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QNEWS - JULY 25 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,
contacts and answers to your questions.
tinyurl.com/uddvmx98


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THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE
Available in Audio RIGHT NOW


www.vk7ax.id.au/wianews/

OR

www.wiaq.org.au


Importantly remember to download from the site by COT
(Close of Transmission) Mondays.


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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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VK4IW Kev Dickson past on July 7

Kevin was born in Murwillumbah in 1926 and lived in the Tweed
Valley region up until he joined the RAFF in World War Two.
He was a Wireless Air.

At wars end he retrained at the Marconi School of Wireless
in Sydney and gained his Commercial wireless licence, put
to good use first as radio operator flying Sydney to London
in Avro Anson’s.

From 1947 till he married in '52 Kevin 'went to sea' as a
Merchant Seaman Radio Operator, exotic ports included
Cairo, Caribbean ports, USSR, Brazil... the life on the
high seas.

Settling down in Brisbane he was a technician at 4BK then
when TV started its glow in Australian lounge rooms was
head technician at BTQ-7 from its construction.

He was a strong trade union man, member of the ALP, ran as
independent in a Qld State election and off the hustings
learnt to fly.

Very active in retirement with rolls in the RSL, ANZAC DAY
services, Lawn Bowls, Marine Rescue, GCARS and many many
more.

At the conclusion of his Funeral service the haunting sounds
of morse... his call going QRT and SK.

VK4IW - Kevin Dickson, A LIFE WELL LIVED.



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CLUBBING


Ipswich & District Radio Club

Web – www.vk4wip.org.au
Email - vk4wip@...
For a full list of repeaters - www.vk4wip.org.au

Ipswich and District Radio Club reminds members the annual
general meeting of the club will be held Saturday 21st August
from 10am.

All positions of the executive committee will be declared
vacant and new office bearers will be elected. Nominations
will be called for the positions of:
President;
Vice President;
Treasurer; and
Secretary.

Nominations can be forward via email to secretary@...
by 14th August.

Members are also reminded membership falls due at the time
of the AGM and should be paid in full before the meeting
starts in order to participate in voting. Fees are normal
membership $35m concessional $25 and family membership $40.

In other news -
last month the club welcomed two new members – John VK4ZJE
and Paul VK2HOC. Club secretary Greg VK4GJW reports that the
recent Foundation course participants undertook theory and
practical assessments on Saturday 26th June. Thanks also to
John VK4IE and Bob VK4RJ for giving up their day to run the
assessments.

Ipswich WICEN remains very active under the able leadership
of Robert VK4KHW who reports the Mt Mee Classic went well,
and last weekend three operators assisted at checkpoints for
a horse ride at Lake Manchester.

Meanwhile yesterday and today the Guzzler Ultra Marathon is
being run with no fewer than 20 amateurs putting in long hours
to support this major event.

Reporting from Ipswich this is Allan, VK4HIT.






SUNSHINE COAST

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

The Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio Club is pleased to announce
the annual Sunfest event for 2021 will be held once again at
the Nambour Showgrounds this year.

Take pride in building your own gear? You could win some
awesome prizes by entering your work in the Sunfest 2021
Queensland Homebrew Competition. There will be both rookie
(licenced less than two years) and open divisions, and a
special category for U18s.

Perhaps your more of a car or truck lover with some radio on
the side, well why not enter the 2021 Sunfest Echinda
Concourse d'Elegance? We are looking for entries that showcase
the best of both worlds, neat cars and neat radio
installations. You will need to display your vehicle at the
event on the day, and be prepared to answer the odd question
or two. You never know, you could come away with the crowd
favourite award (grand champion)!

Along with our car boot sale space, we will also have a table
sales area as well this year. Fox hunts, and licence exams
are also being looked at, and there might even be
communication from another world on display as well.

Finally don’t forget our MONSTER RAFFLE, we’re looking at
offering some awesome prizes including a Yaesu FT-DX10.

Sunfest 2021 Field Day is being held on Monday the 4th of
October, @ Nambour Showgrounds, Queensland. Please note
unlike past years, due to venue availability, the event
will be held on Monday Oct 4, which happens to be a long
weekend not only in Queensland, but also NSW, ACT and
South Australia.

More info will be on our website ( vk4wis.org ) and
Facebook page soon.

( mark@... )


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

During my studies, I was taught that language is a dynamic
and evolving thing. What we think of the rules of grammar
is largely irrelevant except for the style guides of news
bureaus and governments because what we have learned in our
childhood schooling will be surpassed by common usage before
we reach middle age. What we adults may have considered to
be slang of our juniors can quickly be entered into a
dictionary as a word of the year simply on its frequency of
use.

I also learned that it was a characteristic of words to
carry a common meaning like chair or radio or flying saucer
and there were those words and expressions which you would
not use in front of your mother. You had to learn which were
those words and how they were used largely by experience or
face the parental wrath. Many words have been co-opted to
convey another quite different meaning to the original use
such as the good feeling of being gay is now recognised as
a means of being homosexual.

This week, with the release of the latest issue of Amateur
Radio magazine there was a following apology for the
Editorial issued by the Board of then WIA. It took some time
for someone to actually post an image of the relevant pages
to Facebook as the PDF of the issue had been taken down from
the web site for amendments to be made.

The majority of WIA members have been awaiting delivery of
their paper copies in the mail.

I read the material posted by the Board and assumed that
some heinous comments had been contained in what is usually
an opinion piece from the current incumbent. When I read
over the copy posted I went searching for the potentially
offensive and or racist content. With only some seventy plus
years of using the English language version we have in
Australia I was unable to define where these terrible and
maybe affronting comments were.

I have asked for people to explain what was incorrect and
haven’t yet been given an answer that relates to what I read
on the page. Of course, there are probably expressions in
current idiom of which I am not aware. Naturally there will
be political and ethical stances that people derive from
their education and background of which I am ignorant. But
surely amongst those who applauded the changes made on line
and who saw offence in the article, surely there was someone
with the clarity of thought and expression who could put in
plain language, not only for me but the other members who
are confused by this exercise, what was wrong and possibly
offensive or racist.

The reason that I have raised this is many clubs maintain
on-line presences and even produce newsletters and it seems
that probably the majority of those involved are closer to
maturity than youth. If within the structure of the WIA
there can be such unresolved confusion over the words that
we use every day how do we make sure everything is correct
in future?

It is not our intention to offend or alienate others within
amateur radio and it is our intention to be inclusive to all
who wish to take part. How do we stop mere words from
dividing us?

