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QNEWS - OCTOBER 22 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
VK4SOA SYD ABRAHAMS 18 AUGUST vk4eka
VK4KCC GRAHAM ANDERSON 9 SEPTEMBER vk7ev
VK4CCF JEFF STINSON 1 OCTOBER vk4zz
VK4FZAK MAREE CHURCHILL 8 OCTOBER vk4djc


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

To all the members of the Scouting movement who have shared with us
this weekend, I trust that you have enjoyed the experience and leave
the JOTA/JOTI weekend having learned some new things.
I trust your time has been well spent and that we can join
up again in 2024. In the mean time, if you would like to learn more of
what we do
please call your operator, your local radio club or contact wia.org.au.
via the
website. We would love to keep our friendship going.

We have been reminded by the media and politicians of how much the cost of
living
has increased in recent times. Basic items like a packet of potato chips
have jumped
almost a dollar in shelf price at one discount grocery chain. That is just
one
example of a close to 30% jump in prices which I have observed. The weekly
shopping
basket is getting more and more filled with store brands and weekly
special buys and
lots of people will be looking as much to the news from the Reserve Bank, on
Tuesday, as they will be barracking for a winner of the Melbourne Cup.

There are the favoured sites that people go to seeking a good buy and
radio amateurs
maintain a reputation for being very prudent with their money. Now, I
wonder how
many radio amateurs have been paying attention to the selling prices of
second hand
gear. The on-line sites that I look over tell a sorry tale to me. The
prices that
people are asking for consumer electronics, brown goods, let alone
recreational gear
such as CB and ham radios seem to go up as they age. Of course we all know
that
items over 25 years old are vintage and must of course be valuable and
collectable
just on the basis of their age.

I have little doubt that some of the advertisers of these items also worry
about the
number of people joining the hobby. I have little doubt that many are
amongst those
who raised their hackles at the high cost of entry by way of exams fees
and the
price of new equipment. I also wonder how these sellers can reconcile the two
attitudes and offer a more economic entry path to aspiring operators?

There are clubs who support new amateurs with loans of equipment while new
person
gets the feel of amateur radio. The Wireless Institute gives a free
membership for
newly qualified hams, if they apply but sadly the person using initiative and
researching their own purchases, in the second hand market, too often are
shocked by
the Gordon Gecko maxim of “greed is good.”

Over many years I have heard stories of various money making ruses used by
so-called
“谤别辫耻迟补产濒别”
amateurs. Buying books at a discount and charging full retail on delivery;
picking
up bargains at hamfest and adding a couple of hundred percent markup when
they list
the items on-line.

I feel these practices are counter productive to growing this great
activity. It
would be wonderful to see sellers adopt a reasonable price regime for
older gear and
demonstrate a welcome to new members.

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

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