WARC Hamfest 2024
We can report that we had a successful Hamfest with a good number of visitors on a fine, warm and enjoyable day. The committee thanks all those that pitched in and helped the club before and on the day, making it such a success. We realise the new venue has it’s limitations and we will […]
Successful Saturday Morning Coffee and Radio Working Bee
The Saturday Morning Coffee Club and Working Bee went well with completing the installation of a 2/70 Vertical and a 20/40m Fan Dipole. We need further work to carry out the installation of the radios. It was a nice sunny day and a great time was had by all. Thanking all those that came and […]
New Home for WARC
We now have a new home in Werribee. 2nd Werribee Scouts have kindly allowed us to share some space in one of their buildings. We are now planning on conducting some maintenance on the building and installing some aerials and radio equipment. Now that we have a more permanent location we will be scheduling a […]
VK3EMU Tri-Band Squid Pole Vertical
After successfully using this aerial at Cape Schank for the recent Light House Weekend I thought it may be of interest to someone out there. I have had this aerial for several years after building it and this was the first time it had been used in anger. I had installed it at my home […]
Arduino Auto CQ Caller
Calling CQ is a bit of a drag during the current propagation conditions if you don’t have a nice new radio with the calling feature. This project used an Arduino Uno to control an ISD1700 Dragon Voice Chip module to implement an auto CQ caller. There are several ways this can be done: Set the […]
