About us

ZS4BFN is the callsign allocated to the Bloemfontein amateur radio club, situated in the province of the Free State, South Africa.

The ZS4BFN amateur radio club recently went through very big changes towards the end of 2021.

A brand new committee was elected, with many changes happening internally to the club. Along with the new committee came our new website as well as our new facebook page. We have many new projects planed, to stay up-to-date with the latest happenings visit and like our facebook page ZS4BFN Bloemfontein Amateur Radio Club

Our club is becoming more active and we have started to gain more members than ever before. With activities such as SOTA, POTA, HOTA, National and International competitions as well as field days which keep many of our members busy perusing their interest of the hobby they enjoy the most.

Amateur Radio which is also known as HAM radio is a very popular hobby with well over 3 000 000 registered radio amateurs’ all around the world.

Our hobby allows us to communicate around the world as well as into space. We have the ability to communicate directly to and via the ISS, we learn about electronics, radio propagation, space exploration, satellites and so much more.