The Benefits of having a HF Radio and joining our Club

The HF Radio has a range of approximately 4000 km and can give you access to the Royal Flying Doctor Bases, ABC AM Radio, 27 MHz Radio and weather channels as well as being able to chat to friends over the radio and even access the landline and mobile telephone system to call up family and friends.

Help is only a radio call away - day or night. For more social contacts, there are scheduled chat times for our members. You can also call up individual members, via the selective calling (Selcall) facility at times outside of the sked times.

The HF Radio Club Inc has members in every state of Australia; in 4WD, motorhomes, caravans, on stations and farms or just radio buffs to help you. Many of our members are on the road constantly (with their radios on, of course) so you can exchange greetings and news all over the country.

We have access to nine frequencies ranging from 3 MHz to 16 MHz. They are all fully available for our members use.

We have access to base stations, who can be contacted for emergencies. They are located at Casino in NSW, Sapphire in QLD and Albany in WA.

Amongst our radio buffs and experts on various radio models, we now have our “trained technicians” who can help you with installation and operation of your radio. Contact the Field Officer, for further information.

We sell radios, and Contact the Sales Officer, for further information.

The current fees are as follows (fees are renewable 1st July each year):

$20 joining fee, plus $65 annual membership total for 2 people travelling together (total of $85.00)
there is a pro rata reduction in the year of joining, applying to the membership fee only:-

From 1st October the fee is reduced to $40.00, from 1st January to $20.00, from 1st April it is $65 which gives you 15 months membership.

Telephone Interconnect (TIC) - (not compulsory) - A one off deposit of $50 is required and you will be billed for the calls you make, and then you top up your "bank" as needed. Calls are for a maximum of 6 minutes.

On joining our club, you receive an authority to transmit on all of our frequencies, a newsletter every three months, a club sticker to put on your aerial, name tags and a selcall list with all the members’ names, selcall numbers and telephone numbers, so that you can keep in contact all the way around Australia.

Application forms can be obtained from a variety of sources, from the club via the club address, phone, email, downloaded from the website.