Posted in Lighthouse weekend on Aug 26th, 2007 Comments Off
The summary of contacts made by VK2AMW during the 2007 lighthouse weekend have been delayed. They will be posted here as soon as they become available. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Posted in Lighthouse weekend on Aug 22nd, 2007 Comments Off
WIN News in the Illawarra ran a story on the lighthouse weekend event at Point Perpendicular as the headline item. Here is a Windows Media clip of the news story.
Posted in Lighthouse weekend on Aug 19th, 2007 Comments Off
The combined clubs of the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society (IARS) and the Blue Mountains Amateur Radio Club (BMARC) are currently operating on all bands making contacts as part of the event from Point Perpendicular Lighthouse at Jervis Bay on the South Coast of NSW. The club is using their coast link repeater network for [...]
Posted in Club News on Aug 14th, 2007 Comments Off
The 2007 annual general meeting of the IARS was held Tuesday 14 August. Officers and committee members were chosen for 2007-2008. Here are the results:
President: Tony Stone VK2TS
Vice-president: Rob McKnight VK2MT
Secretary: Steve Benko VK2TSB
Treasurer: John Lawer VK2KEJ
Steve Benko is the new face in the officers for this year. Thanks for stepping up, Steve!
The committee [...]
Posted in Site News on Aug 11th, 2007 Comments Off
The club history page has been updated to include a link to a scanned image of the original 1948 Wollongong Amateur Radio Club license for VK2AMW. To preserve as much detail as possible, the image is 776KB, so watch out if you are using a dial-up Internet connection!
Posted in Club News on Aug 10th, 2007 Comments Off
Don’t forget! Next Tuesday August 14 at 7:30pm is the August IARS club meeting. This month is the annual general meeting. Come and put your hand up to contribute to your club.
The meeting will be at Australia’s Industry world visitor’s centre — see here for directions.
New members and visitors are always welcome. See you [...]
Posted in Club News, Lighthouse weekend on Aug 8th, 2007 Comments Off
The Illawarra Amateur Radio Society and The Blue Mountains Amateur Radio Club (BMARC) will be activating an amateur radio station at the historic, Point Perpendicular light house for the International Lighthouse and Lightship weekend of 18th and 19th August 2007.
The activation will be a combined club event operating on all bands and all modes. [...]
Posted in Club News on Aug 7th, 2007 Comments Off
Here is the nomination form for the 2007 IARS committee. Use this to nominate yourself or someone else to be an office holder or committee member.
Posted in Club News on Aug 4th, 2007 Comments Off
The July issue is Maeva’s last marvellous issue of the Propagator.
THANK YOU MAEVA VK2HUG for your many enjoyable, informative and immortalised (on the internet) Propagators you’ve managed to produce, even when though many other personal circumtances needed your divided time and loving care also. Thanks also to John VK2AAL for tolerating the late [...]