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The Weekday Welfare Net is going strong on the VK Linked Repeater Network, Monday to Friday at 1000 local or 2300 UTC. Erwin VK3EAN will be your Net Controller on Monday’s and myself, Simon VK3XEM will be the Net Controller the rest of the week unless I have other appointments. A big thank you to…

With licensed Amateurs like Mark Kennedy VK3VBQ sprouting deliberate BULLSHIT on social media that there will be no “amature” licence required is contributing to the death of the hobby. Mark is in effect telling his CB buddies that they can operate on AMATEUR Radio with impunity. Mark is NOT the only AMATEUR to sell out…

Today the Commonwealth Ombudsman commenced an investigation into the ACMA issuing 12 month invoices for services that will only be in effect for a matter of weeks. The ACMA has know for well over 12 months that a transition of Amateur Apparatus licenses to class licences would come into effect in February 2024 but continue…

Thanks to Jacob Wood for his gutless and inept response to deliberate interference. I now encourage the vigilante defence of the Amateur bands. Name and shame these arseholes and even pay them a visit and take them off the air because the hobby is doomed if it is not defended.

VK3RES is being shut down this weekend due to several factors, including criminal damage at the site by another Amateur Radio Operator and the need to relocate. If a secure site can be sought it may return, but thanks to the individual Amateur that took it upon himself to attack the site by fire and…

Are you running an Allstar node or MMDVM hotspot, repeater or other ham related device that is on an LTE service or Starlink that are hiding behind a NAT and having trouble or would like to remotely access from anywhere? If so vk44.net may well be for you. This service is freely available to any…

One of my core values is standing by what you believe in and say, that includes identifying yourself when you say something. As Amateur Radio Operators on air we have a legal obligation to identify ourselves and at the very least it is a moral obligation elsewhere and common courtesy. Today I was on the…

The VK3XEM-13 APRS weather station is back on air and can also be viewed via Weather Underground. Transmitting locally via APRS in from Reservoir and on the Internet.

Robert K, or whoever you are go right ahead and report to ACMA maybe then you will have to identify yourself rather than hiding behind your keyboard in your cyber undies. Again if you Identified yourself you would have had a say here but you are too scared.

The Ballarat PIRATE that is being protected by Ben VK3NRD and other members of the Ballarat Amateur Radio Group. This PIRATE has been heard on the input of VK3RBU by several Amateurs with strong signals in the Ballarat area and he has tried using many callsigns.