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QNEWS JULY 07 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 6 2024

SK CALL SK NAME DATE ADVISED BY

VK4PS ALAN STEPHENSON 23/05/24 (vk4zz)



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Ipswich and District Radio Club VK4WIP

For a full list of club repeaters - www.vk4wip.org.au

Q news 7 July 2024

This is Allan VK4HIT with news from Ipswich and District Radio Club.

From Ipswich WICEN - The Pinnacles Classic was held on June 16th with
Greg VK4GJW and Mark VK4SMA were on the base. Checkpoint One was staffed
by Rod VK4ACF and Alan VK4AJG. About 86 runners started the event and from
a communications standpoint everything went well.

The Guzzler Ultra Marathon is held over two days on July 20 and 21 – and
Mark VK4SMA said he now has enough operators to run the Guzzler event.
While the quota of operators filled, if you have time to help, please put
your name on the reserve list via ipswichwicen@....

The Lake Manchester Trail is coming up on August 18 and the Mount Glorious
Trail November 10.

The club’s IRLP repeater is now up and running, with many thanks to Rob
VK4AB and Alec VK4AZ. It has been tested locally and overseas with 59
reports on both TX and RX.

Club membership numbers remain strong with four new members joining in
May. A warm welcome to David VK4HDW, Bill VK2WML, Diane VK4DI and Bill
VK4ZD.

New members and visitors are welcome at the clubhouse for monthly social
and business meetings. Check the website for dates and times.

Reporting from Ipswich this is Allan, VK4HIT.





Redcliffe and Districts radio club.



Redcliffe Club Car Boot Sale & Wamuran Repeater Relocation Project.

Greetings from the Redcliffe and Districts Radio Club VK4RC.
Robert Thomson VK4TFN here.

The Redcliffe Club will hold our Annual Car Boot Sale on Saturday
24th August 2024 at our club house at MacFarlane Park, Kippa Ring
in the City of Redcliffe.

As always, vendors in at seven, breakfast is at eight, the
Carboot sale starts at nine, and the raffle is at ten thirty.

$10 per car boot or table and a gold coin admission.

Go to redclifferadioclub.org.au for more information.


Wamuran Repeater Relocation Project.

Following the closure of our Wamuran repeater site, the Club’s 2
meter and 70cm repeaters (on 146.925MHz and 438.325MHz respectively)
have recently been relocated to a temporary site. Unfortunately, it
is expected that the coverage will not be good in the short term.

The repeaters had occupied the Wamuran site, for close on 30 years
but it was time to move on. We at the Redcliffe Club, extend our
apologies for any resulting inconvenience.

It is anticipated that the Morton Bay Regional Council, will soon
approve our application for a much-improved site at Ocean View.
We'll get the repeaters up and fully operational at the new site
as soon as possible.

The Club’s 2 meter Mt Glorious repeater (on 147.000MHz) is still
fully operational.

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

Thank you
Robert VK4TFN




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

We are fortunate to be enjoying the playfulness of the shortwave bands
when the
sunspot cycle is at maximum. Radio conditions can be both frustrating when
old Sol
manages to eject a shower over the Earth or they can be exhilarating when the
sunspots create the conditions for worldwide contacts with minimal power.

We have been seeing the other side of the earthly behaviour with large
parts of the
Northern Hemisphere suffering terrible heatwaves.

In the Southern Hemisphere we have just breathed the metaphorical sigh of
relief as
the cyclone season passed most of us by without great drama. However, in
this past
week we have seen the countries of the Caribbean savaged by a very
unseasonal early
category 5 typhoon or cyclone to we antipodeans call them. Parts of Italy and
Switzerland have been deluged with also fatal results. Whether we accept
the theory
of climate change or not is irrelevant to the situation that weather
patterns are
varying and becoming more intense in the effects.

Although we are not hearing or reading a lot about the various emergency
and storm
watch nets that are conducted in different IARU zones, we should all take
care to
ensure that we do not operate on the frequencies designated for such
traffic around
the world.

These days we can play on the internet and ferret out the necessary
information but
in years gone by we had a compendium of useful facts contained in our
callbook.
There has been interest shown in reviving this very useful tool and the
ease with
which appropriate amateur radio information can be retrieved from such a
publication
should not be overlooked.

Familiarity with various band plans may come from frequent operations
where the
knowledge imprints itself but for many who meander around the bands on an
occasional
basis, ready access to the necessary facts is a great operating boon.

In many ways, it can be argued that in recent years there has been a
lessening of
supports to the amateur fraternity. (Should I add the word sorority to
that as
well?) The ACMA has decided to ditch certain features which many consider
necessary
such as the database of call signs and their holders and I don’t believe
we can buy
a copy of the “regs” but must have access to the net, a computer and
printer if you
want a hard copy. Don’t even ask about having a printed licence document,
these days
as this has been put in the bathwater with the baby and discarded.
Fortunately there
is a petition submitted to parliament seeking to remedy this oversight.


Some have suggested that the callbook material should be made available in
a digital
form. Experience shows that the least easy to pirate is still the hard
copy, the
printed book and if a book is to be compiled there are the necessary
copyright
requirements to be met and just like the government the item needs to meet
a minimum
cost recovery standard.



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



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Hallo everyone, this is Graham VK4BB reminding you that today,
being the first Sunday of of the month, it's time for the QNEWS
Social Calender for VK4 to go to air.

Social Scene

Clubs are welcome to submit text with audio for this section

VK4 - Caboolture Radio Club HamFest is to be held on Saturday 13th July.
The venue, a new one, the Caboolture Uniting Church Hall, 257 King street.
That's the corner of King and Smiths Road.

Breakfast will be served from 8 am, with the Hamfest opening at 9 am.
Admission is $5.

For further information see the Club's Facebook page
facebook.com/vk4qd

(Alan VK4TG Secretary, Caboolture Radio Club Inc.)




The Redcliffe Club will hold their Car Boot Sale Saturday 24 August
at the club house, MacFarlane Park, Kippa Ring. (vk4tn)



GOLD COAST HAMFEST OCTOBER 13 at Nerang Country Paradise
Parklands 231 Beaudesert-Nerang Road Nerang. (vk4DMH)





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