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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Category: Portable operations
Items relating to times we get out of the shack and operate from the field
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 Flagpole Comp wrap up!
What a great weekend! As the dust settled and the flags were packed away for next years activities I collected the logs, photos and evidence for review at a casual club meeting. Firstly I have to say for our first comp things went really well, we had contacts from across the land in conditions that […]
MWRS Flagpole Contest
The Manly Warringah Radio Society invite you to celebrate International Talk like a Pirate day, Amateur Radio and Flagpoles by participating in our inaugural Flagpole Contest. This is a fun and as you can see not too serious contest that will promote Amateur Radio and portable operations. So dust of your rig, get your antenna in […]
Lighthouse wrap up!
What a blast! Once again we had a great weekend, and while we are busy consolidating our logs I can give you a video of the event.
2013 John Moyle Field Day wrap-up!
This past weekend saw the annual John Moyle Field Day, which was contested by a few of our club members. Our resident contesting professor the honorable Patrick (VK2PN) was once again on the air with Horst VK2HL from the lovely Myall River on the NSW Mid North Coast. For a full write up of his weekend […]
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 […]
VHF/UHF Winter Field Day 2012
Well the field day was fun, we operated 6m through 23cm from the oval just behind the scout hall near the club. We had one contact on 23cm, it’s the first time Nick VK2FS has activated 23cm in Oz since he came from England over 20 years ago. Well done Nick! Of course, these things […]
10th annual Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend
To celebrate International Lighthouse and Lightship weekend on 20-21 August 2011, the Manly-Warringah Radio Society once again operated a portable shortwave radio station from Barrenjoey Lighthouse at Palm Beach. The Society aims to make radio contact with as many lighthouses and lightships as possible over the course of the weekend. Last year, we took to […]