VK4 End of Year Catch – up

VK4 Chapter of the VK Contest Club will be catching up for drinks and nibbles at Mango Hill Tavern 12:30 pm until late: Saturday the 30th December 2023 Attendees so far: VK2IA, VK2ZRH , VK4BB, VK4CT,VK4CZ,VK4DX, VK4KX, VK4MV, VK4HF, VK4TS,VK4SA, VK4XU, VK4UH,VK4JJW Maybe VK4DI and VK4ZD +/- XYL and kids Building up to a big [...]

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2021 VK SHIRES All SoapBox

  17/07/2021
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2021 VK SHIRES   All SoapBox   vk1dd.log SOAPBOX: THANKS TO THE ORGANISERS AND EVERYONE I TALKED TO.  I WASN'T ON FOR SOAPBOX: LONG, BUT IT WAS FUN [...]

VK Shires 2021 Survey

  13/07/2021
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/stories/SM-HFDXLLJJ/ The survey of entrants resulted in a majority asking for the contest to be expanded to cover ZL local Government [...]

Short call signs from the RSGB

  12/07/2021
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UK Contest Callsigns Qualifying Criteria Qualifying criteria 4. The qualifying criteria are divided into two parts, – one for contest participation and the other for [...]

WIA Trans-Tasman Low-Band Contest 2021

  06/07/2021
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Trans-Tasman Low-Band Contest Trans Tasman Low Bands Challenge Contest Manager Alan Shannon VK4SN Contest Introduction Next contest - 17 JUL 2021 The Trans-Tasman [...]

Harry Angel Memorial 80m Sprint 2021 Results released

  06/07/2021
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RESULTS for 2021 posted below we apologise for the delay in publishing results from this years contest. We were delayed due to a significant number of logs not being sent to [...]

ACMA Amateur radio update: June 2021

  30/06/2021
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Amateur radio update: June 2021 In our third amateur e-bulletin for 2021, we provide an update on: the review of non-assigned amateur licensing 2x1 contest call [...]

A Bit of VKCC History for the 2X1 and High Power

  24/06/2021
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Here is an interesting article from November 2015 from DXNews, as it shows who were the initial instigators of the 2x1 callsigns and higher power permits way back in 2011, [...]

Great News 2X1 WIA Pressure pulls programme across the line

  24/06/2021
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Great news for the Australian Amateur Radio Cohort after the WIA’s affirmative call to action results in 2x1 Callsign announcement, after delays in the implementation of the [...]

2X1 The WIA Steps Up to the Mark to help VKCC initiative

  24/06/2021
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The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) has offered to help the Australian Maritime College (AMC) with the implementation of the 2X1 Contest callsigns. COVID and other [...]

ROSS HULL CONTEST FROM MANAGER VK2XIC

  27/11/2020
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All I’m the  Ross Hull VHF UHF Memorial Contest Manager and am looking to increase interest in this long running contest. The contest was established in 1950 to [...]