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Welcome to the

Illawarra Amateur Radio Society

 

We meet at the “Inside Industry” facility just inside the main entrance of Blue Scope on Springhill Road.
This is the BlueScope entrance & the brand new Visitor Centre’s building entrance.
Drive in the BlueScope entrance & turn right (before the security gates) & follow the Visitor Centre signs.
 
Plenty of off-street parking!

Your next IARS meeting is:

 

 

 

Calendar of meeting topics

• August: Doors open 6.30pm AGM starts at 7.30pm with new committee members elected.

• September : September 2026 : No committee or general meeting. Doors open 6.30pm
7.30pm, Show And Tell, bring along your project to share with us

• October : No committee meeting, doors open 6.30pm. General meeting starts 7.30pm
Presentation starts after general meeting. Topic TBA

• November : Committee meeting at 6.30pm.
No General meeting.
IARS Annual Auction with Simon VK2XQX. Doors open at 6.30pm for sellers for looking to
sell their gear. Equipment must be booked in before the auction starts at 7.30pm.
Please NO latecomers.

• December : No committee or general meeting. Doors open 6.30pm
IARS year end Christmas function

Tuesday night Net

Echo Link Net – Every Saturday Morning!

IARS will host an Echo Link Net every Saturday kicking off at 09:30hrs on VK2RMP on 146.850MHz. Why not jump on and join the conversion!

DMR Repeater

Our new VK-DMR repeater is online. It is located at Maddens Plains and the details are as follows :

VK2RMP – 438.725MHz -5000 Tx
Colour Code 1

TS1 – TG5 – VK NETS, TG1910 – Linked ARNSW Repeaters

TS2 TG505 – All VK Repeaters, TG3802 All NSW Repeaters

The Repeater status can be seen here : http://rpt.vkdmr.com/ipsc

Propagator for August 2026