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QNEWS MARCH 16 2025 - VK4 ON AIR

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DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK?
REDLIFFE SUNSHINE COAST AND DARLING DOWNS DID.

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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 DESJARDINS 16/10/24 (vk4vp)
VK4RG RON GRANDISON 22/12/24 (vk4hit)
VK4NOE FRED WHITE 29/01/25 (vk4eht)



Fred White VK4NOE became a silent Key on 29th January 2025.

Fred was a member of the Mount Isa and Districts Amateur Radio
Group when it was formed in 1979. He was known around Australia
as an active member of the Royal Navel Amateur Radio Society.
He was a regular participant of the RNARS net held on 15 meters
on Sunday mornings in the early 80's.

Fred passed away January 29 in Townsville hospital after a short illness.

(vk4eht)



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Redcliffe and Districts radio club.


Greetings from the Redcliffe & Districts Radio Club VK4RC.

Robert Thomson VK4TFN here.

REDFEST 25 "Adventures on HF"
will be held on the 12th April 2025.
Gates open at 9:00AM.

Our new venue will be
The Deception Bay North State School,
Old Bay Road, Deception Bay.

Our new venue is filling up with vendors.
There's only a few tables left.
Hurry and book your table.
Don't miss out.

Tables are $15 each
For table bookings email:
redfest@...

Don't forget your raffle tickets for the ICOM IC-7300.
It has HF and 6m.
Tickets $5. Buy as many tickets as you want.

redclifferadioclub.org.au/redfest

Bye for now and 73's from
The Redcliffe & Districts Radio Club VK4RC.





DARLING DOWNS RADIO CLUB

vk4wid@...

Welcome to QNEWS for Sunday 16 March. I'm John, Secretary of the Darling
Downs Radio Club and what a week it's been. And who expected such a
confluence of events that all demonstrated how useful Amateur Radio could
be in a time of stress and emergency? As this segment goes to air, the
John Moyle Memorial Field Day will be in its final block. The field day
celebrates readiness and willingness to operate portable, without
connection to mains power, and to provide training for emergency
conditions. And like the universe playing a massive prank,
ex-tropical-cyclone Alfred showed us all how exactly ready we would be to
deal with an actual natural event, a week before the competition and at
least one WICEN training exercise had to be cancelled while we dealt with
the civil emergency.

Alfred gave our club a chance to experiment; we tested out a new location
and for the first time ran the meeting interactively over the net. It can
only get better from here.

And we had an opportunity to restructure the management committee with
some appointments to backfill vacant positions. Check that out on the
website: go to the Committee page, to see the rogues gallery and meet the
leadership team. You'll probably get a few surprises.

With Alfred and its aftermath now a diminishing memory, let's have a look
at what's coming up in the next few weeks for Darling Downs Radio Club.

The second weekend in April is going to be exceptionally busy for members
and guests of the club.

Many of us will be travelling to Redcliffe for Redfest on Saturday 12th of
April, so we have shifted our regular informal lunch to Sunday 13 April.
The location is still to be decided, but will probably be somewhere in the
Lockyer Valley and will provide an opportunity for those members and
guests who can't make it to an event on a Saturday. So definitely Sunday
13th April for the lunch and we'll let you know where shortly - it will be
on the website in the Upcoming Events entry on the home page.

The following day Monday 14 April is our monthly member meeting. If
you've ever been on a plane or been booked for speeding, you know that
RADAR is a pretty important technology. You might even know that night
vision has very little to do with carrots. But what about LIDAR, a
technology crucial to successful operation of self-driving vehicles?

At our next member meeting on 14 April, Cameron VK4CSS will be talking
about both RADAR and LIDAR. He'll focus on how RADAR and LIDAR are used
for speed measurement, including pre operation checks, modes of operation,
how to use RADAR and LIDAR, and most importantly Cam will tell you when
RADAR and LIDAR experience error and won't work. Yes, who knew: these
technologies are not infallible. Keep an eye on our website for updates
to the warm-body location, and whether we will be streaming the meeting
live for those who live a bit further away.

Those dates again: 12, 13 and 14 April.

Finally a tip for this coming Tuesday, 18 March, for anyone who is
involved in community broadcasting, or is interested in protecting an IT
network. Technorama, the group that looks after the technologists who
support community broadcasting is running a webinar on cybersecurity.
It's this coming Tuesday at 1730 Queensland time, 1830 Oz Daylight time.
The challenges of networking and cyber-protection certainly apply to hams,
and you're welcome to join the session and learn. Register at


All the information I just covered is available on our website,
and if you missed any info or want to clarify
then get an email to someone who cares: secretary@... or use the
contact form on the website ().

Until next week, 73 from John VK4JPM for the Darling Downs Radio Club.





SUNSHINE COAST

Maleny VK4RSC 146.850 and 438.075 VK4RSN 53.7
Noosa Heads VK4RSL 146.825 and 438.175

News from the Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio Club, this is Gordon VK4VP
for those who may have missed this last week due to TC Alfred.

SCARC is having a CarBoot sale on March 22nd at the clubrooms 85 Godfreys
rd. Bli Bli.
Entry and traders tables are free but we do require bookings to secure a
traders spot.

It will be located in the grounds of the clubroom so if you need shade
apart from the few large trees, you will have to organise something
yourself.

There will be Egg and Bacon rolls and drinks for sale as well as some
great bargains to be had.

Traders can setup from 8am and general entry from 9am

Details of how to book a traders spot are on our website - vk4wis.org


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

For so many of us it is good riddance to Alfred, the cyclone that
was. For many more it is the harrowing task of saving what is left and
disposing of the too badly damaged and finding the path back to
normality.

We were fortunate that the drama that unfolded as the low pressure
system deluged the coast was kept away by the forces of nature or the
whim of the gods, I don’t know which. What I did know is that whilst
Hervey Bay coastal suburbs was swamped we, only some 30 kilometres
away, had sunshine and blue sky.

I mention this only to show that the effects of this weather system
were so hard to predict and the ability to prepare was that much
harder.

Domestically, we had obtained another larger capacity generator for
those times when the mains drop out and I had been preparing it for
service prior to the entrance of Cyclone Albert. As it turned out, the
engine needed some replacement parts which I had sourced from on-line
vendors as I couldn’t track down a local dealership for the brand.
As the people of south east Queensland honed their listening skills
trying to get a sense of the forecast track and possible destination,
I waited and watched the tracking information on my parts delivery.

It was ironic that my preparedness ended up being arrested when the
delivery services seemed to halt processing on Wednesday with Albert
still expected to create havoc somewhere between Bribie Island and the
Gold Coast. Now having dodged the proverbial bullet the parts have
been delivered and our new but second hand generator is finally
commissioned into service.

I suppose the point is that when we see the need to prepare for
potential emergencies, we should press on and complete the jobs as
delay could spell disaster. We were lucky this time but always there
will be a next time to deal with some drama and probably it will be
weather related.

People in the radio community can now re-erect their sky-hooks
without fear of gale force winds and the lucky ones can enjoy the John
Moyle activities of this weekend with hopefully more welcoming weather
than most of us have had.

To our many listeners and others who follow on video, text or
podcast, I wish you success in your recovery efforts if you have
suffered during the cyclone and for all of us may the companionship
that amateur radio fosters continue and spread. May the bands be open
and the signals strong.


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

(vk4zpp@...)


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Social Scene

VK4 - SUNSHINE COAST CAR BOOT SALE MARCH 22 see vk4wis.org (vk4vp)

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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