WIA VHF UHF Field Day Contest

WIA VHF / UHF Contest: Good news folks! This contest will be added to vklogchecker dot com where operators can submit logs and have them checked and managers can release timely results. We're hoping all will be ready to go for the 18th January 2025 summer contest. VKCL will be useless from here on in and N1MM logger will be needed. For 1st time users [...]

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AREG Lockdown Contest

AREG Lockdown Contest As most of us will be locked down for at least the next seven days we have thought up a little contest to have some fun. The idea of the [...]

VK4HH and VK7GH Clean up the VK Shires

Pretty obvious from the results of the VK Shires that the ladies have cleaned up... Catherine Hammond and Diane Main We asked the ladies how they did so [...]

2021 VK SHIRES All SoapBox

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 [...]