The 100th anniversary of the first radio contact between Australia and the United Kingdom will be celebrated in September
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Foundations of Amateur Radio #168
How to start your own net …
In the past I’ve talked about a weekly net I run, called F-troop. It’s intended to be a place where new and returning amateurs find their feet, have a chat, test their gear, meet new friends, ask questions and sometimes get answers
ARISS contact planned for school in Australia
An International Space Station school contact has been planned for Serena Aunon-Chancellor KG5TMT with Glenden State School, Glenden, Queensland, Australia
Foundations of Amateur Radio #166
The mysterious three phase power …
There are times when you realise that you’ve always nodded your head when a particular topic came up and after doing that for long enough, you think you know what’s going on
Horus Binary Telemetry and FreeDV
David Rowe VK5DGR and Mark Jessop VK5QI have carried out the first flight test of their new MFSK Amateur Radio High-Altitude Ballooning telemetry modem
New Australian amateur radio representative body
The Radio Amateur Society of Australia Inc. (RASA). was formed in March 2018 to promote the hobby and represent amateurs to the Government regulator
Australian ham radio exam system under review
WIA Director Greg VK2GPK describes how changes proposed by regulator ACMA may impact the AOCP amateur radio exam process and callsign management
ARISS contact to be streamed live to the Internet
Essex Heights Primary School in Melbourne Australia is due for a scheduled contact with the ISS some time over the week of the 16th to 20th of July 2018
Interference a key issue for ACMA
Each year, Australia’s communications regulator, the ACMA, sets its priority compliance area (PCA) program for radiocommunications, which takes a strategic approach to their overall scheme and operational activities
Crickets, frogs and ham radio
What do crickets, frogs and grasshoppers have to do with ham radio?
Everything, if you ask the organizers of the School Holiday Electronics Workshops being offered for school kids in July
VK1 SOTA Winter QSO Party
The VK1 Winter SOTA QSO Party is popular with interstate activators seeking a boost to their S2S log
Station VK2KRR
Ham Radio/Blogs/Oceania
Station VK2KRRlocated at The Rock Hill, southern NSW, Australia. The station is located 222 masl. Locator is QF34mr.
Australian Ham Radio Licence Conditions Determination
In WIA News Robert VK3ARM provides an update on submissions to the ACMA consultation on amateur radio Licence Conditions Determination
VK6WIA NewsWest for Sunday, 10 June 2018 – History of AR Edition
A sky full of satellites, musings on the lot of the YL and the ACMA engaging us in a consultation. Not a bad mix. Welcome to NewsWest, the Amateur Radio news programme for the VK6 call area and beyond. I’m Bob, VK6POP, the NewsWest producer this week, and the team is Andrew, Onno and Glynn…
Foundations of Amateur Radio – Episode 157 Logging of a Different Kind
We as radio amateurs log things. We log our contacts, we log our progress towards an award, we log how many different countries we’ve contacted, which stations we heard with WSPR, how many kilometres we managed per watt, which stations were in a net, what callsigns received a QSL card, what location we’re in when…
Consultation on amateur radio qualifications
The Australian regulator ACMA is holding a public consultation on new approaches to amateur radio qualification arrangements
VK6WIA NewsWest for Sunday, 3 June 2018 – Club Focus Edition
Welcome to today’s NewsWest broadcast. It’s a pretty jam-packed 30 minutes. Once again, I’m Glynn, VK6PAW, your lucky producer this week. In this broadcast: It’s our CLUB FOCUS week, and we’ll hear from clubs around VK6 including Ham College and the NCRG, and of course – what’s been going on at WA Amateur Radio news.…
Foundations of Amateur Radio – Episode 156 – The Internet of Digital Radio
The topic of how radio evolves and embraces available technology is one that describes the hobby itself. From spark-gap through AM, SSB and FM our community picked up or invented solutions to make communication possible. When the internet came along it too became a tool ripe for picking and in 1997 a connection between a…
VK4DX/P Russell Island
Mike (VK4DX) is active as VK4DX/P from Russell Island, Southern Moreton Bay Islands OC-137, 1 to 3 Jun 2018.
Expulsion of members from the WIA
Many of you will have read with concern reports regarding the ‘expulsion’ of members from the WIA
Canberra runs arguably VK’s best ‘new comers net’
To our knowledge, Summerland Amateur Radio Club conducted VK’s first net for new hams. (Under the catchy ‘moniker’ of F-TROOP.) Well in Canberra their Foundation of F net is attracting newbies far and wide
Foundations of Amateur Radio – Episode 155
How to find other Amateurs on Air Where are all the Amateurs is a question that I am asked regularly by new entrants into our community. The journey most new amateurs go through and the one I followed starts with becoming interested, getting a license, buying a radio, setting it up and then turning on…
VK6WIA NewsWest for Sunday, 20 May 2018 – New Amateurs Edition
In this broadcast: Are you new to the hobby of Amateur Radio? This week, Newswest welcomes newcomers to Amateur Radio. In this New hams edition of NewsWest, you’ll hear about new licenses granted to new and re-qualifying Amateurs, and words of wisdom and encouragement to New Hams, and a press release from the Radio Amateur…
Foundations of Amateur Radio – Episode 154 How does a waterfall display work?
With computers becoming more and more ensconced within the confines of our radio shack the variety of information available is increasing regularly. The introduction of a waterfall display has dramatically simplified the process of detecting what the activity level is on a particular band. If you’ve never seen a waterfall display, it’s often a real-time,…
VK9LI Lord Howe Island
VK Team will be active as VK9LI, from Lord Howe Island, IOTA OC – 004, 11 – 18 May 2018. [su_button url=”https://dxnews.com/vk9li/”]For the full article[/su_button]