Amateur Radio NSW notes:
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 the Christmas holidays, 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.
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 under callsign VKE580 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.
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, Ph 02 9651 1490.
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 , please get your news items in by the Friday 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 segment, which is included in every broadcast.
Up to date info on the VK2WI broadcasts can be found on the ARNSW webpage here.