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


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QNEWS SOCIALY SPEAKING

Due to the COVID-19 situation, please check these events'
direct for up-to-date status information and even without
Covid dates have an uncanny knack of being changed at last
moment.

REDCLIFFE AR Club Car Boot Sale Aug 21 9am (vk4tfn)

Cardwell Gathering October 1 to 4
Beachcomber Motel and Tourist Park. ( BackScatter )

Sunfest 2021 Field Day Monday October 4,
Nambour Showgrounds, Queensland. ( mark@... )



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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,
contacts and answers to your questions.
tinyurl.com/uddvmx98


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THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE
Available in Audio RIGHT NOW


www.vk7ax.id.au/wianews/

OR

www.wiaq.org.au


Importantly remember to download from the site by COT
(Close of Transmission) Mondays.


Also search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS)
in your podcast.

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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 颈蝉苍’迟 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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QNEWS SOCIALY SPEAKING



Due to the COVID-19 situation, please check these events'
direct for up-to-date status information and even without
Covid dates have an uncanny knack of being changed at last
moment.


VK4 - REDCLIFFE AR Club Car Boot Sale Aug 21 9am (vk4tfn)




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QNEWS - JULY 11 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,
contacts and answers to your questions.
tinyurl.com/uddvmx98


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THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE
Available in Audio RIGHT NOW


www.vk7ax.id.au/wianews/

OR

www.wiaq.org.au

Importantly remember to download from the site by COT
(Close of Transmission) Mondays.



Also search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS)
in your podcast.

tinyurl.com/4hnahk8p

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VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR COMMENCING JULY 26 2021

SK CALL SK NAME ADVISED BY


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CLUBBING



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Redcliffe and Districts radio club.



Greetings from the Redcliffe & Districts Radio Club VK4RC.
Right here in south East Queensland.

Robert Thomson VK4TFN here.
The Redcliffe Club will hold a Car Boot Sale at
our newly renovated club house on the 21 August 2021.

So don't be shy,
Book a place for five dollars at our Car Boot Sale.
Place bookings email:
secretary@redcliffe radio club.org.au

Breakfast is at 8:00AM,
Admission is free.
Gates open at nine.

Raffle prizes will be drawn at 10:30.

Also go to: www.redcliffe radio club.org.au
You'll find a link, which will help you to find us.
We're also on Facebook.

Bye for now and 73s from the Redcliffe and Districts
Radio Club VK4RC.


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


There is the time to think about what is best for the future.
This is what I have tried to address and I have been
wondering what ideas people have generated. As the new WIA
Board starts its activities, it seems fair that amateurs and
their clubs start putting their thoughts in the pot to be
stirred into a healthy brew. Like people say when students
are learning a subject, the only stupid question is the one
that 颈蝉苍’迟 asked. I like to think that the only useless idea
is the one that is never spoken.

There was a time when I couldn’t understand why people would try things like
brainstorming. Today I think it like a camp making soup where each person
brings an
ingredient that goes in the mix. Until the mixture is cooked and served,
people are
unsure what the taste will be. When we bring our ideas to the campfire, so
to speak,
and people have a good discussion to process the thoughts, we have no real
idea of
the positives that can be generated.

We have all seen the people who try and stand on the soapbox and control
the words
that are heard. Often there is a level of self serving and vitriol that
these people
deliver and only sometimes, it seems, do they offer something which is
helpful.
These people do not aid community aims and projects because they seek the
glory that
they generate. This seems so very wrong for a club or a community which
aims to work
together.

So I am thinking we need a process within clubs to do this and also a
contact person
to work with individuals to generate responses. This is not to guide the
answers
towards one idea but to guide thinking towards an outcome. Maybe clubs
could start
with having a competition or set up a suggestion box or put some space in the
newsletter for people to record their ideas. We need positive questions to
progress
and not waste time rehashing the past.

Still I want to be clear that we should be as open ended as possible whilst
maintaining a forward looking perspective. The idea of brainstorming is to
generate
new ideas!

For some people, they will have had the advantage of using some of the
techniques of
thinking outside the box or lateral thinking as it was named by its
creator, Dr. de
Bono. Then there are those of us who can get a bright idea with our hands
full and
nothing to write on or standing in front of the fridge looking for a late
night
snack. These are the things we need to remember and bring to the
discussion. It is
using the knowledge that we have of our environment and some of the
imagination that
keeps us involved in things like amateur radio.

Yes we need to revitalise our recreation and move the amateur
radio service along with the technology that we use today.
We have a unique activity and a special responsibility to
keep it flourishing for the generations to come. So what is
your best idea?

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


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QNEWS SOCIALY SPEAKING



Due to the COVID-19 situation, please check these events'
direct for up-to-date status information and even without
Covid dates have an uncanny knack of being changed at last
moment.


VK4 - REDCLIFFE AR Club Car Boot Sale Aug 21 9am (vk4tfn)




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QNEWS - JULY 4 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,
contacts and answers to your questions.
tinyurl.com/uddvmx98


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QNEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE
Available RIGHT NOW


www.vk7ax.id.au/wianews/

OR

www.wiaq.org.au



Also search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS)
in your podcast.

tinyurl.com/4hnahk8p

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VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR COMMENCING JULY 26 2021

SK CALL SK NAME ADVISED BY


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

Last week there were well over a hundred people either
logged in via Zoom or watching on the YouTube stream of the
Wireless Institute of Australia’s Annual General Meeting.

As happens, Murphy popped in, and the Secretary, Peter Clee,
VK8ZZ, was cast into an electronic waste land when
electricity in his area was lost. However, the meeting
continued under the guidance of the President, Greg Kelly,
VK2GPK, and so the formalities as required by the Companies
Act were completed.

In Greg’s report he mentioned a couple of areas that he
believes will refresh the amateur radio service here in
VK-land. One is the possibility of an administrative
restructure upon the lines of the RSGB where the organisation
is much more regionally focused. To achieve this outcome, at
ground level, would mean that clubs would be more important
in the running of the hobby and from what I have seen, this
would require a shot in the arm for many regional clubs.
There is a structure but it doesn’t expand to engage with
the wider community and the potential base of new participants.

The reality is that many clubs have reached a level of
maturity with a limited number of active members and it is
convenient to coast and provide a friendly meeting place.

Greg, who is not standing for the position again and has a
project, with his wife, to complete the family home,
something that has remained on hold during his tenure.
After living with the WIA structure that was adopted in 2004,
Greg feels it needs a good rethink.

