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QNEWS - AUGUST 13 2023 - VK4 ON AIR

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Redcliffe and Districts radio club.



Redcliffe Club Carboot Sale Update

Greetings from the Redcliffe and Districts Radio Club VK4RC

Robert Thomson VK4TFN here.

The Redcliffe Club will hold our Annual CarBoot Sale on Saturday 26th
August 2023 at our club house in MacFarlane Park at Kippa Ring in the City
of Redcliffe.

The raffle prize is an IC-T10 dual band FM analogue hand held
tranceiver. Two metre and 70 centimetre.

Vendors in at seven, breakfast is at eight, gates open at nine, the raffle
draw is at ten thirty

$10 per car boot or table, gold coin admission.

Go to www dot redclifferadioclub dot org dot au for more information.

Thank you and 73 from the Redcliffe and Districts Radio Club VK4RC.


Thank you and 73
Robert Thomson
VK4TFN


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



To the intrepid folk who have enjoyed the RD Contest overnight and those
joining in
to log some more contacts, I trust the bands have been gracious to you.
Sadly there
are times when propagation just doesn’t run in the directions we need or
seems to
hibernate when we need it the most. I did my own level of monitoring
during the past
week and found that 20m lived up to its reputation of providing good DX
whilst 40m
was a more problematical band in the mid to late afternoons.

So in the south of the State the current weather forecast for the period
of the
Brisbane Ekka is still without the promise of the dreaded westerly winds that
normally accompany this event. Notwithstanding this, I would suggest that
if you are
intending to sample the delights of the food stalls or the events in the
arena, you
take the necessary precautions as it is the time when hospitals and doctors
surgeries get overrun with people who came home with a dose of the
seasonal flu. If
anything has been learned from the pandemic experience, it is the worth of
good
hygiene in preventing the spread of illness. Here is an opportunity to put
that
experience into practice for our own safety and that of those we come into
contact
with.

Although we are not receiving the amount of information that we had during
the
height of the COVID-19 pandemic, news from the Health Department is that
there are
still people being admitted to hospital for both Covid and influenza. We
seem to
receive more road safety messages than we do about the current infectious
diseases.

Sadly during the week it was announced that another business serving the
amateur
community is shutting its doors, this time in VK6. Times are hard for so
many in the
community and the desire save money is very strong. It is hard to
reconcile that the
cheaper purchases from overseas may in the long run see a local trader
shut up shop.
It is ironic that the motto thrown out to radio operators to populate the
bands is
just as valid in the supply of gear and components from local sources. It
seems that
we should be translating those words into our shopping preferences too and
that is,
“use them or lose them”.

I will offer a suggestion to the “contesters”, this month, and that is to
submit a
log to the contest manager within the nominated time frame. You may not be
wanting
to collect an award but others will and having check logs is a great help
in keeping
the results correct and weeding out errors in scoring. So even if you only
give out
a few contest numbers, please send in the log as it will help in the
overall process
and in the RD, it might just help your State get more than an honourable
mention.

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

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