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Foundation licence - online 3rd August
Course is now full - enrolments now closed The Foundation Licence syllabus is thorough covering the essential basics of electronics, radio communications, several safety aspects, and the regulations. Candidates undergo a practical test on the band plans,...
Office closed - AGM postponed
The ARV office will only be open on the first Tuesday of the month until further notice. Owing to the current problems we have decided to postpone the Annual General Meeting which is usually held in May each year. We will advise a date for the AGM later in...
Homebrew Construction Group meetings postponed
The Homebrew Group meetings will be postponed until further notice. Visit the Homebrew Group page for monthly meeting dates and newsletters Members - are you receiving the Homebrew newsletter? Login to the Member portal (link at top of page) to change you...
Amateur Radio on show
At the kind invitation of Richard VK3VRS, Amateur Radio Victoria members, Julie VK3FOWL and Joe VK3YSP, provided their School Amateur Radio Club Network exhibition at Melbourne’s Train and Hobby Show. This well-organised show is held every year at Sandown...
Keith Roget Memorial National Park Award
David Giles VK5DG/3 has successfully claimed the first KRMNPA “Merit Award with Satellite Endorsement”. Commencing his satellite activations of eligible VK3 National Parks in 2011, David gradually increased his satellite activations to 25 Parks in 2018 and...
ILLW Cards on the way
VK3WI QSL Cards for the event are now on the way (via the VK3 Bureau) to all who made it “in the Log”. Amateur Radio Victoria participated in the 2018 International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend (ILLW) which was held across the weekend of August 18-19....The hidden costs of amateur repeaters
From time to time we hear about the funding difficulties experienced by clubs who run a repeater often not for the benefit of their own members, but for the wider amateur radio community. In New South Wales the Lands Department is continuing on its campaign...
Shepparton repeater site works
At the recent Shepparton and District Amateur Radio Club Communications Day Hamfest our Secretary Ross Pittard VK3CE represented Amateur Radio Victoria. Ross took the opportunity to speak with radio amateurs from around the area that attended the...