Posted in Club News on Nov 17th, 2008 Comments Off
The last IARS Bunnings fund-raising sausage sizzle is scheduled for Saturday 29 November. We are looking for volunteers to help the club raise funds to cover the ever increasing costs of running our repeater network. We have raised on the order of $500 to $700 for each of our first three Bunnings fund raisers.
We need [...]
Posted in Club News, Lighthouse weekend, News on Aug 10th, 2008 Comments Off
It’s International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend this weekend the 16th -17th August 2008.
As in past years, the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society and the Blue Mountains Amateur Radio Club, will again be manning the Point Perpendicular Lighthouse at Jervis Bay to celebrate this historic event. The unmanned solar light will be switched off and the ‘old’ original [...]
Posted in Club News on Jul 19th, 2008 Comments Off
The next meeting of the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society is the Annual General Meeting and will be held at Industry World Coniston on Tuesday the 12th of August 2008. All executive and committee positions will be available for nominations. Please ensure all nominations are received by the secretary no later than the 3rd of August [...]
Directions for the anniversary fox hunt and BBQ to be held at Blackbutt Reserve today Sunday 29th June 2008. All welcome.
To find Blackbutt Reserve, Blackbutt (a Wollongong southern suburb) follow the directions below.
Travel along Shellharbour Road to Woodlands Drive, then travel along Woodlands Drive to the T intersection and turn left into Blackbutt Way. Follow [...]
Technical Workshop No. 2 Sunday 15th June 2008.
The workshop will again be held in the premises of Rivers Solar Pty Ltd at 4 Mineral Road, Oak Flats, NSW. We thank VK2TSB for the use of his facilities once again. The start time for the workshop will be 10am.
The project this week is the “Differential Time [...]
It is with deep regret that the I.A.R.S. President Tony Stone has reported to the club membership of the passing of Howard Booth, VK2AMD.
The following is an extract of the notification release by the club.
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Howard Booth, VK2AMD.
Howard Booth, VK2AMD, passed away last Sunday afternoon 25th May 2008, at the age of 100. Howard was the [...]
Posted in Club News on May 24th, 2008 Comments Off
The Illawarra Amateur Radio Society’s technical workshop number one, will be held this Sunday at Oak Flats. We will be building tape measure antennas for use at the foxhunt on the 29th of June.
This workshop is open to all amateurs and interested persons. You don’t need to be a member of the Illawarra Amateur Radio [...]
Posted in Club News on May 6th, 2008 Comments Off
The Special event Callsign VI2AMW60 has been issued by the ACMA to the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society for use from the 10th of June 2008 until the 30th of June 2008. The special event Callsign is to commemorate 60 Years of Amateur Radio in the Illawarra via the Wollongong Radio Club which later evolved into [...]
The Technical Workshops are finally here. You may have heard about this initiative on the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society’s weekly broadcast each Tuesday evening, or maybe from the WIA or Amateur Radio NSW news broadcasts. In a nut shell what we’ve done, is assembled several short amateur radio projects into a technical workshop for amateurs. [...]
Please note this post now shows the corrected frequencies.
Well…. the big day is almost upon us. D-star day that is! Tentative frequencies have been allocated, and the repeaters programmed, we are presently waiting on ACMA confirmation. The frequencies will be (pending approval):-
Band: 23cm, Mode: DD (Digital Data)
Rptr TX: 1298.500MHz
Rptr RX: 1298.500MHz Simplex
Band: [...]