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QNEWS - JUNE 4 2023 - VK4 ON AIR

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DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK?
CAIRNS, IPSWICH AND TABLELANDS DID

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CAIRNS
wia.org.au/clubs/vk4/CairnsAmateurRadioClubInc/

TABLELANDS RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CLUB
wia.org.au/clubs/vk4/TablelandsRadioAndElectronicsClub/


This is Bob, VK4BOB, with news from Far North Queensland.

The Cairns Amateur Radio Club and the Tablelands Radio & Electronics Club
are getting together on Saturday June 10 for field day operations
activating a couple of VKFF parks locations up here in the tropical
tablelands. One site will be at Lake Eacham and the other at the Gillies
lookout. June up here is usually a beautiful month of moderate
temperatures and sunny dry weather, so we’re really looking forward to
that for the day.

Each site will have members from both clubs sharing their expertise and
equipment, offering the experience to members who haven’t worked portable
yet. We will be on the various HF bands depending of course on conditions.
Equipment will be IC-7300s at both locations, probably with RM Italy
linears. Various antennas will be experimented with as part of the fun. We
expect the two locations to be within VHF and UHF range of each other so
that will add to the exercise, as part of the plan is to practise disaster
communications readiness.

We will be using the club callsigns of VK4CNS and VK4WAT plus the personal
callsigns of each of the operators.

Keep an ear out for us on Saturday June 10, swing your beams northwards,
and keep an eye on the VKFF Facebook page for the latest info.






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.

From the club’s monthly business meeting held on May 22 a busy WICEN
report detailed the Brisbane Trail Marathon held on April 30. Other than a
slight damp start to the day, the event progressed very well with only a
few very minor hiccups. Thank you very much to those who attended and
manned the checkpoints. Your time and effort was very much appreciated.

The Guzzler Ultra Marathon is coming up July 23 and 24. An email has been
sent out to those involved in WICEN, and there have been quite a few
responses. The club will need approx. 22 volunteers to man the required
checkpoints over the 24-hour period. Please consider helping if you can.
This extends to all amateurs in southwest Queensland. Email
ipswichwicen@...

Our club keeps welcoming new members – In May Warren VK4WRW became the
club’s newest member.

Reporting from Ipswich this is Allan, VK4HIT.







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

Amongst a number of the operators there seems to have been a sense of
relief at the
news from the ACMA that the commercial outsourcing of licence provisions
will be
ending. Whether it has been the ideological standpoint of various
governments or the
small number of applications that has brought this to a climax, we just
don’t know.
In the years of long ago, the attitude was that the amateur radio service
was a
training ground for people who could take a recreational interest in radio
and
electronics into various areas of the community where their skills could
be further
developed and put to benefit of the wider populace.

About 3 or more decades ago, the idea was prevalent in the halls of power,
that
everything had to have a price which was based on a cost recovery in money
terms.
The intangibles were left out as they could not be quantified and thus many
not-for-profit activities in the community could no longer receive “favoured”
treatment of discounts and other benefits. The thought that the government
was
subsidising things that had no direct monetary value was shocking but as
we have
seen, things like the provision of services written off the government
books such as
welfare to certain groups has passed to the voluntary sector which then
had to
employ staff and operate on handouts or “grants”.

Somewhere in this melee, the 14,000 odd radio amateurs dropped or were
disinherited
of their status as worthwhile community benefactors and taxes were applied
to their
licences. Just because commercial interests could be milked for revenue
meant that,
in the bureaucratic or political mindset, it was fair to sting the person
who was
investing time and money to improve communications capacity in his region.
Similarly, the cost recovery model has seen this country with quite high
entry costs
with government fees and charges when compared to many overseas practices.

Perhaps we will see the procedures for getting and keeping an amateur
radio licence
move on-line where the costs over time are flattened and the fees can better
represent the value of our contribution rather than reflect some notional
costs to
the regulator.

We need to see a concerted effort at recruiting people into AR and
modernising the
face, the entry structures, will surely assist this. If the costs of
getting a
licence are more modest, then this will be another incentive that we can
promote.
Now is the time for a practical approach with considered plans to be
placed before
the ACMA. Much of the work has already been done and the submissions from
the WIA
form part of the record for the regulator. It seems sad that in many ways,
the
structure of our regulator seems to preclude those with the technical
expertise and
who work in the field, from helping promote amateur radio within the
organisation.
The old PMG seemed much more responsive when the Radio Inspectorate
included many
licensed operators from different services.

So I hope that we will see a realisation that we can and do deserve better
consideration in the future.

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

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