest
Thanks to everyone that came down to camp and participate in the low band contest over the weekend. Big thanks to Jeff VK2MZZ for arranging access to the site. There was a big effort in getting radio and antennas set up and everything worked very well. We should see a strong result from VK2MB in […]
2018 John Moyle Memorial Field Day
Tim VK2BT, Dave VK2JDS, Owen VK2OL and Greg VK2XE The Manly Warringah Radio Society (MWRS) participated in the 2018 John Moyle Memorial Field Day, held 17-18 March. John Moyle(1908-1960) was an engineer, editor, music and art lover, and the following two-part biography by Neville Williams eloquently describes his significant contributions to radio in Australia: (1) http://messui.polygonal-moogle.com/valves/NW198909.pdf, […]
25-Nov-2017 VHF/UHF Spring Field Day
This year’s Spring VHF/UHF Field Day enabled the Manly Warringah Radio Society to put into action some of our new field equipment which has been purchased as a result of club funds and the recent grant from ARNSW. We all wish to thank ARNSW once again on such a great initiative to the development of […]
24-Sep-2017 – ARNSW Grant!
After applying earlier in the year. The Manly Warringah Radio Society was recently the recipient of a grant from ARNSW for the sum of $2,474 to assist the club to fund some major components of one of the club initiatives. The grant will form part of the funding for the project with the remainder coming […]