In March 2025, our Membership & Training Coordinator, Brian VK2AXC was out west. While he was there, he dropped into the Army Museum of Western Australia. Here’s his report… I thoroughly recommend a visit to the Fremantle Army Barracks Museum. I met up with a friend’s cousin who is a volunteer. He arranged for Igor VK6ZFG, […]
HamClock Configurathon
Following feedback received from a very good HamClock lecture and the urge from many members to build their own, a “Configurathon” evening was organised for Wednesday 26-Feb-2025, basically BYO hardware and lets configure together, first one to tell the time from his/her clock … helps the other ones to finish. Richard VK2ARH kindly organised the […]
February 2025 Lecture: HamClock
For the February 2025 lecture, Richard Hinsley VK2ARH/W5ARH and Simon Mitchell VK2YU presented an introduction to setting up and using HamClock, an application that provides real time space weather, radio propagation, and many other points of information for use in the shack. The lecture includes a live demo of the application and brief explanations for […]
2025 New Year kick off Working Bees
2025 started with some storms, flooding some equipment, bringing down trees and creating some power outages, typically accompanied with power surges. Our resident Godzilla was also very busy in taking down a couple of our security cameras. Few impromptu working bees were organised. In January, a power surge destroyed a “vintage” Cisco switch and a […]
Jan 2025 – 5th Wed – Data Storage
At the Society, the fifth Wednesday of the month (for months that have one) is Show and Tell night; the theme for January was Data Storage: The invite said: “Who remembers punched cards and magnetic core memory? Tape in all formats, USB sticks, chips, floppy disks, laser etc. ROM … à la read only memory […]
January 2025 lecture: HMAS Diamantina
For the January lecture at the Society, Mike VK2MDP spoke about a combination of family and naval history, centred around the World War 2 frigate, HMAS Diamantina, which now lives at the Queensland Maritime Museum. Mike discovered historical connections between the ship and HMS Teviot, while he was researching his father’s service in the Royal […]
Pilgrimage to the Victorian High Country
Over the Christmas 2025 / New Year 2026 break, a group of MWRS members are on their annual Victoria High Country outing. First few days are held at the Native Dog Flat Campground, accessible by 2WD. During the stay, some participants venture on daily 4WD expeditions, or worst, climb mountains to tryout their rigs! Apart […]
MWRS Christmas Net 2024
MWRS members met up at 9am on Christmas morning for the traditional HF and VHF net. Conditions on 40m (7085kHz) were pretty reasonable though with a bit of fading. Dom VK2JNA took on net control. You can see a short video clip of Dom in action here. The rollout this year was pretty large compared […]
2024 Xmas BBQ
After some correspondence about whether to BBQ or not BBQ, the annual xmas BBQ was held a week earlier this year (Sun 15-Dec) as many members got rostered on Father Christmas duties on the usual last Sunday prior to Christmas. We’ve heard that some kids may be getting iambic keys for Christmas! The BBQ was […]
November 2024 lecture: Precision ADS-B
In November, we had a special visit from Mogens Bradley Andersen of ADSB Support in Billund, Denmark, home of another well-known company that makes plastic bricks or something… Mogens and his Australian wife were here on holiday, and he took some time out to give us a presentation about his company’s work in Automatic Dependent […]
29-Nov-2024 Xmas Dinner
Annual Christmas Dinner at the Belrose Hotel From left to right, clockwise: Des VK2TGJ, Julie, Phil VK2BDF, Phil VK2JPK, Geoff VK2TGO, Nicholas VK2MYK, Phil VK2XPL, Russell VK2BYN. Nick VK2FS, Zara VK2ZYP, and Jeff VK2MZZ after this photo.
Father and Son Team up for the Foundation License
Congratulations to father and son team, Shaun VK2DWS and Charlie VK2TDC who both recently (Nov-2024) qualified for their Foundation License. Charlie is also undertaking the Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE), and chose to study for the Foundation License under the skills category for the award. Within the first few weeks of Charlie commencing his studies, Shaun […]
23-Nov-2024 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day
The last two VHF/UHF contests that we have tried to run have been met with bad rain, this time around a perfect day was on the agenda. The contest starts at 0100UTC which is midday in Sydney. The location was again be the Pony Club/BMX track with meeting at the club house at 9:30 to […]
Oct 2024 – 5th Wed – 100% recycled
The Fifth Wednesday (of any month that has one) is reserved for themed Show ‘n’ Tell Nights. 30 October was another such night… “100% Recycled” was a tough theme this time, as most of us are more used to buying shiny new gear than repurposing old stuff. There were only 3 displays this time, but […]
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 […]