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From: "VK7 Regional News Coordinator" <vk7tw(AT)wia.org.au>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:53:54 -0000
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VK7 REGIONAL NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 1ST MARCH 2009
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Sewing Circle NeT
Origin of the Name
Toward the end of 2008 Justin VK7TW interviewed 93 year old Joy Batchler
formerly VK7YL the first female amateur in VK7.
As part of that interview Joy talked about the origins of the Sewing Circle
and how it got it's name.
Joy takes up the story
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<Audio recording of Joy Batchler on the origin of the Sewing Circle BBQ 1m35s>
The whole 40m interview will be showing continuously at the Meet The Voice
- Sewing Circle BBQ for anyone interested.
A reminder that the Sewing Circle net occurs everyday at 5pm on 3.59MHz.
(73 Justin, VK7TW)
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New VK7 10M Beacon
VK7RSC
A new beacon has just been commissioned and licensed as VK7RSC for 10 metres.
The frequency is 28.267MHz. It is yet to be installed but is on test.
Hopefully this will encourage some more activity on this band during openings.
(73, Hayden, VK7HAY)
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VK7 EVENTS CALENDAR
A summary of the events across VK7 in the next month:
REAST March 11th ATV Experimenter's Night Queens Domain Clubrooms 7:30pm.
http://reast.asn.au/events.php#ATVnights
WICEN South - March 14 & 15 John Moyle Memorial Field Day Conningham
http://tas.wicen.org.au/
REAST March 15th REAST AGM and BYO BBQ from 10:30am.
http://reast.asn.au/events.php#AGM
WICEN South March 21st Meeting Kingston Library Meeting Room 9:30am
http://tas.wicen.org.au/
SEWING CIRCLE NET - March 22nd Meet the Voice and Sewing Circle BBQ
Ross Caravan Park - Starts 10:00am
http://reast.asn.au/events.php#meetthevoice
WICEN South March 28 and 29th Endurance Ride - Woodstock
http://tas.wicen.org.au/
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Non-Commercial FOr Sale & Wanted
For Sale
Brett VK7FMMM has for sale a Yaesu FT-7800 2M/70CM dual band radio with
removable head unit, cabling, external speaker and mobile antenna which
is less than a year of use.
$350. the lot, firm, they usually sell for $400 without any antenna brand
new the head unit cabling is also another expense.
If interested then contact Brett, VK7FMMM on ph: 62476645
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"MEET THE VOICE BBQ"
Bargain Boot Bonanza
On March 22nd at the Meet the Voice/Sewing Circle BBQ there will be a bargain
boot bonanza.
This is a great opportunity for you to sell your pre-loved amateur radio
related equipment that is surplus to requirements?
Ray VK7VKV is the coordinator and if you are interested in coming along to
the BBQ and selling your pre-loved gear then get in touch with Ray via the
Sewing Circle net on the weekend at 5pm on 3.59MHz.
Participation is covered in your registration fee, the only condition is that
you provide your own car boot or table on which to display the treasures,
and that you don't begin offering the bargains for sale until 12.00 midday
so as not to detract from the other organised events on the day.
Hams are always looking for a bargain so this is a great opportunity to do
a deal.
Look forward to seeing you there.
http://reast.asn.au/events.php#meetthevoice
(Ray VK7VKV)
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Meet the Voice and Sewing Circle BBQ
Ross March 22 starting around 10am will see the first VK7 state-wide activity
for 2009.
Don VK7AY lets us know that Ross now has a reasonable drinking water supply
available once again so we will be in luxurious surroundings.
Registration from 10am, $5.00 cover charge per amateur or amateur family,
any surplus will be towards some amateur Radio activity, no funds held over.
2007 we donated to the upkeep of repeaters, and last year you donated over
$200 dollars which was used to assist the payment of licence fees for those
repeaters state wide.
A decision on the day will be made as to where all surplus registration monies
will go.
How about inviting an amateur senior or otherwise who you think would enjoy
the outing and meeting with old and new friends to join you on the day I am
sure many would have a spare seat.
This is a great opportunity for you to make contact with the voice you have
spoken to but have never met in person. The day is designed around that premise.
See you there.
http://reast.asn.au/events.php#meetthevoice
(Don, VK7AY)
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NORTH WEST News
North West Tasmanian Amateur Radio Interest Group
The BBQ at Hiscutt Park was a great social occasion with good food and company.
