QNEWS - JUNE 12 VK4 ON AIR 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------* ------------------------------------------------------------* THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE based in BRISBANE, OLYMPIC CITY 2031, RIGHT NOW:- www.vk7ax.id.au/wianews/ OR www.wiaq.org.au Importantly remember to download from the site by COT (Close of Transmission) Mondays. Also search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS) in your podcast app.. tinyurl.com/4hnahk8p ------------------------------------------------------------* VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR COMMENCING MAY 2022 SK CALL SK NAME DATE ADVISED BY VK4MBH Keith Allison MAY OR JUNE (vk4vp) VK4AVF Des Flor 13/06/2011 (vk4hit) IPSWICH AND DISTRICT AMATEUR RADIO CLUB HAVE LOST VK4AVF Des Flor VK4AVF, a long time member of the club, passed away Monday 13 June after a series of illnesses and sickness. Des was a long time member of the club and a long time participant on the morning net and will be sadly missed by many in the club. For those of you who find yourselves available and wish to express your final regards to Des, there will be a Service of Remembrance to be held at the Apostolic Church in Hattonvale on Friday 24th June at 10.30am. Vale Des Flor VK4AVF (Silent Key) SUNSHINE COAST www.wia.org.au/clubs/vk4/SunshineCoastAmateurRadioClub/ Maleny VK4RSC 146.850 and 438.075 VK4RSN 53.7 Noosa Heads VK4RSL 146.825 and 438.175 News from the Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio Club This is Gordon VK4VP Sad news today as we record another Silent Key, Keith Allison VK4MBH passed away in hospital just over 2 weeks ago. Keith was 92 yrs old and had an interesting life starting from a coal mining background in the UK to a Mines inspector in India and then as a mines inspector in Queensland. Keith moved into the Tewantin township and he was well known on the radio bands while he lived there. He had an on-call service technician by the way of Mal VK4ML to sort out any issues he had and he seemed to have a few from time to time. Keith was also part of the Emergency Communications group set up by SCARC and was keen to be involved and help out. A couple of years ago Keith and his wife moved nearer to their son in Brisbane and they moved into a senior's living complex at Sinnamon Park. Amatuer Radio antennas were severely frowned upon but a quick call to his on-call service tech, Mal, soon had a magnetic base antenna with a 5/8 whip sitting on the air conditioner unit on the balcony and a PRM80 programmed up for the local repeaters. The PRM80 has very few buttons that could be inadvertantly pressed so this kept the callouts to a minimum. He could access the SCARC repeater and also Bayside repeater where he spent a lot of time talking to Laurie VK4ACW. He also was still driving at the age of 92 in Brisbane so it seemed that nothing was going to stop him and so it was quite sad news that he had passed away so suddenly. Vale Keith VK4MBH --------------------------------------------------------------------* Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. Years back when working areas accommodated a paper office regime, there was one item that nobody gave much importance to and that was the flip over desk calendar. With a page devoted to each day except for Saturday and Sunday which had to share, it had the date reminder and a printed calendar for the month. Down the bottom was a little gem, a quotation from some person aimed at stimulating the mood and thinking for the day ahead. Like many things the date blocks have disappeared and we now have an app for just about anything, it seems. So it was that I saw a post during this past week, attributing the words to a Winston Churchill, that told me that criticism was necessary as it served the same purpose as pain does to the body; a warning that something was wrong and in need of attention. Now you must confess, as I did, that this has a certain ring to it and the idea is certainly catching. Criticism is a fact of life and it is part of the discourse and debate that clarifies thinking. There is the other side of things that with a lack of consideration and a level of discourtesy, criticism is personally offensive and potentially harmful to the individual and whole books have been devoted to the theories of personality and mental and emotional development and the popular theories that our mental structure could be damaged by things our parents told us in childhood. It was during this week that I saw that a modern version of the Amateurs Code had been posted to a club page as a reminder of what we set out to be in this pursuit of amateur radio. So when we marry these two posts we are reminded that an amateur is courteous and considerate to his fellows and that criticism points the way to something that needs correction. In this way there is nothing offensive or objectionable about an idea being subjected to scrutiny as there seem to be few things in this life that can’t be improved upon. This is perhaps what scholars have been trying to teach us throughout history and on a day to day basis it is something that we can apply privately and certainly in the working of our club activities. The point is not to be selfish or destructive but to point out what is seen to be ineffective or not suitable and hopefully bring forth a better solution. Our executive members should, in my opinion, encourage this form of discussion which supports the members and leads to shared achievement amongst the membership. After reading the Churchillian meme, another came across my screen. It is something upon which we can think appropriately. This thought was, a great man is hard on himself and a small man is hard on others. I’m Geoff Emery VK4ZPP and that’s what I think� how about you? ------------------------------------------------------------* TO SUPPLY QNEWS ITEMS:- Send SCRIPT to qnews@wia.org.au send audio to http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/upload/ QNEWS Tips to get MORE out of your weekly newscast on VK4WIA If you would like to submit club news items for inclusion in QNEWS broadcasts, please email your item in text to:- qnews@wia.org.au THEN submit audio:- To submit audio email qnews@wia.org.au Remember the sooner you submit audio material the more the likelihood of it being broadcast in the very next QNEWS. 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