Club awarded eAustralia award
The club was today awarded the eQSL eAustralia award for making confirmed contacts with stations in each of 8 VK call areas.
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The 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 moreTET-Emtron HB35c Full Size TriBander. This phase tuned 5 element TRI-BANDER is neither a trap antenna of standard coil design, nor is it of a linear trap design… Click here to go to marketplace page> (Please note that post photo is Google sourced image and not a photo of item for sale)
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 moreFrom the shack of John VK3HJQ. I’ve had this problem with my Icom IC-290H Radio for years, that every time I turned off the power in the shack the radio would lose all its memory channels and I would then have to reprogram them all back in. This was a simple process as there is only 5 channels in the […]
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 moreOur Annual General Meeting and Election was held last night and we have a new office bearer. We are very confident that our club is continuing on the way forward and will have many fantastic events and learning opportunities for existing and new amateur radio enthusiasts! Congratulations Frank and we can’t wait to see and hear your new innovations! Check […]
Read moreKen has a Hygain TH3 Triband Antenna for sale. Go to our Marketplace page to see description, full list, prices, what else he’s got for sale and to contact him. Click here>
Read moreThis article was submitted by Mark VK3ASC. I was in the local Jaycar store in Albury and saw a poster advertising the local Amateur radio club in Albury Wodonga is running a foundation licence course on the 20 – 21st August 2016. What is a foundation licence? Well it’s a basic entry in to amateur radio that is an easy subject […]
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 moreThis weekend is World Amateur Radio Day Display and Activation at Albury LibraryMuseum. We are having a Display and operating a radio station for contacts on all HF bands from Friday the 15th April to Monday the 18th April 2016 from 10am till 4pm est daily. All visitors and some more operators to help would be welcome. All contacts will be […]
Read moreKevin VK2FUO has sent 12 photos he took while helping at Camp Nelson Howlong on 19th MARCH 2016. Click on the link below to view the photos. http://www.awarc.org/media/
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