Yesterday the get together was at Two Oaks cafe 15235 Bass Highway Somerset,
where the old Somerset Drive-In once stood. More on this next week.
All radio amateurs XYL's and harmonics are welcome to come along and join in
our social get togethers.
You will be able to meet up with old pals and the newer members of Amateur Radio.
Dates and venues will be broadcast prior to the event as we try to include a
wide area of the coast.
For purposes of insurance details, we need an accurate list of members.
The committee would appreciate subs being forwarded now, using the reply paid
envelope provided with the renewal form, rather than waiting to pay at the meeting.
(73 Anne VK7BYL President NWTARIG)
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NORTHERN NEWS
Northern Tasmanian Amateur Radio Club
Tasmania will surely have the highest per-capita ownership of squid poles in
the southern hemisphere, judging by the popularity of Phil VK7JJ's portable
squid pole antenna design.
To keep up with demand, NTARC has ordered yet another 10 squid poles,
and we've got 8 left now
so if you would like one or more!
then get in touch with Ann VK7FYBG or Jason VK7ZJA and we'll arrange for
you to become the owner of one.
The price remains the same at $40, which in anyone's language is surely the
beginning of a cheap yet effective HF antenna.
Anyone outside the Launceston area might want to arrange to pick them up at the
`meet the voice' BBQ on the 22nd of March.
http://www.wia.org.au/clubs/vk7/NorthernTasmaniaAmateurRadioClub/
Thanks from
(Jason, VK7ZJA, NTARC Secretary)
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Southern News
Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania
Education and Training
Reg VK7KK lets us know that the following people were successful in last
Monday's assessment night:
Corey Clark and Robert Wise were both successful in gaining their
Foundation Licences.
Also Monday night saw Gary Wilmott, Tony Clifford currently VK7FACC
and Ron Petersen who is currently VK7FEAA gain their standard licences.
Congratulation to all and we look forward to hearing you all on air
with your new callsigns.
If you would like to participate in a future training and/or assessment
and the assessment could be for any licence (foundation, standard,
advanced or practical) then let Reg VK7KK know ASAP on mobile: 0417 391 607
or email: regemm(AT)ozemail.com.au
(Reg, VK7KK, REAST Education Officer and Assessor)
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REAST AGM & Membership Reminder
The REAST committee wishes to advise that the Association's annual general
meeting will be held on Sunday 15th March at 10:30am at the REAST clubrooms
following the broadcast.
The current occupants of the positions of treasurer, secretary and both
general committee members will be not be re-nominating so please think about
whom you would like to nominate for any positions on the committee,
or if you would like to be nominated.
Nomination forms are available on the REAST website.
After the AGM there will be a BYO barbecue lunch.
It's a new year so the 2009 subscriptions are due.
This year if you are paying your subscription by direct deposit your
receipt number and transfer description must be written on your renewal form
so that payments can be easily identified.
A new renewal form is available on the REAST website and at the clubrooms
that includes all the information required.
Furthermore, many members have changed their call signs in the last year
with the two letter call sign ballot and for other reasons so if your call sign
has changed in the last year please make sure this is clearly marked on your
renewal form.
Nomination Forms: http://reast.asn.au/2009/Nomination_REAST_Committee_2009.pdf
Renewal Forms: http://reast.asn.au/renewalform.pdf
(REAST Committee)
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ATV Experimenters Night
Last Wednesday night was again another popular night with many amateurs
turning up and participating in amateur television at its best.
Our main presentations were courtesy of Mike VK7MJ who has donated videos
in the Secret Life of Machines series from the 1970s.
The episodes we played were, the radio, the quartz watch, the telephone and
the video recorder.
These programs all went our on both 70cm analogue ATV and 23cm Digital ATV.
Justin VK7TW setup a temporary digital ATV transmitter putting out about 7 watts
into an omni directional 23cm bigwheel about 2m off the ground on the NW side
of the Domain compound.
Tom VK7TL had setup a 23cm quarter wave vertical antenna connected to one of
the digital satellite receivers we setup last week and received perfect pictures
from the start of transmissions. Once sound was connected this was also
received perfectly.
We tuned Paul, VK7FPAH's digital satellite receiver in the clubrooms and was
able to receive the digital transmissions and compare them with the analogue
transmissions and I think all assembled in the clubrooms agreed there was
no comparison.
We intend to start doing digital ATV field tests from our next ATV night.
Richard VK7RO also showed us a range of calculators that he had brought along
from an abacus to mechanical and early electronic calculators.