Perhaps a more radical suggestion was that the whole style
of AR needs to be rethought and modernised. We have reached
a point where numbers in the hobby are basically static
although there have been ongoing people successfully
completing licensing qualification.

So we got to the stage where I was nodding at my laptop in
agreement with these ideas to enhance and expand the amateur
radio cohort and invigorate the WIA. I admit to suffering
from confirmation bias here as I have canvassed similar
ideas over the years. However it was rewarding to listen to
someone who has sat in the hot seat, speak with the benefit
of experience and propose ideas which support my own thoughts.

The whole idea of reform can frighten some people but it
should be looked on as an opportunity not to be missed. We
should be grasping these ideas for the benefit of the whole
amateur community because re-vitalisation seems to be
desperately needed. Yes it will be for the WIA Board to lead
the restructure for that organisation and guide its members
through the steps needed to set it up. Yes it will be up to
every amateur to put on a thinking cap, to ask around as to
what would make you join a special interest hobby and to
pool the ideas for a bigger and better, more active, more
interesting and dynamic group of people no matter their age
or location.

VK2GPK has given us an opportunity to make a better future
but are we ready to pursue it?

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


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QNEWS - JUNE 27 VK4 ON AIR 2021

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FIRST BROADCAST FOR NEW WIA YEAR (2021-2022)


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QUEENSLAND (VK4) STATE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PORTAL
Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest news, key facts and figures,
contacts and answers to your questions.
tinyurl.com/uddvmx98


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THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE
Available in Audio RIGHT NOW


www.vk7ax.id.au/wianews/

OR

www.wiaq.org.au



Also search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS)
in your podcast.

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VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR COMMENCING JULY 26 2021

SK CALL SK NAME ADVISED BY

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CLUBBING

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

One of the issues that bedevils community organisations is
having people with experience and training to conduct the
business activities. I don’t mean commercial activities but
the necessary matters that make bodies operate effectively.
These days with simplicity of ensuring protection for all
members, most like bodies are either incorporated associations
or not-for-profit companies. Within the amateur radio network,
if you excuse the pun, there are both structures in
existence.

The workload for office bearers is generally much simplified
if the club is an incorporated association but there are
still the necessary hoops that have to be jumped through
such as getting audits, lodging returns and holding the
appropriate number of meetings as defined in the constitution
or articles of association. The obligation on office bearers
is to conduct the business honestly, fairly for the benefit
of the association or the members, however it is defined.

It is necessary that people leave their egos outside of the
meetings and they turn their minds to working collectively
for the body they ar running. Of course, this doesn’t mean
people leave their knowledge and opinions outside because
these are the gifts they are sharing with the club members.
It does mean that directors are obligated to be business-like
in how they interact with each other. A person may be best
friends with another but they can and should be able to have
differing opinions, on some matters that they consider
within the meeting, without that reflecting on their
relationship outside. It is sort of the we can have our
differences at a meeting and then enjoy a drink together
afterwards.

My understanding is that the Companies Act makes the duties
of directors quite explicit in doing all that is necessary
to promote the aims of the company within the confines of
the law. If a director believes that a proposal is against
the law, that person has a duty to bring that to the notice
of the Board and failure to do so may see criminal charges
brought by the regulator. In other words, there is no wriggle
room for unethical behaviour.

Some years back it was common place to see statements of
objectives of teams, offices, and businesses to be hung in
frames at entries to the offices. Having a code of practice
is a good way to keep the ideals of an organisation before
members and like school children reciting a pledge of loyalty
it’s purpose is to keep the ethics to the front of mind.

We need to see the capacity to think individually, to
consider without favouritism and to decide issues honestly
in the best interests of our organisation in mind. We should
ensure that cliques cannot form and external pressures can’t
influence what we do in our elected positions. Like
completing an application for insurance there is a
requirement for the “utmost of good faith” and that should
be how directors conduct themselves also.

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


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In a week’s time the first meeting of the new WIA Board is due to be held
following
Saturday’s Annual General Meeting. It is important for the future of
amateur radio
in Australia that we have cohesive leadership and representation at home and
overseas. Who is elected to the various Board positions will in part
determine how
this progresses over the next 12 months. If there is enthusiasm,
trust in the ability and knowledge amongst the office bearers we can
expect to see
progress.

I tend to have these thoughts which I throw out and then wait to see what
ripples
come back to shore. Today I am thinking that we cannot go on as we have
been. It
seems from the data that our hobby is failing in an important area. We are
failing
to keep people engaged in the service. I don’t just mean we are failing to
retain
membership of this body but we are apparently losing people after they
have studied,
sat, passed and obtained their licence.

In various ways, I have been trying to get people to engage in the
discussions about
recruitment and retention and the reasons that these are stalling.
Certainly the
system that we currently have has failed us in that the pandemic put the
approved
assessment authority, the Australian Maritime College, into shutdown as
part of the
University of Tasmania response to COVID19.

So now it is becoming appropriate for the WIA to engage in this discussion
and seek
the solutions that will put our growth trajectory on and elevation like we
see in
the United Kingdom and the United States. No we don't have the resources
and the
membership of the representative bodies in those countries but brain power
is a
resource which is totally comparable. How do we get this resource engaged
in finding
the solutions and not just giving fast or glib responses?

When we look around at the photographs of those amateurs largely engaged in
promoting this hobby, the bulk are seniors and most are men. Look at the
attendance
photos of recent ham gatherings and you get the reason why. Now it is
probably a
couple of Prime Ministers ago, if you tell the time that way, but a couple
or so
years ago that the STEM/STEAM mantra was being promoted and today there
are awards
and recognition processes for women in science.

Here we have the dilemma. When we do attract youth, they tend to drift
away and we
aren’t attracting women into this pursuit that offers much more than just
club
meetings and running sausage sizzles to keep the club solvent. Amateur
radio is a
tremendous vehicle for promoting self education in areas of STEM/STEAM and
also a
community of people who share and learn and expand their knowledge in group
settings. We have an established structure now we just need a progressive
plan to
encourage more participation from more groups of people.

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VK4AFA David Brownsey 25/05/21 (vk4ar)

VK4AFA Passed away peacefully on 25th May 2021, he was 79

Late of Kelvin Grove David Brownsey was the Son of Albert
and Katherine Brownsey (dec'd). Twin brother to Helen (dec'd),
and brother of Jenny Louis, Rodney and Albert.

