G’day all, as per below WICEN NSW are conducting an informal communications exercise the weekend after next (9-10 Jan) and have invited participation from further afield in NSW and the ACT. Details as per below – obviously it will be a bit difficult to get onto the Sydney VHF/UHF repeaters, but there is always the HF frequencies as listed, so get on the air and have fun.
Matt
VK1MA
Subject: WICEN Exercise
G'day,
WICEN NSW, a support squad of Volunteer Rescue Association, will be conducting an informal communications exercise on the weekend 9-10 January 2021 and invites amateur radio clubs across New South Wales and ACT to participate.
WICEN will establish a base station at Little Bay, Sydney, with WICEN members across NSW setting up home or field stations as part of a wider exercise.
Exercise net control operators at Little Bay will monitor the following frequencies, passing messages and accepting check-ins from WICEN members and other amateur radio operators:
Band
Mode
Freq (kHz)
Comments
80m
SSB
3615
* +/- allowing for other traffic / QRM
80m
Digital
3578
JS8Call
40m
SSB
7150
* +/- allowing for other traffic / QRM
40m
Digital
7078
JS8Call
2m
FM Repeater
147.150
VK2RWC ( +600kHz/91.5Hz)
2m
FM Simplex
147.500
70cm
FM Simplex
438.750
Contacts from the wider amateur radio community, throughout the course of the exercise, will be greatly appreciated as this will help increase traffic and simulate more realistic workloads for our exercise net control operators.
Informal check-ins are requested to include:
Name, callsign, club name (if applicable), and location (Gridsquare, postcode, Lat/Lon or What3Words).
The exercise schedule is as follows:
Saturday, 9th January 2021: 12:00 - 22:00Hrs AEDT
Sunday, 10th January 2021: 08:00 - 12:00Hrs AEDT
These details and general information about WICEN NSW may be found at nsw.wicen.org.au http://nsw.wicen.org.au/
Thanks,
WICEN NSW
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