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QNEWS MAY 18 2025 - VK4 ON AIR

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DARLING DOWNS RADIO CLUB

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Hi - I'm John VK4JPM, Secretary of the Darling Downs Radio Club. It's
Sunday 18 May and here's the news for this coming week.

Tomorrow, Monday, I'll be at the BDARS tech/social night talking about
home automation - expanding a bit on a chat I did last year. If you're
wondering how this stuff can work for you, come along and find out. You
don't need google, alexa or even a Linux server - although you could use
any or all of those. In this case, the journey has been about integrating
some very cheap options under a single app to do quite a lot of useful
tasks with high reliability. I'll have a crate of toys with me, and we'll
configure some IoT devices on the spot so that you can see how simple it
is to get working.

If you're in Brisbane tomorrow night 19 May at 1900, drop in to the
Redlands Coast Museum in Cleveland and join us. Details are at
bdars.org.au; scroll down to the bottom of the home page and click on the
Tech/Social night link.


Next, a quick look back at the last week:

* The club's first annual Foxhunt and BBQ went off like a firework, with
six hounds chasing a pleasantly hidden fox. Bruce VK4MQ did a sterling
job of organising both the hunt and the BBQ location, and the weather was
perfect. So... we're off and racing on that path.

* WICEN was the subject of last Monday's member meeting, which was almost
standing room only for Simon VK4TSC from the Brisbane Area WICEN group.
The topic raised much discussion, ranging across what a WICEN really is
these days, to how ham teams work to support non-emergency events (like
the upcoming Hip Pocket Horse Enduro), to what repeater and point-to-point
networks can be used to handle traffic, to how do you develop skills.
For followup you can check the groups site at brisbanewicen.org.au


Now: coming up in Toowoomba for DDRCI:

* The June lunch has been scheduled for Sunday 8 June, and will be in
Highfields at the tavern. All welcome.
* The June meeting will be held the next day on Monday 9th with topic and
location to be released next week, and
* the July member's meeting is scheduled for 14 July, with Peter VK4EA
bringing us up to speed on the Control Systems used throughout the state
to manage the power grid for Ergon, Energex and Yurika. Should be heaps
interesting.

All the dates and times are on the Club website at ddrci.org.au, and
you're always welcome to get our attention and ask questions: use the
contact form or send a note to secretary at DDRCI.org.au

Until next week - 73s... I'm John VK4JPM on behalf of the Darling Downs
Radio Club.

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

Do you ever have one of those week where things just don’t pan out? I
managed to
have my week disrupted over the weekend and beyond when a change of
medicine seems
to have upset more than the apple-cart. Fortunately it was not happening
before an
approaching storm or flood and the supply of a necessary paper product has
managed
to be sufficient for the immediate issues.

What was annoying was that I managed to miss taking the news broadcast and my
retreat has been to watching videos that I can no longer remember. Just to
impress
my simple mind, I didn’t have the concentration to turn on the rig and try
and catch
some of the signals on the waterfall.

I find that being able to tune into the world, that is amateur radio is a
great
diversion from some of the more frustrating and mundane life events. The
fact that
the head couldn’t accommodate this simple activity suggests that things
might have
been more distressing that just a lot of pain in the guts to put it in
Aussie lingo.
Anyway the GP has lined me up with some good diagnostic tests so I expect
to get an
answer as to what has gone wrong, soon.

However, this is not to spread the word of my health issues but it is just to
illustrate that for the majority of us, there will be times when issues
impinge on
our activities. That contest, that field operation may just have to be put
aside
until things are back to normal. As much as what we individually feel it
is the
knowledge that others of our bent will understand when we don’t make a
sked or turn
up at a club lunch.

Similarly, allowing for time, age, health and other factors the
camaraderie that is
part of amateur radio ensures that people are keeping an eye out for others.

Sadly there are the circumstances where duty to loved ones inhibits the
ability to
physically interact with others locally.

With all the tools at our disposal, the amateur radio world should and can
be one
most interconnected groups in the community.

This brings me to another opportunity and that is running safety nets.
Whether
simplex or via repeater, or on what service it is possible to offer a
community
resource. A club or group can run such a for all sorts of situations such
as storm
watch and road closures. The contacts can be open to only members of the
group,
repeater users and what ever licences permit.

With voice and video streaming over the internet, radio can be fallback
position and
more targeted than a totally open group.

I think this sort of welfare can be a great help if only we can organise it.
I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and that's what I think, how about you?



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