Posted in News on Oct 26th, 2008 Comments Off
Well it is that time again! Eveyone looks forward to the November auction. To make it more enjoyable and to ensure the auction runs smoothly I have listed the rules of engagement below. Let me take this opportunity to thank Simon VK2XQX in advance for doing the owners once again as the club auctioneer.
IARS Auction [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in News on Jun 4th, 2008 Comments Off
VI2AMW60.
The Special events call sign has been issued by the ACMA to the IARS for use from the 10th of June 2008 until the 30th of June 2008. This callsign is to celebrate 60 years of Amateur Radio in the Illawarra and also of the Wollongong Amateur Radio Club which evolved into the now Illawarra [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
G’day all,We have applied for the SDSL broadband internet connection today for the Maddens Plain Repeater site. All going well (Fingers crossed) we hope to have an active Internet connection for the D-Star system within a couple of weeks.
All we need now is some Repeaters, the appropriate Licences (This is to be furbished by others-hopefully [...]
G’day one and all
Well things have been happening behind the scenes with the IARS D-Star project. As usual we don’t do things by halves, and the system promises to be of a world class standard. I thought it was about time we let you all know about our progress.
The two 2Metre/70Centimetre/23Centimetre Triband Hi-Gain Diamond Collinear [...]
Posted in News on Mar 16th, 2008 Comments Off
On the 10th June 1948 the Postmaster-Generals Department issued the Experimental Licence VK2AMW, and Illawarra Amateur Radio Club is going to celebrate this special time with a special Club call sign, VI2AMW60.
June is the 60th Birthday month with lots of activities for members and non members to join in, have fun and celebrate 60 [...]