Events & Nets

Townsville Amateur Radio Club runs a full calendar of regular meetings, on-air nets, and yearly events. Details for specific upcoming dates are posted in the News section — this page covers the recurring pattern.

Regular Meetings

• Management Meeting
  1st Tuesday of the month, 7:30pm, Club Rooms
• Project Night
  2nd Tuesday of the month, 7:30pm, Club Rooms
• Social Evening
  3rd Tuesday of the month, 7:30pm, Club Rooms

Club Rooms: 27 Green Street, West End QLD 4810 (upstairs). Also available via Zoom for financial members.

Regular On-Air Nets

• Ann Renton Memorial Net
  (formerly the Townsville Ladies Net) — 4th Tuesday of the month, 7:30pm, Townsville UHF Repeater and VK4TUB AllStarLink & Echolink nodes
• Tech on the Air Net
  5th Tuesday of a month (when one occurs), 7:30pm, Townsville VHF Repeater and VK4PQ AllStarLink & Echolink nodes
• WIA National News & QNEWS
  Every Sunday morning from 9am (2300UTC), Townsville VHF Repeater (VK4RAT), followed by callbacks
• North Queensland Net
  Every Sunday evening from 7:30pm (0930UTC), 3605.4kHz and Townsville VHF Repeater
• Emergency-Readiness Net
  Every Sunday from 8am (2200UTC) on 14125kHz, 10122kHz and 7105kHz

The VK4RAT Townsville Amateur Radio VHF Repeater (listen 146.7MHz, transmit 146.1MHz) is also accessible via the VK4PQ Kelso AllStarLink Node 49806, VK4PQ-R Echolink Node 956580, and VK4GDN Charters Towers AllStarLink Node 54043 (145.145MHz). Full repeater and gateway details are on the Repeaters page.

Yearly Events

• Family Radio Camp
  January, around Australia Day
• WIA John Moyle Memorial Field Day
  March, 3rd weekend — portable operations in the field
• ANZAC Day Operations
  April — AM & CW operations at historic military sites
• Snow’s Famous Foxhunt
  June — radio direction finding & social afternoon
• Cardwell Gathering
  October long weekend, Meunga Creek Campgrounds & Caravan Park
• AGM & Pancake Breakfast
  November, last Sunday, Rossiter Park, Aitkenvale
• Christmas Party & Monster Auction
  December
• MXLT Mystery Lights Tour
  December, around the Townsville region
• New Year’s Eve Countdown
  On-air countdown to New Year on the Townsville VHF Repeater

Communications Support Events

Throughout the year Townsville Amateur Radio Club also provides volunteer communications support for community events — horse endurance rides, off-road racing, open water swims and more. See the full rundown on the Communications Support page.