World Wide Flora Fauna (WWFF) Program

WWFF PreviewPaul Simmonds VK5PAS writes:

I am the co-ordinator of the World Wide Flora Fauna (WWFF) program in Australia.
WWFF encourages portable operation from designated nature parks and protected nature
areas all around the world.  There are numerous award certificates on offer in the program, but many amateurs are involved for a variety of other reasons, including (but not limited to):-

  • Home Brew TX
  • Home Brew Antennas
  • Bushwalking
  • Photography
  • 4WDing
  • or just enjoying the great outdoors.

Click here to view a ‘flyer’ which explains the WWFF program.  We would love to see some more park activators and hunters join in.

The ‘global’ or ‘international’ WWFF website is located here.
The ‘Australian’ (referred to as VKFF) website can be located here.

Best wishes,
Paul.

Paul’s website is here, and click here to view his blog.

ACMA Licensing Shut-Down Announced

ACMAFrom the WIA:

Date : 03 / 08 / 2015 
Author : Jim Linton – VK3PC

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has announced that it will suspend all apparatus licence processing from Friday August 14 to Tuesday September 1, to replace its licensing and frequency processing system. The ACMA in announcing this two week closure, acknowledges the need to bring a more efficient process to Apparatus licences, which are widely used including by the Amateur Service. 

The Wireless Institute of Australia highly recommends that if your licence is due for renewal during the closure period, to immediately renew it even if this is well before its expiry date. If you or your club need to renew a licence for a 6 metre beacon on a frequency below 52MHz prior to September 9, please contact the WIA immediately. This is because the ACMA are not renewing beacon or repeater licences below 52MHz after September 9, and the shut-down may affect any that have still not been renewed. 

The ACMA in a statement said that during the shut-down, there will be no apparatus licences processed, device registrations or licence renewals. Processing of them resumes on Wednesday September 2. Most licensees will not notice the shut-down, but in some cases the ACMA warns there may be delays. Although the shut-down period has been announced, the ACMA foreshadowed the new HELMS system earlier this year.

All-Band All-Mode Transceiver for Sale

*** ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD ***

Hello All, as our newsfeed is a little devoid of content, I though I’d take the opportunity to do a little gratuitous self-interest post!

For sale is my Trusty YAESU FT-897D Shack-in-a-box 160m to 70cm All-Mode Transceiver. Selling as I’ve just upgraded to the FT-991.

Unit build date is September 2013 and all its time here in the shack has been spent running my 70cm DStar Hotspot at 2W output, so it’s done very little work.  Includes all original packaging & manuals, cables and standard mic, external analogue meter with Bluetooth CAT interface and USB CAT cable. ICQ_FT897_3

Specs and Info here.

$850 Or Nearest Offer.  Located in Port Macquarie.

Please leave a comment or contact me via the usual methods if interested.

 

New Website is Live!

Website

Welcome to the new website of the Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club!  It’s been a long time coming, but we now have a shiny new site built around the fabulous WordPress Content Management System that should see the site excel as an excellent resource for club members!

The website includes an events system which you’ll see in ‘widget’ form to your right and there’s also a neat list view which is available by clicking the events link in the menu above.

Stay with us while we iron out the bugs, add more functionality and build up a useful repository of info for all things Amateur Radio…. 🙂