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QNEWS MARCH 23 2025 - VK4 ON AIR

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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


QNEWS 16 March 2025

In news from Ipswich and District Radio Club, WICEN volunteers will be
heading out in the field for the Brisbane Trails Marathon on April 27.

It’s never too late to offer your services on the day. A minimum of 14
operators are required most with a 4WD and radio equipment to operate in a
remote location. Ipswich WICEN also welcomes the support from other
amateurs in southeast Queensland.

Please contact Paul McDonald at VK4PMCPaul@...

Currently the club’s training officer is seeking expressions of interest
for the next Foundation course expected to start sometime in April.

A minimum of two and up to six people are needed. If you know anyone
interested, including yourself, please contact Greg via email
VK4GJW@...

Classes are usually held Tuesday nights over a period of eight weeks. The
final night being the ACMA theory and regulations exam and practical
assessment.

Reporting from Ipswich this is Allan, VK4HIT.





DARLING DOWNS RADIO CLUB

vk4wid@...

It's the 23rd of March and this is QNEWS from the Darling Downs Radio
Club. I'm John VK4JPM, Secretary of the Club.

The Management Committee is busy at work sorting out a few items that need
to be addressed - we'll tell you about that at the next meeting, which
will be on Monday 14 April. More about that in a second.

The John Moyle Field Day was a heap of fun and thanks to all those who
came along to help the club get into the history books. It will be a
while before we know how we did, but in raw terms we ran for six hours
with four teams across 10, 15, 20 and 40 metres. Given the commercial
nature of the site we were on, we also attracted a bit of attention from
the public and had more than a few people come over to find out what we
were doing. Explaining Amateur Radio to onlookers is one way to increase
our numbers. We also had some underbubblers drop by for a squizz: there
are members of our club who are on the road to a Foundation Licence, and
what better way to get a feel for what structured operating is about than
to watch a team of people calling "CQ Contest"? Thanks to Dougal, VK4EKA
for being team captain and arranging the main setup - a centre-fed
longwire flown between trees; to Wayne VK4ARW with his quick-erect rotator
dipole; and SAM VK4SAM with a most interesting multiband-vertical and an
impressive ground plane.

The Field Day also gave us a chance to shake out the club's self-contained
trailer, designed quite effectively to operate in a mains-free
environment. Fortunately we had good sun and the batteries stayed nice
and charged.

OK, what's coming up next?

Many of us will definitely be at Redfest on 12 April, and the hunt is on
for the perfect venue for the informal Club Lunch on Sunday 13 April. It
will definitely be somewhere between Withcott and Gatton, and three
locations are being sussed out and tested. If you're one of the folk who
can't get to a meeting a Saturday, then please come and make the point.
Everyone is welcome, including family, friends, and especially including
people who know nothing about amateur radio.

Now: the next three big club events. Monday 14 April is our next member
meeting and keep an eye on the website for the location, because we might
well drop back to do another test from the very welcoming Scout Hall in
Newtown. The topic for the meeting is RADAR and LIDAR, distance and
object measuring technologies key to so many processes including building
measurement and yes - speed traps. Cameron VK4CSS talk about both
technologies - they are quite different and quite similar, and shouldn't
be confused. And we will let members and guests know about whether the
meeting will be streamed - it might be. If you're not on our mailing
list, then drop a line to secretary@... and we'll add you.

Upcoming:
* Saturday 10th of May is the date for our inaugural annual Foxhunt Day
and BBQ lunch... check the website for details, and
* the May meeting on the Second Monday night (it's the 12th) will be a
reconvened session with the Brisbane WICEN folk

All the information I just covered is on our website at www.ddrci.org.au
and select All Events from any of the calendar entries to see everything
that's coming up in our diary. Drop an email to secretary@... if
you have a query or just want to get on our mailing list, or if all that
seems a bit hard then use the contact-us form on the website.

I'm John VK4JPM for the Darling Downs Radio Club - 73 and see you next week.





Redcliffe and Districts radio club.


Hello.

Text:
REDFEST 2025
Adventures on HF
Update.

Greetings from the Redcliffe & Districts Radio Club VK4RC.

Robert Thomson VK4TFN here.

REDFEST 25 "Adventures on HF"
will go ahead at 9:00am on the 12th April.

I'm really looking forward to it.

Our new venue is:
The Deception Bay North State School,
Old Bay Road, Deception Bay.

There's still a few tables left if you hurry.
$15 per table.

Email redfest@...

The ICOM IC-7300 raffle, at $5 each we have
plenty of tickets. Buy as many as you want.
Ticket sales over the internet stop after the 6th of April.

For raffle tickets go too: www.redclifferadioclub.org.au/redfest

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

Thank you
RRT
0428 044 992



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

One area of amateur radio that we don’t see mentioned often is one
that brought many people into the broader compass of “radio”. A
lot of people, these days, associate the introduction of the
Citizen’s Band Radio Service as being the fillip that gave rise to
the many new amateurs who entered via the then Novice licence.

There was a growth in amateur numbers following re-opening of the
bands after World War 2. Lots of people had become acquainted with the
versatility of radio communications because of their occupations in
the early 1940’s. By the time people were settling into new found
peace, the so-called Cold War, had taken over global politics and in
the light of experiences in the 30’s and 40’s countries had come
to recognise the power of broadcast radio. Whilst domestic
broadcasting was expanding on the so-called AM band, a far greater
reach was obtained using short wave or as we know it, the HF section
of the radio spectrum.

Religious broadcasters had been using the short waves and imperial
powers such as the British Empire, later the British Commonwealth, had
found that news services and entertainment could be consistently
beamed into areas where they had colonial influences. Even in the
1930’s people were joining the growth of undersea cables,
aeronautical passenger and mail services and radio as means of
“shrinking the world”.

From the late 1950’s and onwards most major countries and many
minor ones operated powerful shortwave broadcasting services. Some
were established for propaganda and others were what is now considered
as soft diplomacy. Music was a great leveller for people and even
political antagonists would be playing music from their supposed
enemies as a way of grabbing and holding attention.

The value of Radio Australia to introducing our life and
perspectives was well recognised as it had a non-partisan policy of
providing news and information and it sought to help people in
neighbouring countries. Weather reports, farming tips and English
language lessons were all grist for the mill until a few years ago
when the plug was pulled. As evidence of its effectiveness, shortly
after closing its services several of the frequencies that RA used
were adopted by one of the Asian Tigers as their own.

In this past week we have seen the current administration pull the
plug on one of the most well recognised international broadcasters
when the USA locked staff out of the Voice of America studios and
offices and placed the programming on automatic.

My introduction to radio was strengthened by tuning around the dial
and listening to these various broadcasters and finding other things
like marine traffic, police networks and becoming intrigued by amateur
radio, particularly 40m. From that I went on to join the WIA as an
Associate Member, Short Wave Listener and eventually I became a full
member.

Shortwave is still with us and along with scanning of VHF and UHF,
it makes a great introduction to the hobby of radio.

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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