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Last Updated: 23 September 2014

ON-AIR Training from members own QTH

Training in message procedures will be held on the 3 Wednesday evenings before each of the bi-monthly Training Days to ensure we're ready for the upcoming storm season.

[See table below for the upcoming on-air training dates]

In table format below are the remaining 2014 Training Dates and also information on the UHF Mt Watalgan Repeater used in On-air training sessions.

Message Handling training means that members will need to keep a supply of forms in their shack so please follow the links to the PDF documents which you can print each time you require a supply.

Additional resources will be added to this page as requested by members

The above links will take you to your area of interest or the document you're searching for. If you need assistance contact the WICEN Controllers from the contact information below

The forms are stored on this web server in pdf format for easy download and printing.

Message Form - download the WICEN_message_form.pdf [123kb]

Message Log - download the WICEN_message_log.pdf [126kb]

WICEN Members who participate in the On-Air training sessions from their own QTH are allocated a "Welfare ID".

This provides innocuous sounding station names for messages so the general public isn't alarmed by what they may hear on-air.
Members retain their station ID for the year and these become the "From" and "To" identities of the messages being sent.

The full list of 2014 allocated Welfare ID's can be found at: welfareID.pdf [214kb]

Want to LISTEN to how a message should sound? We have uploaded two MP3 files;

The first is how the Transmitting/Sending station should sound:

Listen to this file: Sending MP3 [516kb]

The second file is how the entire message would sound with both a Sender and Receiver

Listen to this file: Entire MP3 [549kb]

2014 WICEN Training Dates

The remaining Saturday Training Dates for 2014

Month	Date	Details
October	11th	Training day @ SES. Training begins at 1pm [come earlier for lunch if you like]
December	6th	Final training for 2014

ON-AIR own QTH Training Dates

Month	Date	Wednesday night's On-Air Training Sessions
September	24th	Practice week 1 before October training
October	1st	Practice week 2 before October training
October	8th	Practice week 3 before October training
November	19th	Practice week 1 before December training
November	26th	Practice week 2 before December training
December	3rd	Practice week 3 before December training

Mt Watalgan UHF Repeater

Mt Watalgan UHF Repeater		Details
VK4RBW 70cm	Frequency 439.775	Double Sloping Hummock Mt Watalgan
H.A.S.L. : 400m	Footprint	Bundaberg and south to Childers, Hervey Bay. West to Gin Gin & North to Mirriam Vale