This is a quick introduction to the Ballarat Amateur Radio Group for new members, also serves as a reminder to existing members.<\/p>\n
There is evidence of a Ballarat Amateur Radio society being in existence over 100 years ago.<\/p>\n
The current organisation can continuously trace it\u2019s incarnation back to the early 1980\u2019s.<\/p>\n
The club is a properly incorporated entity under Consumer Affairs Victoria. It has a Committee of management which includes an executive comprising the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer.<\/p>\n
The Committee is charged with the proper and running of club affairs. The current committee membership is listed on the Club\u2019s Website. See below.<\/p>\n
The club holds an Annual General meeting in August of each year at which time elections are held, and membership fees are set.<\/p>\n
The club rooms are located at 31 Boomerang Road, Mitchell park. The clubrooms are part of\u00a0 now heritage listed structures that were constructed and used during the second World war as training facility for the Wireless personnel. The training\u00a0 school was known as 1WAGS , the No 1 Wireless Air Gunners School Ballarat. You can read more here : https:\/\/www.1wags.org.au\/courses\/<\/a><\/p>\n The clubrooms boast<\/p>\n The rooms and facilities can be accessed by financial members via normal key as well as coded entry. Access can be\u00a0 provided as required. Contact a committee member for details. It is very strongly recommended that visits to the club room are arranged to coincide with another member for safety reasons. Entry and egress from the clubrooms require a signin\/signout<\/p>\n The club holds meetings at the Club Rooms: These meetings include:<\/p>\n Depending upon availability, club members involve themselves in National contests and field days as well as BARG sponsored field days. Involvement is decided by club membership.<\/p>\n There are two formalised \u201cnets\u201d held during the week to encourage and maintain contact with members who might not be able to attend other activities.<\/p>\n details are noted on the club web page.<\/p>\n Fundraising to cover ongoing costs, maintenance, equipment, insurance and future costs, is an important part of our activities. The level of your membership fees is influenced by the ability to fund raise. These activities are based on:<\/p>\n The club runs communications amongst its members via email using the GROUPS.IO platform.<\/p>\n There are 2 mailing lists. One is called MEMBERS<\/strong>, the other is CHATTER<\/strong>.<\/p>\n You may have received an invitation to join these lists or been directly added.<\/p>\n As a subscriber<\/p>\n You can elect to receive every email as posted or receive a digest that you can skim through per day. The digests are normally sent out around 2300hrs daily..<\/p>\n Note that the membership of each mailing list is identical and there is no need to post the same item to both lists.<\/p>\n If you unsubscribe yourself from the MEMBERS email list, this will also<\/em> unsubscribe you\u00a0 from the CHATTER list.\u00a0 As this is our primary channel of keeping you informed you risk missing out on club information.\u00a0<\/p>\n There are options if you feel you are receiving too much email.\u00a0 \u00a0At the foot of each email is a “Contact Group Owner”<\/strong> link. This should start an email addressed to the Group administrators where you can explain your needs.<\/p>\n The club has a\u00a0\u00a0 public presence via the FACEBOOK offering available at:https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/VK3BML<\/a><\/p>\n This is useful for quick information; membership requires agreement to posting and interaction rules .<\/p>\n Please read and support\u00a0 the Group\u00a0 rules.<\/p>\n All new postings are subject to moderation.<\/p>\n The club has a static public presence via a website at www.barg.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n The information here is actively maintained.<\/p>\n There are some *members only areas* <\/strong>holding<\/p>\n Access to the *members only areas* <\/strong>is controlled by passwords.<\/p>\n These passwords\u00a0 are subject to change. If you have not received the password please contact\u00a0 Colin\/VK3NCC, or a committee member for details.<\/p>\n These areas should be explored at your leisure;<\/p>\n BARG has a fraternal\u00a0 informal link to all other Amateur radio clubs; we aim to support each other as possible.<\/p>\n Historically BARG was involved with WICEN, though this activity has waned over the years. There are past members of WICEN in our membership. Chat to them if you have an interest here.<\/p>\n BARG supports the aims of Amateur Radio advancement as espoused by national organisations such as the Wireless institute of Australia and the Radio Amateur Society of Australia. BARG holds \u2018affiliated club\u2019 status with the WIA .<\/p>\n Remember there are no silly questions, Ask a question via MEMBERS or CHATTER<\/p>\n The following documents help us to run a successful and welcoming club:<\/p>\n If you are a current member or hoping to join, please familiarise yourself with these.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n BARG New Member Guide Welcome Pack Rev PA3<\/p>\n 2025-03-03<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Welcome to BARG!\u201d This is a quick introduction to the Ballarat Amateur Radio Group for new members, also serves as a reminder to existing members. BARG There is evidence of a Ballarat Amateur Radio society being in existence over 100 years ago. The current organisation can continuously trace it\u2019s incarnation back to the early 1980\u2019s. 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CAV-Model Rules ( Constitution)<\/a>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
BARG Supplementary Rules<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n