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QNEWS SEPTEMBER 08 2024 - VK4 ON AIR

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DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK?
DARLING DOWNS DID.


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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)
VK4CWJ GORDON WEBSTER July 2024 (vk4vp)
VK4SWR JOE SEBAST5IANI 03/07/24 (vk4zz)


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DARLING DOWNS RADIO CLUB

vk4wid@...



Hi. I'm John VK4JPM with a reminder from the Darling Downs Radio
Club about tomorrow night's tech meeting.

Monday 9 September is the second Monday of the month, and that means
we gather at the Toowoomba Library. The theme of this month's
session is "How to get control of EVERYTHING in your shack", which
you can do using easily available home automation technology.

We'll get you across some of the very powerful apps and extremely
cheap technology that can help you run your shack, control your
antenna farm, and manage your ham-cave and workshop. You can turn
things on and off, monitor power consumption and atmospherics,
integrate arbitrary bits of gear, and instrument signal and
operational flows. All it takes is a bit of imagination, and a
leg-up - which is the aim of this session.

If I say "home automation" you've probably thought we mean Google and
Alexa, but you don't have to use those. In fact, you don't even have
to use the cloud. What we will do is introduce Tuya ecosystem -
that's the one of the most common technologies, and one that sits
behind Matter, Grid Connect, Deta, and a lot of smart home devices from Aldi.

To make life interesting, we'll set up a complete system from scratch
at the meeting, and if you bring a smart device you'll be able to
join in and test it for yourself. If you're like me, it won't take
long before you're hooked and working out how to make your home
lighting and electronics do all kinds of useful and interesting things.

A warning: we're not up to streaming or recording yet, so if you
miss it - you've missed it.

OK, the details again: we meet tomorrow night, Monday 9 September at
the Toowoomba Library from 1900 - that's 7PM. Tons of free
well-lit, secure under-cover parking. The meeting is open to members
and guests; there's no charge, and we'd love you to join us for a
natter and a cuppa.

Check out all the detail, and upcoming club events, at the
website: www.ddrci.org.au. www.ddrci.org.au. You can also find us
via the WIA website, or just search for Darling Downs Radio Club from
your favorite search engine.

73 from John VK4JPM and I'm looking forward to seeing you at the
meeting tomorrow.


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

It was distracting hearing the squelch breaking on the 2m repeater on
146.800Mhz and
then faintly came a female voice.
It was obvious that ducting was having it’s fun with us, along the S.E.
coast of
Queensland but it wasn’t until I read a post that the full impact became
obvious.
From the Gold Coast to various parts of the coast signals from New
Caledonia were
being received. It is over 25years since I heard this and made a
successful contact
so I live in hopes that this summer season we can experience international
VHF
contacts with better results.

Sadly, I had a poor experience on social media during the past week. A
group popped
up in the “you may be interested category” and as I have been seeking to
finish
putting together a small set-up for camping and portable radio operation,
I thought
it worth joining. This group is obviously an eclectic one of lay and
tradie types
devoted to low voltage use and it suited me to join to observe what others
had found
worked for them.

After approval by the administrators, I had the opportunity to post an
introduction
as to why I had joined. Sadly this is when the first response was a very
generous
put down and questioned my knowledge and why I would want to join this
group. OK, we
have all had experience of keyboard warrior types on the internet but it
was plainly
obvious from the tenor of this post that the writer was also a radio amateur.

I tried a couple of times to correct some of the falsehoods that were
directed at me
and the insulting tenor of the replies continued. As I had just joined
this group,
the rules were fresh in my mind and I pointed out to this person that they
had
breached the group rules and left to go about my other business.

The next day, I went back to this site to check if there had been more
responses
only to find that the administrators had obviously monitored or been
alerted to this
incident. The attacking comments had been deleted from my post and there
remained
some courteous and considered replies from other group members.

My concern is not for the insults directed at me but the very serious
effects that
this behaviour could have on members of that group when considering
amateur radio
and its participants.
I don’t want to sound precious or prissy but how we present as hams in public
naturally reflects on our whole community. This group is enjoying learning
about 12V
use and installations so they already have an affinity with electricity.
Perhaps
some of them may want to take that interest into wider fields of interest
and I
would hate for them to be influenced away from amateur radio by one person
acting
badly.

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



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