Albury Wodonga Amateur Radio Club
A friendly group of amateur radio enthusiasts
The results are in and the club station has achieved 3rd place in the VK2 division of the Multi-Single category of the 2016 RD Contest. A well done to 1st timer Peter VK3PTE for his work in the contest. Certificate will be available for viewing at the October Meeting. The club is starting to regularly achieve good reults in contests […]
Read moreFollowing some substantial work at the VK2RAY site there are now new cavities and a 118.8Hz CTCSS Tone required to access the repeater also. Please adjust your radios to transmit a 118.8Hz CTCSS tone to access the VK2RAY Repeater. Frank – VK2BFC
Read moreThe club was today awarded the eQSL eAustralia award for making confirmed contacts with stations in each of 8 VK call areas.
Read moreOur club participated in this years Remembrance day contest from the QTHR of Frank VK2BFC. Pete VK2PTE and Frank VK2BFC operated over the 24 hr period on all bands from 160 to 70cm in the Multi Operator Single Transmitter section. The competition was fierce in the early hrs with many 100s on 40m but as the night wore on it […]
Read moreErwin Bejsta VK3ERW will be presenting a demonstration on the uses of the Arduino computer system and the programming of these devices. Erwin has used these devices for a variety of applications including monitoring of the power consumption and charging at the VK2RAY Repeater. Dont miss this talk at the August meeting Tuesday 2nd August at the 1st Lavington Scout […]
Read moreCongratulations to Peter VK3PTE for coming 9th in this years VK Shires contest in the SINGLE-OP ALL section. Great effort for a first entry ! Frank VK2BFC came 5th in the same section and 9th overall. Lets see a few more members get into the contesting spirit with the RD contest and the Oceania DX contest coming up soon.
Read moreOur repeater has been running low on power and was down for part of last week. Some work carried out over the last few days should see an improved situation. We are currently testing the Yaesu DR-X1 repeater hardware on VK2RAY. This is a new repeater system and the committee would like to get some performance feedback from members at […]
Read moreThe club takes great pride in receiving their 2nd place certificate for this years John Moyle Memorial Field Day contest. The club operated from camp Nelson in Howlong and attained 321 points from 101 Contacts in the Multi Op – Phone – All Band – 6Hr section. Congratulations to Frank VK2BFC , Greg VK2EXA, Nigel VK3NWH, Stephen VK2LAD, Graham VK2MGA, […]
Read moreBelow is a link to Soundcloud.com where I uploaded the interview with Frank VK2BFC by Joseph Thomsen of ABC Murray Goulburn last Friday 15th talking about our display and comms at the Albury LibraryMuseum. Great job Frank 🙂 Click on the link then the orange arrow to listen to the interview… https://soundcloud.com/dallas-sargeant/abc-hamradio-interview (the file was too large to upload here […]
Read moreI took some photos of our World Amateur Radio Day display at the LibaryMuseum. Come along and have a look or even better help us out 🙂 From Friday to Monday this weekend! See also Greg VK2EXA’s post re World Amateur Radio Day…
Read moreThose of you planning on joining us for the John Moyle field day will require a copy of the VK Contest Log Software. Download VKCL Version 3.13 as an .exe or as a .zip file. Check for viruses (unzip if necessary), and run the file to start the installation. NOTE: It is always a good idea to create the database […]
Read moreFrank VK2BFC was finally granted his assessor accreditation on 25th Feb. and is now WIA Assessor #2-099.
Read moreThanks to the stirling work of Ron VK2TRL. The VK2RAY 2m Repeater now has echolink capability ! You can access the repeater via echolink using the echolink software connected to VK2TRL-R. Try it out i’m sure those of you outside the range of RAY will love it. Frank VK2BFC
Read moreThe newsletter and business minutes are now being sent from email vk2ewc@bigpond.com PLEASE be sure to include this email in your whitelist or safe list in your email client to allow for correct receipt of the newsletter and minutes. Thanks Frank VK2BFC Newsletter editor
Read moreAWARC now provide QSL Verification for all contest, event and net contacts using eQSL. Here are some of the eQSL cards currently received. Our Cards look like this
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