Manly-Warringah Radio Society

"Surfing the Airwaves since 1923!" Manly-Warringah Radio Society, callsign VK2MB, the Amateur Radio club serving the Northern Beaches area of Sydney, Australia.

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New on VK2MB-TV: https://t.co/JymFWdgRYd

[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

MWRS members involved were VK2BMX Stuart, VK2BTQ Craig, VK2JNA Dom, VK2SKY Richard, VK2SMF Scott, VK2TGJ Des, VK2WA Geoff, Simon VK2YU. Hopefully I didn't miss anyone!

[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

Fun day out on Sunday, doing initial comms setup for the Convict 100 (https://t.co/pPRCAAs2aS). CREST provides the safety communications for the event every year.

[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

The club's April lecture, "Helical Travelling Wave VHF Antennas" with Carmel VK2NO is now on our YouTube channel, VK2MB-TV:
https://t.co/G0ZFdQMuHH

[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

Coming soon -- the next club project build will be a newly-improved version of the HamFist multi-channel Morse Decoder:
https://t.co/UPmuimTz9v

[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

Project time at the club: https://t.co/WDUPBGflRg

[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

Meeting night, routers etc rebooted, and all systems should be back online (VK2MB KiwiSDR, VK2RMB 2m repeater audio stream, and VK2MB-2 APRS gateway confirmed back; VK2MB-1 APRS pending.)

[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

Several of our services, including the VK2MB KiwiSDR and the Broadcastify audio feed from the VK2RMB 2m repeater, are currently offline, following an explosion at a local electricity substation. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
https://t.co/uAR1XT905a

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Nice one. There's nothing quite like building your own!

[Yuki Qiu VK2VCU BG5VCU AK6CU @qiuyuair]

Finished soldering the PiCo Rx kit! This version was designed by VK2ARH, based on Jon Dawson’s original project.

In the video, you can hear CRI English service, with the Voice of Korea (VOK) interval signal fading in the background.

[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

The Wednesday meetings of the 24th and 31st December will happen instead on Tuesdays 23rd and 30th, to avoid Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

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Lecture night tonight, a video of a 1980s presentation at HADARC: "Development of Airborne Radar in the UK during World War II". Tnx Clifford VK2CLF for cleaning up the video & audio.

This video is copyright, so we won't be able to publish it on the VK2MB-TV channel on YouTube.

[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

Last night's Fifth Wednesday Show and Tell Night at VK2MB was on the theme, "Portable Anything". Read all about it at https://t.co/duuC4mjpFy

The next Fifth Wednesday is 29 April 2026, when the theme will be Games, Toys & Contests. See https://t.co/VPz4nPmLxO

[Yuki Qiu VK2VCU BG5VCU AK6CU @qiuyuair]

MWRS 5th Wednesday night
Today’s topic is portable everything.
好像不是所有名字里带“便携”的东西都很便携（

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Here's our report of the past weekend's JOTA activities: https://t.co/Ne64RHg02y

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This lecture should be up on our YouTube channel, VK2MB-TV, in the coming week.

[Yuki Qiu VK2VCU BG5VCU AK6CU @qiuyuair]

A lecture about LPS and SMPS. Keep learning something at MWRS @VK2MB every month.

[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

As of 8pm this evening, all club services are back online, including our popular KiwiSDR.
We had a new BeagleBone Green computer board flown in from DigiKey in Thief River Falls, Minnesota (https://t.co/nPGISGNijt), to replace the one damaged by the recent lightning.

[Richard Murnane @vk2sky]

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[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

The cause of the outage was a lightning strike close by. How close? You be the judge... 🌩️😱

Most services are back online, but not all. See https://t.co/pxSlmTFIBX. We're still working on it.

[Manly-Warringah Radio Society @VK2MB]

Our KiwiSDR (https://t.co/CaaZexRWPJ) and VK2RMB 2m Repeater live audio stream (https://t.co/W9PH3GezuQ) are currently off-line. We're working to identify and correct the problem.

[Richard Murnane @vk2sky]

New radio magazine: "New Zealand & Australian Amateur Radio". Check it out at https://t.co/iZNAUuD1Qq