Who Needs HF Radio?
HF or high frequency radio should be considered by any traveller in Australia who regularly visits remote areas outside of mobile-phone coverage. HF radio is a reliable method of making a call for assistance or emergency contact for help in the instant required, which could be life saving.
Submitted by austravel-admin on Tue, 12/12/2023 - 20:25
We have all at times had some difficulty communicating clearly on our HF radios. You are trying to relay your location during a sked operator and you might be coming through 1 or 2 out of 5 for clarity. What do you do? The Phonetic Alphabet can come to your rescue. It offers a way to spell out words, place names or even numbers with increased clarity and less ambiguity.
Austravel SafetyNet Inc. is a not-for-profit HF radio club run by volunteers, established to provide an affordable recreational HF radio communications network for its members. Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle/vessel to base communications including, radphone, direct dial telephone calls, electronic position logging, text and position emails and bi-directional mailbox text messaging are all features of the network. Membership at the appropriate level grants license to transmit on our commercial frequencies.
Submitted by austravel-admin on Wed, 18/04/2018 - 10:08
There a few cool features available to Telcall+ users
Send a Page Call from your radio to an Austravel base with any of the following messages in quotes:
Submitted by austravel-admin on Sat, 07/04/2018 - 19:02
All those involved with HF radio know that the loved emergency red button on radios is no longer monitored across Australia by the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).
Austravel Safetynet has resurrected the red button emergency call. This means that anyone in your travelling party can operate the HF radio very simply.
