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DID YOU TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK?
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THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICES
QNEWS -- ALL OF THE NEWS ALL OF THE TIME at www.wiaq.com
QNEWS available in Audio by 0400Hrs UTC Saturday.
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Contact QAC by HF Radio 3.605 Mondays 7:30pm after QNEWS
QAC qac(AT)wia.org.au OVERSEES HAM RADIO MATTERS IN VK4
QNEWS newsroom qnews(AT)wia.org.au USE TO SEND US YOUR NEWS STORIES!!
QTAC qtac(AT)wia.org.au HANDLES TECHNICAL QUERIES
QTC qtc(AT)wia.org.au AR MAGAZINE COLUMN
QAC office officers :-
VK4AHW Harvey Wickes
VK4AQ Ross Anderson
VK4BY Don Wilschefski
VK4UH Kevin Johnstone
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The wia office address is:
The Wireless Institute of Australia
P.O. Box 2042
BAYSWATER VIC 3153
Telephone: 03 9729 0400
Fax: 03 9729 7325
AR MAGAZINE—VK4 QTC COLUMN
Written by Chris Comollattie VK4VKR
news for ar magazine to qtc(AT)wia.org.au
QNEWS BROADCAST OCTOBER 25 2009
GYMPIE
www.gceginc.org.au
Geoff Emery vk4zpp
It was only last week when "Amateur Radio" magazine appeared in the
letter box. With the promotion of the centenary celebrations of the WIA
and JOTA/JOTI featuring prominently, it was actually the article from
VK4QS that grabbed my attention.
Michael describes his joining the ranks of the amateur fraternity during
the 1980's and the fact that he never felt himself a stranger, rather he
felt embraced by a new family. The behaviours which characterised the
hobby in past times are contrasted with the observed behaviours of a
number of licensees today.
Yes, community standards have altered and language that would have
landed you in court, in years gone by, is now regarded in a different
way. No longer is the solitary amateur hovering over glowing valves and
pounding morse whilst listening through headphones. Today, it is more
likely that the room full of equipment has been replaced by a "shack"
integrated into the living space and the sounds that are received can be
overheard by any one in range of the speaker. If you would not like
material heard by your family and friends, surely you wouldn't transmit it?
The final part of Michael's article is devoted to how we can foster our
new recruits (and the listeners who anonymously assess our behaviour
from behind their receivers). This is a thought provoking article for
amateurs of any age who are interested in promoting AR.
Do you realise that our WIA is twice as old as ABC TV in VK4?
Redcliffe and District Radio Club
www.redclifferadioclub.org.au/
Hi I am Ray VK4CF with news from Redcliffe Amateur Radio Club for QNEWS.
Last weekend about 30 club members spent a very dusty weekend assisting some
300 scouts, cub, guides and rovers who visited the club’s portable station
located at the Murrongbong Scout camp near Petrie, north of Brisbane. It was
also good to see Richard, VK4ZAA from the Brisbane Digital group working with
Redcliffe club members for his third JOTA.
The scouts and cubs started to arrive at 8 am and the first event on the tour
was the kit building assisted by club members with soldering irons. The most
popular kit was the crystal radio set and thanks to Shaun, VK4FY, who put up a
50 metre length of wire to allow the cubs to listen to their newly built
radios.
Shaun was also the organiser of the JOTI part of the event.
Another kit available for building was the electric buzzer and although it
might NOT be welcomed when the cubs arrived home, the cubs certainly enjoyed
using the buzzer to practice their morse code skills. Many of the girls were
able to easily able to send morse across the camp site and a couple were able
to send simple sentences at the end of 10 minutes practice. The boys were
just a little slower.
Last Monday evening before the monthly tech talk, the club members were
provided with a slide show of the JOTA weekend which showed the highlights of
the weekend. The pictures will be up on the Redcliffe website by the end of
next week.
For the Tech talk, John, VK4YJV, described the design of the 2 metre repeater
antenna and also provided a detailed explanation of the constructions
difficulties of vhf and uhf antennas. The most critical of all the design
components of the repeater antenna was the feed point design. John through
the use of mathematics and a little trial and error was able to design and
construct a vertical dipole with a true 50 ohm feed point that ensured that
there will be no static build up, is totally waterproof and insect proof and
will be simple to maintain.
John was also able to show how critical is the construction of the antenna and
clearly spelt out to the audience that the techniques that we use on hf
antennas cannot be applied to uhf and vhf antennas. He also showed that if you
do not consider even little things in the design such as the fringing of the
ends of the driven elements, that even this can substantially change the
design parameters and the end result.
John for shadowed a further tech talk titled Plastics are not all plastics
Until next I’m Ray from the Redcliffe club and your listening to QNEWS from
VKFOURWIA
TOWNSVILLE
vk4wit(AT)wia.org.au
4773 1196 or 0408 001142
po box 333 Garbutt East, QLD 4814
www.tarc.org.au
GREETINGS! THIS IS DON VK4FNQA WITH NEWS FROM NORTH QUEENSLAND.
WE HAVE JUST COMPLETED A VERY SUCCESSFUL JOTA-JOTI WEEKEND
WHERE LOTS OF YOUTH MEMBERS TOOK TO THE AIRWAVES.
ONE OF THE FRIENDLIEST RADIO NETS IN THE LAND HAPPENS THIS TUESDAY EVENING
FROM 7-30PM ON THE TOWNSVILLE VHF REPEATER. THE ANN RENTON MEMORIAL LADIES
NET IS OPEN TO YOUNG AND OLD, YL OR OM AND IS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE
WHO NEEDS PRACTICE ON AIR TO HAVE A GO AS SECOND OPERATOR. SO JOIN IN THIS
TUESDAY EVENING AND LETS SEE IF THE YLS CAN OUTNUMBER THE OMS !
THE TOWNSVILLE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB INC WILL BE HOLDING THE 2009 ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22ND FROM 7AM AT ROSSITER PARK AITKENVALE, WITH
PROCEEDINGS STARTING OFF WITH A SCRUMPTIOUS PANCAKE BREAKFAST FOLLOWED BY THE
MEETING. ATTENDANCE NUMBERS ARE NEEDED FOR CATERING PURPOSES SO PLEASE CONTACT
CLUB SECRETARY PHIL VK4HSV SOONEST IF YOU ARE WISHING TO ATTEND. CONTACT PHIL
EITHER ON HIS MOBILE 0407 737976 OR VIA THE WONDERFUL MEDIUM OF AMATEUR RADIO.
DEADLINE FOR THOSE NUMBERS IS TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17TH.
REMEMBER TOO THAT TARC IS VISITING THE TOWNSVILLE CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL
SOCIETY THEATRE RESTAURANT ON FRIDAY THIRTEENTH OF NOVEMBER. IAIN VK4IGM
IS HANDLING BOOKINGS AND, AS SEATS ARE LIMITED, HE NEEDS THOSE BOOKINGS NOW!
CONTACT IAIN ON TELEPHONE 47214083 RIGHT NOW.
WELL THATS ALL FOR THIS WEEK FROM A CURRENTLY BALMY TROPICAL PARADISE, THIS IS
DON VK4FNQA FOR THE TOWNSVILLE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB INC, AND YOU HAVE BEEN
LISTENING TO QNEWS FROM VK4WIA
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