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The Gippsland Rally, held August 26~27th, is one of the most operator resource hungry events WICEN Vic has on its calendar. The event is staged out of Heyfield approximately 200kms east of Melbourne and hosts rally cars from the ARC … Continue reading →

Another Stockman’s Rally completed for WICEN Victoria. In the afternoon of Saturday 22nd October, a small team from WICEN Victoria headed to the Big River State Forest. The team, delayed slightly by known road closures in the area due to … Continue reading →

IT IS NOT THEMOUNTAIN WE CONQUER, BUT OURSELVES This the 2nd running of the Baw Baw Extreme https://bawbawextreme.com.au was held 15th ~ 16th October 2022. WICEN Victoria was there again to assist the event organisers with emergency and logistic communications … Continue reading →

The Gippsland Rally 2022 http://www.gippslandrally.com.au known this year as the “Middle of Everywhere Gippsland Rally” made its return to Heyfield in late August. WICEN Victoria was there yet again to support the VRC and ARC rally cars in what turned … Continue reading →

WICEN Victoria’s 3rd event for 2021 was the Kenda Rally https://www.admcc.com.au/kenda-rally . After the 2020 event was cancelled due to Covid, this year’s event was a sell out for the Alexandra & District Motorcycle Club, with well over 440 motorcycle … Continue reading →

Recently WICEN Victoria supported the Baw Baw Extreme, a 2-day extreme multiple discipline athletic event where competitors made their way over 80kms of Victorian high-country. The event allowed competitors to be a team (relay style), duo (two people) or solo … Continue reading →

It was the first event in 14 months for WICEN Vic. Duncan’s Run 2021 (March 20-21) was an opportunity to get away and forget 2020. For many WICEN operators it was an opportunity to dust off and check that equipment … Continue reading →

For several years, WICEN (Vic) and the EMCOM group have cooperated to provide a robust, highly reliable digital messaging system over HF radio. EMCOM grew out of the former RECOM, the communications arm of the Red Cross. RECOM was established … Continue reading →

From: Chris Morley (Gippsland Coordinator) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 10:40:42 +1100 Subject: Gippsland Fires Update Gippsland Fire Update 4th January 2020 Very large areas of Gippsland still under threat from multiple existing and newstart fires, and extreme fire behaviour … Continue reading →

From: Chris Morley (Gippsland Coordinator) Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 15:32:33 +1100 Subject: WICEN Members: East Gippsland fires update Hello all, Today, the Regional Controller for Gippsland reported that the fires had followed predicted behaviour under the extreme fire weather … Continue reading →