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QNEWS - JULY 18 VK4 ON AIR 2021

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DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK?


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QUEENSLAND (VK4) STATE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PORTAL
Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest news, key facts and figures,
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VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR COMMENCING JULY 26 2021

SK CALL SK NAME DATE ADVISED BY

VK4IW Kev Dickson 7/7/2021 (vk4dmh)
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Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking.

I feel a warm glow as I hear and see messages that people
are returning to the various arts of radio. Whether it it
is the winter gloom or the gloom from the pandemic, I know
not, but when people pop up and say I have been away from
radio from a long time and ask what do I do now it is a
great sign that all isn’t lost for this pursuit.

For me, from the first crystal set through the years until
the present, there has been a mystique about this recreation
that goes beyond the hard physics and chemistry that makes
it all happen. I have been and I have gone from amateur
radio when the needs of family and study have been greater
than the need for the sounds of the “aether”. I have returned
when the time has been right but in the mean time it has been
the magazines, now so much reduced in number, that have kept
me in touch with electronics and amateur radio. The solid
material, the text book stuff to learn has been there in some
ageing and well thumbed copies of manuals produced by
national radio organisations.

I like to relate that in one application to join a particular
body, I put that my ambition was to build a better junk box.
I don’t know that I have succeeded in that pursuit but a
number of boxes have accompanied the household goods when we
have changed residences.

So it is when I read that someone is clearing out the garage
and want some guidance in re-assembling and antenna or asks
how they have their licence re-instated, I can relate to
their story.

It is my feeling that a good hobby can be challenging and
rewarding and can be relegated to the back of the garage
for periods of time but for that person, for me, it will
have some sort of almost instinctual attraction which draws
one back to the sounds of the atmosphere, the cracks of
thunder, to the sounds of the world and the increasing
challenge to beat the switch mode power supplies that breed
like flies in summer and the delight of new contacts, yes
the new contacts and the joy of meeting old contacts on air,
once more.

So for all those people getting the itch to get on air again,
there is no better time than now. I got my licence when the
sunspot numbers were high and radio had a frisson, a buzz
each time you powered on the rig. Who and where would my
signals go this time. And now we have the beginnings of
another sunspot cycle and from the low powered modes that
people use to probe the signal paths to the more hefty punch
of maximum power we have been getting some interesting
contacts on bands that months ago were as quiet as a street
in lock down.

Welcome to all the people coming back to the fold and may we
all meet on the air.

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


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