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. Valê Howard Booth, VK2AMD. Howard Booth, VK2AMD, passed away last Sunday afternoon 25th May 2008, at the age of [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
60th Birthday Celebrations for VK2AMW
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 [...]
Icom in conjunction with the WIA have chosen the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society along with the Manly Warringah Club to receive a 2Metre/70cm/23cm D-Star Repeater system. This system will be located at Maddens Plane and will entail Digital Voice and 4.8KB/s simultaneous data on 2Metres 70Centimetres and 23Centimetres along with 128KB/s high speed data on [...]
First meeting of the Year, February 2008
Posted in News on Jan 22nd, 2008 Comments Off
Greetings all amateurs. The next meeting of the Ilawarra Amateur Radio Society Inc. will be held on Tuesday the 12th of February 2008 at 7.30pm at the usual venue at Industry World Consiton. All members, prospective members and visitors are welcome. So come along for a great evening! 73′s de Tony Stone VK2TS President IARS Inc.
December Christmas meeting and Christmas supper
Posted in News on Dec 2nd, 2007 Comments Off
Good evening one and all, The December Christmas meeting of the Illawarra Amateur Radio Society will take place at our normal venue at Industry World Consiton on Tuesday the 11th of December at 7.30pm. The club committee has decided it would be rather nice to shout everyone a nice meal at this meeting to celebrate 2007. Food will be delivered [...]
IARS MONSTER AUCTION ON AT THE NOVEMBER MEETING!
Posted in News on Oct 23rd, 2007 Comments Off
IARS Auction rules November 2007: Please no junk. If you bring it, and it doesn’t get sold, you take it home. Anything found left at the end of the night will be disposed of at our discretion. Please don’t complain you didn’t know. All goods for auction to be booked in by 7.00pm, no exceptions [...]
NEWSFLASH! Echolink is now connected to the Knights Hill VK2RBZ 147.300 repeater
Posted in News on Sep 24th, 2007 Comments Off
We now all have access to Echolink on the 147.300Mhz VK2RBZ repeater courtesy of Steve VK2BGL located at Kiama.It’s callsign is VK2BGL-R and it’s node number is 325276. To access a Echolink node just dial in the DTMF code for the node number you are calling. With Echolink it can be a four, five, or [...]