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25.01.2022 The AGM was held today at the Bundaberg SES building. A good turn out, with social distancing rules observed and Zoom Video conferencing provided to those not able to attend in person. Welcome to new member David, who spoke about his interest in radio and was invited into the club..Welcome. Ross VK4JRO (President) gave a speech that summarised a year of radio events that the club participated in, bringing back lots of memories and also reminding us all of the difficult year ...2020 has been. The outgoing management of the club stood down and was reinstated unanimously as the nominated members were voted back in. Ross VK4JRO (President) David VK4DN (secretary) Marge VK4FHAM (Treasurer) Committee members Issac VK4NEU Darrall VK4FABF Dan VK4OH. Thanks to all those that could attend and we look forward to another year of radio activities. See more

24.01.2022 This is a set of photos from the annual Hervey Bay and Bundy Amateur Radio Clubs BBQ at Woodgate it was so popular it went over two weekends!!! Haha - (actua...lly we got our weekends mixed up and the Bundy club turned up last weekend- Hervey Bay thought it was THIS weekend!) but was a great BBQ on both weekends HiHi See more

23.01.2022 Had a play on Saturday afternoon in the 2020 VHF/UHF field day from the top of MT Watalgan, approx 45klms NE of Bundaberg. My 4wd wasnt available, so was an interesting drive up in the wet with my partners CX-5 for those who know the track. Unfortunately there was no ducting conditions and no sporadic E for the 6m band and only managed to find 3 contacts. (UHF/VHF contact with VK4DN David and a VHF contact with VK4FDJB Joe)... Was still a nice afternoon out, fresh air and a picnic with great views Dan VK4OH

23.01.2022 This was a fun weekend! :)

22.01.2022 Wow a club dinner at the Young Aussie... what a chef... food was amazing. Great get together for members.

21.01.2022 VK4BW will activating the Burnett Heads Historic Lighthouse tomorrow from 1000am. Anyone like to come down for a visit or call up on the radio, would be good to see/hear from you.

20.01.2022 Weekend at Clarkeys Trail Riders club event - we did radio Comms at checkpoints with VK4ION, VK4JRO, VK4DN, VK4FSTU, VK4MDZ- thanks all for making it an awesome weekend!

19.01.2022 Bundaberg Amateur Radio Club held a promotional day at Jaycar Bundaberg store today. Thanks to Mark Mason, manager of Jaycar for providing the club the area to display, was awesome to meet and greet and to support an awesome electronic business. Thanks to all those that were able to attend and to the public who visited. We demonstrated HF radio with a low slung end fed wire, Adriano projects, short wave receiver, cb radio, 2m and 70cm IRLP to various interstate and international locations and even unlocked a member of the public $700 scanner that he had managed to lock up.

18.01.2022 This weekend is the 24hr Remembrance Day Contest, commencing at 1300hrs Saturday 15th till 1300hrs Sunday 16th August. The contest is in honour of all those who gave their lives in defending our shores, especially ham radio operators. If you just want to answer a call, give the station your call sign, a signal report (usually just 5/9 for contests) and exchange the numbers of years you have had your license.. ie if you were licensed in year 2000.. your number would be 20 (20 ...years ) If you would like to enter the contest here is the link to rules and logging contacts etc. https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/rdcontest/ Good fun to see how many contacts around VK, NZ and Papua New Guinea you can get. Cheers. Dan VK4OH

17.01.2022 Here is a short video from our Ubobo weekend

17.01.2022 Nightshift anyone? Our Mt Goonaneman repeater site lost power and survived on battery back-up for quite a while. Eventually they also petered out so it meant a trip up to the Mountain on Tuesday night. The upshot was.. thankfully its NOT our equipment! A mains fuse on the 11,000 Volt transformer supplying our switchboard was faulty (it may have been a hornets nest).... Ergon Energy was called to fix it, after cleaning it up and testing that there was a reliable connection, our power was restored. A most sincere thank you to Ross VK4JRO & David VK4DN for giving up their evening and travelling there, calling and waiting for the repair crew... then staying on to reboot & test all our equipment. The club is indeed lucky to have these members who put themselves out for the good of the club, and all those who use the repeaters. Next time you see them, buy them a soft drink, and say thanks. :-)

16.01.2022 Hi everyone- you might have noticed recently that we have been experiencing some interference from Bundy Sugar on our Mt Watalgan 70cm repeater - so Ross VK4JRO built a notch filter and tonight after work, Ross, Isaac VK4NEU and myself traveled up the mountain to see if we could fix the problem! After checking the existing filter with a spectrum analyser Ross discovered it had failed and put the new one in its place- Everything then tested ok! so after a quick re-program of our VK4RBW repeater station to optimise for the new IRLP node we packed up and came home! Thanks Ross! (you did an amazing job!)

