VK3XEM on the Web

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Welcome to VK3XEM on the Web, where I will post about Amateur (Ham) Radio.

I am QTHR and can be contacted via Hams Over IP 300053, DAPNET Paging VK3XEM, email simon@vk3xem.net and my mobile phone +61 424 220 549. As can be plainly seen I am not hiding behind the anonymoty of the Internet and I won’t accept crap from anyone. I own what I say and do and expect others to aswell.

  • What can you listen to on a scanner today?

    Here in Melbourne Victoria there are still many interesting things to listen to on a scanner, even though Victoria Police and Ambulance Victoria in Metro Melbourne are now encrypted. I personally listen to Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV), Country Fire Authority (CFA) and the Victoria State Emergency Service (SES). But depending on your scanners capabilities, it…

  • People with Static IP addresses shouldn’t make false statements 203.214.132.17

    Anonymous Posts from FAKE email addresses will not be published on this site. If you do NOT have the balls to identify yourself you can post elsewhere, like your BARG Facebook Page. But to reply to your BULLSHIT accusations that the offender was in Melbourne and close to me as you claim, Ben VK3NRD, the…

  • Policy on publication of replies.

    Replies with FAKE email addresses will not be published on this site, if you do NOT have the balls to identify your Amateur Callsign when making false claims you will not be heard here. The evidence clearly shows on the 50522 VK3RBA Allstar hub that the PIRATE entered the VK Linked Repeater System via VK3RBU…

  • Ballarat Amateur Radio Group encouraging, enabling and PROTECTING PRIRATES

    The Ballarat Amateur Radio Group has an ongoing history of encouraging, enabling and protecting PIRATES on the Amateur bands. Today a PIRATE was repetitively asking for a radio check on VK3RBU without a callsign. Eventually he gave the callsign VK3JPM stating that he was in Central Ballarat. Comparing the ACMA Database with the now removed…

  • PMR446 Band in Australia

    I would like to propose a controversial use for the European PMR446 Band of Channels here in Australia. If the ACMA were to agree to the use of the band here they could be used by both Amateurs and Non-Amateurs to liaise with each other for educational purposes and also public safety purposes like CFA,…

  • Who likes Nets?

    On the VK Repeater Linked System there are many nets each week to participate in. The first is my Weekday Welfare Net that I run Monday to Friday at 10am Australian Eastern Standard Time or 0000 UTC. This Net is primarily to check in with Amateurs and their families that they are safe and well.…

  • Let’s all work together

    Helping new people to the hobby of radio, be it CB or Amateur Radio should be done in a friendly and positive way to ensure that these new commers to the hobby learn what is correct and right. Maintaining a standard of operating ethics within the hobby is vitally important to keeping the hobby alive…

  • When Education Fails

    obviously there are some out there that deliberately break the rules, for them there is ENFORCEMENT ACTION. They have been warned.

  • VK2ACR Another Cretin on Radio

    Cappacino is sprouting SHIT again to his bum buddies on his private Facebook Group slandering me as per usual. The truth is that VK4LA and VK4SDD support and assist ILLEGAL use of Baofeng radios on UHF CB and random commercial frequencies via their Facebook group. I suggest Cuppacino pulls his head in and stops his…

  • Education is important

    Education is so important to maintain the hobby of radio to ensure new comers to the hobby, whether it be on CB or Amateur Radio. Ensuring these new users are taught right from wrong from the beginning will hopefully keep some sort of stability and standards in the hobby. But when you have the likes…