One of my #tipoftheday … radio related!
ARNSW 40m dipole “buildathon” — 10-March-2019
Amateur Radio New South Wales held a 40 metre dipole “buildathon” at Dural earlier this month. The event was aimed at helping Foundation licensees get onto HF, though some Amateurs with other licence grades turned up too. From our club, Sajith VK2FAST and Shaun VK2XPP participated, and Richard VK2SKY came along to “hold hands” and […]
February 2019 Lecture – Cutting Edge Radio Manufacturing
Challenges of Manufacturing Cutting Edge Communications Gear for Aviation and Military applications – Norm Champion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5k3HsboBeE&feature=youtu.be
Killarney Heights Cubs – 26-Feb-2019
The Killarney Heights Cubs were introduced to radios and communications at our Club House with the following members: Dom VK2JNA HF Rod VK2ZZM remote HF from Crookwell Geoff VK2TGO Morse Richard VK2NRA Encryption and communications Greg VK2XE Station Building on HT. Des VK2TGO Station Building Mal VK2TGJ Morse and Host. Stefan VK2??? Learning the ropes. […]
Thanks to the Education Team
At the 13-Feb-2019 business meeting there was a unanimous vote of thanks to the education team that conducted licence assessments over many years. Our thanks go to: Ted VK2WL Mark VK2MP Chris VK2YY Robert VK2DH Karen (CCARC) Tim VK2AAA Simon VK2TW This group of unsung heroes has been responsible for ensuring that our hobby stays […]
Jan 2019 – 5th Wed – Old Manuals and Catalogues
The January 2019 theme night was about old and interesting technical/instruction manuals and old product catalogues. It goes without saying that the members of the Manly Warringa Amateur Radio Society have very understanding partners, for when the call went out for Old Instruction Manuals, Technical Manuals and Product Catalogues for the first show and tell […]
Vintage Radio hacking
The latest club project is to get this old box singing again… …and no, it doesn’t do D-STAR. Not yet, anyway! 6-feb-2019 Our Valve radio expert, Roger VK2GHB, visited the Historical Radio Society meeting last Saturday & bought them out! We now have a great kit of parts for refurbishing the STC Model 549. Roger […]
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 […]
WebSDR is back!
After a lengthy hiatus the WebSDR is finally back online! All Asus Xonar U7 sound cards needed the primary CMedia CM6632 ICs replaced, seems to be a known weakness with these devices. 20m and 15m frequencies have also been tweaked up the band for some variety. Head over to http://websdr.mwrs.org.au:8901 and start listening again! We greatly appreciate […]
Tue 25-Dec-2018 – Christmas net checkins
The club’s annual Christmas net was held as usual at 9am (Sydney local time) on 7045kHz. Stations checking in, in order of appearance: VK2PN Patrick on net control VK2ZZM / mobile 7 Rod VK2MZ Rob VK2HU Noel VK2MZZ Jeff VK2JNA Dom VK2NRA Richard VK3KJB John (former MWRS President) VK2HL Horst VK2DF David VK2MZ Rob VK2OL […]
Sun 23-Dec-2018 – Christmas BBQ
Ho, ho, ho … some usual suspects missing because of nasty bugs, but overall well attended with perfect “cool” weather!
November 2018 Lecture – Honeysuckle Creek
November 2018’s club lecture, Honeysuckle Creek, is now available for viewing on YouTube. The lecture is given by Andrew Tink AM, who previews his upcoming book, Honeysuckle Creek: the Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong’s First Step. Honeysuckle Creek tracking station, with its 26 metre dish (now decommissioned), is most famous for being […]
JOTA/JOTI 2018
This year we had around 170 scouts and guides come through and we had some interest in cub and guides night at a later date. By all responses from scouts they were very happy with Jota at MWRS, thanks to all involved and trying to keep to the time dead line of 15 to 18min depending […]
Education & Assessment Day, 10 November
If you’d like to earn your Amateur Radio licence and become a “ham”, or perhaps upgrade your existing licence, then join our next Education and Assessment Day on Saturday, 10 November. To secure your place, email Mark Plowman VK2MP as soon as possible at education@mwrs.org.au For more information about our Education Days, click here.
MWRS in Column 8
Readers of the Sydney Morning Herald know Column 8 as a font of all wisdom HI. A recent discussion of the Nation Library of Australia’s wonderful Trove website raised the question of whether any treasure had been found therein. On behalf of the club, a response was duly sent: I don’t know about Peter Riley, but I have […]