He will be missed by all in the extended family and his
friends. The funeral service was held at George Hartnett
Metropolitan Funeral Chapel Kelvin Grove on Tuesday 8th June.

Publication: The Courier-Mail provided by Gary Ryan VK4AR

David had been a regular WIA Volunteer, in fact was a past
ASSOCIATE EDITOR, TECHNICAL of our AR magazine. A member of
the Brisbane Area WICEN Management Committee circa 2010 and
avid photographer with many a photo appearing in AR Magazine
and our old QTC.

During the WIA's Centenary year along with Mic VK4CRC, David
VK4AFA set up many a display in Queensland for us, some items
included 1910 diathermy units claimed to cure all diseases
known to mankind and some not yet identified, and a replica
spark gap transmitter built by the late Al Shawsmith VK4SS.

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One of the news and perspective sources that I enjoy is “The
Conversation”. It is a
change from, the at times, partisan commercial press to read material
written by
experts in the field and guided by journalists in presenting their ideas.
So it was
that I was jolted into thinking about the content of an essay by Professor
John
Blaxland of the ANU. Prof. Blaxland is an authority on the Australian
Defence Force
in which he has both served and written.

It has been a feature of the attitude to the Army since the Vietnam War when
conscription was in force, that its numbers should be reduced and this has
meant
with the abandonment of conscription, the reduction of both the regular
and reserve
numbers that the membership of our military is probably at an all-time low
on a
population basis. With this in mind Blaxland points out the strain that is
being
imposed on the ADF in performing essentially civilian duties and currently
this is
the support of the COVID19 deployments.

It is the Professor’s contention that the military in Australia is being
expected to
do too much with the personnel that they have available. Similarly there
is the
confusion over the role of the peace time services as to whether they are
properly a
fighting force or civilian first responders.

You might ask what this has to do with amateur radio and this is the thing
I hope to
answer. Twenty years ago plus a bit, the WICEN name was well respected in
the halls
of government and could be found officially recognised by Emergency
Management
Australia. WICEN was part of the framework that existed to support the
community in
times of emergency. Then it wasn’t.

Today we see amateur radio used by local government disaster management
groups,
bodies such as the Red Cross and the Salvation Army and in NSW, the WICEN
organisation is part of the State infrastructure that includes SES.

It has been pointed out that the management of the vaccine supply has been
far from
a success for Australia and maybe we should be asking where is Emergency
Management
Australia? We have limited resources in the volunteer sector supported by
the State
with the orange dress of the SES being the obvious sector. Go back some 60
years and
we had what was called a Civil Defence Network.

Funnily enough, if you follow the hierarchy up, you will see that each
country could
have a Civil Defence organisation skilled and supported to serve its
community and
able to designate its belongings with the green cross that we see on
modern first
aid kits. More serious commentary is being made about the lack of
preparedness for
supporting the civilian population in times of need.
The frequent and severe bush fires and the expected increase in weather
system
severity are going to demand that we have the resources to meet these
challenges.

One thing that so much of on air activity teaches us in amateur radio is
to be
effective message handlers and efficient operators of communications
equipment. We
as hams should think about what and where we can contribute these skills,
in the
future.

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Frank was a very well known Radio Amateur in the NQ region,
residing in the Burdekin for many years, including a long
stint in Ahern Street Ayr, then when his health degraded, at
Regis Care in Home Hill.

Apart from being an avid operator on the air, Frank also
restored electrical and electronic equipment and at one stage
held one of the largest collections of heritage telephones in
the country. Frank was a member of the Townsville Amateur
Radio Club for many years right up until his passing and
thoroughly enjoyed receiving the Club magazine Back-scatter
every month.

Frank’s funeral notice was published in the Townsville
Bulletin on Tuesday June 1st reporting that Frank had passed
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I see lots of comments from around the world, well the
English speaking world really, that the use of repeaters on
VHF and UHF is declining. It 颈蝉苍’迟 just a phenomenon that
happens here. The thing is that over the past 50 odd years,
radio clubs have invested much time and money establishing
the repeaters that so often sit mute apart from the necessary
ident signals.

As the years have past, equipment has been upgraded and
refined and often connected to linking services allowing DX
connections into local lounge rooms, so to speak. With the
growth in interest in the various digital modes, many, mainly
metropolitan, repeaters sites are now digitally enabled as
well. The costs to the providers whether private or club
sponsored have continued to rise with the push for governments
to want full commercial rental for use of high locations and
the costs of equipment have risen too.

Anyway, last Sunday, I tried to listen to the news broadcast
via my local 2m repeater and had the frustration of not being
able to comfortably or easily follow what was being said. For
a signal report it would deserve a Q2 to 3. It is obviously
a combination of factors because with strong enough uplink
signals and along with the voice identification the downlink
was perfect. With lower powered inputs the downlink was a
disaster. Now I am aware that the club which runs the news
broadcast maintains a power level of 10 Watts to enable
Foundation call members to conduct the rebroadcasts. This
power limit, winter weather locally and a moderately long
path to the repeater all combine to confound the listener and
demonstrate the laws of physics as they apply to radio.

Now there are several individuals who give their time and
efforts to maintain the repeater and also run the news
broadcast and take the callbacks and their efforts are much
appreciated. When things go awry well the look 颈蝉苍’迟 nearly
so good. It must be the time for gremlins as another local
repeater, in a different town, seemed to be like the puppy
biting its tail. It seems there was a feedback between input
and output which put a rather high pitched screech to air.

As was once said, “such is life”.

With both these instances there has to be remediation. Just
what the solutions are will be known down the track but one
thing is for sure, some people will be spending more time
attending to the issues and maybe there will have to be
financial outlays as well. For the casual user sitting at
home or enjoying the scenery on a day trip, others will be
using vehicles, fuel and other resources to keep the
repeaters running in terms of the licences.

Maybe we need a hub and have the broadcast audio uploaded
automatically and do away with the volunteers but as nice as
that could be it would lack the personal touch that voice
call ins provide.

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

Amongst the confusing melee of call signs being grasped under the randomised
callsign for life, there are some issues in operation from some of our
recently
qualified members. The activity from many of these people is highly
commendable and
great to encounter. Digital has been a learning experience to many with
Foundation
licences and the availability of contests has got many behind the
microphone. What
more can we hope for than an increasing band of enthusiasts?

