Activity Ideas

This page is a collection of activity ideas for club members. Some of these are gathered from the survey at the 2025 AGM.

  • Parks on the air / summits on the air activity day
  • POTA/SOTA Overnight camping
  • Talbot Arts and Communications Museum – near Bendigo
  • Queenscliff Maritime Museum & Queenscliff Fort. Lunch at Bowling Club
  • National Communication Museum – Melbourne
  • Lunch at Macedon Village Hotel – Walking distance from Macedon Station.
  • Essendon Airways museum & TAA Museum
  • Simpson Barracks Army Radio Museum
  • Moorabbin Air Museum and lunch at R.S.L.
  • Lake Boga Catalina Museum and amateur radio station camping ground or cabin accomadation
  • H.M.A.S. Castlemaine Williamstown lunch at one of local cafes
  • Werribee Liberator Museum lunch at restaurant and then on to Point Cook R.A.A.F. Museum
  • Tatura Museum watch film on W.W.2 POW camps and story of the secret radio lunch at Shepparton R.S.L.
  • 12.Barmah Forrest campout and POTA activity
  • Explore connections software related to SDR radios
  • Field day station set up at a designated location
  • Technical training type activities
  • List of people that can help with antenna installs and technical advice
  • Practical demonstrations on Antennas, feed lines, basic maintenance of radio related equipment.
  • Craig VK3CDN from Icom has agreed to show the IC-7760
  • Guy DeSimone, VK3GUY – Yaesu dealer VKRadio has agreed to show the FTX-1
  • Unun/Balun winding day

For things we’ve actually scheduled see the Calendar page.