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QNEWS - MARCH 12 2023 - VK4 ON AIR

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VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR COMMENCING MAY 2022

SK CALL SK NAME DATE ADVISED BY

VK4ZHL Errol Hopper June 2022 (vk4vp)
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)
VK4IX Ian Creighton 03/02/23 (vk4vp)






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Ipswich & District Radio Club

Web – www.vk4wip.org.au
Email - vk4wip@...
For a full list of repeaters - www.vk4wip.org.au

This is Allan VK4HIT with news from Ipswich and District Radio Club.

The February business meeting of the club was held on the 27th
chaired by president Peter VK4SIR Three members joined via Zoom
to make up a healthy attendance of 17 members.

Welcome to new member John Ross from the USA who currently going
through the process of acquiring his Australian licence.

In the WICEN report Robert VK4KHW reported the joint event with
Brisbane Wicen to support the Cooyar Horse Ride will go ahead on
March 18 and 19.

The calendar of 2023 Wicen events includes the Pinnacles Classic on
April 2, Brisbane Trail Marathon April 30 and the Guzzler Ultra
Marathon on July 22 and 23, Lake Manchester Trail August 20
and Mount Glorious Trail November 12.

We’re always on the lookout for extra help for these events,
so if you can please email

ipswichwicen@...

Reporting from Ipswich this is Allan, VK4HIT.




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Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking.

We must give a big shout out to our fellow operators on the record
breaking areas of
the state. The Gulf Country and many areas to the south have endured
massive deluges
this past week and other southern inland areas are still waiting for the
rains that
will provide relief for farmers looking for a return this season. Whilst
there have
been many areas flooded and rescues have been taking place, I have not
been aware of
any involvement of the amateur radio community, as yet.

Over the years I have queried the place of the radio amateur within the
community
services and I have seen bursts of enthusiasms as groups developed. Over
that same
time I have read the reports from our overseas colleagues that have
supported and
trained people in various phases of emergency service and communications
and I have
wondered out loud why we haven’t been able to offer a greater service to our
communities. We have had reports of groups using UHF CB radios to provide
safety
checks and message handling but with better access to higher power and more
facilities, we don’t seem to have the impetus to draw the hams out of
hibernation.

It would be wonderful if people from the groups such as WICEN once again put
information out for the general listeners to these news broadcasts. We
don’t know
where and what is happening when like rabbits, they only come out of their
burrows
after the sun goes down. It almost seems that the most ambitious
activities some
radio clubs have is running a sausage sizzle to pay for the year’s
expenses. I know
this isn’t really the case but away from each small gathering there is no
inkling
that things are happening. Let’s get our heads together and share what is
happening
and encourage others with showing the vibrancy this activity has.

There are various things happening which attract amateurs like moths to a
flame and
they cover a wide variety of activities. I don’t really need to read a
list of the
different projects that we can take on either as individuals or as club
representatives. Unlike the poor moths who burn their wings off, we get to
enjoy
these facets of the radio service and when we publish the details it can
provide
ideas to others to try and share. This has been the worth of the clubs, to
unite
people within an area to get more out of a mutually enjoyable pursuit.

I am seeing reports of global contacts happening but there is a difficulty in
sharing from town to town, region to region, when it comes saying, “We are
here and
this is what we are doing!”

We appreciate the clubs that do contribute to QNews and we welcome the
others who
have been mic shy to date. We all want to see this great pastime and
educational
pursuit continue and grow.

Years ago, the American periodical, “The Readers Digest” published a story
set in the great depression. It was about a farming family who built a
successful roadside business selling produce. As more people got motor
cars and the word spread, they put up signage and the business boomed. The
depression hit and fewer people came to
buy at the farm gate until the college educated son convinced the family
that the advertising was too costly and they took down the signs along the
roads. The travellers no longer came and with no more income, they closed
the stall.

I hope we aren’t at the stage of removing the advertising and wondering
why no-one comes.

I’m Geoff Emery VK4ZPP and that’s what I think....how about you?

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2023 Social Scene

Clubs are welcome to submit text with audio for this section




VK4 - REDCLIFFE - REDFEST APRIL ONE (vk4tfn)
St. Michael's College, Caboolture.

REDFEST 2023

Saturday 1st April 2023.

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
9:00am at St. Michael's College, Caboolture. Please mark the date
in the calendar on your mobile phone.

There will be raffle prizes.
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@...

go to: 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




VK - WIA AGM May 13 at 10:30am AEST proposed for Canberra (vk8zz)
A hybrid event conducted both in person and by video
conference and able to be viewed on an internet streaming
platform.

VK4 - SUNFEST - SEPTEMBER 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@...)

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