QNEWS - DECEMBER 18 - VK4 ON AIR ---------------------------------------------------------------------* DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK? IPSWICH AND DISTRICT CLUB DID! ---------------------------------------------------------------------* THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE Available in Audio RIGHT NOW http://www.wiaq.org.au/ftp/vk4_qnews_64.mp3 Also search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS) in your podcast. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR COMMENCING MAY 2022 SK CALL SK NAME DATE ADVISED BY VK4MBH Keith Allison 03/06/2022 (vk4vp) VK4AVF Des Flor 13/06/2022 (vk4hit) VK4DV Merv Deakin 18/06 (vk4cnq - vk4zz) VK4SO Les Parker 21/06 (vk4atc) VK4AJL George Glendinning 22/06 (vk4zz) VK4NW Warwick Marshallsea 14/07 (vk4vp) VK4ET/5WC Tony Van Lysdonk 16/07 (vk4vp) VK4SF Jack Ford 18/07 vk4hit) VK4AVS Jim Storch 22/07 (vk4zz) VK4AGS Geoff Strom 23/08 (vk4zz) VK4HGT George Turner 02/09 (vk4gcr) VK4DK Stanley 'Dave' West 08/09 (vk4zz) VK4HAJ Merrell Coleman Sept or Oct? (vk4acc) VK4YT Nick Watling 22/10 (vk4zz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* CLUBBING ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Ipswich & District Radio Club http://www.wia.org.au/clubs/vk4/IpswichAndDistrict/ Web � www.vk4wip.org.au Email - vk4wip@wia.org.au For a full list of repeaters - www.vk4wip.org.au This is Allan VK4HIT with news from Ipswich and District Radio Club. The club held its final get together of the year with a combined social and business meeting on Monday December 12. Wicen coordinator Robert VK4KHW reported the recent Mount Glorious Trail and Pinnacles events went well and more broadly thanked members for support of all Wicen events during 2022. Five events are booked in for next year � Pinnacles Classic April 2 Brisbane Trail Marathon April 30 Guzzler Ultra Marathon July 23 and 24 Lake Manchester Trail August 20 Mount Glorious Trail November 12 A joint event with Brisbane Wicen is planned for March 18 and 19, and that is the Cooyar Horse Ride. If you can help at any of these events in 2023 please contact ipswichwicen@gmail.com Glen VK4HMI reminds members that contact with Ipswich’s sister club in Canada will recommence late January/early February with Zoom details available from Glen. Reporting from Ipswich this is Allan, VK4HIT. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. This is QNEWS. News? What do we mean by news and how does it effect us all? When we look at the meaning of the word, “news� it tells us that we have something which is novel to us. It may mean it happened within hours for the daily services or it could be quite delayed if it is something published quarterly, for instance. When we think back to the time of the sailing ships, newspapers made a circuitous journey of some months to arrive at destinations where settlers passed the papers around after reading. What I am seeing is that news is something which is relative to our circumstances. Similarly news may not always be retrospective but can be the announcement of future events in order that people can make provision to pay attention to a coming event when it arrives. Just as there has been a macabre fascination with the death notices on the rear pages of the daily press, news can be anything that is important to the reader, listener or viewer. The strip cartoon features or the form guides can be as important to some followers as the banner headline of the front page. Now having set up what I think we accept as news, let me look at what it means to us radio amateurs. The internet provides many facilities to improve our hobby from space weather projections to clusters showing stations heard. We also get the more mundane but no less important material from our clubs and regulators on web sites and social media and between podcasts and video there is such a plethora of material that we can immerse ourselves in entertainment and educational material without ever turning on a rig. Still for the great unknown followers who wish to engage with us as interested students of our crafts there is one medium that has an immediacy that no other has. That is the collection of items that compose the news as a compilation, as a paper a broadcast or a video stream. Now here we are close to the Christmas holiday period and the slogan rings in our ears, “’tis the Season for giving�. This can be so much more that a pitch to lighten our pockets of superfluous money, it can also be the spirit of bringing the news to more people. Just think, if you are aware of a worthwhile project that is being developed, a club supporting and activity by providing funds or equipment, an amateur who has a particular bent towards a part of the hobby; these are all matters we can describe as news. Each week, the news is compiled and broadcast and we so often hear that such and such has happened or so and so has achieved this award but we don’t get it on the news. Now I accept that we have demands on time and resources but most of us have a pocket recorder, in the shape of our phone. The majority of us have 24/7 internet access and we all have the opportunity to make this weekly news so much more by giving us your contributions. I hope you and yours have the run up to Christmas that we all deserve. 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