VK2WI News Broadcasts

Amateur Radio New South Wales conducts morning and evening news broadcasts from its facilities at 63 Quarry Rd Dural on Sundays.

The morning bulletin commences at 10am local time with a relay of VK1WIA National news, then local VK2WI news follows from about 10:30am. The evening bulletin, starting at 7:30pm local time, consists of an expanded version of the VK2WI news including the DX report, as well as occasional technical features. For a few weeks over the Christmas holidays, morning only transmissions are made.

After each news broadcast callbacks are taken on most of the frequencies used. The below table lists the bands and frequencies currently used by VK2WI.

Band	Frequency, MHz	Mode
160m	1.845	AM
80m	3.595	LSB
(Sunday morning only)	5.425	USB [note1]
40m	7.146	AM
30m	10.125	USB
20m	14.170	USB
10m	28.320	USB
6m	52.525	FM
2m	145.6/147.0	FM
70cm	438.525	FM
23cm	1273.5	FM
Note 1. The transmission using the callsign VKE580 has been added to provide linking for manual relay stations. Callbacks cannot be taken on this frequency as it is currently a Commercial frequency allocation. Note that transmission is Upper Sideband (contrary to normal amateur practice below 10MHz)
Occasional SSB transmissions are made on: 17 metres - 18.120 MHz - USB 15 metres - 21.170MHz. - USB 12 metres - 24.950 Mhz. - USB 6 metres  -  52.150 MHz 2 metres - 144.150 MHz 70 cm      - 432.150 MHz

Live Stream of VK2WI News Broadcasts

You can listen live or download audio from our Live and On-demand audio page.

VK2WI News text

The text on this site is extracted from the script of the VK2WI Evening News. It is usually loaded to this page on the Monday evening after the actual Broadcast.

Download Latest Bulletin Text - Sunday 21st of February 2021

Text for Previous Broadcasts
February 2021	7th	14th	21st
January 2021	3rd	10th	17th	24th	31st
December 2020	6th	13th	20th	27th
November 2020	1st	8th	15th	22nd	29th
October 2020	4th	11th	18th	25th
September 2020	6th	13th	20th

Older files are available by request by email to news@arnsw.org.au.

News and Information for the VK2WI Broadcast

The preferred way to submit items for inclusion in VK2WI News is by email to the news team, at news@arnsw.org.au. Please get your items in by the Friday evening preceding the broadcast they are to be included in. When submitting news items please specify if you would like the item to run for more than one week. Items may not need to run continuously as all coming events will be included in the summary of coming events, which is included in each bulletin.

If you would like to report to VK2WI on any aspects of the broadcast (including reception reports or difficulties) please send your report to  callbacks@arnsw.org.au otherwise leave a message at the office, find contact details HERE. If you urgently need to contact us regarding the transmissions, call 02 9651 1489  (VK2WI voice line) to contact the duty engineer.

During the holiday season from late December to mid January, there will only be a morning broadcast and callbacks. Text of these bulletins is not usually available from the website.

VK2WI Dural Roster

We always welcome more volunteers to help take part in getting our news bulletins to air. Besides the announcer you hear on air and the engineer that helps put the news to air, we also have people involved with production of scripts and audio items. If you would like to volunteer, either email news@arnsw.org.au

or contact the ARNSW office.

Photos of transmitters and engineering console are courtesy of Peter Marks VK2TPM.