� QNEWS DECEMBER 31 2023 - VK4 ON AIR --------------------------------------------------------------------* DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK? --------------------------------------------------------------------* THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE Available in Audio RIGHT NOW QNEWS thanks to Tony VK7AX can be found on www.vk7ax.id.au/wianews/ 203.31.7.19/wianews/ QNEWS audio ready to download thanks to Brendan VK4BLP from www.wiaq.org.au Also search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS) in your podcast. --------------------------------------------------------------------* VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR FROM MAY 13 2023 SK CALL SK NAME DATE ADVISED BY VK4OD PETER HARDING 10 JULY 2023 vk4bab VK4SOA SYD ABRAHAMS 18 AUGUST vk4eka VK4KCC GRAHAM ANDERSON 9 SEPTEMBER vk7ev VK4CCF JEFF STINSON 1 OCTOBER vk4zz VK4FZAK MAREE CHURCHILL 8 OCTOBER vk4djc VK5QD x VK4AFO AUB McKIBBEN 21 NOVEMBER vk4yt VK4SL SYD LYON 9 DECEMBER vk4hit ---------------------------------------------------------------------* CLUBBING ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Redcliffe and Districts radio club. http://www.wia.org.au/clubs/vk4/RedcliffeAndDistrictRadioClub/ Redfest 2024 HAPPY NEW YEAR from Redcliffe and Districts Radio Club VK4RC. Robert Thomson VK4TFN here. We have a date for REDFEST 2024 It'll be the 6th of April, the first Saturday. Our website is www.redclifferadioclub.org.au So, hope you had a merry little Christmas and still keep your eye out for that Kris Krinkle fella. He spreads merry mirth and good cheer everywhere he goes. You must remember: if you're going drink, don't drive or if you're going to drive, well then don't drink. We'll see you all in the new year, it starts tomorrow! 73 from the Redcliffe and Districts Radio Club VK4RC. Thank you Robert Thomson VK4TFN --------------------------------------------------------------------* Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. Whilst we are in the festive season, there are so many this year who will have bitter memories of the ending of 2023. From the north of the state where the cyclone caused devastation to the south where extreme summer storms have caused momentous damage and further loss of life we have been subjected to the strength of natural disasters. It was around 20 years ago that various bodies were releasing studies which gave a foreboding scenario for the years ahead. As I recall, the Army projected that changing weather would call for its resources to be deployed around the South Pacific region and the insurance industry found that the strength of natural weather phenomena was going to increase in the future. Sadly these projections appear to have come true. My sources show that at least two households of amateur operators associated with National WIA News have been impacted by property damage from the Christmas and Boxing Day storms. I can only assume that there will be others of the amateur community who will have had to call their insurance company too. As we move into the New Year and a new management structure in February, we should not lose sight of the warnings that have preceded the current events. Some of the language used has caused offence with language literalists claiming that the weather and climate is always changing and then there is no such activity as “climate change�. Whether that term is correct or not hardly matters when the things that have happened have been warned about and we are experiencing the results now. I would say we need as individuals and members of families and organisations that we need to make the best preparations for what will happen, regardless of what it is called, the best preparedness that we know how. I would think that clubs can spread the message amongst members and take their story to their local community. It is not new and the US has shown us how with programs sponsored through the ARRL and other groups. It is not a case that we should be alarmist but rather a considered display of facts and demonstrated responses that work is what is needed. As there has been a fall off of volunteering since the COVID lock-downs it is more important than ever that those of us who can contribute actually get out and do a bit. As we have experience in a recreation which has developed for over 100 years, it has demonstrated that growth can and does happen by evolution and not simply revolution, as some would have it. The fact that hams have not, in this country, been noted for their involvement in community work should be no barrier to heading in that direction. After all, we all have family and friends and we all make up our community. In helping others we are in fact helping ourselves and helping the next great flowering of amateur radio. I’m Geoff Emery VK4ZPP and that’s what I think�.how about you? -------------------------------------------------------------------* Social Scene Clubs are welcome to submit text with audio for this section Redcliffe and Districts REDFEST April 6 (vk4tfn) WIA AGM held MAY 4-5 2024 in BUNDABERG. (barc) 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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