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QNEWS DECEMBER 8 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)
VK4FANG ROGER HARNDEN 22/07/24 (vk4zz)
X/VK4TC Terry Harding Cain 30/07/24 (vk4zz)
VK4CWJ GORDON WEBSTER July 2024 (vk4vp)
VK4SWR JOE SEBAST5IANI 03/07/24 (vk4zz)
VK4TE ALEX McDONALD 27/09/24 (vk4ra)
VK4NL NOEL DES JADINS 16/10/24 (vk4vp)
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CLUBBING

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Ipswich & District Radio Club

Web – www.vk4wip.org.au
Email - vk4wip@...
For a full list of repeaters - www.vk4wip.org.au

(audio: Ron calling in stations)

And that’s the familiar sound of Ron VK4RG recorded in 2012 calling in the
Ipswich morning net.

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

Ron has been calling in the Ipswich morning net since July 1986.

That is an incredible 38 years and must be some kind of record for hosting
a daily net anywhere in the world. Put another way it’s almost 13,800
morning nets – give or take holidays here and there.

Here’s Ron, again in 2012, recalling when and how the net started with a
former workmate at Mount Crosby Water Treatment Plant.

(audio: Ron recalling start of morning net)

For Ron it has been a labour of love and for the rest of us listening or
taking part in the net, he has been a constant – the voice of reassurance
in a world of change.

Sadly, Monday November 25 was the last time Ron made the regular call for
stations owing to a change of home address which doesn’t permit a base
station setup.

VK4RG was first licensed in 1956, and is hopeful his trusty handheld will
enable him to call in from time to time.

VK4RG, we salute you and thank you for your service to the club and
amateur radio.

Reporting from Ipswich this is Allan, VK4HIT.





DARLING DOWNS RADIO CLUB

vk4wid@...

Hi - I'm John VK4JPM Darling Downs Radio Club Secretary with the club
update for Sunday 8th of December.

Before I remind you about the tech meeting tomorrow night - yes, tomorrow
night - a bit more detail on the club's end-of-year BBQ on Saturday
14th... that's next Saturday if you're listening to this as part of the
broadcast.

The BBQ social will be held at Webb Park in Toowoomba. If you've never
heard of that location - Webb Park that is; we're pretty sure you know
where Toowoomba is - it's easy to find on the map applications, and just
as easy to find in reality. We can't promise that we'll be alone, or that
the weather will be perfect, but we can tell you that there are four
hotplates under cover, more than one picnic bench, reasonably good
parking, a gentle walk down the hill to the main area, and an absolutely
spectacular view.

You'd be looking east towards Brisbane, and FM propagation will be
excellent. It's not a POTA park, but there will be plenty of opportunity
to test out anything that will run on batteries, and there are lots of
trees to hang the long wire. All welcome, families and young people
particularly, and it's the standard deal for this type of gathering: BYO
everything. Maybe even a spare chair in case others grab the tables first.

We kick off at 1130, and the day will run until the last person leaves.
Full details can be found on the club website at www.ddrci.org.au.
Talk-in probably via the club repeater VK4RDD on 146.750 with a 91.5Hz
tone. And speaking of which, the regular club net will kick off at 1000
Sunday on that very repeater. Join us!

Now to the next the tech meeting, which is tomorrow night. John VK4JBE
is coming up from Brisbane to give us all the good stuff about Software
Defined Radios. If you're just catching up to the topic, check out the
Wikipedia article online, because that's a good introduction to the
introduction.

All the info on the meeting is on the website at www.ddrci.org.au - look
for "coming events" on the homepage, and click through the 9 December
entry. You'll see there's a picture of John in his shack, and over his
left shoulder there's laptop displaying a DMR signal from 2m using the SDR
Console with SDRplay RSPdx. There's also a picture on the website showing
an Airspy Mini SDR attached to a Raspberry Pi

Those are just a few of the configurations that John will talk about and
demonstrate at the session, along with practical discussion on how to
integrate SDRs into your shack, and how SDRs

That's all happening tomorrow, Monday 9 December at the Toowoomba Library,
level 3, and tons of free secure parking under the building.



Finally, don't forget the 2M club net on VK4RDD every Sunday at 1000, and
the 80M net on 3.650 ± QRM every Saturday at 1930.

If you missed any of the detail in this bulletin, don't panic. It's all
on the website. www.ddrci.org.au, and you can drop a note to
Secretary@... if you want to get on the mailing list.

But once again: Monday 9 December for the SDR tech session, and Saturday
14 December for the BBQ.

That's it for this week - 73 from John VK4JPM for the team at the Darling
Downs Radio Club.


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


During the past week the postman handed me the latest edition of Amateur
Radio
magazine and it prompted me to think about what we used to have. Once
there was a
state based newsletter aptly called QTC. This was a great addition to the
shack in
that reminders of events were in tangible form rather than just committed
to memory.

When the weekly news went out on packet radio, it was an easy task to
print it out
and these days we are very likely to have a printer on our home network
which can do
the same job with the news bulletins. You see, QTC went into a column in
AR magazine
before it went SK. Largely club notes have been lost to the printed medium
and this
makes our broadcast news all the more important in getting the messages
out to
fellow amateur operators. This is especially true with the magazine now
bi-monthly
having gone from monthly to 11 issues a year and now every 2 months.

I don’t know how many clubs are running nets these days as there isn’t a
quickly
accessible list for me to check. I know that not a lot is able to be heard
from my
location and without receiving reminders or newsletters I would bet the
most of us
are just a much in the dark as I am.

So here we are engaged in a communications activity and we seem to be
confounded by
poor communications. I don’t know how many missives are sent via the WIA
Memnet
service but I receive an advice of the release of the digital issue of the
magazine
so that amounts to only 1 every 2 months. Periodically the text edition of
the
national news drops off until I send a plea for help and that makes me
wonder how
effective our IT systems are working for the WIA.

To place a little context on the subject, I live in a house with people
not only
getting older but also living with chronic health issues. There are many
times that
I think of things that I would like to see done by me or others but
circumstances
don’t give the luxury of acting on those thoughts. For me, getting updates
in my
email is welcome piece of assistance as I don’t have to devote time to
searching
them out. It also provides a point of connection to the wider community in
a way
that is accessed at convenient times.

You see these ways of sharing are important on a personal level as much as
they
support club activity and growth. Once it was the cartoonist’s jibe that
you had to
lick the tip of a pencil or bash the heck from a typewriter to get the
news out.
These days we can achieve things much more sedately and just as
effectively with our
mobile devices or shack computers.
I look forward to getting your news in electronic or broadcast.


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



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