Richard beavered away on his 2650 emulator and demonstrated some of the games
he worked on many years ago that are now coming back to life using the new
PC based emulator.
We finished off with a tea and coffee and another great night of
experimentation bit the dust.
We get back under way on Wednesday March 11th around 7:30pm.
See you there.
http://reast.asn.au/events.php#ATVnights
(73, Justin, VK7TW)
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Satellite News
KiwiSAT Update
The linear flight transponder is now "on air" in New Zealand from the
Whangaparaoa area with beam antennas pointing South.
It features a transponder of an inverting type (Orbital Doppler shift
compensation) with transmit power of 2 Watts PEP. The beacon will
be on 145.885 MHz.
When the satellite flies it will have an uplink on 435.265 to 435.235 MHZ LSB
and a downlink on 145.850 to 145.880 MHz USB
The team says they are currently looking to ISC Kosmatras for a DNEPR
launch in mid to late 2009.
Full details can found on-line at the address on the email and internet
editions of this broadcast.
http://www.kiwisat.org.nz/index.html
(Sourced from the AMSAT News Service)
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QRP NEWS
Free Membership! Free Certificate!
New Years 2009 may have come and gone but it's never too late to resolve
to help preserve and encourage CW activity across our amateur bands.
To celebrate the new year, come and join the
NAQCC (North American QRP CW Club), a club for any and ALL CW
enthusiasts around the world.
Our members include "Big Gun" contesters, hard-core QRPers, experimenters,
ragchewers and SWLers; young and old alike.
As different as we may be, we all share one thing in common, and that is
our love for CW.
We welcome all who want to help support CW and have at least some interest
in using QRP from time-to-time. Our club runs monthly sprints and challenges.
Plus we sponsor some additional special on-air activities during the year.
Membership is FREE and once you join you're automatically a lifetime member!
So sign up today and help us keep CW alive and well.
Visit the website on the email and internet editions of this broadcast for
the membership form and other details
http://www.usatek.net/~yoel/.
You'll find info on all of our various activities plus an online
membership application.
We look forward to your support and hope to soon see your call added to our
membership roster.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QRPp-I/
(73, Paul/KD2MX, NAQCC Membership Recruiter via the QRP-L mailing list)
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COSMIC News
Radio static could be from earliest stars, black holes
Ron Cowen in ScienceNews Volume 175 January 2009 wrote the following story
which has been summarised for the VK7 Regional News.
When astronomers launched a balloon-borne experiment from Palestine,
Texas three summers ago, they expected to find a faint radio signal from
the slight warming of interstellar space by an early generation of stars.
Instead, Al Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.,
and his colleagues discovered a booming, uniformly distributed radio noise
six times louder than anyone had predicted.
The team described the mysterious and pervasive radio static January 7 at the
winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
They also posted four reports online detailing their analyses and
interpretation of the data at http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0562,
http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0559, http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0555
and http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0546.
The researchers calculate that the radio noise is much too large to be
accounted for by the combined emissions of all the galaxies in the universe
that emit radio waves.
They also suggest that the static could be signals generated by the first
supermassive black holes.
Kogut and his colleagues base their findings on 2.5 hours of data gathered
during a flight of seven radio receivers called ARCADE
(Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission).
ARCADE's radio receivers, which were cooled to a temperature
just 2.7 degrees above absolute zero for the balloon flight on July 22, 2006,
are the first detectors capable of definitively identifying the strange
radio signals, Kogut says.
Because ARCADE operates at the same low temperature as the cosmic microwave
background the whisper of radiation left over from the Big Bang that
itself was accidentally discovered as radio noise
heat from the instrument can't be confused with the radio signals it detects.
Emissions from the sky are also compared to an onboard radio-emitting source.
Kogut and his collaborators, who include Michael Seiffert of NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., don't know the distance from
which the radio signals originate.
But the radio static does not match any known pattern from sources in the
Milky Way.
Nor can it be accounted for by nearby supermassive black holes or other
radio sources in nearby galaxies, which are well studied, Kogut says.
And a new population of radio-emitting galaxies, too faint to be
observed directly, would have to vastly outnumber all the known galaxies
in the universe in order to produce such a strong radio signal.
By process of elimination, that leaves some unknown source
possibly the first generation of supermassive black holes or the first stars
from the early universe.
The radio spectrum seen by ARCADE "is telling us that we're actually seeing
a signature from a period of time that we know very little about and are
very interested in," says Spergel.
