WICEN NSW NEWS FOR SUNDAY 7th July, 2024

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The WICEN NSW 2024 AGM is to be held on Saturday 10th August, 1400 hours at ARNSW in Quarry Rd DURAL.
Details will be emailed to members this month and members will also be able to join the meeting online.
It would be great if there were some new members join the committee, as some of the existing committee have been doing the jobs for many years.

WiCEN News for Sunday 30 June

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WICEN 2024 AGM has been scheduled for Saturday 10 August at time 1400
The AGM will be held at ARNSW in Quarry Rd Dural.
Members will also be able to join the meeting online. Details will be emailed to members early July.

The 2024 Hawkesbury Canoe Classic (HCC) will be held over the weekend of 26-27 October
This is WICEN's flagship event and requires many members to make it happen.
Further details and requests to assist will be emailed to members. Last year the radio base for the event was located here at ARNSW.

WICEN NSW NEWS FOR SUNDAY 29th May, 2022

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Last Sunday saw WICEN provide communications support for Dementia Australia’s Sydney Memory Walk and Jog. The event started and finished at Leichhardt Oval and took in the Bay Run athletic track. Three WICEN NSW members attended. A VHF repeater was deployed at Rod Park and eleven VHF hand held radios were distributed to the event organisers. 200 to 300 people participated, with the event being incident free.

WICEN NSW NEWS FOR SUNDAY 17th October, 2021

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WICEN NSW is a communications support squad of VRA Rescue NSW.

The 70cm repeater that was previously at Berowa is now back on air in Hornsby on the same frequencies. However, it is not linked to the Kurrajong 70cm repeater at present.

This weekend saw a number of WICEN Operators assist with this year’s JOTA. These included, Compton VK2HRX, Mark VK2MOH, Richard VK2SKY, Nicholas VK2MYK, Raffy VK2RF, Irene VK2VAN and Jan VK2FEB. Thanks also to James VK2GOH for organising the WICEN operators to assist with the JOTA weekend.

WICEN NSW NEWS FOR SUNDAY 26th September, 2021

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WICEN NSW is a communications support squad of VRA Rescue NSW.

This year’s WICEN NSW Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday 18th September.
The following members were elected on the committee for the next 12 months:
    President - Lindsay Bolstad
    Vice President - Neil Fallshaw
    Secretary - Steve Diekmann
    Treasurer - Doug Rosser

Committee members:
    Eric van de Weyer
    Mark Halliwell
    Paul Britton
    Nic McLean

WICEN NSW NEWS FOR SUNDAY 29th August, 2021

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This year’s WICEN NSW Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday 18th September at 14:30. The meeting will be online due to COVID-19 restrictions. Members will have received the paper work and the meeting invitation for the AGM via their VRA email.
Please contact the WICEN secretary if you did not receive the AGM information.

The Watagan State Forest Ride has been cancelled.

The Hawkesbury Canoe Classic has also been cancelled for this year. Hopefully next year will see it bigger and better than ever.

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