Updates

“One Tree Hill’ Ararat Saturday and Sunday we took  part in the 24 hour John Moyle FD.  Members that were there was David,James,Wayne,Aaron Hans ,Andrew, plus some visitors xaviour, sandy, dixie,,, everyone had a great time and the contest was… Read More »One Tree Hill Field Day

The Wimmera Amateur Radio Group has tonight started a Facebook Page.Check it out for yourself… https://www.facebook.com/groups/wimmeraamateurradiogroup

On Monday Night we met at the Police Paddock to have an experiment with HF Radios and Antennas.The evening kicked off early with David (VK3GP) being on location early to setup some portable gear. Members attending the evening where David… Read More »Activity Night @ Police Paddock

Below is a short list of commonly used Q Codes. QRL Busy (Stand by) QRM Man made noise / adjacent channel interference QRN Static noise QRO Increase Power QRP Reduce Power  (Or operating on low power such as under 10w)… Read More »Getting to Know Q Codes

Below is a picture of some 6 metre filters (the tall ones) which are used at Mount William. The smaller black filter of the LHS is for the APRS Digi Repeater. Amazing work by VK3TIM, hand making these filters!

Today investigating the outage at the VK3RBP site after an incident involving a trunk and a power poll, we discovered this…

Repairs have been conducted to the VK3RWM Repeater (Mount Arapiles) today and the repeater is now back on the air! VK3AS