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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]