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QNEWS APRIL 14 2024 - 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
VK5QD x VK4AFO
AUB McKIBBEN 21 NOVEMBER vk4yt
VK4SL SYD LYON 9 DECEMBER vk4hit
VK4MRC ROD CARDELL 17 DECEMBER vk4kx
VK3FPL/4 PETER LORD 17 DECEMBER vk4eo



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

In this great information age powered by the digital revolution and the
internet,
there is undoubtedly the greatest access to the most information that the
world has
known. That is not hyperbole or in the more modern jargon, clickbait. It
is a fact
that the amount of data grows exponentially each and every day and in fact
the data
storage and processing is being classed as a climate change factor by
reason of the
electricity that is used, the heat that is generated and the water that is
used for
cooling.


I spend a reasonable amount of time checking out different things that
interest me
and I use various components of the internet to do so. In many cases I am
looking to
see what others have recorded about particular items and one of the
easiest ways is
to watch videos. There are tremendous resources available to the
electronics and ham
radio communities and learning to refine your search terms certainly
speeds up
access to the sources.


Herein lies the great difficulty that until we are familiar with a topic
it is very
hard to judge the quality of the material that you read or view. I have
frequently
followed a very sincere looking presentation with another on the same
topic only to
have points of contradiction be glaringly obvious between the two. If the
subject is
quite recently presented to the world, it may be hard to find the
critiques that
shade and colour the picture and I am left with the big question mark and
scratching
my head. How do I know what is right?


Fortunately in our field of interest, the laws that govern how radio and
electronics
are well enough established that it is only in the minute details that we
will see
radical change. In other words, the material in the manuals and text books
is going
to be more than accurate than we need in the practical world. It is for
this reason
that I have a small library of standard books of varying ages and they can
provide
most of the theoretical and technical answers that I need for my purposes.


This is where I point you to belonging to a club which maintains a library
for
members to use. Along with equipment and instruments, books are a valuable
resource
and should be available to club members, at least. I have seen reports
over the past
years that public libraries have cleared most of their shelves of amateur
radio type
material and it then becomes the province of the club and individual amateur
operator to source and maintain these valuable resources.


Every day there are questions to which I don’t have the right answer and
being able
to “fact check”, with better accuracy than on social media, is a source of
satisfaction.


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



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