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WARG AGM 5th may 2025

Greetings WARG members,

We hope everyone is well.

Please find attached the official advice giving notice of WARG’s upcoming AGM, to be held on Monday, May 5th 2025, at the 1st Pelican Point Sea Scouts facility in Crawley. All are welcome to attend. Doors will open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start, with tea, coffee and snacks available.

The venue is the 1st Pelican Point Sea Scout Hall… 12 Australia II Drive in Crawley. Next to UWA. All the way to the end of the Drive and hidden behind a shrubbery is the entry to the car park. Pelican Point Sea Scout Hall Click here for the Google Maps Link.

Membership renewals for the coming year are now due, and we thank all members who have paid up already, that is much appreciated. We encourage all others to renew, or to rejoin if not currently a member. Membership fees and donations are an important way we obtain funds to keep the repeaters going, helping cover the costs of site visits, repairs, equipment upgrades and ACMA license fees. (Repeaters and beacons are not covered by the new Class license, for good reason. Annual renewal fees still need to be paid).

Thank you for your membership and support this past year, we look forward to seeing everyone at the AGM, if you can make it.

Finalised meeting agendas and other relevant information will be sent closer to the time.

73, and Best Regards,

Anthony VK6AXB

Secretary, WARG

Next WARG Meeting 7th April 2025

Hello WARGians…

Just a friendly reminder that the WARG meeting is coming up. Next Monday the 7th of April. Doors Open 7pm for a 7:30pm start. Plenty of time both before and after the meeting for catching up with your fellow hams.

Tea coffee and refreshments available…

The venue is the 1st Pelican Point Sea Scout Hall… 12 Australia II Drive in Crawley. Next to UWA. All the way to the end of the Drive and hidden behind a shrubbery is the entry to the car park… NI! Pelican Point Sea Scout Hall Click here for the Google Maps Link.

April is the beginning of the WARG financial year and memberships became due on the 1st. The AGM will be held in MAY and you’ll need to be financial to vote or to serve on committee.

The WARG website can be found at www.warg.org.au

The next WARG Technical and General net is 1030 h WST on Sunday Morning in Perth on Repeater ch3. 146.750 (VK6RLM) and on the Linked Allstar Hubs Statewide.

There is a newsbreak from WARG on the VK6ARN News this week…

– 73s from VK6RRG.

Next WARG Meeting 3rd February 2025

The next WARG meeting is to be held Monday 3rd February 2025 at the 1st Pelican Point Sea Scout Group, 12 Australia II Drive Crawley. (Down the end past the yacht club) Doors open at 19:00 for a 19:30 start. Tea and coffee are available. All are welcome.

Pelican Point Sea Scout Hall Click here for the Google Maps Link.

Online Meeting details are on the Members Website https://members.warg.org.au/

WARG Christmas BBQ 2nd December 2024

We invite you to the West Australian Repeater Group Christmas BBQ on Monday 2nd December from 6:30PM until 9pm

Venue: 12 Australia II Drive, Crawley WA 6009. Click for the Google Maps link

No RSVP Required.

Sausage Sizzle by donation of any amount

Drinks by donation of any amount.

This is a social get together, there is no meeting this year.

Come along and talk with like minded Amateurs for food and drink.

December Social Event

The 2nd of December Meeting… has been REPLACED!

MONDAY 2nd December 2024
Time 1830-2100 / 6:30pm – 9pm
(NOTE WELL ONE HOUR EARLIER)
Cost $0 NIX NILL NADA — WHAT?

Yes! Come to the WARG XMAS Dinner… Snaggers and Meat.
As well as Cool Drinks & Tea or Coffee (if you prefer) and
Christine’s (XYL of 6XB) famous cup cakes.
All available… for FREE!

Bring yourself, Bring a Plate to Share if you like… Where….?!?

Come one, come all… WARG Membership, not required, but is still
only $25 a year, and if you use or have an interest in Repeaters in
WA we do encourage you to join.

#12 Australia II Drive, Crawley… all the way to the end, sharp left!

You Can’t Log-in to this one online… it’s BE THERE, or be ?

November Meeting 2024

It is just about time for the November Meeting of WARG. It will be the 1st Monday, as the 4th of November is not a Public Holiday in Perth.

When: This Coming Monday the 4th November, 2024.

Location: 1st Pelican Point Sea Scout Hall… 12 Australia II Drive, Crawley. Turn sharp left at the very end of the drive.

Doors: Open ~7pm for a 7:30pm Start.

Tea, Coffee & Refreshments… e.g. Monte Carlo or Tim Tams etc. Available for Gold Coin Donation. (The money goes to cover the costs).

WARG NEWS for the 6th of October… won’t be on NEWSWEST… still not got email sorted… Grrrr!

Hello… from WARG… The next meeting… will be Anthony’s Talk on Repeater Cavities.

