Hi all,
I was looking at the Wayback machine ( http://web.archive.org ) and decided to look up warg.org.au
It turns out (as far as I can tell, please correct me if wrong) that the WARG Website has been up since 9th October 2004. Happy 16th Birthday WHISKEY ALPHA ROMEO GOLF dot OSCAR ROMEO GOLF dot ALPHA UNIFORM!
This is what the website used to look like back then, when the internet was still a bit new for most of us.
The next WARG monthly meeting is to be held on air Monday 7 December 2020 on repeater VK6RLM (146.750), not at our regular venue. The meeting will commence at the regular time of 19:30 hours. Hope to hear a few people on the net.
If you wish to participate in the meeting, you can do so by the following:
Radio: Repeater VK6RLM 146.750MHz -0.6Mhz offset
ALLSTAR: Node 28608
Echolink: Node 909122
More info at http://www.echolink.org
More info about AllStar https://www.warg.org.au/how-to-guides/
The next WARG meeting is to be held Monday 2nd November 2020 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.
For the remainder of 2020, we will be alternating Face to Face and On Air Meetings.
This will be reviewed at the end of the year.
The next WARG monthly meeting is to be held on air Monday 5 October 2020 on repeater VK6RLM (146.750), not at our regular venue. The meeting will commence at the regular time of 19:30 hours. Hope to hear a few people on the net.
If you wish to participate in the meeting, you can do so by the following:
Radio: Repeater VK6RLM 146.750MHz -0.6Mhz offset
ALLSTAR: Node 28608
Echolink: Node 909122
More info at http://www.echolink.org
More info about AllStar https://www.warg.org.au/how-to-guides/
The next WARG meeting is to be held Monday 7th September 2020 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.
Due to the previous location of VK6RFM being unavailable in the future, there was a requirement for it to be relocated this year.
On Sunday 12 July VK6RFM was transferred from the QTH of VK6KW to the “Equipment Enclosure” at the Wireless Hill Museum, installed in the VHF Group’s Beacon Rack, connected to the shared (with VK6BBS) collinear antenna and switched on at ~ 15:10H.
Subsequent tests all the way home to VK6KW proved that it was working as expected.
The mains power supply is a Yaesu FP-700 which draws 31W supplying 14v09 on idle/standby and 182W supplying 14v03 on Tx Hi. – It had been proving for ~72 hours and all seemed very happy together just warm enough to prevent condensation.
It was noted that there is some annoying local interference on the output frequency but the repeater seems happy on air.
Report thanks to Bob VK6KW
A big thank you to the WA VHF Group for providing WARG with a new home for the VK6RFM Repeater.
For the remainder of 2020, we will be alternating Face to Face and On Air Meetings.
This will be reviewed at the end of the year.
The next WARG monthly meeting is to be held on air Monday 3 August 2020 on repeater VK6RLM (146.750), not at our regular venue. The meeting will commence at the regular time of 19:30 hours. Hope to hear a few people on the net.
If you wish to participate in the meeting, you can do so by the following:
Radio: Repeater VK6RLM 146.750MHz -0.6Mhz offset
ALLSTAR: Node 28608
Echolink: Node 909122
More info at http://www.echolink.org
More info about AllStar https://www.warg.org.au/how-to-guides/
Due to COVID-19 restrictions being lifted finally, regular WARG meetings will commence as of 6th July 2020.
The next WARG meeting is to be held Monday 6th July 2020 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.
Steve, VK6FTOW Vice President of WARG would like to know if there are any questions pertaining to WARG general business, for people unable to attend the meeting? Please leave any questions in the comments section below.
Due to social distancing because of the Coronavirus-19 threat, physical meetings are postponed for the time being. Because of this, we will hold trial meetings as radio nets.
The next WARG monthly meeting is to be held on air Monday 8 June 2020 on repeater VK6RLM (146.750), not at our regular venue. The meeting will commence at the regular time of 19:30 hours. Hope to hear a few people on the net.
If you wish to participate in the meeting, you can do so by the following:
Radio: Repeater VK6RLM 146.750MHz -0.6Mhz offset
ALLSTAR: Node 28608
Echolink: Node 909122
If you wish to participate in the meeting, you can do so by the following:
Radio: Repeater VK6RLM 146.750MHz -0.6Mhz offset
ALLSTAR: Node 28608
Echolink: Node 909122
More info at http://www.echolink.org
More info about AllStar https://www.warg.org.au/how-to-guides/
The WARG Committee for 2019-20 is as follows:
President: Barry VK6SP
Vice President: Steve VK6FTOW
Secretary: Anthony VK6AXB
Treasurer: Nil Nominations at this time
Membership Officer: Carsten VK6PCB
Technical Officer: Bob VK6ZGN
Councillors: Peter VK6PM, Matt VK6ML, Ray VK6ZRW,
Other positions
Digital Officer: Matt VK6ML
Shop Manager:
Website Manager: Carsten VK6PCB
Social Media: Peter VK6LB