A more exotic, less likely possibility, he adds, is radio emission from
some new type of elementary particle.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39783/title/Tuned_in_to_new_noise_from_the_cosmos
(By Ron Cowen from the Science News Website)
Sounds awefully like what Grote Reber was recording and listening to as
the Milky Way passed over Bothwell in the 1950s..HIHI (Ed)
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Web & Email Edition Extra Bits!!
The Secret Life of Machines
http://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/
The following links are courtesy of the AMSAT News Service:
From Japan Mineo Wakita, JE9PEL reports that PRISM satellite team at
Tokyo University have seen first light with the Wide Angle Camera.
Data from this first test will be used to calibrate the camera and future
photos are expected to be less overexposed.
This picture was taken when the PRISM satellite was over Hokkaido, Japan.
The first photograph can be at: http://tinyurl.com/ag7way
A video re-creation of the Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 Collision can be
found at: http://tinyurl.com/ap3ydx (UniverseToday.com)
Winter is turning to spring in Mars' southern hemisphere. Photos taken by
the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/bwu4wv.
An entertaining video named "Springtime on Mars 2020" is on-line
at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjiGH9QNiU0 (via UniverseToday.com)
23cm Antennas
http://www.i1wqrlinkradio.com/antype/23cm.html
23cm Sig Gen
http://www.w6pql.com/23_cm_sig_gen.htm
Some Good Stuff on this site
http://www.w6pql.com/
Something EVERY amateur should be able to recite!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_square_law
Why it does apply for dipoles
http://blazelabs.com/inversecubelaw.pdf
Scientific Equipment
http://www.warsash.com.au/products/prod_01.php
ACOUSTO-OPTIC Products
http://www.intraaction.com/FAQ_s/Contact_US/Definitions/Refrences/do_not_delete_page/deflectors.html
SmartGrid Technology
It's becoming a reality unfortunately due to the economic times!
http://www.dailywireless.org/2009/02/26/smart-grid-its-alive/
The Masters of Comedy
http://www.thegoonshow.net/
Free membership to the NAQCC
http://www.usatek.net/~yoel/
The following is courtesy of the CG Communicator:
VISUALIZING A TRILLION DOLLARS
With the latest round of Washington bailout money approaching a trillion
dollars, here's a way to visualize large sums of money assuming that the
average dollar bill is 4 mils (0.004 inches) thick:
One million dollars is one million $1 bills.
Lay them edge-to-edge and they would cover 2.57 acres of land.
One billion dollars would be the same as above but with a 4-inch tall
stacks of dollar bills replacing each individual dollar bill.
One trillion dollars: Use the same 2.57 acres of land, but the stacks of
one dollar bills would now be 333-feet tall.
A bit of US television nostalgia:
http://www.v-r-a.org/ppp/BlkandWh/TVGuide.htm
Do you have some interesting amateur related sites you have some across
in the last week send them in to justingc(AT)ozemail.com.au
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VK7 Virtual BPL Tours Update
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdcY0Eetvsw - Mt Nelson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gsxpya3CnQ - North Hobart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7DfdxjRkpU - RU ready for BPL?
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If you are interested in becoming an amateur radio operator or
upgrading your licence then we suggest you contact your local club for
details and/or take a look at what the
Radio and Electronics School has to offer.
They have a range of courses that can be delivered through a
variety of methods.
They can be found at: www.radioelectronicschool.com
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Finally today, a reminder to those people rostered for next week's
broadcasts:
Newsreader: VK7RS
160m: VK7DM
80m: VK7ZK
40m: VK7TW
20m: VK7IL
10m: VK7ZGK
UHF CB: VK7FTAZ
HF CB: VK7TED
Thanks to all people and organisations who assisted with this broadcast.
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THAT CONCLUDES OUR VK7 REGIONAL NEWS BROADCAST FOR THIS WEEK.
YOU HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO OR JUST MISSED VK7WI.
NEXT WEEK THE NATIONAL WIA NEWS CAN BE HEARD AT 0900 FOLLOWED BY
THE VK7 REGIONAL NEWS AT 0930 HOURS.
DETAILS TO SEND NEWS FOR THIS BROADCAST CAN BE FOUND AT REAST.ASN.AU
AND THE DEADLINE FOR ITEMS IS 21:00 ON FRIDAY PRIOR TO
THE SUNDAY OF THE BROADCAST.
VK7 Regional Broadcast & News Coordinator
Justin Giles-Clark, VK7TW
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