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…
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…
VKS-737 2023 Winter Schedule Almost Upon Us
Don’t forget that we are changing to our Winter Schedule this Sunday, 2nd April. You need to be aware that there are some changes to the starting times, in order to make it a bit easier for our Volunteer Base Operators. Log in to this…
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,…
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