VKS-737 2025 RENEWAL TIME
IT’S RENEWAL TIME AGAIN: The Annual Renewal Period is now active with the renewals needing to be received at the Office by the end of November. Most renewals have been sent by email so make sure to check your Inbox. For those few with no…
2024 Moonambel HF Radio Gathering Reminder
The Annual Moonambel Gathering will be over the weekend of 19th and 20th October. People start arriving as early as Thursday 17th and some stay until Monday 21st. The annual event happens at the Moonambel Sports and Recreation Reserve, just a bit on the Avoca…
SatPhone Satellite Permanently Off-Air! And A Bit More To Digest!
When thinking of SatPhone reliability, we realise that there is a satellite way up there that acts like a repeater. Signals between the satphone caller and the receiver pass through a satellite and back down to earth and through various mysterious channels to the person…
STILL USING AN OLD MOBILE PHONE?
With the shutdown of the 3G network looming large, there may be some who are blissfully unaware that their 4G phones may not be able to make 000 calls. Generally, for mobile phones to be able to ring 000 they need to be VoLTE (Voice…
❗️what3words❗️
VKS-737 Radio Network and other Australian emergency services accept what3words What is what3words? what3words is the easiest way to tell VKS-737 Base Station Operators, Triple Zero (000) and other emergency service organisations exactly where you are when you need help. what3words has divided the world…
❗️Simpson Desert Recovery Truck Update❗️
This is the latest update regarding the new Birdsville Recovery Truck, posted on May 11 on the Barossa 4WD Club of SA Facebook Page: Our Simpson Desert Recovery truck is complete and will be Birdsville bound on Monday after the special desert floatation tyres are…
VKS-737 2024 Winter Schedule Now in Operation
Following the end of Daylight Savings in those states affected by it, we are now operating our Winter Schedule. What does it mean? Basically, nothing! Only change is that in NSW, ACT, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia everything starts an hour earlier and this will…
2024 Road Alert for Anne Beadell Highway and Connie Sue Highway
This was posted by the Ilkurlka Visitor Centre, along the Anne Beadell Highway recently…….. Urgent travel update 18 April 2024: There was very high rainfall between Ilkurlka and Laverton in the first half of March. The latest advice is that the Anne Beadell and Connie…
HF-Tel Announcement
Important Information for HF-Tel Users The Australian National 4WD Radio Network Inc. Committee advises the following changes will affect current and / or intending users of the HF-TEL radio telephone service provided by the Network. Telstra has indicated that they will be closing their 3G…
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