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QNEWS OCTOBER 27 2024 - VK4 ON AIR

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VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR FROM MAY 6 2024

SK CALL SK NAME DATE ADVISED BY

VK4PS ALAN STEPHENSON 23/05/24 (vk4zz)
VK4FANG ROGER HARNDEN 22/07/24 (vk4zz)
X/VK4TC Terry Harding Cain 30/07/24 (vk4zz)
VK4CWJ GORDON WEBSTER July 2024 (vk4vp)
VK4SWR JOE SEBAST5IANI 03/07/24 (vk4zz)
VK4TE ALEX McDONALD 27/09/24 (vk4ra)
VK4NL NOEL DES JADINS 16/10/24 (vk4vp)
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Gordon VK4VP Secretary of the Sunshine Coast
Amateur Radio Club with some very sad news.

One of SCARC's former members and Presidents has sadly passed away -
Noel Des Jardins VK4NL passed away last Thursday October 16th.

Noel made his first appearance at SCARC in 2003 when he was VK4ADJ,
I met him at JOTA and he was in his element showing the Scouts and
Guides just what radio was about with so much enthusiasm it was
contagious.

He also donated some copper tube to be used in making cavities for a
6m repeater which unbeknownst to us he was a real fan of the 6m
repeater and he used to run the 6m net AKA the backblocks net every
Friday night until he left for greener pastures in Hervey Bay.

Noel was a committee member in 2004, Vice President in 2005 and 2006
and then President of SCARC from 2007 to 2011. He was always happy to
help out and push things along. A lot of SCARC's activities during
his reign were solely due to his encouragement and his ever smiling
cheerful nature. SCARC had its highest recorded membership numbers
when Noel was President.

Who can forget Noels Nutty Campers where he organised a group of
radio amateurs to go caravanning for short weekend trips to various
places around SEQ. He knew by leading the way and organising things
the people would follow, such was his magnetic personality.

He put in a huge effort maintaining SCARC's big yellow comms caravan
at his house and making sure it got noticed.

We mustn't forget the Noosa Cycle rides where we provided comms
support, there were so many activities that the club became involved
due to his desire to help out and support the community.
He was also part of Noosa Councils Local Disaster Management Committee
providing advice and carrying out regular communications checks
with all of the associated Emergency Services

Noel was also an operator for the 20m travellers net for quite some
time and it was always comforting to hear his voice on the radio
when you were far from home.

One of his favourite sayings was "You can never have enough aluminium
and wire in the sky"

Mate, you be sadly missed but never forgotten.

Vale Noelly, Poppy Noel, Noel Des Jardins VK4NL




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DARLING DOWNS RADIO CLUB

vk4wid@...

Hi - I'm John VK4JPM with the Darling Downs Radio Club update for
QNEWS Sunday 27th of October.

Last Sunday saw the end of the POTA Coast-to-Coast week with the band
opening up nicely on Sunday Afternoon. On 20m contacts were made into the
Canary Islands, Germany and Austria. Even if you're not registered with
the POTA Website, if you had a contact with a POTA operator this weekend
it's possible that there's an Award waiting for you when you do set up an
account. Why not come along to the next club meeting, and find out from
Dave VK4JPS how to set up an account?

The Club's regular tech meetings are on the second Monday of every month
in the Toowoomba Library at 1900 local time. Looking right forward, in
December on Monday 9th, John VK4JBE will present a session on Software
Defined Radios, and how to get them humming. Well, receiving at least.
And further forward, at the February meeting we're going to introduce Fox
Hunting as a topic with a view to running a few hunts next year.

Coming back to the present, our next meeting in November is about what
hams do: experimenting, and in this case with high altitude balloons.
The Bundaberg Amateur Radio Club's very aptly named High Altitude Balloon
Experiment showed what we do best. The outcome was a combination of
excitement, fun and learnings. David VK4DN is coming up from Brisbane to
share some personal insights on how the project went and what came out of
the launches.

You don't have to remember all that, because all you need to do is visit
our calendar of events on the website at ddrci.org.au

And if you missed any of this you can register to get QNEWS by email -
send a note to qnews@... and all will be revealed.

The important stuff again: the club net on VK4RDD every Sunday at 1000,
ddrci.org.au for the website, and 11 November at 1900 for the next
meeting.

Until next week,
73 from John VK4JPM for the team at the Darling Downs Radio Club.







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

I trust all we Queensland amateurs are recovering from the contest. I
don’t mean the
one running from the USA but the political blood sport we know as an
election.
Thankfully the remaining execution is in the USA and the amount of
publicity and
spruiking we are receiving will diminish next month and we hams can turn our
thoughts to the serious matters of amateur radio.

I was pleased to see the amount of posts appearing on social media during the
JOTA/JOTI weekend with some clubs obviously enjoying the time spent with
the members
of the Scouting and Guiding communities. It seems that the coordination of
announcements and publicity fell away, this year with NO opening address
supplied
for broadcast as has happened for many, many years.

Like so many things that happen in life, this is an example that provides
lessons
for the future. Hopefully band conditions will still be very favourable on
short
wave in 12 months’ time and the over 70 years of engagement between the
scouts and
radio amateurs can be a massive demonstration of what we find so engaging
in our
activities.

It would seem that the gods of weather are reminding us of the seasonal
changes with
more storm activity reminding us that summer is almost upon us. You have
probably
noticed the adverts, put out by the Government, reminding us to have a bad
weather
plan. The meteorologists are positing that we will probably have the
warmest nights
on record, in the run up to Christmas. They are also projecting that we
could have
about 11 cyclones around the coast of Australia with maybe 4 of those
crossing the
coast somewhere.

This may seem like a low number of tropical storms, this season, but the
scientists
are saying that the trends they are measuring are for more intense
behaviours from
these events.
The word is that we need to prepare, as I have been reminding us all, for
the worst
and pray for the best outcomes.

One thing that I seem to have been missing in the broadcast news is the
amount of
trouble that various parts of the world are experiencing with particularly
storms
and flooding. The small Caribbean nation of Cuba has been devastated by the
breakdown of its electricity grid. Even in NSW there has been damage in
the mining
city of Broken Hill which has caused extensive blackouts and which is the
result of
storm damage.

Knowing that there are these catastrophes around us, it is worthwhile
ensuring we
have the various emergency net frequencies available before we fire up on
HF. At the
height of the sunspot cycle and with various modes of propagation, we
should not
take the risk of disrupting welfare traffic which may be on those
frequencies.

As the fun of summer approaches I hope we can all remain safe and prepared
and enjoy
the thrill of radio.

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



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