2025 BARG Hamvention will occur Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Pencil in the date now.

Further information and trading tables booking click HERE.

Roadworks affecting access to Clubrooms:

There is still a significant ongoing roadworks in the area. Watch for detour and safety signage.

There are roadworks on Airport Rd. It is down to one lane between the roundabout at Nettles Rd/Airport Rd and the runway with temporary traffic lights in place to control the direction of traffic. If you want to avoid the roadworks then come via McCartneys Rd.

Airport Rd has been closed completely for some time between Learmonth Rd and Nettles Rd you will need to come via Liberator Drive or McCartneys Rd.

Ben VK3NRD

BARG Thursday 80m HF Net Control Station Roster is available here.

BARG Weekly Tuesday 2m CatchUP net via VK3RBA is available here

June 2023 was the anniversary of 100 Years of known Amateur Radio activity in Ballarat.

Click here to read how BARG commemorated this significant event.

Featured Photos: Thursday Coffee, always a fine turn up.

All GENERAL meetings are held on the last Saturday of the month at 11am. All welcome to come along.These start at 11:00AM and are usually followed by an opportunity for a chin wag over a couple of Snags 'n Sauce in bread.

25 Boomerang Rd, Mitchell Park VIC 3355

If you arrive early you will find the doors open about 30 minutes earlier.

CONSTRUCTION Meetings

Are held on the first Saturday of the Month at 1 pm. We encourage everyone to take advantage of the Construction gatherings. Keep an eye on our Facebook page, and members email lists for news.

Coffee Meetings

These quick social catchups are held every Thursday at 10:00 at Food Seduction on Doveton, 524 Doveton Street North, Ballarat

Check the calendar for details.

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.

Click here for BARG Weekly HF Net Control Station Roster

The BARG 2m Tuesday Catch up Roster is here






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