VK2WI News Broadcasts
      

            

 Updated 19-07-2010                                                                                                                        

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

      The morning session commences at 10am local time with a relay of VK1WIA National news. Then local VK2WI news at about 10:30am. The evening session at 7:30pm local time consists of an expanded version of the VK2WI news. Please note that for a few weeks over Christmas, morning only transmissions are made.

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

Wavelength MHz Mode
160m 1.845 AM
80m 3.595 LSB
60m (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 145.600/147.000 FM
70cm 438.525 FM
23cm 1273.500 FM  
Note 1. The 60m transmission has been added to provide linking for manual relay stations..NO CallBacks !! on this frequency as it is currently within the Commercial Frequency Allocation. Be careful when tuning to this transmission as contrary to normal HAM procedures below 10MHz, this service is on Upper Sideband.

Note the new carrier frequency for the 60m service (5425KHz)

Occasional SSB transmissions are made on:

17 metres - 18.120 MHz - USB
15 metres - 21.170 MHz. - USB
12 metres - 24.950 Mhz. - USB
6 metres   - 52.150 MHz.
2 metres   - 144.150 MHz.
70 cm.       - 432.150 MHz.

       On this page you can download a copy of the text of the VK2WI Sunday Broadcast. This text will usually be a copy of what the announcer actually reads out for the VK2WI Evening broadcast. It is usually loaded to this page on the Monday after the actual Broadcast.
       In the Morning Bulletin the news items may be shortened to allow time for the VK1WIA news tape. Whereas in the Evening Bulletin news items are read in full and the full IPS and DX Reports are presented. There is often more Overseas and Interstate news as well.           
 
          

Download News Broadcast for 
Sunday 25th of July 2010 
                        
News and Information for the VK2WI Broadcast
Please email all items for inclusion in the VK2WI Broadcasts or this Web site to the news team at news@arnsw.org.au , could you also get the items in as early in the week as you can so that we get a chance to process them for the weekend. Thank you.

       If you would like to report to VK2WI on any aspects of the broadcast (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 on the 02 9651 1489  (VK2WI voice line) to contact the duty engineer.

       Please note that for the Holiday Season from late December to mid January, there will only be a "Morning" Broadcast and Callbacks. There is not usually a "text" version of the broadcast available during this time as the usual team are taking a break from their "labours".

VK2WI Dural Roster  
We are always on the lookout for more volunteers to help share the load. Please consider joining. If you would like to volunteer either contact John VK2JV via the office or see one of us here at VK2WI Dural during the Sunday morning transmission or on Trash and Treasure days.

Previous Broadcasts

April              4th        11th       18th       25th

May               2nd       9th         16th       23rd       30th

June             6th        13th       20th       27th

July               4th        11th      18th


The above files are "PDF" files, so long as you have a PDF File viewer such as "Adobe Reader" © to view one just <Left Click> on the date you are interested in or <Right Click> and <Left Click, Save Link As> to save the file to your PC.
Note: These are instructions for a PC, sorry I don't have an Apple machine, but one of our members advises me that "Clicking" the download link opens the PDF in a web page, which is pretty much what happens on Windows. Note that on the MAC there's no need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader as PDF is the native format and "just works" (as they say). You can save the PDF after viewing or right click to save that way
Thanks to Peter VK2TPM

Older files have been removed from WEB site to conserve storage space on-site but are still available by request.

Photos of transmitters and engineering console are courtesy of Peter Marks VK2TPN