Posted in News on Feb 20th, 2010 Comments Off
The next meeting of the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society Inc. will be held at Industry World Coniston on Tuesday the 9th of March 2010 at 7.30pm. This meeting will feature a talk by Max VK2ARZ on audio quality and your signal. This will be a very interesting talk indeed.
Look forward to seeing you all there.
Cheers
Tony [...]
Posted in News on Nov 2nd, 2009 Comments Off
Greetings to all members of the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society Inc.
The next club meeting and Annual Monster Auction will be held on Tuesday the 10th of November 2009 at Industry World Coniston at 7.30pm
The Auction Rules of engagement:
Please no junk. If you bring it, and it doesn’t get sold, you take it home. Anything found left [...]
Posted in News on Sep 20th, 2009 Comments Off
After the regular meeting business, Neil Justusson VK2VNJ will give a talk on amateur radio high altitude ballooning (ARHAB).
This talk will introduce you to flying amateur radio-based experiments using unmanned high altitude balloons. Learn about the different types of balloons, what kinds of equipment you can include, how the balloon is tracked, and a bit [...]
Posted in News on Jul 31st, 2009 Comments Off
Hello one and all,
The next meeting of the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society is our Annual General Meeting for the year and will begin at 7.30pm Tuesday the 11th of August 2009 at Industry World Coniston. Please consider nominating for a position on the club committee. We really do need a publicity officer and some more general committee members to [...]
Posted in News on Jun 8th, 2009 Comments Off
Greetings to all members and visitors to the website of the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society Inc.
The next club meeting of the IARS will be held at 7.30pm on Tuesday the 14th of July 2009 at Industry World Coniston.
Our Annual General Meeting is also coming up on the 11th of August 2009. Financial members please consider nominating for the [...]
Posted in News on Apr 19th, 2009 Comments Off
Attention all members and interested Amateurs…
The VK2RMP 6 Metre Repeater is back up on air at Maddens Plane on 53.650MHz with the usual 1MHz negative offset. A 123Hz CTCSS tone is required for access. John VK2AAL has built in an interesting feature. 5 ptt keys of carrier will put the repeater in to temporary Carrier [...]
Posted in News on Mar 20th, 2009 Comments Off
Wollongong Council and the Sustainable Illawarra project are holding a free e-waste collection day.
This is a great opportunity to get rid of all (or at least some) the accumulated detritus of a lifetime as a radio amateur!
Date: 26 April 2009
Venue : Kembla Grange Racecourse
Time: 9.30am – 3.30pm.
Domestic quantities accepted.
Dispose of your e-waste responsibly by bringing [...]
Posted in News on Mar 2nd, 2009 Comments Off
Congratulations are in order to Brian ”Golden Tonsils” Farrer – VK2AH, and Ted Thrift – VK2ARA, for taking out third and fourth place respectively in the Ross Hull contest 2009. I just spoke to Brian and he said we will have to try even harder next year. Ted took out first place on 6Metres. Could Brian [...]
Posted in News on Jan 26th, 2009 Comments Off
Greetings to all members and visitors to the website of the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society.
IRLP Node 6018 has been upgraded to become an ECHOIRLP Node. What does this mean to you? Well IRLP is still available and works exactly as before. I have enabled indiividual user access only for echolink at this stage as I [...]
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 [...]