It is obvious that there is a flaw in the program to bring people through the
licensing process and that is too little time is spent grounding people in
the
history, culture and practices of our pursuit. As you would have realised, an
activity that traces parts of its ancestry back about 150 years has
developed some
traditions. The railways and then the public telegraph systems popularised
the
telegraphic codes and then the Morse Code became standardised.

In an effort to speed the process of passing messages with conventional
terms,
certain abbreviations were adopted by telegraphists. The familiar 73 is
perhaps the
best recalled and used one which has translated into voice transmissions
from the
code era. There were many codes used but the one that we are familiar with
and
approved by the ITU, is the Q-code.

With the coming of the wireless a few accommodations were made and one is
the R-S-T
report which stands for readability, strength and tone. With the
unsophisticated
equipment in the early era of wireless messaging it was helpful to the
operator at
each end of the traffic to understand the conditions that they were each
experiencing. Along with the RST report there could be the question or
reply of QSB
& QRN, for instance, which would alert the sending station that he may
have to
repeat the text. These are practical pieces of information which operators
used on a
daily basis in merchant ships, press traffic as well as amateur radio.

Today, we have some sport or exercise of these abilities in the form of
contests or
maybe message handling exercises. Knowing the correct pro-words and
procedures makes
the experience so much more efficient and enjoyable for all the
participants. This
leads me back to the flaw in training; this is where we aren’t providing the
mentoring which gives the reasons and the background for why things are
done in
certain ways. Perhaps there needs to be an appendix to the manual for
candidates and
trainers to use.
On another matter, I have been pondering how we message about amateur
radio. One of
the things that strikes me, is we don’t seem to be able to inject
enthusiasm into
what we say. I hope that I show enthusiasm in what I present and the tag
lines have
caught on with people quoting them when we meet. However, this is a small
part of
the messaging and I try to keep a metaphorical smile when I am recording.
I wonder
how we can inject the enthusiasm that will draw people to want to read and
listen
again and again.

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

What is amateur radio? I mean I know what it is but how do I explain it to
some one
else? Do I try and tell about the exciting things like the digital modes
that allow
us to test the waters of the great radio oceans with things like WSPR and
FT8 or
maybe tell them about DMR and Fusion or maybe Dstar? Perhaps because many
people
like old things I could explain about learning Morse Code and even how people
collect and restore valve radios that are older than themselves.

These days computing is so much integrated into the pursuit, I could give
some
history about how many things we do today came from the old 8 bit
computers and how
they have led into having apps on our phone and how our phone is more
powerful than
the computer that NASA used to land men on the Moon.

You now there is just so much that goes into a technical hobby that it
becomes hard
to find the pitch which will suit an audience of one or a room of many. So
as an
individual radio amateur should I be able to discuss in detail the
elements that
compose all the possible activities that our fellows engage in? I really
don’t think
that that is necessary or possible because when people are looking for an
introduction to a subject, they are looking for the skeleton upon which
they can
hang the flesh as they learn more.

As children we may be introduced to fishing and we are shown how to use
the tools in
a safe way and that means not hurting ourselves with knives or hooks, in
particular.
Then there are the techniques of casting the line from the position that
we are in
so that we don’t hook ourselves or others whilst getting the bait in a
suitable
position. By watching and discussing we learn the types of fish and the
sizes that
are legal and which are the best to prepare for food and which we should
release.
Along the way we can learn how to row, how to steer a boat and how to do
services,
how to launch and retrieve and so the list of things that are learned goes
on.

With radio we must think of the person in front of us and make a quick
judgement
about their understanding or are they just curious. We should let that
person ask
questions and not get too technical in our replies. We should always let our
enthusiasm come to the surface but not let the motor mouth syndrome take
over the
conversation. Just as we might explain things at a social gathering or a
family get
together, we should respect the other person and keep the conversation
going without
letting it be a lecture.

If there is the opportunity of showing the person how a station operates
or we can
arrange for them to visit, that demonstration might be just the motivation
to see
another person set out on the path to enjoying amateur radio with us. What
I have
tried to describe is the simple practice of mentoring.
This is something most of us have done in various roles in our life. Just
because it
may start with a question and go on to using some equipment which we first
saw as
strange, it will be your privilege
to walk with another person down a rewarding and engaging road of shared
experience.

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

It is noticeable, at our place, that the seasons are shifting
into the cooler part of the year. The days are shorter and
the mornings cooler and I would be a poor advertisement for
hay fever remedies. The good thing is that the steel clad
garage becomes somewhat more habitable in the lower
temperatures and that means that some of the projects that
have remained boxed up stand a chance of getting some effort
applied to their finish.

Somehow, I see the amateur radio world as divided into those
with the assets to be able to get on with projects and those
who have to juggle time, funds and things like family
commitments and health issues to achieve the finish they want
for their station. This is just the normal scope of the lives
that we all live, different and thereby interesting.

At times I see or hear comments which belittle other
operators, their equipment or their operating.

When they are directed to the person involved, it is a source
of embarrassment to the recipient and an embarrassment to
the whole amateur community. Instead of being considerate
and felicitous to others, there are the few who maintain a
curt, acerbic and insulting demeanour. Sometimes we can be
lucky and be around when the chickens come home to roost or
karma comes to visit and the giver of bad feelings gets their
comeuppance! When we think of this situation it is like
witnessing the gratuitous insults being publicly traded
between nations currently.

There are those who perceive an injustice or an error and
they rush to a keyboard to publicly berate what they see as
the source of their own dudgeon. A little consideration would
suggest a better chance of resolving matters would be to
courteously address a query and to do it privately. Maybe
the feeling is that they deserve this fleeting flash of
self administered glory rather than the solution to an issue.

This is the type of matter that will confront the new WIA
Board members as there could almost be a pattern of
complaint in the public domain about real or imagined issues
concerning the Institute. Most of the matters are best
addressed by contacting the National Office where Bruce can
respond and refer matters to the appropriate person. From
what I have heard, indirectly, it is nothing for a couple
of hundred emails per day to arrive in the President’s inbox.
It is beyond the capacity of one person, in their spare time,
to deal with this volume.

Some of the complaints that get aired regularly on social
media platforms suggest that people disregard the fact that
our Board is composed of volunteers who devote their spare
time to fulfilling the role of Director. Amateurs don’t
resign from work, family and social life just to be 100 hr a
week unpaid complaint solvers when they join the Board.
Consideration and courtesy and some old fashioned common
sense would resolve many cases of steam coming from the ears.

If we stop and think and then follow a sensible procedure,
I am sure there will be less red faced huff and puff and
more responsiveness in return.

