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*Witwood Carriage Driving Event - Call for **Volunteers*
WICEN will be supporting a Carriage Driving event at the property "Witwood" on the Bungendore to Braidwood road on Sunday 28 October.
This is an ideal WICEN practice event for newcomers to amateur radio who wish to participate in WICEN events. We are looking for 15 operators however this can vary depending on set up for the course. All that is required of us is to pass back to control the arrival time of a competitor at an obstacle and the time they depart. This is done using 2M FM simplex, and most of the course is line of sight so only a modest set up is required. In most case you would able to operate from your vehicle using handheld tranceivers.
Being a low key event we invite newcomers and recently licensed F-calls to join us and we will pair you up with a more experienced operator (if they are available) to gain experience of a WICEN event. Registered operators are provided with a snack pack lunch by the organisers. If you arrive at around 0700 you can avail your self of an egg & bacon roll and tea or coffee provided by the organisers. The event briefing starts at around 0730, set up generally begins around 0800hrs. The event runs from around 0900 to mid afternoon generally no later than 1600hrs.
Amanda VK1WX will be the coordinator for the event.
This year we have moved to using google forms to collect & collate responses rather than relying on emailed responses. Please check your calendars for your availability and complete the form at the following link, noting your preferences for times and places: https://goo.gl/forms/Kpm8btxmwRxh2wj42 https://goo.gl/forms/Kpm8btxmwRxh2wj42
On submission of the form, you should get an email confirming the form has been submitted and a link to your response. If you do experience any issues with the form (or don’t get an email from google forms) then please let me know.
Amanda Hawes VK1WX
*Upcoming Events:* VK1Fcall net, Every Tuesday Night VK1RBM 70cm Repeater 1930hrs Local, Echolink via *VK3JED*, IRLP via 9558. *Digital Mode Net:* Tuesday evenings from 8 to 9pm. DMR on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays and DSTAR on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. DMR for the time being will be on TG3801 (TS2). DSTAR users should select "VK1RWN G" so they can be heard through the gateway. If there is a 5th Tuesday in the month we will run a System Fusion net for those people who have this capability (e.g. most hotspot users ) - more details to follow. Rob VK2HR
*October* 19-21 JOTA 20 - International SOTA Event - VK JA ZL - EU S2S QSO Party - more info - http://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/vk-ja-zl-eu-s2s-20-oct-18/18140 24 - Club Meeting, RedHill Scout Hall 1930, for 2000 start. ANU's James Gilbert on “exoplanet detection with locally built spectrograph” 28 - Fitz Challenge https://goo.gl/forms/Kpm8btxmwRxh2wj42 28 - Witwood carriage driving event https://goo.gl/forms/Kpm8btxmwRxh2wj42 *November* 4 - VK1 SOTA 6m, 2m & 70cm VHF-UHF S2S Party 28 - Christmas BBQ
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Wade VK1MIC VK1News Editor, CRARC Committee Member
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