16.01.2022 Once again David vk4dn has set up a display at the Tegege Yesteryear Rally. The display again has some new and old gear on display One day down, another to go, so if you have time tomorrow go for a look and support David and the Radio Club.

16.01.2022 International Lighthouse weekend at Burnett Heads Historic Lighthouse, thanks to all those that made contact with the club activation on Saturday VK4BW. 73 Dan VK4OH

15.01.2022 Wow! What a difference we made! Today Ross VK4JRO and David VK4DN travelled up the mountain to our Repeater station VK4RBU on Mount Goonaneman to mow and whipper snip the grounds - see the before and after photos !

15.01.2022 Hi everyone! Our radio club was invited to run the JOTA (Jamboree On The Air) for 2019 for the Bundaberg and District Scout groups over the weekend... the kids had lots of fun chatting over the air with other scouts throughout Australia and overseas! They were able to try their hand at Morse code and learn about how to use the microphone - Thanks to Gail VK4ION, Lorraine VK4FCCW, Marg VK4FHAM, David VK4DN who all helped out on the weekend and also thank you Ross VK4JRO for advice and for setting up the dipole antennas ready for the weekend

14.01.2022 David (VK4DN) and Dan (VK4OH) were at the Sunshine Coast Hamfest today. Had a great time with lots of treasures to see (and buy ) and people to chat too. Met up with a few previous Bundy ops as well as some of the Hervey Bay and Maryborough club members. We also both worked N3JBL Pennsylvania from our mobiles when he checked into the Sunshine Coast 2m repeater via EchoLink. ... Fun times

13.01.2022 Lorraine did a great job keeping the kids chatting on the radio.

13.01.2022 VK4BW - we have our display this year at the Bundaberg Vintage Machinery event - here is a short video I made

12.01.2022 Hi all! - Dan VK4OH activated from the Historic Burnett Heads Lighthouse for the International Lighthouse weekend today and we had some club members come along. We made several contacts in Australia and overseas using a long wire for 20M and and a 40M dipole. Michael made his first ever HF contacts! (including a ZL station) as second operator for our club station VK4BW. :)

12.01.2022 Exciting news.. Foundation trial exams have been released online by the WIA for those who want do some practice prior to undertaking their exam.

12.01.2022 Our WICEN Group nominated Colin Kimball (from SES) for the Annual Volunteer Awards. Were pleased to announce Colin won the Category of 2018 Long Service Volunteer of the Year. Hes been a mainstay at the SES shed for 16 years and is the guy who always helps us with knowledge or equipment needs.... On behalf of the club and WICEN, congratulations Colin.

11.01.2022 Here is a short video of Lorraine VK4FCCW chatting to a JOTA station on the weekend

11.01.2022 The 23rd Annual International Lighthouse / Lightship is on this weekend. BARC club station will be once again participating at the Burnett Heads Historic Lighthouse (Club Callsign VK4BW, lighthouse no. AU0004) Its a fun weekend of casual contacts and radio chats, so come down, bring a chair and have a chat and play on the bands or use your home station to contact lighthouses around the world. ... Would be awesome to see you there Cheers Dan VK4OH https://illw.net/

11.01.2022 Here is our new display all about the history of the Bundy Amateur Radio Club and WICEN - many thanks to Gail VK4ION for making this display! This will be great for events the club is involved with throughout the year - and a good talking point for visitors who might stop by

10.01.2022 Hi all, VK shires contest on this weekend for 24hrs (1100hrs Saturday till 1100hrs Sunday) Fire up your radios and just answer a few calls, its a fun low key VK contest. See who you can get, they will be happy to get our shire.... For anyone first playing in this contest... If you hear anyone calling CQ CONTEST or CQ VK SHIRES.. just respond with This is VK4(your call sign) 59BU4 BU4 is the shire of Bundaberg. They will give you there Shire in return.

10.01.2022 This video was taken from our Mt Goonaneman Repeater station tower last year!

10.01.2022 We were invited for a tour of the 4BU transmitter site on Saturday- The AM station has been broadcasting since 1935! A lot of history and all the original valve transmitters are still working (even though the new equipment is solid state) Thankyou to Keith Evans and Keith Baldwin for showing us around!

