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QNEWS DECEMBER 15 2024 - VK4 ON AIR

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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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DARLING DOWNS RADIO CLUB

vk4wid@...

Hi - I'm John VK4JPM Darling Downs Radio Club Secretary with the club
update for Sunday 15th of December.

Nice and quick this week, and as we move towards the end of the year our
scheduled regular club activities take a break until the beginning of
February. But don't lose track of the dates: Saturday 8 February for our
next club lunch social, and Monday 10 February for the members meeting and
tech topic. More details on those in coming weeks.

Speaking of tech topics, we had a great session with John VK4JBE
discussing Software Defined Radios. John gave us a cheatsheet to help
with SDR selection, and has kindly provided some followup materials to
help get started. That info will be on the website in a bit, and was sent
round to everyone who is a member or who is registered with us for emails.

If that's not you, drop a line to Secretary@... and we'll add you
to the list so that you don't miss out.

Not taking a break: the weekly club nets will continue: 2m on VK4RDD at
1000 local on Sundays, and 80m on Saturday evenings. You might also be
interested in a new 80m net that's coming out of Warwick, where Mark VK4OY
will host the Boundary Rider net every Monday to Friday on 3.675MHz at
2000 local time.

Check out our website at www.ddrci.org.au, and watch for additional news
as we do some updates over the break. But that's it for this week -

73 from John VK4JPM for the team at the Darling Downs Radio Club.






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Only ten more days and children and the not so young will be
enjoying the festivities of Christmas.

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

Many of the things that I remember from my childhood are still part of
the items
that are still common today. The events are still followed but the things
that are
used have been modernised. I can remember a genuine tree being cut and
mounted in
the house and then adorned with suitable decorations. These days there is the
convenience of store bought manufactured trees and trinkets which aren’t
necessarily
valuable enough to wrap in tissue paper and store until the next year.

When I first caught the bug of radio, I made my first logbook.
It was nothing more than a school exercise book that I ruled up and
labelled the
columns for the date, time and call signs etcetera. These days, a quick
internet
search will bring you many styles of logging from apps to printable
styles, from
records you can save on your electronic device to creating a permanent paper
memento.

That brought me to thinking about how we can make available stored
information for
use both within the shack, out in the field portable of course, and in our
club
activities too. Certainly a printed form of reference is preferred by many
of us but
the convenience of electronic memory has a lot to recommend it.
The amount of storage that is now cheaply available on memory cards and
USB sticks
is growing each year.

When we think back to the now lost WIA Callbook, there was so much
material to guide
operating in its pages; from frequencies of band segments to QSL bureau
details and
so much more made the pages. With more precise division of bands as new
modes are
introduced, having a reference which can specify the correct details to
use for a
particular mode is handy both at home or portable.

For clubs, a drive containing details of the club as well as linking to
regulations,
band plans awards, could be a great tool for new as well experienced
amateurs. With
PDF apps for free download, compiling and collating so much of the
information can
be done straight from the internet. Just be aware that a lot of material
is subject
to copyright ownership and permission must be obtained to publish it. This
would
apply to material from the ACMA and WIA, for instance.

There will be those who don’t like the idea of electronic resources
preferring paper
based material. However, the portability of a small drive overcomes the
problems of
poor internet services in an area and if designed properly it could be
updated by
the user or through a central data service. There have been problems
previously when
material was distributed on disks and pen drives when piracy was a common
practice
for many and ownership of material was viewed as a commercial necessity.

These days we don’t have a simple handbook or a callbook to help and it is
sensible
to remember that “when all else fails, there is amateur radio.” We just
need to make
it more convenient, at times.

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



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