{"id":492,"date":"2012-05-12T17:36:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T07:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=492"},"modified":"2013-10-20T18:43:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T08:43:49","slug":"crest-sizzles-hot-at-the-wicen-bbq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"CREST sizzles hot at the WICEN BBQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 29 April, members from Sydney, Singleton, Prospect and Central Coast attended a BBQ and get together organised by <a title=\"WICEN NSW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsw.wicen.org.au\" target=\"_blank\">WICEN NSW<\/a> at the Amateur Radio NSW (ARNSW) site in Dural.<\/p>\n<p>WICEN like CREST is a specialist squad of the Volunteer Rescue Association (VRA) and has a team of experienced amateur radio operators that volunteer their time to provide field communications.<\/p>\n<p>WICEN put together an enjoyable information and education session which included information about up-coming communications events and some hands on technical demonstrations. These provided a great opportunity for members from both organisations to share their experiences of setting up communications networks.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Singleton CREST setting up\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nsw.wicen.org.au\/files\/images\/bbq\/thumb\/CREST_1__Autumn2012.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the CREST field stations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Those attending were invited to show off their field communications stations. The Sydney CREST team set up a UHF repeater and portable mast and the team from Singleton \/ Central Coast demonstrated a VHF repeater with a crossband linked remote station with a standalone and vehicle mounted masts.<\/p>\n<p>A detailed review of the other stations on display can be found on the WICEN page <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsw.wicen.org.au\/bbq\/2012\/autumn\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 29 April, members from Sydney, Singleton, Prospect and Central Coast attended a BBQ and get together organised by WICEN NSW at the Amateur Radio NSW (ARNSW) site in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crest.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}