� QNEWS FEBRUARY 25 2024 - 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 VK4MRC ROD CARDELL 17 DECEMBER vk4kx VK3FPL/4 PETER LORD 17 DECEMBER vk4eo ---------------------------------------------------------------------* CLUBBING ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Redcliffe and Districts radio club. http://www.wia.org.au/clubs/vk4/RedcliffeAndDistrictRadioClub/ Redfest 2024 Update Greetings from the Redcliffe and Districts Radio Club VK4RC. Robert Thomson VK4TFN here. REDFEST 2024, 9 am Saturday the 6th of April at St Michael's College Caboolture. Our website is redclifferadioclub.org.au Breakfast is at 8 and there will be a cafe serving coffee, tea, cakes, slices and cookies. Vendors start booking now. $10 per table, redfest@redclifferadioclub.org.au Raffle prize is the ICOM ID 5100A VHF/UHF dual band digital TxRX as well as lucky door prizes. Tickets $5 each on sale now. There will be tables and displays especially for the ladies and ALARA will be there. Thank you and 73's from the Redcliffe and Districts Radio Club VK4RC. --------------------------------------------------------------------* Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. This month is rushing to it climax as it marks the Leap Year that heralds the Olympic Games in a few more months. Colleges and schools have resumed the order and the routine of life is only interrupted by the changes in the weather. I thought I would indulge in some retrospection. My younger self was intrigued and engaged by the now antique creation of the crystal set radio. The first one that I remember was in a nicely constructed wooden case which was polished to a high shine in the style of good quality furniture. My home built unit was on pieces of wood salvaged from boxes that had transported fruit and was not polished, just rough cut unvarnished wood. But that was the baptism into the indulgence and enjoyment of radio and amateur radio in particular. Recently the control buttons on my TV remote started to fail internally and after removing the cover for an inspection and checking the cost of a replacement, I opted for the easy fix of buying a new remote. Now this was from a seller in Victoria and it ended up taking 8 days for it to arrive to alleviate my increasing frustration with the ever more failing unit it had to replace. The tracking was good until the parcel arrived at the mail sorting centre for southern Queensland where my much needed remote rested for four days out of the 8. It then arrived on the eighth day with the fanfare of an SMS and an email but no more tracking. Relief from the faulty unit had come at last. Around the same time, I had been looking at the very popular dual band hand held radio which is a toy of choice for many amateurs around the world. What caught my interest was the range of amateur bands that it covered on receive and the fact that a previous HT of the same brand had given good service. Then an add popped up for an on line site with what seemed a fair price for one of these radios. It turns out the sales site is located in the State Capital, Brisbane, and with the appeal of fast delivery and free postage as part of the deal, I succumbed to the temptation and invested in one Chinese made radio. The tracking was superb as the parcel travelled from mainland China to the Brisbane International Airport and thence to the Redbank Mail Centre. Once again it seemed that my agony was going to be prolonged as nothing happened until the next day and without announcement the radio was delivered to my front door. It had taken just six days from when I paid for the radio to when it was delivered beating the local purchase by 2 days. I don’t know if there is a moral to all this other than to stay calm and not fret when your goods are being transported by the local postal service. I am now getting acquainted with the button presses and getting closer to some old fashioned SWL type monitoring. 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 VK4 - Gladstone Amateur Radio Club BBQ 9th March (vk4xmc) Redcliffe and Districts REDFEST April 6 (vk4tfn) WIA AGM held MAY 4-5 2024 in BUNDABERG. 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