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QNEWS - AUGUST 2 VK4 ON AIR

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DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK?


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QNEWS HOUSEKEEPING

For those who download automatically from vk7ax'S SITE or
from the wiaq qnews site (thanks to vk4blp) might I suggest
you arrange the download time as 0400 utc Saturdays.

Now if you DO replay this news disturbing info in from our provider
who has noticed a huge increase in data transfer from the wiaq site.

Does anyone know who belongs to
124.187.40.133
cpe-124-187-40-133.qb03.qld.asp.telstra.net

They have consumed more than 24 % of data from the website.

The next largest data consumption of around 5% was one other place,
with everyone else well under it. It appears someone may be playing
the news DIRECTLY from the server, rather than downloading it and
playing it from their own node/site.

(text only edition)


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

There is one of those humorous expressions which contain more than a
grain of truth and that is “ a camel is a horse designed by a
committee.” That’s to say when you have a nice idea and you give it
to a cluster of people to refine it turns out less than you thought.

During the week, The ACMA released a statement that the Syllabus
Review Committee was being disbanded because it could not achieve
consensus. Here was the idea that the regulator, its assessment
contractor and the amateur community could sit at a table with a
brief to follow and come up with agreement.

Those of us who watched the Wireless Institute of Australia Annual
General Meeting via video link will have heard the President, Greg
Kelly VK2GPK, in answer to a question explain that there has been a
pattern of interference from an acknowledged group of people and this
had disrupted the WIA from full attention to it’s primary purposes.
These are my words as the final version of the video has not been
posted as yet.

So this idea of having a consensual committee seems good on paper but
it does not recognise the reality that there has been one peak
representative body, the body that the ACMA sponsors to the World
Radio Conferences and which also sends representatives to the IARU
and there has been an antagonistic stance from an apparent club which
was given status of a peak body at the table. If the public record
is anything to go by, this thoroughbred was doomed to be less of a
camel and more of a spiny anteater.

On another note, with the impending announcement of our new WIA
Board, I think it is time to ask how many directors have completed
the available training in company governance? It is critical to the
proper running of any organisation that the people charged with
running it are up to the mark, not only with the aims of the body,
but the law and regulations that control its operation. Under the
Company’s Act, the penalties for not following correct procedures
can be extremely high. Not knowing the rules is not the answer that
the ASIC will accept.

The reason I put this question is that for many years, the WIA was
seen as the exemplar to the Amateur club network and whilst the
majority of radio-electronics clubs are now incorporated under state
legislation and the requirements aren’t as onerous as the
Corporations Act, there is that introductory statement that the body
can perform all legal functions to achieve its aims.

We need to remember the rules when we set out to help our fellow
members.

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




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