� QNEWS - JANUARY 29 2023 - VK4 ON AIR ---------------------------------------------------------------------* DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK? IPSWICH, REDCLIFFE AND SUNSHINE COAST CLUBS DID - Ta Kindly ---------------------------------------------------------------------* 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) VK4HS Howard Stephenson 06/01/23 (vk4acc) ---------------------------------------------------------------------* 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 new year is well and truly underway with the club’s first business meeting held on January 23. Seventeen members attended at the clubhouse with a further five on Zoom. Robert VK4KHW highlighted this year’s WICEN events with the first being the Pinnacles Classic on April 2. This will be followed by the Brisbane Trail Marathon on April 30, Guzzler Ultra Marathon July 22 and 23, Lake Manchester Trail August 20 and Mt Glorious Trail November 12. Ipswich will join with Brisbane WICEN for the Cooyar Horse Ride on March 18 and 19. Additional volunteers are always needed and welcome to help bolster numbers at check points. Contact ipswichwicen@gmail.com if you can help at any of these events throughout the year. In other news: Trish Kelly VK4TMK became the club’s newest member this month. Welcome to the club Trish. Greg VK4GJW advised members the next Foundation course started Jan 24 with four candidates enrolled. Other regular activities have either resumed or will be recommencing Sister club Zoom meetings with Maple Ridge in Canada started again on Jan 26 Next digital interest group meeting Feb 6 Next social meeting Feb 13 And next business meeting Feb 27 Check the club’s website for locations and times. And finally, the recent expansion of the Ipswich repeater network to northern Somerset and Scenic Rim areas is offering the opportunity for amateurs in these more remote locations to join in the daily morning net at 8am with long-time coordinator Ron VK4RG and the regular stations who call in. They are always happy to welcome you on the morning net. So, if you live in these areas check out VK4RPR on 439.850 at Gregors Creek in north Somerset VK4RBO 438.475 on Green Hill Boonah. For offsets check out ACMA’s online database. Reporting from Ipswich this is Allan, VK4HIT. Redcliffe and Districts radio club. http://www.wia.org.au/clubs/vk4/RedcliffeAndDistrictRadioClub/ REDFEST 2023 Saturday 1st April 2023. No, It's not a joke we're fair dinkum. Greetings from the Redcliffe & Districts Radio Club VK4RC. Right here in South East Queensland! Robert Thomson VK4TFN here. The Redcliffe Club will hold our HamFest on: Saturday the 1st April 2023 at 9:00am at St. Michael's College, Caboolture. Please mark the date in the calendar on your mobile phone. BREAKFAST is served from 8:00am. REDFEST opens at 9:00am. $5 Admission. Vendors: Order your tables in March. $10.00 per table. Vendors are admitted free. For Table Bookings Email: redfest@redclifferadioclub.org.au Go to: www.redclifferadioclub.org.au We're also on Facebook. It'll be a good day out. We look forward to seeing you. Thank you and 73's from the Redcliffe & Districts Radio Club VK4RC. SUNSHINE COAST http://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 Gday, this is Mark, VK4AN, President of the Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio Club with news on our upcoming events for 2023. First up the Club will be holding a deceased estate and car boot sale Sunday, February 12 at the club house, 85 Godfreys Rd Pacific Paradise, QLD. Gates open at 10 AM with free entry to both buyers and sellers. With the passing of three long term experienced members last year, the club has received from their estates a large amount of quality equipment that will be up for sale on the day. Pop in for a cuppa, take a look at what’s on offer or even just enjoy the club facilities while catching up with folk you may not have seen for a while. Our major event for 2023 is SunFest, to be held on Saturday September the 9th at the Mountain Creek State School’s massive air conditioned auditorium, just off the Sunshine Motor Way. This is the new home for SunFest as of last year, the venue receiving very positive feedback from last year’s attendees. The event returns to its normal timing, with plenty of space in the tall venue and loads of free parking. With the date and venue locked in the clubs committee can start planning for a comprehensive program of activities, exams and maybe even the odd presentation, so mark your calendar, Saturday September 9. Finally don’t forget our social get togethers held every Wednesday from 9AM and our constructor nights Thursdays from around 7pm, more information can be found on the clubs website, VK4WIS.ORG . ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. In my part of the world, Australia Day was greeted with a forecast of temperatures in the mid 30’s. What a way to encourage people to use the amateur bands from the comfort of shady and cool locations with the special prefix of AX, alpha-x ray, to encourage our distant colleagues to greet us. Somehow the hoopla that has marked the public holiday didn’t seem quite as evident this year with less of the face paint and blue flagged adornments to be seen. Then that may have just been in my area. One of the accessories that has joined the typical amateur shack over the years has been the computer. It seems to have a ubiquitous function to checking reception, following propagation maps and logging contacts as well as generating digital signals and so on. For some time I have had one of those architectural styled desk top computers needing attention. A blackout caused corruption of files some time back and I haven’t been able to access the machine since. The opportunity came to be able to substitute it with a working model and thus the research began. Here was the classic success of the internet, making available the knowledge of how best to deploy this unit which is regarded as old for a silicon based machine. There consistent advice was to replace the internal hard drive with a new solid state drive. Then I happened on more advice that as all the USB ports were usb3 standard, no need to perform surgery but attach an SSD externally and performance will still be at least 5 times what it was originally. So I got in the necessary bits and set about setting the operating system back to factory defaults. Well, I’m not all that literate in computer geek and managed to wipe the system before creating a boot drive. This was becoming a saga of reading and watching video and printing the instructions that I thought I needed. As the pile of paper grew and the USB stick remained defiantly vacant when using another computer of the same brand, a chance link appeared that solved the issue, well almost. These computers are able to be restored over the internet but with no OS there was no way to connect to the WiFi. A search began and a short Ethernet cable was found which duly linked the router to the computer and the process of upgrading began. It went well until another piece of advice from a few videos penetrated the grey matter. Clearing the nonvolatile RAM seemed to work but duh!!! it also cleared the memory of the password necessary to access the system. Still it gave me the chance to practice recovering the system via the internet, again. This time I left alone and after tweaking settings I can say I have a computer that runs as well as the laptop that is my daily drive but with a nicer and larger display. I don’t know whether the system is now 5 times as fast as it was but it certainly performs nicely for my needs. The moral I take from this is that, if you don’t have the instructions, do the best checking you can when you commission secondhand gear and be prepared to correct errors in the instructions you find on the internet. I’m Geoff Emery VK4ZPP and that’s what I think....how about you? ---------------------------------------------------------------------* 2023 Social Scene Clubs are welcome to submit text with audio for this section VK4 - SUNSHINE COAST CAR BOOT SALE FEBRUARY 12 This includes a deceased estate sale and it happens at the club house, 85 Godfreys Rd Pacific Paradise, QLD. 10 AM. (vk4an) VK4 - REDCLIFFE - REDFEST APRIL ONE (vk4tfn) St. Michael's College, Caboolture. VK4 - SUNFEST - NOVEMBER 9 (vk4an) At Mountain Creek State School’s massive air conditioned auditorium, just off the Sunshine Motor Way. Mountain Creek is tucked in to the west of Mooloolaba VK - ALARAMeet2023 4/5 November in HOBART (luther8@bigpond.com) 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 and ask for the current password then read "how to submit items" in the weekly news page on http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/contribute/ Remember the sooner you submit audio material the more the likelihood of it being broadcast in the very next edition QNEWS. 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