Starting life November of 2002, the node ran on a three month trial basis via a link transmitter through the Coffs Harbour and District Amateur Radio Club repeater VK2RCH near Coffs Harbour. The node was then commissioned as a simplex system and has remained that way ever since.

In May 2006, family concerns forced a number of changes. After relocating half way across the country and then running for a couple of months in South Australia's Riverland at Barmera, 6527 was moved to Happy Valley, in the foothills of Adelaide's southern suburbs where it ran for a further three years.

August 2009 and time for another move back to the east coast; Rathmines, on the north-western shores of what we believe to be one of Nature's wonderlands, Lake Macquarie, about half an hour south of Newcastle, and about an hour and a half by road north of Sydney.

In early Feb 2010, the node was decommissioned, in preparation for another move of about 2 kilometres, just down the road, er ... lakefront, to Buttaba, between Balmoral (not the one in Sydney) and Wangi Wangi, where we're likely to stay for quite some time, but who knows? 

Of course each time we've moved interstate there's been a change of callsign, but the number remains the same and thus the node is usually available, somewhere, somehow!