Club News and Announcements

Club News, announcements and radio related news here.

Club News:

WANSARC Annual Family Day, 22nd January 2012.

No Club meeting in January - Come to the WANSARC Family Day instead!

Same venue as last year, Rotunda 6, Bundoora Park. VK3AWS will be active all day, call/talk-in on 146.450 MHz.

Equipment will be setup early and cooking of food will be well under way by 11:00am.

All soft drinks, nibbles, food and salads are supplied for financial Club members and their immediate family. Bring along your hat and some sunscreen and enjoy a great day at Bundoora Park.

Click here for a map of Bundoora Park and the location of the BBQ

WANSARC Annual Christmas Dinner, 10th December 2011.

Commencing at 1800 hours, at the Darebin RSL, 402 Bell St, Preston.

WANSARC Supporting Amateur Radio Victoria Centanary
Amateur Radio Victoria are celebrating their 100th anniversary this year. WANSARC are proud to support ARV and have use of their special VK100ARV callsign from 05.11.2011 to 09.11.2011. Click here for the Club roster listing. The Awards page on the ARV website has further details of the award and the ARV Centenary.

General Radio News:

VK3RCC UHF Repeater now active

The VK3RCC repeater is on 438.025, not 438.100 as reported in the current Repeater Directory, and requires a 91.5Hz CTCSS tone. The repeater has a power save or slow tone decoder that needs a long initial key up after it has been inactive for a while. A short key up will not trigger it.         Source: Club members.

Amateur LCD amended

22/ 12/ 2010   The Australian Communications and Media Authority (the ACMA) has amended the Radiocommunications Licence Conditions (Amateur Licence) Determination No 1 of 1997 (the Amateur LCD) and the Radiocommunications (Overseas Amateurs Visiting Australia) Class Licence (the Class Licence).
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