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Ipswich & District Radio Club

Web – www.vk4wip.org.au
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Following the successful WICEN open day held at Ipswich and
District Radio Club in February club members rose well before
dawn last Sunday May 2 to support the Brisbane Trail Marathon

Communications between checkpoints was made possible by a
temporary repeater setup by Bob VK4RJ in D’Aguilar National
Park. The almost inaccessible location was near the rain
gauge some 8 kilometres (or 30 minutes) from the bitumen of
Mt Nebo Road. Members were stationed at various check points
along the 42.2 kilometre route.

Wicen coordinator Robert VK4KHW was stationed at the
start/finish line at Gold Creek Reservoir Upper Brookfield.
Robert thanks all members who volunteered their time to make
it a successful day. This year’s event attracted 65 runners
for the full marathon which started at 6am. 95 runners took
part in the 24.7 kilometre half marathon at 6.15am.

Six check points maintained radio contact with each other
via the temporary repeater. Their main task was to send
though regular updates on runners passing each check point.
The organisers of the Brisbane Trail Marathon were particularly
pleased with the efforts of the club members and I heard
firsthand how grateful they are for the support.

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

In the ever moving world of amateur radio, our own organisation, the WIA
has posted
the results of the ballot for the upcoming four board vacancies. It seems
that
members decided on the sensible path of maintaining continuity by
re-electing three
existing directors and one new candidate. It is so important for
organisations to
maintain that continuity which reflects in the faster uptake of matters
without a
lag whilst new people bring themselves up to speed. Of course, the first
matter of
importance to be dealt with by the reconstituted board after the AGM is
the election
of office bearers. We all look forward to witnessing the new face of the
WIA in
action.

One topic that seems to rear itself is the matter of civility, of
courtesy to our
fellows. I have spoken about this issue in relation to ageism and offensive
behaviours directed towards our fellow amateurs both on air and on other
platforms
such as social media. One area that has a personal effect is that the
other amateur
with whom I share was given the great uncouth exhortation to go away but
in an
expletive manner within a short period of obtaining her licence.
Admittedly the
person concerned would have been severely penalised if they had been given a
roadside breath test but there is no known legal offence of being drunk in
charge of
a microphone.

When we go on the road as licensed drivers, we do not necessarily know
the gender of
the other people sharing that particular section of road surface. We
accept that
other road users have the right to be there and have the necessary
knowledge and
skills, and not to forget the appropriate licence, to be driving or riding
along
with us. When it comes to radio, there is a similar tacit acceptance that the
operator on the other end of the QSO is entitled to be sharing the
airwaves with us.
Without access to callbooks and callsign lookup pages on the internet, we
accept the
station is operating legitimately. If we don’t have a visual or auditory
cue we wait
to be advised of the other person’s details and depending on whether it is in
contest mode, simple digital exchange or ragchew we may not immediately
know the
name, or gender of the other operator until the QSL card hits the in box.

To my mind, this is as it should be. We accept that the other people are
behaving in
the same manner as we ourselves are with respect and courtesy. Sadly this
颈蝉苍’迟
always the case when it concerns a YL operator. The reports that circulate
in muted
tones of poor behaviour and bad language and harassment which some of our
fellows
have received is a poor reflection on the whole cohort. As they say, the
situation
that you walk past is the behaviour that you accept.

For me and I hope for the majority, we will not walk past sexist
behaviour in
amateur radio anymore.

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

One of the features of being a representative body is that
there are many tasks that go on that we members away from the
centre of activity don’t usually get to look at close up.
This was brought home to me earlier in the week when a post
from the WIA appeared and pointed the way to an article
posted on the WIA web site.

www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2021/20210428-1/index.php

Within our clubs, there may be web sites and social media
accounts to administer along with the usual functional and
statutory tasks that pertain to any club. Reporting to the
membership as well as regulatory bodies such as the sporting
code administration and the registrar of incorporated
associations are necessary to keep a local branch going. With
radio clubs associated with the Wireless Institute of
Australia it is just a matter of keeping up the details on
the WIA web and recording the membership details to obtain
the discount priced club insurance, pretty much. Obviously,
depending on your club’s size and activities, there might be
much more behind the scenes organisation.

The WIA represents the whole Australian amateur cohort in the
administrative structure that starts with the United Nations
through the International Telecommunications Union to the
International Amateur Radio Union and thence to the Region 3.
Locally, it is with the Australian Communications and Media
Authority as the Government regulator of the local rules and
regulations and the various international treaties that the
WIA fulfils a national role. What this means is that there is
a core of knowledgeable people who are depended upon to
advise the WIA Board and represent the WIA at meetings and
conferences.

Not only are there the face to face and the teleconferences
but there are reams of documents to glean and papers to
prepare and agree the content within. People bring a level of
expertise to these tasks and many have years of experience in
their professional roles and it is ultimately you and I who
share the benefits of this background work.

We have seen this year that the ACMA have released several
papers which have related to amateur radio and they are
seeking more input as I gather from the WIA post I first
mentioned. To the busy people who have been committed to
gathering opinion and formulating the formal responses, I must
say a very heart felt “Thank You.” Your work has not gone
unnoticed and the late nights and conferences are appreciated
by your fellow amateurs.

To the listeners, I recommend you check the news on the WIA
web site as you will find information and updates which
aren’t included in the broadcast bulletins. On a personal
note, I would like to see a daily digest of links emailed to
members and subscribers, hint, hint.

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

One of the beautifully fascinating things is that we members
of the human race have a wonderful ability to see patterns.
Perhaps this is a result of needing to see prey and predators
in the millennia it took man to evolve to where we are today.
There is a whole field of scientific study devoted to symbols
and there are industries built on this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics

So it is when we look at the badge or logo of the WIA we get
meanings from the outline map of Australia and the 2 flashes
in the middle. It suggests the inclusion of all of the
country and some form off alert from the lightning part of
the badge. This has been a symbol for non-written
communication for over 100 years and adopted on military and
civilian insignia to suggest the use of radio.

One of the mysteries of the last century was the adoption of
the logo currently used by the Commonwealth Bank. Perhaps the
best explanation as to its being Australian is it depicts a
SAO biscuit dipped in Vegemite.

