Yes it's on again for 2026!!! Thanks to Stanley vk3bot..

Click Here !! When - Wednesday March 4th from 7:30pm - QD Clubrooms and Streamed Heath VK3TWO/VK6TWO will be taking us on a tour of Meshcore. Remember Packet Radio in the 80’s well Meshcore is a modern equivalent on the 900MHz ISM band so, you don’t have to be a licenced amateur. MeshCore is developed by HAM’s, but available to all and is a decentralised text-based communications platform. It is designed to run on commodity, affordable development boards and uses LoRa radios

I'm sure you have heard that modern radios will automatically backoff their power output stage if the SWR gets "too high", due to a poor antenna match. I have occasionally wondered what a "too high" SWR actually is and by how much would the radio drop its output power? In this video I share my accidental discovery that at 2:1 SWR the Icom 7300 drops to less than half its maximum power! This is a much greater backoff than I imagined, so it caught me by surprise. High SWR backo

Hello Famparc Family, As many of you are aware, we had our yearly AGM for 2026. The meeting all went well as expected and a new Administration and Committee has been installed for 2026. This is a overview of the latest and 2026 AGM: See details here. From the Chairpersons notes and comments: Craig vk3ncr Mick vk3vh also assisted me in the running of the AGM 2026 The AGM began at 10:30am at the Famparc Club rooms. Chairperson welcomes all members to the meeting. Apologies on b

ABOUT: The Train and Hobby Show’s humble beginnings in 2007 are from a group of enthusiastic railway modellers that wanted to have a small model train show, to fill in a gap that was left by a cancelled major show. The first show had just over 40 exhibits in one room at Sandown. The show has now grown to over 80 exhibits  with more than 600 exhibitors, spread over 2 indoor levels and 3 outdoor spaces and expanded out to additional hobbies In 2016 we introduced radio controlle

Where: EMDRC – 13a McCubbin St, Burwood Admission: FREE for buyers and ‘tyre-kickers’ When: Sunday 29th March 10am formal opening for selling Sellers: From your Car Boot (no trailers)         $10 ea Inside upstairs – per table                   $20 ea Please contact Peter VK3QI at vk3er@emdrc.com.au – click HERE for further information. Parking for sellers: from the McCubbin St access and spaces allocated on the gravel car park. This area must remain open to the public how

MESHCORE Meshcore is a fascinating evolution in the amateur radio digital space. To help your club members understand it, you can think of Meshcore as the "bridge" that makes complex mesh networking accessible to the average ham. Note: Most of this informtion is taken and supplied by: https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore/blob/main/docs/faq.md#11-q-what-is-meshcore What is Meshcore? MeshCore is a multi platform system for enabling secure text based communications utilisin

Remembering a Legend: The Legacy of Elwood Downey, WB0OEW S.K The amateur radio community is mourning the loss of a true innovator. Elwood Downey, WB0OEW , the brilliant mind behind the Clear Sky Institute and the creator of the ubiquitous HamClock , has passed away. For many of us, HamClock isn't just a piece of software; it’s the heartbeat of our shacks. Whether it was tracking greyline propagation, monitoring solar flux, or simply providing that iconic "tactical" aesthetic

QMR-KWT-2 MR-KWT 2 QMR-KWT-2 is a 1U cubesat with Earth imaging capabilities (low-resolution camera) and FM transponder (amateur radio VHF to UHF linear transponder). It is expected to be launched in December 2025 on Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Vostochny spaceport in Russia's Far East.   QMR-KWT-2 is the successor of QMR-KWT which means "Moon of Kuwait", translated from Arabic which was launched in summer of 2021 and re-entered Earth’s atmosphere in fall of 2024. QMR-KWT-2 will co

Ever wanted to build a Curtain Array antenna? In this documentary we put one up for the Antennapalooza field weekend in 2025. Ian, the man who runs the ever-popular Antennapalozza each year, is always busy and recently posted this video. Don't forget... the Antennapalooza 2026 event.. Click Here for more details.