Held this year over the weekend of the 17, 18 & 19 October 2025, the MWRS has again hosted the usual JOTA activities at the Society’s meeting site at Terrey Hills: We managed to improve the centre height of 40m dipole from 2m to 7m improving signals prior to the commencement of the activities. Stonehenge […]
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Sep 2025 Pre-JOTA working bee
To ensure our site and premises are presentable for the upcoming 2025 JOTA/JOTI activities, a WSWB (welcome summer working bee) was organised. With the current prevailing weather, 2 rain check weekends were also lined up. As it turned out the weather was on our side for the initial Saturday 6-Sep day! A comprehensive list of […]
Wed 27-Aug-2025 – JOTA kit packaging
As we approach JOTA again, the society contributed to the packaging of the kits that will be provided to the youth on the JOTA/JOTI day. The 4th Wednesday is typically a freebee social meeting evening, so how best to socialise than working as a group on a assembly line! The kits will then be dispatched […]
Tue 12-Aug-2025 – Cromer Dee Why Cubs’ visit
Another successful Cubs’ evening at the MWRS club house with many members introducing the amateur radio hobby to very enthusiastic 8 Cubs and their parents. The usual JOTA style stations were on rotation. Onsite: WFH Call back:
JOTA/JOTI 2024
The JOTA/JOTI event was held over the 18-20 October 2024 weekend. The activities at the MWRS’s club venue were held on Saturday 19-October with the usual Battleship game over 2way radio, introduction to HF radio communications, build an emergency portable radio station from the ground up (literally) and introduction to morse. Most stations worked on […]
18-Jun-2024 Frenchs Forest Cubs’ visit
In between JOTA events, the club hosts visits from local Scouting groups. This evening, we had a visit from Frenchs Forest Cubs. 13 Cubs in all descended on the clubhouse, and were treated to some radio activities. Des VK2TGJ ran the “build a station” activity (one of our JOTA staples). The challenge is to put […]
21-Oct-2023 JOTA!
Well, that’s another JOTA done and dusted. Thanks everyone on the MWRS JOTA team who participated (in callsign order): JOTA was a great team event, although the participating Scout numbers were down a bit, about 60 in total. The Scouts and Guides ventured over from the campsite to the MWRS clubhouse, to get a taste […]
2nd Turramurra Cubs Visit, 14-Aug-2023
As all our regular visitors know, playing radios with the Scouts isn’t just a once-a-year thing for us, so we had another visit from one of the local Scout groups, this time 2nd Turramurra Cubs. As usual, we give our young visitors a taste of the hobby, and what they might experience if they come […]
1st Forestville Cubs Visit, 2023-07-25
JOTA comes but once a year, but at Manly-Warringah we make sure that our friends in the Scouting movement don’t have to wait a whole year for their next experience of Amateur Radio! Throughout the year, the Society hosts visits from local Scout groups – a kind of mini JOTA – when the kids come […]
Go West, OM!
During a July 2023 family visit to Perth, VK2AXC ran a Morse Code Activity for his grandson’s Cub group.VK2AXC’s son is also a new leader with the Greenwood WA Cub Scout Group hence the invite to help with an evening program. By all accounts the Cubs had great fun, and got in some advance preparation […]
JOTA’s Coming…
Update, September 2025: this year’s JOTA/JOTI is happening from 17-19 October, so we’re updating this post to assist clubs and Amateurs who are looking for ideas for the JOTA weekend. This event is one of the important ways we introduce youngsters to the great hobby of Amateur Radio, so we encourage all Amateurs to get […]
7-Nov-2022 – 1st Terrey Hills Scout visit to MWRS
The Terrey Hill scouts visited us at the clubhouse Monday 7-Nov-2022 7pm – 8pm Members In attendance: Sean – VK2THT Testing equipment demonstration of waves stationDes – VK2TGJ Build a mobile station and on air experience outdoors stationLeo – VK2LEO Morse code stationPhil – Vk2BDF […]
15-Oct-2022 JOTA!
Once again, the club hosted Scouts and Guides taking part in this year’s International Jamboree on the Air. A group of 62 scouts visited from a nearby school where they were camping; numbers were well down from previous years, so we cut back activities from the full weekend to just Saturday. We expect the numbers […]
23-Aug-2022 Cub Night
In something of a pre-JOTA warmup, the Society hosted a group from Cromer Cub Scouts for a visit on the evening of Tuesday 23 August. It was a cold, wet, night out, but the wood fire took the chill of the clubhouse, and the dozen or so scouts brought plenty of enthusiasm that kept us […]
JOTA 2020 (17 October)
Like just about every other human activity taking place this year, the 63rd Scouts and Guides Jamboree on the Air (JOTA63) and the 24th Jamboree on the Internet (JOTI24) were influenced by this pesky coronavirus. As far as VK2MB was concerned, because the clubhouse has been shut down due to physical distancing limitations, we couldn’t […]