Waverley Amateur Radio Society
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Welcome to VK2BV webdev site!
If you’re looking for up-to-date detailed information about the Waverley Amateur Radio Society you’ll discover much more at vk2bv.org. For information about how the website rework is proceeding and the thinking behind it, read ‘The Makeover‘ and subsequent pages. In brief the process is to The priority at this stage (in mid-January 2023) is to…
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Cubical Quad Antenna
A group of antenna builders travelled to Robertson on Saturday 25th February to finish off the installation of the donated cubical quad antenna.These hams were Barrie VK2IBE, Skip VK2ALR, Stephen VK2RH, Raffy VK2RF, Bob VK2NRC and Fred VK2WS. On a previous visit to build and erect this antenna we were forced to stop work as…
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*Webdev progress report*
As of mid January 2023 the basic webdev wordpress site has been setup using the basic so far unmodified “twenty twenty-three” site template. The address which appears to be publicly accessible is https://webdev.vk2rh.org. A number of posts and pages from the existing site at vk2bv.org have been migrated across to the webdev site and a…
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WARS members community service recognised
Members of the Waverley Amateur Radio Society were awarded National Emergency Medals and Long Service Awards on 10th December 2022 for their commitment and service to WICEN and during the recent bushfire emergencies. Edwin VK2VEL, Eric VK2VE, Doug VK2DCR, Megan VK2KUR, Sam VK2HAU and Alex VK2PSF. The NSW Premier’s Bushfire Emergency CitationThe Premier of New…
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SMD Soldering Workshop
Congratulations to Skip VK2ALR and others responsible for organising the recent workshop on SMD soldering held at the Rose Bay RSL Club on 3rd December 2022. At least 15 members and visitors took part in the very hands on training. We had access to every possible way to solder surface mount devices from soldering irons…
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CQ WW CW Contest 2022
An intrepid band of CW contesters competed in the 48 hour 2022 CQ WW CW Contest over the weekend. We used the WARS contesting callsign VK2W.The contest began at 1100 (local time) on Saturday the 26th of November and went until 1100 on Monday the 28th. The previous weekend had seen some extremely strong westerly…
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CQ WW SSB Contest report
The WARS club competed in the 2022 CQWW SSB contest over the weekend of the 29/10, 30/10 and 31/10. We used the club’s contest callsign VK2W We had 8 operators attend for all or part of the competition period plus a couple of interested observers, including Bruce VK2ZPN. The operators were – Barrie VK2IBEStephen VK2RHSkip…
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Free SMD Workshop 3 Dec 22
The Waverley A.R.S. is planning a workshop/project day for Saturday 3Dec 22. from 13:30 at Rose Bay RSL.To RSVP Click Here The topic will be “Surface Mount Techniques for Hobbyists” andparticipants will discuss and demonstrate methods for radio amateurs touse these components and techniques. The sessions will be almostentirely “hands-on” and involve constructing small devices to learn…
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2022 Trans Tasman Contest
A crew of contesters competed in the 2022 Trans Tasman contest from the Robertson contest site. This contest was held on Saturday the 16th of July 2022.We used the WARS club’s contest callsign VK2W.We competed for the full 6 hours of the contest duration, from the start time at 1800 local time on Saturday evening,…
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2022 ARRL RTTY Roundup
On Sunday the 9th of January, VK2IBE, VK2ALR and myself, VK2WS, competed in this year’s ARRL RTTY Roundup from the Robertson contesting site.We used the Waverley club’s VK2W contesting callsign.We spent Saturday fixing up two dipoles (well, one didn’t really require fixing at all, we just needed to select the correct (mislabelled) feedline and getting…
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