Wagga Amateur Radio Club

13/09/2024

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Nick was helping us out today with some IT infrastructure work, when this low life decided he needed his tools more than Nick did. They were left outside for less than 5mins unattended when this happened.
It is a real kick in the guts when good people running local small one person businesses like Nicks, help clubs like ours out of the goodness of their hearts, only to have things like this happen.

25/08/2024

The ALARA contest continues today. VK2FASH & VK2SJC are operating from the WARC club rooms. Calling and listening on 7.165

24/08/2024

CQ ALARA! VK2SJC & VK2FASH calling & listening on 7.165 operating from the WARC club rooms.

15/07/2024

WARC will be hosting a Get On the Air day at Norman Duck Oval this coming weekend. See the link below for more information.

Members of the Wagga Amateur Radio Club will be at […]

06/07/2024

An unplanned last minute trip to our repeater site at Mt Bethungra today saw the installation and commissioning of our new 6M repeater VK2RBE.

It is on 53.825MHz -1MHz split with no tone.

30W into the antenna that’s mounted on the hut for now. Plans are to get it up the mast at sometime in the future.

Reception reports are more than welcome

16/03/2024

WARC members are on the home stretch for the 2024 John Moyle Memorial Field Day. We are operating on all bands 80 - 2m for the next 2.5 hours till contest end. Set up at QF34RR.
Keep an ear out and make a contact with us!

11/02/2024

WARC operates and maintains a large linked repeater system across our wider region. Have a look at our website below to find details of your closest repeater and put a call out!

We also sponsor 2 UHF CB repeaters and an expanding APRS digipeater network.

The Wagga Amateur Radio Club operates and maintains a number of repeaters that are linked together across the region. Coverage extends from Young in the North, down to Tumbarumba in the South and out to Griffith in the West. If you call on any of the 9 repeaters that are linked, you are sure to get....

08/02/2024

The clubs EchoIRLP node is currently off air due to a hardware failure. We do not have a timeframe for resolution, but will work to restore services as soon as we can.

UPDATE: The EchoIRLP node has been restored to full service

25/11/2023

Did you know we operate an EchoIRLP node that is available on our linked repeater system?
Visit our website to see the details and how to use it!

IRLP and EchoLink offer very stable worldwide communications between licenced Amateur Radio operators utilising specialised hardware and software to link repeaters, simplex nodes and computers via the internet.