Also… of note for WARG Members, we’ve had a request from the 1st Amelia Heights Scout Group… who have done JOTI for a number of years… to see if we (WARG) can be of assistance in helping them to do JOTA as well…

JOTA/JOTI (Jamboree on the Air / Jamboree on the Internet) is an annual world-wide Scout and Guide event, and the JOTA part started in 1958 making this year the 67th one…

It is held annually the third full weekend in October. Making this the 18th-20th. (Well we would be asked to do Sat and Sun… so… 19th and 20th for us)

Here’s a link to learn more about JOTA, from the World Scouting website.

What would WARG be asked to do… well… provide, the shebang… ops, rigs and antennas… come to the meeting and let’s talk about who and what WARG can do for them. Also… listen to the WARG News link below, where I talk a little on the request.

Here is the link to this weeks recording of WARG NEWS… but yeah, nope… email is still failing (I’ve asked for help from M$ – yeah not holding my breath) and I couldn’t make the mid-day Friday deadline to get it down to Clinton… So… please click on this link “http://www.ucc.asn.au/~bastin_mp/2024-10-06-wargnews.mp3” to listen.

The next meeting of WARG is Monday the 7th, next Monday… 1st Pelican Point Sea Scouts Hall, Camp Cornwell, 12 Australia II Drive… Doors open 7pm for a 7:30pm start..

Tea, Coffee and Refreshments available and plenty of time to eyeball both before and after the meeting.

Click on the photo to get directions from google maps:https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pelican+Point+Sea+Scout+Group/@-31.9861311,115.8265281,15z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x2a32a4950db38731:0xaa5e5ef0eea2320c!8m2!3d-31.9861311!4d115.8265281!16s%2Fg%2F11b63bdb48?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwMi4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Heads up for the October Meeting of WARG

The NEXT meeting of the West Australian Repeater Group will be on Monday the 7th of October… and will be held at the 1st Pelican Point Sea Scout Hall located at 12 Australia II Drive in Crawley. Just around the corner from MATILDA BAY & just a stone’s throw away from The University of Western Australia.

With Doors Opening around 1900H for a meeting Start Time of approx. 1930H.

Tea, Coffee, and Refreshments are available for the usual Gold Coin Donation.

At the meeting Anthony VK6AXB has put up his hand to give a talk and practical demonstration.

The topic, is roughly…
Repeater Cavities: The Who, What, Where, Why, & When – (With particular note of fact that we need to convert a stock pile of VHF commercial cavities that we have, for use on 2m Repeaters – a great learning opportunity for any amateurs wanting to gain some new experiences) .

HISTORICAL PHOTO: 11 sets of WARG Cavities on lawn at a former QTH of one time life member of WARG, Gillian “Jill” Weaver VK6YL now SK.

73’s from WARG VK6RRG.

Report on Cables & Connectors Activity from the September 2024 Meeting of WARG

The meeting was held on Sept 2nd and was reasonably attended with several apologies and some missing folk probably experiencing “life happening”. The meeting was held, it had its usual parts, correspon-dence, treasurer’s report, promotions and socials report, and the Technical discussion and report. The meeting closed at 21:20 and we then had a little thing we called the Cables and Connectors Activity…

Whilst the number of folk who stayed after the meeting did dwindle over time, this is clearly only to be expected.

First up was a bit of Hi-End tech on the measuring of return loss on coax. There was a show and tell on how to use the equipment and how to get the return on unknown coax… with a second bit in and out of line… and then do the math in you head. Ray VK6ZRW and Anthony VK6AXB both had different bits of tech and then afterwards… the connectors section was done…

I only have a couple of shots from the night, and it is from the tail end with Anthony taking Adam VK6XR through how to connect a BNC (or did Adam have the N type?) to some thick double shielded coax. Two patch cables were needed by Colin VK6ACT for use soon…

Anthony spent some time showing us all how to get fiddly with the coax and some of his tips on how to use the tools and how not to cut all the way through, Adam took the opportunity to get some hands-on experience.

Adam was later heard afterwards thanking Anthony for the opportunity and that he had learned a lot and part of that was that he still in regards to connectors, has a lot to learn.

Yes… getting fiddly with the stuff and making it yourself, as opposed to just buying finished product off the shelf or from the net… (actually –not– accusing anyone of any thing here.) is to begin with not 100% so easy… it’s a learning thing.

So much information was exchanged in the activity… much learned and many tips shared… but you had to be there.

I locked up, at a couple of minutes to midnight.

WARG will continue to do Lectures and Activity nights in forthcoming months. Like they say… Be there, or be square!

73’s from WARG VK6RRG.

Next W.A.R.G. Meeting – This Monday 02-09-2024!

The NEXT meeting of WARG, is on Monday the 2nd September.

This meeting will be BACK at the home of 1st Pelican Point Sea Scouts. Camp Cornwall all the way down the end of Australia II Drv. Then take a Sharp left into the car park instantly before the dead end.

For your GPS: #12 Australia II Drive, Crawley.

Doors Open around 7pm for a 7:30pm Start. There will be Tea, Coffee and refreshments, usually but not always limited to biscuits, for a gold coin donation to keep the supplies of things coming…

There is always plenty of time both before and after the meeting to meet in person with your radio buddies and make an Audio Frequency contact… 😉
[ See what I did there :p ]

West Australian Repeater Group Inc

Serving Amateur Radio in Western Australia