08.01.2022 Its August; a huge month for the Club and Amateur Radio in general. This weekend is the RD Contest. RD is short for Remembrance Day and a weekend where we remember all the Radio Operators who serve in times of war. (The date is important too.. its the commemorative date for ceasing hostilities in the Pacific in WWII). Typical of Hams, weve turned the weekend into a 24 hour Contest and points are awarded for each contact made.... If youre on HF you can tune around and find a lot of traffic as operators get on-air to make contacts today and overnight. This year we have a club event at Buxton, and here are the first pix from the overnight adventure. In the images are Gary VK4MDZ, Ross VK4JRO and David VK4DN

07.01.2022 The Harry Angel Sprintis on tonight for 106mins. From 2000hrs to 2146hrs... and as its called a sprint not a contest, non contesters should find it a lot of fun and hopefully some good conditions. See you there.. .. 73, VK4OH.

06.01.2022 This Saturday 18th July, heralds the Trans Tasman Low Band Contest. A 6hr short contest to try out your HF station The contest runs from 1800hrs to 2400hrs on the bands of 160m, 80m and 40m with SSB, CW and digital modes supported. Come and put out some calls or answer calls, compete if you like..the more participants the more fun. ... https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/transtasman/ See you there 73 Dan VK4OH

04.01.2022 Who wants to join us for our BARC Monday night 2m net. Open to all amateurs who can access the town repeater. 147.800mhz at 1930hrs Monday night each week. Would be awesome to chat to anyone, all welcome... even if your portable like I am tonight. See you there. Cheers Dan VK4OH

04.01.2022 Today a few members came along to a workshop where we practiced our soldering skills- making some basic LED flashing kits from Jaycar- was an interesting afternoon playing electronics and a chat - thanks to Jim, Gail, Allan and David for coming along

04.01.2022 Well Done David. Today at Bundaberg City Library David put on a display and gave a small talk about Amateur Radio and the Bubdaberg Club to a small but well attentive group of people.

03.01.2022 Hi all - Im in Darwin VK8 area and went to the museum- they have a Cyclone Tracey exhibit and I came across this display! (This is the actual radio used in the days after the Cyclone)

02.01.2022 September Monthly committee meeting via Zoom. Planning future events for your club and making sure the behind the scenes continues to run smoothly. Got to love technology as one of the members even attended via phone link from their beach campsite..

02.01.2022 You may think Amateur Radio is an old hobby... and youre right of course, but.... Bundaberg Amateur Radio is clearly focused on the future and while were very conscious of staying safe, staying at a distance and watching out for each other, we still have club business to attend to. Enter your Management Committee using Zoom Video Conferencing to hold the most recent meeting. ... Thanks to you all for still hooking up, and running our club. Heres a screenshot of the meeting... They all look pretty laid back and we hope theyre all wearing pants hahaha. :-) :-) An interesting aside, when we updated the club constitution a while back we added clauses to include "using appropriate technology", (instead of posting out letters!!!). Who knew just how important seeing other people, and truly engaging with them, would become.

01.01.2022 Here are some photos from our weekend adventure at Ubobo near Gladstone! The Bundy club did Comms for the Trail Riders weekend with a couple of checkpoints... we had young Chris from Gladstone VK4FBDR and Len VK4WAL from the Rocky club - also Isaac VK4NEU was there thanks everyone for a fun weekend

01.01.2022 At the 3-ways checkpoint! Supported by the Rosedale SES - thanks to all the volunteers for making it a great weekend!

01.01.2022 In September 1961 the club was formed, and to celebrate our 58th Birthday we created a display in the Library (thanks to the Bundy Library staff for giving us space for a 2 week static display). We placed our banner there and used the glass cabinet for the display. The 4 shelves begin with Morse (where it all began), then we give viewers some idea of radio gear, QSL cards, Foundation Training as well as a little about WICEN and our HABE project.... We even created a QR code to take interested people direct to our website and placed Club business cards in a holder for people to take away. Thanks to David VK4DN and Gail VK4ION for creating the display to showcase the club. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY to us.

01.01.2022 The Bundy radio club had our mid-year social dinner at The East End Hotel tonight! Everyone enjoyed a nice meal and drinks and had a great evening chatting about life, radio and the universe!