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 [...]
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. [...]