Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club Inc.

Your Amateur Radio Club for the ACT and Surrounding Region

REPEATERS

The Canberra Area enjoys an excellent repeater network with coverage over a large portion of the ACT/NSW region, including analog voice, and DMR and D-Star digital voice repeaters.

EVENTS

CRARC either holds or is involved in many events during the year from general meetings to on-air nights, technical nights, WICEN events and more.

GET YOUR QUALIFICATION

CRARC runs training courses for the “Foundation” qualification, these courses are normally held in March, May, July, September and November.

Latest News

Isaacs Ridge DMR Repeater is back ON air!

A visit to our Isaacs Ridge site today by Phil, vk1pl and Carl, vk1kcm, found the power supply for the Raspberry Pi running the DMR node had failed.  A replacement[…]

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Isaacs Ridge DMR repeater off air

Something’s failed with the Isaacs Ridge DMR repeater, vk1rbm, and the repeater is currently off air.We have no ETA for restoration at this point and won’t have one until we[…]

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Technight – 17th Dec, 2025

Hi All, Just a reminder that the last Technight for 2025 will be held next Wednesday 17/12/2025 at the Mt Mugga Scout Hall at 1830hrs. Our subject for the night[…]

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A long history in the ACT

The Canberra Radio Club was established in 1951 at the orginal ABC radio studios in Canberra.


On the 1st of June 1956, amateurs resident in the ACT were issued with VK1 prefixes to their call signs.

In 1957 The Canberra Radio Club became the Canberra Radio Society.


The VK1 Division of the WIA was formed in 1973 and following the formation of the National WIA in May 2004 the VK1 Division was dissolved to become the Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club Inc. 

The Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club is the principal amateur radio club in the ACT and has one of the highest rates of membership per amateur of any State/Territory in Australia. 

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For Members

The Club provides a number of services and activities for members.  While some services are members only, our repeaters are available for all qualified amateurs to use.  Here are some of the things we do, for more information see the services menu above.

REPEATERS

Thanks to the skill and seemingly tireless energy of the Technical/Repeater group, the Canberra Area enjoys an excellent repeater network with coverage over a large portion of the ACT/NSW region. Visit the Services page for the full list.

GENERAL MEETINGS

General Meetings are held on the 4th Wednesday evening of each month at 8pm at the “Mt Mugga” Scout Hall 17 Astrolabe St, Red Hill.

WICEN ACT

WICEN is a group of trained Amateur-Radio operators, accredited to assist in emergency situations, and able to provide emergency and safety communications when normal communications do not exist or are inadequate.

GET YOUR QUALIFICATION!

The Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club runs training courses for the “Foundation” qualification, these courses are normally held in March, May, July, September and November, check out the EVENTS page for dates of the next course.

WIA WEEKLY BROADCAST

The WIA News is broadcast on Sundays from VK1WIA at 9.00 AM LOCAL on 146.950 MHz, 438.050 MHz.
Callbacks are welcome on all frequencies after these transmissions.

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The latest CRARC news can be emailed to you via the CRARC-NEWS mailing list. This is a low volume list that can only be posted to by CRARC.

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