Preparations are underway at the club this week, in preparation for this weekend’s Jamboree on the Air 2018. We expect hordes of Scouts and Guides to descend on the club rooms to enjoy a range of activities, including making radio contacts with other Scouting groups, playing Battleships on the Air, learning Morse code, and setting up […]
Sun 23-Sep-2018 – Summer Prep Working Bee
A fantastic effort for the few who showed their faces. Gutters done ,trees lopped,grounds raked and hall floors mopped. Club house is now looking great Were present: VK2JNA VK2NRA VK2SKY VK2TMF And SAMUEL who did great cleaning down the side of the hall VK2BDF VK2BT VK2MZZ VK2ZZM and VK2THT Thanks again great effort cheers […]
1923 Manly Radio Club meeting
Recent spelunking through the archives of Radio in Australia & New Zealand, a popular magazine that began publication on 4 April 1923, unearthed this photo of an early Manly and District Radio Club meeting, which probably took place at the Victoria Building in Wentworth Street, the home of the Manly Literary Institute. The photo is from page 84 of the 16 […]
Aug 2018 – 5th Wed – Power Supplies
The Society dedicates the fifth Wednesday of the month (when a month has one) to special themed Show ‘n’ Tell nights. Members and visitors vote with a gold coin for their favourite displays. The theme for August was Power Supplies. Here are some photos from the night (click on images for more detail)… (Read N8XJK’s original November […]
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, […]
Tela-Verta 144P
I picked up a Tela-Verta portable battery operated AM Broadcast valve receiver at the last Trash & Treasure. The radio is not in very good condition, however got it going with a bit of TLC! It distorsions a bit, but I don’t have any circuit diagram for it, this is the only reference I could find about […]
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 AGM
Picture of the members present at the meeting (11-Jul-2018) Office Bearers and Coordinators for 2018 – 2019 President: Mike VK2UCT Vice Presidents: Rod VK2ZZM and Philip VK2APL Secretary: Des VK2TGJ Treasurer: Richard VK2NRA Public Officer: Tim VK2BT Publicity Officer: Richard VK2SKY Computer/Data Officer: Matt VK2RQ Repeater Officer: Bob VK2GJ HF/VHF/UHF Officer: Greg VK2XE Social Officer: Dom VK2JNA Lead Trainer/examiner: […]
GD-77 DMR Instructions
May 2018 – 5th Wed – Crystals
Another great show and tell night up at the club! Russel was the overall winner of the Tecsun DE13 Emergency AM/FM/SW Solar Powered Radio. [Thanks again Garry and Tecsun Radio Australia for the donation.] Shaun VK2XPP judged the “Hurricane” as telling the best yarn of the evening with a few others being highly commended. I […]
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, […]
µBITX project
Just had to build one of these www.hfsignals.com/index.php/ubitx/. So here is my µBITX project, for the price of 2 crystals for a Codan lunch box, I get a full HF rig! It had to go into an ammunition box, a bit tight in one of the dimensions, and if I was to do this again, […]
March 2018 Lecture – FPGAs and EPIC Benefits
Abstract: A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit in which the logic and interconnections can be defined by downloading a bitstream to its memory. Since their introduction in the 1980’s, these devices have dramatically increased in capacity and functionality, with the recent Xilinx ZU29DR FPGA integrating a 1.5 GHz Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor; […]
Repeater hut gets A/C
Our repeaters have been chugging along faithfully but the hut they live in – although well insulated – has been at the mercy of ambient air temperature. With hot summer days reaching 40C at times the gear has to swelter through it with only fan-forced cooling (which also dragged in high levels of humidity and […]
Silent Key Legacy – looking for information
Our website came long after members became silent key. For legacy and completeness, we are looking for information on past silent key members (refer to spreadsheet). Please comment on this post if you can supply any information.