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Welcome to the web presence of the Ballarat Amateur Radio Group.
email contact via barg (at) barg.org.au
Reminder for all members : Membership fees for 2025-2026 Our membership year is 1st July in one year to 30th June the following year, ie the same as our financial year. Membership fees will become due on 1st July but can be paid any time from now onwards. The grace period ends just before the start of the AGM. This timing is to ensure members are financial at the time of the AGM towards the end of August. Membership fees for the full financial year 2025-2026 are $40.00 Preferred payment method is bank deposit/transfer account details. Click here for all details or refer to the Secretary's email sent on 31st May 2025 BARG COMMITTEEBARG Thursday 80m HF Net Control Station Roster is available here.
BARG Weekly Tuesday 2m CatchUP net via VK3RBA is available here
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We obviously prefer face to face meetings, however where circumstances dictate we will hold meetings ONLINE via Webex. Details are emailed prior to the meeting. Guests are still welcome. Contact us to get the meeting details.
All members new and old are quite welcome to come out and join us. We are located at the Ballarat Airport. BARG runs a couple of radio nets on a weekly basis. Everyone is quite welcome to join in our radio nets. So if you have 30 mins to spare, please join in and say hi to a great bunch of people who will make you very welcome. Times and dates of nets as per below
Club Nets: VHF NET: Every Tuesday Night at 8 pm on 146.750 MHz - VK3RBA HF NET: Every Thursday Night at 8 pm on 3.608 MHz - VK3BML 6m NET: Every Tuesday Night at 8:30 pm on 53.650Mhz RX / 52.650Mhz TX - FM with a 91.5 tone - VK3RWU
LINKED REPEATERS: The local VK3RBA-70cm repeater on Mt Buninyong is part of a network of linked repeaters covering North-Western Victoria.
Access details for this repeater have recently changed.
For full details of this linked network and access details see https://www.qrz.com/lookup/vk3rba
You can listen to the system live http://vk3rba.dyndns.org:441/
This linked system may be accessed via IRLP node 9503.
Did you participate at the 2025 BARG Hamvention? Can you spare a couple of minutes to let us know your thoughts and suggestions? Thanks in anticipation. Here's a summary of the day Use these links to see the rosters