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QNEWS MAY 19 2024 - VK4 ON AIR

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Ipswich & District Radio Club

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

This is Allan VK4HIT with news from Ipswich and District Radio Club.

First up from WICEN, the Brisbane Trail Marathon was held on April 28 with
members volunteering their time at five checkpoints, a portable repeater
site, and the base. The importance of providing safety communications to
such events opens up the opportunity for members to support the club
through the WICEN group. Congratulations to first-timers Trish VK4TMK and
Alan VK4AJG. The early starts can be a challenge, but such is the nature
of trail running.

The next event is the Pinnacles Classic on June 16 followed by The Guzzler
Ultra Marathon held over two days – July 20 and 21. For this event we need
maximum participation from members, friends and other visiting amateurs. A
total of 22 people are needed. Coordinator for the Guzzler event is Mark
VK4SMA, please contact Mark via email ipswichwicen@... if you can
assist.

Now to more domestic matters, but no less important. Members are reminded
a new mowing roster for the clubhouse is being put together. Able bodied
members are urged to put your name forward. The club supplies the mower
and fuel. The roster means only one or two mows per year if it can be
filled with at least 10 members. As secretary Greg VK4GJW puts it – many
mowers make light work.

Reporting from Ipswich this is Allan, VK4HIT.

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

An interesting time has been had by radio enthusiasts in the past few days
with a G5
level flare impacting the Earth’s magnetic field. Some people recognised the
severity of the event when the bands went dead and pictures of auroras
from the
Antarctic to the sub-tropics were appearing on TV and internet sources.

Those of us old enough to remember the heady days of the legalisation of
CB in this
country know that it also coincided with a peak in sunspot activity too.
27MHz was a
school that taught many how well low power signals can go when conditions
are right.
We are seeing these magnificent openings again.

Back then the Novice Licence was drawing interest amongst radio
enthusiasts and
projects were published to adapt and use cheaply available equipment on
the Novice
allocations. The hobbyist Aladdin's cave of the day, Dick Smith stores
were at the
front of the pack in packaging and selling kits for things like
transverters which
used the ubiquitous CB rig as the generation platform to access other
bands. Many
people went on self learning safari and explored the design technology and
I recall
Amateur Radio magazine carried articles for changing the mixing crystals
in the 23
channel radios to put them on accepted amateur frequencies in the 10 and
11 metre
bands.

These days there are collectors who pay seemingly outrageous prices for
veteran CB
equipment and from pictures I have seen, there have been numerous tables
at ham
fests seeking to move the same types of gear on to new homes. The
difference is that
the amateur event sales are usually at much lower prices.

Here we have a combination of things. Good conditions and a source of less
valuable
radios than the all singing, all dancing commercially produced amateur
radios. There
are radio clubs that make available gear to new members at cheap prices or
on loan
to allow the freshly minted ham to burn brightly when the urge is new.

What if we managed to get some of this old CB gear and set about having a
conversion
project within our clubs? There would be many amateurs who have relics of
past
activities sitting on shelves and in the magic junque boxes and who would
like to
know their treasure was given a good home instead of finding the rubbish
skip when
the Last Post has gone silent.

Maybe we could see some of the construction and conversion articles pulled
from the
archives and updated with the use of currently available components.

We have just heard the cry of the Budget with its reminder of the high
cost of
living and, just perhaps, we have a means of doing some club activities
which would
help newly interested people get the feel for radio. Being able to adapt
and modify
has been the hallmark of the amateur and there is nothing more satisfying
than the
sound of a project that is completed and working.

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



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