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QNEWS - AUGUST 20 2023 - VK4 ON AIR

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DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK?


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VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR FROM MAY 13 2023

SK CALL SK NAME DATE ADVISED BY
VK4OD PETER HARDING 10 JULY 2023 vk4bab






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Hi, This is Alan VK4SN, Remembrance Day contest manager.

The last day for log submission is Sunday the 26th at 0300z.
My internet service provider sometimes thinks that logs coming
to me is spam and are blocked.

Please make sure that if you've sent a log, that your callsign
is showing in the submitted logs link on vklogchecker.com
If not, please email me. Details on the WIA RD page.

I type up paper and attached logs to email, and submit
to vklogchecker.com. All operators will get an automated
acknowledgment when submitted. Success or failure is shown
on screen when the log is submitted.


Good luck
This is Alan VK4SN


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CLUBBING



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BUNDABERG



Transitioning from Foundation Amateur Licence to a
Standard Amateur Licence!

Gidday I’m David, VK4DN from the Bundaberg Amateur Radio Club.

Now that you have your Foundation licence, Congratulations!! You can
now experiment on a number of bands and frequencies (and even operate
in the world of digital modes!) As you would know by now, having
your Foundation licence gives you a number of privileges and allows
you make contacts with friends locally and from all around the world.
However, you can only legally operate at 10 Watts of power and still
can’t operate on a number of amateur bands!

Why not consider upgrading from your Foundation call and sitting for
your “Standard Licence”?

It opens up more frequencies and even gives you up to 100 Watts of
power to play with!

A lot of Australian amateurs rave about the 20meter band!
(and rightly so!) it is much quieter than many of the lower
frequencies, and sometimes opens up when other bands are unusable!
(Foundation stations are not allowed to use the 20 meter band.)
A Standard licence will also give you access to a portion of the
6 meter band as well! (once again a favourite band for a lot of
experienced amateur operators in Australia!)

The process of upgrading from Foundation to Standard, is pretty
straight forward and easy enough to do! You can find resources online
that will take you through the requirements/ practice exams.
Personally, I found going from Foundation to Standard qualification,
was really not that difficult to do! (in fact from memory, I think
I went from Foundation to Standard in only a couple of weeks!)

The Standard exam process comes in two sections –
the Theory exam and the Regulations exam!

Both exams are usually taken on the same day and in both cases,
you will need at least a 70% mark to pass.

Upgrading from Foundation to Standard is definitely easy enough to do
if you are willing put in the time to study and do some online exam
practice.. (there are a number of webpages you can visit to do some
trial exams until you are confident enough to sit for your Standard
exams)

For more information and to book your exams for the upgrade, contact
your local amateur radio club! – a list of amateur radio clubs in
Australia can be found on the WIA website.

wia.org.au

Definitely worth doing guys!
Good luck and Cheers from Bundaberg!
David VK4DN



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

I hope that the people out and playing radios for the contests are getting
many
contacts and the spirits are holding up.

One of the issues that gets thrown up from time to time is the growing
amount of
e-waste that our consumer society generates. There was a time when much of
what is
regarded as rubbish such as broken white goods and non-working electronics
were sort
for parts that could be repurposed into other projects. There was many an
electric
motor from an old washing machine that found a new life driving a concrete
mixer or
wood working machinery. It hardly needs to be said that the larger
components from
electronics were popular, too. Tuning capacitors from broadcast radios were
scavenged and put into crystal sets or if they were from valve equipment,
home
constructors looked at re-using them in receivers, transmitters and
antenna matching
units, for instance.

I know that there is still a cadre of enthusiastic builders who keep up the
tradition and especially those lucky enough to live in a local government
area that
conducts kerbside collections every year or two. I see posts to groups and
pictures
too of valuable pieces of gear from computing, industrial and home
entertainment
prior lives that have been saved from the recycler’s skips. There is one
YouTube
creator who has a few years of presentations on items that he has rescued
from the
skips in the building where he works.

Locally I see volunteer groups with collection points for items which
carry a bounty
like glass bottles and aluminium cans and these groups not only make funds to
sustain them but contribute to the cleanliness of the local areas in which
they
operate. My question then becomes, what can we radio and electronics
enthusiasts do
to re-purpose e-waste?

When you consider the ubiquity of home computers and 20 year old audio
gear there is
a source of gold and other metals, if you want to go that route, or
components and
equipment that can be used as training and teaching aids. One of the big
issues
these days is that it is possible to come into amateur radio with simply a
book
learning background. Like many adult learners, I feel that when I construct
something and apply the formulae and consider the design principles, the
theory put
into practice fixes the lessons in the memory. The teaching becomes learned
knowledge and the satisfaction comes with an item that was made and which
works.

From the humble wall wart, the computer power supply to the old sub

woofer with a
good audio amplifier there are things that can be learned by taking them
apart,
modifying them as needed and putting the result to use in the shack. How
much more
exciting is the club class when the learner has a physical reward as well as
completing a lesson on the whiteboard?

What I am suggesting is that for groups that have the basic resources of
space to
collect and sort e-waste there are opportunities to enhance the things
that they
already do, save some good gear and make some money from the leftover, if
possible.

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 Club CarBoot Sale NEXT Saturday 26 August at
club house Kippa Ring (VK4TFN)


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@...)



VK - WIA AGM held MAY 4-5 2024 in BUNDABERG. (barc)



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