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QNEWS FEBRUARY 09 2025 - VK4 ON AIR

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DARLING DOWNS RADIO CLUB

vk4wid@...

Good morning, good evening, good night, good day and good grief. So many
repeats on this news that I hope you get it before the club meeting this
coming Monday. Hi; I'm John VK4JPM, Secretary of the Darling Downs Radio
Club and this news will be fresh if it's Sunday 9th of February.

Most importantly, tomorrow night Monday 10th is our February club meeting,
where members, guests and others will find out lots about the Amateur
Radio take on the Fox Hunt, and how you can have massive amounts of fun
and learn useful stuff at the same time.

The meeting will be hosted by Bruce VK4MQ, who has been beavering away
over the last two months to construct a heap of projects to show you how a
Fox Hunt works.

Actually, you might not know what Fox Hunting is all about, so here's the
gist: the person assigned as the fox takes a small transmitter of
sufficient power - which might not be very much - and hides it somewhere.
The hunt participants then use a receiver and a directional antenna to
locate the fox. That could be really simple - for instance if the fox is
hidden in a back yard under a garbage bin it won't be hard to find. Or it
could be tricky and tough, for instance if the fox is hidden up a tree on
the other side of a river. Or somewhere even more challenging than that.
We're wondering if someone has though of hiding a fox on the international
space station. Hey, it could happen.

Bruce is going to show you Fox Hunt equipment designs that you can make
really cheaply and simply. Let's start with the obvious item: a hand-held
directional antenna. Bruce has designed a portable antenna that works
wonderfully and can be built in under an hour using conduit and
coathangers or any other wire you have around.

Next, how about a signal strength meter, so that you can see how close you
are to the fox? Bruce found a cheap Chinese module that gives a useful
expanded meter display, and that would set you back for well under ten
bucks. I've seen the prototype and it has more than 70dB of linear scale
on a real meter, and it looks gorgeous.

Finally you might need a 2m filter for your handheld, and Bruce has
created one of those to get rid of other noise that might confuse your
receiver... and you.

The Fox Hunt meeting special, and indeed all the projects, has been
designed for those of us who have no experience with Fox Hunting and no
particular skill. That makes it a meeting that's ideal for newbs and
young'uns, so bring the kids and let's get them started with our hobby?

Plus it will get you started on the path to our planned club Fox Hunt day
in May.

The meeting starts at 1900 in the Toowoomba Library in Herries Street near
Grand Central on Monday 10th of February, and it's in a meeting room on
level 3. That's easy to find, and there's plenty of free offstreet
parking.

A reminder of events in the future: Stand by for details of the club's
plans for the John Moyle Field Day over the weekend of 15-16 March;
there's a WICEN event in Southbrook on 8/9/10 March; and pop Saturday 10
May in your diary for the Club's first annual FoxHunt and social BBQ.

Did you miss anything? No? Not a problem. you can subscribe to QNEWS
and get this in audio or text every week, and all the details about club
events are on our website at www.ddrci.org.au - go to the calendar items
on the home page and click the "view detail" buttons. We welcome
out-of-towners and non-members to our events - if you're planning to
travel in then let us know so that we can set the red carpet for you and
*your* guests. Secretary@... gets to us very quickly, and
www.ddrci.org.au is where you find the website.

73s from John VK4JPM and all the gang at the Darling Downs Radio Club.



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


The continuing stories of the weather and the flooding in the north
of Queensland seem to be expected to continue for some time yet. Along
the central coast we have had the inconvenience of showers and the odd
rain squall but the stressful and dangerous deluges have spared us. It
is something that I can, in part, identify with from my youth on the
regularly flooded north coast of NSW.

It is perhaps too early to know if the amateur fraternity have been
engaged in assistance efforts but I haven’t seen anything appear on
my internet feeds indicating WICEN and other groups have been
activated. I would like to remind listeners that our regular WIA
National News presenter, Felix Scerri, and his family live in the
heavily effected town of Ingham which has been without services such
as electricity for several days. To Felix and amateurs in the flooded
communities, I trust you are remaining safe and that relief comes
soon.

Whilst our news services have been following the flooding the world
has remained active and from a north American news outlet, MSNBC,
comes a report of an event which hopefully can never happen in this
land down under. Commentator Rachel Maddow tells of what appears to be
politically driven actions by the Federal Communications Commission.

It is alleged that under the new White House administration, there
is a policy to direct support for news services towards those
businesses that support the new administration. In her story, Miss
Maddow, told of how a local newspaper which had a readership of over
many hundreds of thousands, and was identified as the paper of record
for official advertisements for that area, has had its contracts with
the Federal government withdrawn and the business transferred to
adjacent area publishers.

It would be inconceivable for we Aussies to see the ACMA act in such
a partisan political manner as this news story presents.

However we individually may view our governmental processes we seem
to be better protected by administrative structures than our
colleagues across the Pacific, allowing for the truth of the report.

Returning to the floods and the possibility of amateur radio support
during this crisis period, there is the question as to whether the
resilience mapping actually accommodates our skill base and uses it.
If the answer is yes, then we seem to be hiding the efforts of many
people as we don’t usually get to hear of their efforts. Then if the
answer is no, we must ask the question as to whether we have lost
recognition and credibility as a volunteer support group. Certainly
there are good reasons for getting the word out about our
contributions or finding out why our participation is dying on the
vine.

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

(vk4zpp@...)


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Social Scene


VK4 - Redcliffe & Districts Radio Club REDFEST April 12 at
Deception Bay North State School. (wiacal)

VK - WIA AGM May 3 - 4. Hosted by Bendigo Amateur Radio & Electronics
Club and their Technology Expo (vk3gtv/wiacal)

VK - Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association 50th anniversary
Glen Waverly July 26 president@... (vk2ayl)

VK4 - GOLD COAST AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY – 2025 HAMFEST NOV 9 (vk4dmh)
Country Paradise Parklands 231 Beaudesert Nerang Road.




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