The point of this is that we all have backgrounds and
experiences which will produce an individual, a personal
response to many of the symbols that we see. Today, on this
day of remembrance, ANZAC Day, there are symbols and rituals
which bring memories to us all. To those who remember Vietnam
it will depend on their experiences whether they were in
uniform of waiting at home or voicing their displeasure at
the politics of the time. For those who remember Korea, their
thoughts will be different again as will those who tramped
the jungles of East Timor or the sands of Afghanistan.

The red poppy from the battle fields of Flanders is a century
old reminder to remember and the flag with the Southern Cross
and the brass rising sun badge all have the ability to fill
us with emotions and memories. The sprig of rosemary is
another subtle aid to remembrance and the symbolism that
these items carry makes them important to those that carry
them and those who see them.

As a nation, we gather together on days of remembrance but
what we hold in our hearts can be so vastly different to
those of our fellows. Your memories will be different to your
neighbour’s and they both will be different to mine. How we
participate in these rituals can be collective or it can be
individual but today there will be stations on the air using
hand keyed Morse and AM as markers that we radio amateurs
share and participate in the commemoration of ANZAC Day.

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

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

“Amateur Radio: Home but never alone.”

That is the theme of the World Amateur Radio Day as sponsored by the
International Amateur Radio Union and today we are gathered around the
radio and definitely not alone. Today is that day, the 18th of April
2021.

www.iaru.org/on-the-air/world-amateur-radio-day/

If you go to the web site of the IARU you can find the specifics of
events being conducted around the world and the historical background
to why we radio amateurs celebrate this day. You will remember that
previously there was an attempt to conduct an Australia wide public
demonstration of amateur radio on the weekend closest to April 18.
Today would have been a great opportunity to show off where this
service is today as against where is was, say at the turn of the
century. Today the willing and smiling faces of radio amateurs could
be talking to members of the public and volunteer organisations about
the recreational aspects and the public service that we are equipped
to provide. Today could be part of the growing success that is amateur
radio if we could just get out of our shacks and mingle with the
public.

Perhaps it is asking too much of the tired old men and women who
proliferate in club rooms and field days perhaps we should be thinking
of letting the younger members of our number conduct these activities
and represent us from now on. Energy and enthusiasm are characteristics
that will draw in people looking to share new experiences. The young
and engaged amateurs perhaps have the necessary qualities to be our
recruiting ambassadors.

In community movements and groups, the dynamics change as circumstances
change and to continue growth there must be purpose in the activity,
a plan for continuity and a method of handing over the batten to the
next generation of members. I have been wondering whether we have
maintained any of these features and whether we have seriously thought
about what it takes to continue. I have heard stories of clubs that
remain functioning virtually on the basis of previous funds that have
been saved and doing the same pattern of events month after month and
year after year and as the members age and drop off, the numbers go
down. At what point does it mean they have to drop the masts,
dismantle the equipment and melt into the darkness of anonymity?

This is World Amateur Radio Day and we are not alone.

This is the time to think of a rallying cry, a motto, a call to action
instead of a plaintive sob in the wind we need our voice to be heard
amongst the 3 million licenced amateurs around the globe.

We need to be present today and not just remembered tomorrow.

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


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

As World Amateur Radio Day is upon us, I wonder how much we care
about the service that we enjoy. It is one thing to talk about things
at the club and chinwag on the radio but how much do we do to promote
the hobby? Here am I on a weekly news broadcast and I ask myself how
much do I do to promote amateur radio or am I just talking to the
faithful?

I hark back to the attempt at promoting an annual field day to
roughly coincide with the International Commemoration of the founding
of the IARU. I think the VK attempt struggled for the first year and
foundered after the second and that must have been some 15 years or
so back, from memory. The idea was to have displays and demonstrations
in places where the public could come and see what we were doing.

It worked to an extent.

In my area, the club succeeded in getting coverage from a couple of
the local TV networks and some material in the local paper.

To aid clubs, the WIA had previously provided a press kit which
assisted us in preparing news releases about the activities and there
were posters available to aid the visual presentation. That was a
while ago and I wonder what has happened to the impetus to show off
what we do. What is it that seems to have bogged us down? What is it
that we can do that will put amateur radio before the public again.

The schools that contact the International Space Station, ISS, via
amateur radio tend to get the message out and show the interest in
a particular part of the STEM curriculum but what is the follow up?

The clubs that provide operators and aid in Jamboree of the Air for
the Scouting movement seem to provide a contingent without getting
publicity of the public service they provide.

These are just two examples of hams participating in community events
and as a recreational group, we fail to capitalise on the
opportunities to show the world a more comprehensive picture than the
blurry image or no idea of what radio amateurs do.

I don’t expect us to revert to historical re-enactments but from my
point of view this is something that the candidates for the WIA Board
should be already working on. I don’t have the figures and don’t know
if they have been collated but we see that by utilising remote
invigilation methods, both the ARRL in the USA and the RSGB in the UK
have seen the majority of candidates sitting for amateur credentials,
not only succeed but during the lock downs the numbers have increased
over previous equivalent periods.

How have we done in VK?

There is a comedic song from many years ago by Bob Hudson called
“The Newcastle Song” and the refrain carries an important wake up
for us too, “never let a chance go by”.

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

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

A big shout out to all the amateurs who took the time to put a submission
into the
ACMA this past week. It is important to let our regulator know that we, as
individuals, are concerned about the governance of the Amateur Radio
Service. Note
that I used the proper expression as laid down by the International
Telecommunications Union to describe our recreation and educational
pursuit. I have
noted some discussion about the words we use and whether calling it a
hobby is
correct. For me it is a recreational pursuit that fosters thinking about
the whole
area of what is now dubbed STEM or STEAM.

Semantics aside, describing amateur radio in any number of ways simply
illustrates
the great diversity of learning, tradition, education and involvement as
individuals, as club members and as volunteers. We can be all of those
people and
our experiences can be as varied as our imaginations will take us in the
application
of the science, technology engineering and art with mathematics in there
too. I like
to include the “A” in the description as the need to be creative in
expressing
ourselves in what we say, write and demonstrate can all be part of a personal
involvement in amateur radio.

The Wireless Institute is conducting its annual election for board
positions and
along with members of various sub-committees, these volunteers have to
express the
ideas that encompass amateur radio in many different venues. We have
people who
engage at international conference level, consulting with government
bodies and
speaking at clubs. We have a body of people who produce an in house
magazine and
members who represent us at various regulatory levels such as setting
standards for
items which might effect amateur radio usage. All these positions require
the broad
and creative use of the mind which is generally referred to as the arts as
against
the fine arts such as literature, painting and sculpture.

