QNEWS - APRIL 4 VK4 ON AIR 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------* DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK? QUEENSLAND (VK4) STATE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PORTAL Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest news, key facts and figures, contacts and answers to your questions. tinyurl.com/uddvmx98 ------------------------------------------------------------* THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE Available in Audio RIGHT NOW www.wiaq.org.au OR www.vk7ax.id.au/wianews/ Also search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS) in your podcast. listennotes.com/podcasts/q-news-ar-news-from-queensland-qnews-vk4bb-SHd0OpZILt1/ ------------------------------------------------------------* VK4 SILENT KEYS @ JULY 2020- MAY 2021 WIA YEAR SK CALL SK NAME ADVISED BY ex-VK4KJO Joachim Ostrenski (Joe Ski) 9/9/20 (vk4zz) VK4CNP Norm Philips 20/10/20 (vk4bat) ex-VK4FPJT Paul J Turner 22/10/20 (vk4bb) VK4HBN Alan Whiting 20/11/20 (vk4zz) VK4KAL Gordon Loveday 24/11/20 (vk4zz) VK4ZJD Paul Donovan 01/03/21 vk4zz) ------------------------------------------------------------* Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. A big shout out to all the amateurs who took the time to put a submission into the ACMA this past week. It is important to let our regulator know that we, as individuals, are concerned about the governance of the Amateur Radio Service. Note that I used the proper expression as laid down by the International Telecommunications Union to describe our recreation and educational pursuit. I have noted some discussion about the words we use and whether calling it a hobby is correct. For me it is a recreational pursuit that fosters thinking about the whole area of what is now dubbed STEM or STEAM. Semantics aside, describing amateur radio in any number of ways simply illustrates the great diversity of learning, tradition, education and involvement as individuals, as club members and as volunteers. We can be all of those people and our experiences can be as varied as our imaginations will take us in the application of the science, technology engineering and art with mathematics in there too. I like to include the “A� in the description as the need to be creative in expressing ourselves in what we say, write and demonstrate can all be part of a personal involvement in amateur radio. The Wireless Institute is conducting its annual election for board positions and along with members of various sub-committees, these volunteers have to express the ideas that encompass amateur radio in many different venues. We have people who engage at international conference level, consulting with government bodies and speaking at clubs. We have a body of people who produce an in house magazine and members who represent us at various regulatory levels such as setting standards for items which might effect amateur radio usage. All these positions require the broad and creative use of the mind which is generally referred to as the arts as against the fine arts such as literature, painting and sculpture. It is one of the fortuitous aspect of amateur radio that it has traditionally attracted people from so many occupational backgrounds, from entrepreneurs to garbage men, from engineers to tinkerers from professors to students and from monarchs to the villager living high in the hills. Every one of these people and those that they have influenced have put the background to amateur radio as we know it today. Every ham has made a contribution and we should be proud of the acceptance and respect that has marked the growth of the service for the majority of its history. I see the challenge as the perspective that advances have brought to communications, electronics and radio communications in this century. The people are there to be engaged as we all have been and it will be how we show the new face of amateur radio that will bring them to join and share with us in the future. I’m Geoff Emery and that’s what I think�.how about you? ------------------------------------------------------------* CLUBBING ------------------------------------------------------------* Redcliffe and Districts radio club. wia.org.au/clubs/vk4/RedcliffeAndDistrictRadioClub/ QLD Government imposed Public Health Safety precautions for REDFEST. Plenty of room at REDFEST. REDFEST 2021 will go ahead, on the 10 April. Greetings from the Redcliffe & Districts Radio Club VK4RC. Right here in south East Queensland. Robert Thomson VK4TFN here. Club members and visitors. QLD Government imposed Public Health Safety precautions for REDFEST. Go to Queensland Health Alerts Covid Update. If you are sick please don't come to REDFEST, Wear a mask at all times, Please use hand cleansers provided. Apply the 1.5 metre rule. Contact tracing: Please use your mobile phone and scan the QR code provided by the Queensland Government. Or: Please sign the visitor or members register book. Eating and drinking: We must not walk around while eating and or drinking. These are not Club Rules these are QLD GOV rules. Plenty of room at REDFEST. To date we have 29 tables booked and there's plenty of room left. So don't be shy, Book a table at REDFEST 2021. Ten dollars per table, vendors admitted free. Table bookings email: redfest at redcliffe radio club dot org dot au Breakfast is at 8:00AM, Admission is five dollars. Gates open at nine. Also go to: Triple w dot redcliffe radio club dot org dot au. We're also on Facebook. Bye for now and 73s from the Redcliffe and Districts Radio Club VK4RC. ------------------------------------------------------------* QNEWS Social Scene QUEENSLAND (VK4) STATE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PORTAL Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest news, key facts and figures, contacts and answers to your questions. tinyurl.com/uddvmx98 Due to the COVID-19 situation, please check these events' direct for up-to-date status information. 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