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…
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…
Just4Kids 2023 Kimberley Adventure
The Just4Kids’ next Motor Trail tour is heading to the Kimberley, Alice Spring, Broome to Katherine, with some fantastic places in between. The tour runs from 11th May till 2nd June 2023. We will visit Wolfe Creek Crater, the Bungle Bungles, the Mimbi Caves, Broome,…
2022 Moonambel HF Radio Gathering Reminder
Make Sure Not To Miss 21st Moonambel HF Radio Gathering Next Month! This is an event not to miss. Given that it’s been affected by the Pandemic these last two years, this one promises to be bigger than Texas! In particular, the Saturday evening festivities…
Broken Down and Isolated in Amethyst Fossicking Field South of Cloncurry
In early June 2022 we departed Brisbane in our new 79 Series Toyota LandCruiser, towing our trusty Quantum off road caravan. After two years of Covid lockdowns we were thoroughly looking forward to getting into the outback and doing some fossicking at some of our…
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