VK2MB/portable was active in this year’s Spring VHF/UHF Field Day; details are still coming in, so watch this space… The contest team started arriving at the clubhouse about 9.30am, to sort out the radios and antennas to be used, then headed off to the JJ Melbourne Hills Reserve, about 1km to the south. Locator QF56OH. […]
Sun 26-Feb-2023 – 100 year anniversary
On Sunday 26 February 2023, the Society will be celebrating 100 years of Amateur Radio on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The first meeting of the Manly & District Radio Club took place at the Presbyterian Hall, Raglan Street, Manly on 26 February 1923, marking the start of organised Amateur Radio in the area. More details on […]
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 […]
24-Sep-2022 Working Bee
With JOTA (and summer) just around the corner, the club held a working bee to make the grounds safer for the young ‘uns by removing some of the fallen branches and leaves, cleaning the gutters, etc. Here are some photos collected so far from the day. Despite the forecast of thunderstorms all day, the morning […]
September 2022 Lecture – Test & Measurement
Philip Leong VK2APL reports: The Club was pleased to welcome Mr Chi Xu, Sales Director, AppVision Australia. Chi has been working in the RF industry for 15 years, as an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) engineer, RF System Integration Engineer (National Instruments) and RF Specialist (National Instruments Australia). Chi gave an enlightening talk on electronic […]
27-Aug-2022 Sydney Uni Open Day
(WIP – waiting for more photos and comments from others who were there.) It was a rainy Saturday morning in the city as the University of Sydney held its annual Open Day, and hordes of potential students (and their parents) descended on Camperdown to check out the academic offerings. Philip VK2APL, who is Professor of […]
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 […]
NavShield 2022 at Tarlo River National Park
While many club members were burning up the 160m band at Berrima, some 36km to the west sou’west, Richard VK2SKY and Simon Brown VK2TW donned their WICEN uniforms to assist with Bush Search and Rescue (BSAR) NSW’s annual NavShield event. As is normal for this event, multiple emergency service agencies were involved, both as competitors […]
15-17 July 2022 – Trans-Tasman Low Band contest – Berrima
Jeff VK2MZZ raised the idea of MWRS heading to Berrima Scout camp to enter the Trans Tasman contest of 2022. A bunch of us signed on for a full weekend – many of us have done it before & the challenges are there (but small) & the reward is high. The w/e starts with pub night on Friday […]
Club 2m “First Wednesday” net
With COVID hanging around like a bad smell, some members are still feeling a bit reluctant to come to the clubhouse. Probably with good reason, as a couple of members have come down with what some refer to as “the spicy cough”. Thankfully, there have been no serious health problems resulting, but even so, there’s […]
April 2022 Lecture – Apollo Mission Tracking: Overview and Anecdotes
For those of us who missed it, the speaker, Mike Dinn, was a British avionics engineer who migrated to Australia in 1960. He worked on aircraft flight testing at RAAF Laverton near Melbourne for five years, before landing a job as Deputy Station Director at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex at Tidbinbilla, which tracked the […]
May 2022 Lecture – Holograms, Artificial Stars, and Killing Drones
Last night (18 May 2022), in place of the usual lecture at the clubhouse, we got to visit the MQ Photonics Research Centre at Macquarie University for a presentation about lasers and photonics. Our hosts, Professor Helen Pask and some of her team of researchers, gave us a wonderful show of the wonders and applications […]
Glow Worm Tunnel Marathon RF survey
On 7 May 2022, WICEN NSW Inc conducted an RF survey of a section of the Glow Worm Tunnel Marathon trail. The aim was to determine radio coverage for the Pipeline Track section between the campgrounds at Glen Davis and Newnes. WICEN tested the safety communication bases in both locations, as well as a third […]
Video: Unexpected Visitors
New on VK2MB-TV, some video from the clubhouse security camera, of wildlife that visits the club in May 2022 outside of scheduled meeting times… click here. Enjoy!