It is one of the fortuitous aspect of amateur radio that it has traditionally
attracted people from so many occupational backgrounds, from entrepreneurs to
garbage men, from engineers to tinkerers from professors to students and from
monarchs to the villager living high in the hills. Every one of these
people and
those that they have influenced have put the background to amateur radio
as we know
it today. Every ham has made a contribution and we should be proud of the
acceptance
and respect that has marked the growth of the service for the majority of its
history.

I see the challenge as the perspective that advances have brought to
communications,
electronics and radio communications in this century. The people are there
to be
engaged as we all have been and it will be how we show the new face of
amateur radio
that will bring them to join and share with us in the future.

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Redcliffe and Districts radio club.
wia.org.au/clubs/vk4/RedcliffeAndDistrictRadioClub/

QLD Government imposed Public Health
Safety precautions for REDFEST.

Plenty of room at REDFEST.

REDFEST 2021 will go ahead, on the 10 April.

Greetings from the Redcliffe & Districts Radio Club VK4RC.
Right here in south East Queensland.

Robert Thomson VK4TFN here.

Club members and visitors.
QLD Government imposed Public Health
Safety precautions for REDFEST.

Go to Queensland Health Alerts Covid Update.

If you are sick please don't come to REDFEST,
Wear a mask at all times,
Please use hand cleansers provided.

Apply the 1.5 metre rule.

Contact tracing:
Please use your mobile phone and scan the QR code
provided by the Queensland Government.

Or:
Please sign the visitor or members register book.

Eating and drinking:
We must not walk around while
eating and or drinking.

These are not Club Rules these are QLD GOV rules.

Plenty of room at REDFEST.

To date we have 29 tables booked and there's plenty of room
left.

So don't be shy,
Book a table at REDFEST 2021.
Ten dollars per table, vendors admitted free.
Table bookings email:
redfest at redcliffe radio club dot org dot au

Breakfast is at 8:00AM,
Admission is five dollars.
Gates open at nine.

Also go to: Triple w dot redcliffe radio club dot org dot au.
We're also on Facebook.

Bye for now and 73s from the Redcliffe and Districts
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Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking.

It is a great relief for the residents of the south east of VK4
to see the skies clear and the sun shining. For those old enough
to use the power of nature, getting the washing dry in the
sunlight is a beautiful thing to do, for the rest of us there is
the hope that the atmospheric noises will abate for a while and
even although many didn’t have great success in the John Moyle
Field Day we can hope that those fleeting and tenuous signs of
solar cycle 25 continue to strengthen.

Maybe it is just my perception but it seems that the weather and
the serious outcomes diverted some of the worst trolling from
the pages of social media. I must ask why would it take torrents
of rain and flooding to turn off this behaviour if the
perpetrators weren’t possibly located within the effected areas.
I trust that the damage can be quickly rectified and people find
the stability and support that community can provide. I trust
that the sad tormentors of the internet may learn some humanity
as they get their lives back on track.

We are racing to the closure of the ACMA consultation paper and
I trust that amateurs around the country have or are taking time
to submit their private opinions to the regulator. This is not
to overwhelm the ACMA email and postal system but simply and
importantly it is a demonstration of the importance that the
amateur community places on the proper functioning of the
Amateur Radio Service. It may seem inevitable that the preferred
Option C will be the choice that the ACMA makes but the needs of
our cohort to properly engage with our world wide community must
not be jeopardised simply for a process of expedient cost
savings at the whim of the Government of the day.

Within the next week members of the WIA should be receiving their
Amateur Radio magazine with enclosed ballot materials and those
who do not receive the AR magazine will be getting their voting
materials separately. I have offered my thoughts that whomever
we vote for must be dedicated to running the Institute and not
have a covert plan to promote any outside entity. That is, who
takes a seat at the Board table must adhere to the requirements
of being a company director and work for the WIA when
representing the Institute and its members. If you feel that
someone whose name appears on the ballot paper cannot meet those
standards, you need to cross out that name.

We have important issues to consider and act upon, let us do so
with the spirit of amateur radio in our minds.

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

Around a quarter of a century ago, there was a movement to
update the operating conditions of the Amateur Radio Service.
From the International Amateur Radio Union, the IARU, the
International Telecommunications Union via the World Radio
Conferences the processes were put in place for regional
jurisdictions to upgrade the privileges that we enjoyed.
One of the most obvious variations was the removal of the
requirement for there to be testing in the historic Morse Code.
In this regard, I benefited as the holder of a Limited Operator
Licence. Z-calls had been permitted to creep onto the HF bands
to use 10m FM. I waited, one night, until after the time signal
for midnight and joined the melee which was the celebration of
all the other short wave allocations being open to no Morse
operators. 40 Metres rocked that night.

One notable feature was that the sky did not fall in upon us
with the removal of the Code.

In the groundswell of change the United Kingdom introduced the
Foundation Licence to their credentialed services and a couple
of years later we saw the Foundation Licence join the Australian
list, also. Now these events happened in the last twenty-five
years and despite decisions at more recent World Radio
Conferences, we haven’t achieved access to 5Mhz band and some of
our microwave frequencies are in the throws of being swallowed
by the rapacious mobile phone and data commercial services.
There have been tweaks to the Foundation Licence band allocations
and just recently the adoption of a call sign for life model.

So we are just a couple of weeks away from the close of
submissions to the Consultation Paper from the ACMA. Hopefully
we have been able to spend some time considering the various
options.

Not all of the discussion has been on paper or the internet
pages, there have been some interesting video conferences and
presentations posted which have clarified many of the issues
which need addressing in any change of licence category.

Last week I watched one of these conference type presentations,
hosted by Hayden, VK7HH. This has been posted on YouTube and if
you haven’t already seen it, please take the time to view.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9yy3fFEts8

One point that I took from the Q&A segment was the advice that
the ACMA treats each submission as just one vote in the
discussion. That means that whatever your club with a few
hundred members or a few put in, they get the same weighting in
the decision making. Now this is where the matters come back to
you and me.

Please, whether you have supported a club proposal or agree with
the WIA submission or you have further ideas which you feel are
important, whether you support the move to a Class Licence or
you wish matters to remain the same, please, take the time to
email the ACMA or write and put your opinion into the mix. For
many we will simply send a message which supports the WIA
position and that will do. I urge every amateur operator to
please submit their opinion on this very important matter.

As the recruiting posters used to say “Amateur Radio needs you.”

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




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30th April to Monday morn 3rd May
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