REMINDER! VERY IMPORTANT!! Thanks to John VK3JDD who brought this to my attention. Rather than attempt to explain this on this blog, Hayden VK7HH has produced a video. In brief, if you do not setup an account with the ACMA Assist portal and do not Reconfirm your Amateur Radio callsign/license, after five years, your callsign will be surrender AUTOMATICALLY. ACMA ASSIST PORTAL HERE. I advise you to watch this video, and !! setup an account via the ACMA ASSIST PORTAL, and recon

On Saturday, July 4 the Gippsland Gate Radio & Electronics Club will be hosting a Hamfest sale. The venue is at the Longwarry Community Hall at 14 Kennedy St. Longwarry, approx 60km East of Dandenong, Vic. The venue is easy to find. It is just 3 km South of the freeway interchange, 150 metres South of the Longwarry train station and level crossing. When: Saturday July 4th 2026 Where: Longwarry Community Hall at 14 Kennedy St. Longwarry Click Here for Google Map Location.

Famparc Contest GROUP testing Details: The Famparc Contest Group will conduct tests to educate and refine the hardware and other components this Saturday at the club rooms. Please be aware that the Contesting Group will need to utilise the Radio Shack and other club facilities. When: Saturday 16th May 2026. Time 10am. Where: Famparc Club Rooms. Agenda: 1. Review the Campaign Plan. - Discuss the plan - Answer team questions - Decide on our approach to the open questions. (~45

Inside the Volunteer Team Building the Future of Parks on the Air James VE7UVL Activating CA-3948 Peace Arch Provincial Park, British Columbia Just after sunrise, a portable antenna rises beside a picnic table somewhere in America. A coax connector tightens. A radio face lights up. A callsign cuts through the noise floor. Within seconds, operators from across the country, and increasingly across the world, begin calling back. For many amateur radio operators, this ritual has

Anderson's Mill, Elizabeth Street, Smeaton, Victoria, 3364 WHAT: Mills on the Air - Anderson's Mill WHEN: May 9th & 10th 2026. WHERE: Anderson's Mill, Elizabeth Street, Smeaton, Victoria, 3364 DETAILS: The annual 'Mills on the Air' weekend is on again, Saturday May 9th and Sunday May 10th! This coincides with the National Trust Anderson’s Mill Heritage Weekend. The atmospheric Anderson's Mill comes alive with displays of heritage crafts, machinery and historical exhibitions

This Saturday we will acknowledge ANZAC Day at the club with a short presentation of a significant Australian wartime radio story. In 1942, the 2/2 Independent Company built a radio from scraps after they were trapped in Portugese Timor with 3,000 Japanese. Australia thought they were all captured, but 300 of them regrouped in the jungle and then tied up the Japanese for about a year by running a guerrilla campaign. The radio they built was nicknamed 'Winnie the War Winner',

2026 MDRC Hamfest Information The MDRC Annual Hamfest is held in May on a Saturday. The 2026 MDRC Hamfest will be held on Saturday 9 May. The MDRC Hamfest is widely renowned as the Biggest Hamfest in Victoria, with a huge turnout each year. Many attendees travel great distances to attend the MDRC Annual Hamfest from Interstate and overseas. The 2026 MDRC Hamfest will be held at The Patterson Lakes Community Centre 54-70 Thomson Road, Patterson Lakes Ticket sales from 9.00am

Our good friend and member Ian VK3KO, will be presenting at the April Monthly meeting, Famparc Contest Team. Ian will have a short Powerpoint style presentation looking at the formation of a Club Contesting Team.. For more details, come along to the meeting and join in. When: Saturday 4th April 2026. around 11:30am. Where: Famparc Club Rooms. Basic Details: Re-discover contesting and competitions at FAMPARC Expose new members and operators to the enjoyment of amateur radio co

From Ian, VK3BUF Thank you to Ian for his report. I returned this evening from 2 days at the Sandown Park Train & Hobby show. Robert VK3LOL was present, as was Dianne VK3JDI and Wendy VK3WEN There was plenty of interest in Amateur radio with lots of brochures linked to FAMPARC taken by visitors. We had a working RTTY station on both a laptop and the Siemens 100. There was plenty of interest from visitors and we were busy the entire weekend Peter Parker VK3YE was also pres

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