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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.
!! IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!
Access to Clubrooms:
NEWSFLASH!! AIRPORT ROAD HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY CLOSED HALF WAY ALONG WHEN APPROACHING FROM THE EAST.
THAT IS WHEN APPROACHING FROM THE EAST ( from Learmonth Road), AIRPORT ROAD STOPS AT THE NEW RUNWAY EXTENSION.
BE AWARE THAT AS AT 24th Februrary 2025
GOOGLE MAPS DOES NOT SHOW THIS CLOSURE AND ALTERNATIVE ACCESS VIA LIBERATOR DRIVE
BE AWARE
GOOGLE MAPS DOES NOT SHOW THIS CLOSURE AND ALTERNATIVE ACCESS VIA LIBERATOR DRIVE
BEST ACCESS METHOD FOR THE BALLARAT AMATEUR RADIO CLUB ( and all other tenancies in the area) IS TO COME IN VIA LIBERATOR DRIVE. Follow the few signs that specify "AIRPORT"
If you enter from Airport Road you will have to follow the Blue route until you get to Liberator Drive.
BE AWARE THAT AS AT 24th Februrary 2025
GOOGLE MAPS DOES NOT SHOW THIS CLOSURE AND ALTERNATIVE ACCESS VIA LIBERATOR DRIVE
BARG Thursday 80m HF Net Control Station Roster is available here.
BARG Weekly Tuesday 2m CatchUP net via VK3RBA is available here
Featured Photos: 
Thursday Coffee, always a fine turn up.
All GENERAL meetings are held on the last Saturday of the month ( except December). 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. WE are hoping for some technical presentations during 2025- Have an idea for something? Contact Peter/VK3APW via barg (at) barg.org.au
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 usually held every Thursday at 10:00 at Food Seduction on Doveton, 524 Doveton Street North, Ballarat; occasional change of venue is communicated via member mailing lists and Facebook pages
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.
80m Thursday Roster - scheduler access
2m Tuesday Roster - scheduler access