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QNEWS - JUNE 18 2023 - VK4 ON AIR

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DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK?


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

This week sees us with the shortest daylight hours in the year and in the
southern
hemisphere it suggests that we are experiencing mid-winter. It would seem
that the
weather bureau has been correct in its long term forecast of our having
warmer
winter nights. I remember those hours near to sunrise when the frost
crunched under
foot and the yellow blast of sunrise marked the beginnings of a warmer day.
Thankfully, in my area, I have had nothing worse than some single digit
temperatures
and some dramatic sheets of fog.

I would suppose most of us have seen the official description of amateur
radio as
published by the governing bodies. One of the features is that it ties in
with idea
of life long learning which has been supported by the tertiary and further
education
sector. For most people in the workforce, there is a process of learning and
adapting as our environment changes. So it is within the regulated
activity called
amateur radio, or as some new devotees are calling it, just “ham”.

We have witnessed the demise of many specialist publishers and the
booksellers that
carried the publications which the more senior of us cut our teeth on.
Book learning
was the principal way of getting education outside of various schools. It was
customary for people to have a library which could be accesses to answer
the knotty
problems that came up and the magazine from the newsagent went on to fill
in on more
recent advances. In house publications, which a few such as our own
Amateur Radio
magazine continue but often with reduced numbers of issues.

This is where, I believe, our club network can play a big part in helping
people
upskill or stay abreast of some of the many interests that capture the
minds of our
fraternity. Within individual clubs there is an understanding of what
various people
are doing and where their interests are taking them. There can also be an
awareness
of things that we all might want to know and this gives an opportunity to
fill the
gap.

Many clubs have been able to arrange presentations from people from within
and
outside their membership. There can be the person who is having fun with
microwaves
and there can be the person from a company involved in transmission
services. There
can be demonstration of building, testing and using station accessories
and even for
some people learning the basics of soldering and breadboarding. This is
without
mentioning the arts of coding microprocessors or installing software and
applications using another operating system such as linux.

It is a shame when club life is devoted to business meetings or coffee
mornings
only. Operating and experimenting are the fundamentals of this recreation and
practising the skills that we have picked up leads us onto more adventures.

For the remote amateurs there can even be a network for them to engage
with others
who don’t get to clubs. What I am saying is here is opportunity to develop.

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

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