The West Australian VHF Group was formed in 1955 with a core focus on very-high and ultra-high frequency radio communication such as: satellite, Earth-Moon-Earth and other applications of the frequencies above 30MHz. However, member interest extends from LF (longwave) through EHF (microwave) and the technology to utilise those frequencies. The club has been based at Wireless Hill (Noongar: Yagan Mia), in Ardross since 1972 with the generous support of the City of Melville.
Anyone with an interest in amateur communication is welcome at our activities and meetings.
We have regular meetings in the Operators Cottage at Wireless Hill in Ardross, just south of Perth (see map): 7:30 pm (local / West Australian Time) on the fourth Monday of the month (except December). People arrive from 7 p.m. for a chat and coffee. We also have activity days, usually on the 1st Saturday of each month (except January), and on 3rd Saturday of each month – 12 noon (local time), till about 4:30 pm.
Our “mates” club
WA VHF Group has a sister club (or “mates club” as we call it) in Bangor, Maine USA – the Pine State Amateur Radio Club. Perth is the most distant major city from Bangor which prompted us to work together promoting globe-spanning amateur radio experimentation.
Other information sites
We have a FaceBook group, and new information usually appears there first. [This replaces an old FaceBook Page – see below].
Announce and Discussion email list:
We operate an email announcement and discussion list: email wa-vhf-announce@googlegroups.com (this replaces the [Announce] and [Discussion] groups that used to operate from the old website. The list is supported by Google Groups.
We have a FaceBook Group which is open: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wavhf
Coming up:
- Next group activity day: 7th February 2026 at Wireless Hill, from noon till about 3pm.
… then 21st February 2026. - Next monthly meeting – 26th January 2026, 7 pm – conducted online via Google Chat – link sent out on the Announce and Discussion email list.
Interested in joining?
Membership is $35 per year. Click here for the membership form.
Subscription Renewals:
Payment ($35) can be made to WA VHF Group: BSB: 126-541, account: 23444951 – put your CallSign and name in message text.
To contact West Australian VHF Group, please contact one of the current committee:
(for phone contact within Australia, change the +61 with 0 in the phone numbers below)
- David Emrich, VK6KV- President, email: vk6kv@daves-domain.com, phone: +61 419 908 271
- Alasdair Taylor, VK6ATX – Vice-president, email: vk6kif@bigpond.com, phone: +61 416 195 540.
- Mark Dixon, VK6EZ / KC6EZU – Secretary, email: vk6ez@dixemail.com, phone: +61 413 820 071
- Stephen Cordell, VK6BBM – Treasurer, email: sccba@yahoo.com.au
- Michael Groeneweg, VK6XM, email: mike.groeneweg@gmail.com
- Sander Huijsen, VK6VCC, email: ahuijsen@pm.me
See the VHF Group Team over the years.
Beacons:
WA VHF Group maintains radio beacons. See our Beacon page. Please also see the update about beacons below.
Beacon update (March 2024):
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