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Welcome to the Illawarra Amateur

On behalf of the Illawarra amateur radio society, We would like to wish everyone a merry and safe Christmas. Please note there is no meeting in January and we look forward to seeing you all again in Febuary!
Our venue is at the “Inside Industry” facility just inside the main entrance of Blue Scope on Springhill Road.
This is the BlueScope entrance & the brand new Visitor Centre’s building entrance.
Drive in the BlueScope entrance & turn right (before the security gates) & follow the Visitor Centre signs.
Plenty of off-street parking!

Your next IARS meeting is:

Calendar of meeting topics

• January : No meeting 🙁

• Febuary : Saturday 29th Feb SHACK CRAWL! Please email Keith (Secretary@iars.org.au) to book your spot!

Friday night Net

NOTICE:  The “Thank God It’s Friday Net” has been moved to Tuesday nights. Apparently it interfered with the only PARTY evening of the week, well we can’t argue with that. Therefore from next week the TGIF net will be on Tuesdays at 8.30pm on 3.630Mhz. Please join us for an hour of some HF testing and chatting. By unanimous show of hands the name will remain as is. So catch you on the TGIF on TGIT

Combined Clubs Field Day and Barbecue Lunch

The Illawarra Amateur Radio Society and the Mid South Coast Amateur Clubs will joining together to hold a field day.
The main activity will be activations of National Parks in the WWFF program. The main modes of activation will be using 2 metre and 70cm rather than the usual HF frequencies.

This will be possible because of the number of National Parks in close proximity in our area.

These frequencies will also provide the opportunity for those who cannot get out to the field day to make contact with those operating portable in the National Parks.

Click HERE to download the PDF with all the information.

Echo Link Net – Every Saturday Morning!

IARS will host an Echo Link Net every Saturday kicking off at 09:30hrs on VK2RMP on 146.850MHz. Why not jump on and join the conversion!

DMR Repeater

Our new multimode repeater is online and working well. It is located at Knights Hill and the details are as follows

438.725MHz -5000 Tx
Colour Code 1
Timeslots – Unlinked
TS1 – Talkgroup 91, TS2- Talkgroups 505, 5052, 50521

A big thanks to Jesse for making this happen.