The society caters for radio amateurs who have served professionally at sea, either in a naval or merchant service or in a civilian support role. Such people are full members but Associate membership is available to anyone with appropriate maritime experience and not fully licensed. Consociate membership is available to anyone else interested in our activities. See membership page for further information.
Our quarterly QUA magazine is available on this site in Acrobat format for September, December 2004, March, September 2005, June 2006. Some issues are quite large, so may be a bit slow on a dial-up line but others are much smaller. If you still receive your copy by post, please advise the Editor who can email your copy which saves club funds.
For membership or other enquiries, please email the Secretary in the first instance.
The society runs a variety of CW and SSB nets; details of times and frequencies are on a separate page. In addition there are various contests. E-mail bulletins are circulated from time to time and past messages can be accessed on a separate web site. Currently there are over 200 members in all states of Australia and overseas.
We have set up a page with VK vessels with ham stations aboard - these are mainly museum ships. Another area that we are trying to cover is older Marine Radios.
Our links page will point you towards some excellent web sites of both similar clubs and other sites covering radio and maritime
interest.
We have club callsigns for most VK states as well as New Zealand. They are
VK1SEA, VK2SEA, VK3SEA, VK5SEA, VK6SEA, VK7SEA and ZL1SEA.Contact us
Nets
Other Site Pages
Club Call Signs
Illustrated above is the front of the QSL card used by our club stations. It was designed by one of our members, Kevin VK2CE.
The Sail Training Ship STS "Young Endeavour" was chosen as the most appropriate vessel for the card as she was a bicentennial gift to the Australian people by Britain in 1988, is crewed by the Royal Australian Navy and is home to 24 young Australian trainees for 10 day sail training voyages. The Young Endeavour Youth Scheme manages the vessel from Garden Island, Sydney. (Phone 1800 267 909).
Young Endeavour has been accorded honorary membership of our Society and when she has an amateur radio operator on board she is able to participate in the Society's nets from time to time. The photograph on the QSL card was provided by the RAN photographic unit. Kevin visited the ship at Eden not long after the disastrous 1998 Sydney to Hobart race, where she acted as radio relay vessel. See our Radio and Ships pages for some of the pictures he took.