QNEWS - MAY 16 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.vk7ax.id.au/wianews/ OR www.wiaq.org.au Also search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS) in your podcast. tinyurl.com/4hnahk8p ------------------------------------------------------------* 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. It is noticeable, at our place, that the seasons are shifting into the cooler part of the year. The days are shorter and the mornings cooler and I would be a poor advertisement for hay fever remedies. The good thing is that the steel clad garage becomes somewhat more habitable in the lower temperatures and that means that some of the projects that have remained boxed up stand a chance of getting some effort applied to their finish. Somehow, I see the amateur radio world as divided into those with the assets to be able to get on with projects and those who have to juggle time, funds and things like family commitments and health issues to achieve the finish they want for their station. This is just the normal scope of the lives that we all live, different and thereby interesting. At times I see or hear comments which belittle other operators, their equipment or their operating. When they are directed to the person involved, it is a source of embarrassment to the recipient and an embarrassment to the whole amateur community. Instead of being considerate and felicitous to others, there are the few who maintain a curt, acerbic and insulting demeanour. Sometimes we can be lucky and be around when the chickens come home to roost or karma comes to visit and the giver of bad feelings gets their comeuppance! When we think of this situation it is like witnessing the gratuitous insults being publicly traded between nations currently. There are those who perceive an injustice or an error and they rush to a keyboard to publicly berate what they see as the source of their own dudgeon. A little consideration would suggest a better chance of resolving matters would be to courteously address a query and to do it privately. Maybe the feeling is that they deserve this fleeting flash of self administered glory rather than the solution to an issue. This is the type of matter that will confront the new WIA Board members as there could almost be a pattern of complaint in the public domain about real or imagined issues concerning the Institute. Most of the matters are best addressed by contacting the National Office where Bruce can respond and refer matters to the appropriate person. From what I have heard, indirectly, it is nothing for a couple of hundred emails per day to arrive in the President’s inbox. It is beyond the capacity of one person, in their spare time, to deal with this volume. Some of the complaints that get aired regularly on social media platforms suggest that people disregard the fact that our Board is composed of volunteers who devote their spare time to fulfilling the role of Director. Amateurs don’t resign from work, family and social life just to be 100 hr a week unpaid complaint solvers when they join the Board. Consideration and courtesy and some old fashioned common sense would resolve many cases of steam coming from the ears. If we stop and think and then follow a sensible procedure, I am sure there will be less red faced huff and puff and more responsiveness in return. I’m Geoff Emery VK4ZPP & that’s what I think, how about you? ------------------------------------------------------------* 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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