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DID YOU TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK?
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THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD IN QNEWS.MP3
FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICES
QNEWS -- ALL OF THE NEWS ALL OF THE TIME at www.wia.org.au/vk4
QNEWS available in Audio after 0001Hrs UTC Saturday.
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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
AR MAGAZINE-VK4 QTC COLUMN
Written by Chris Comollattie VK4VKR
news for ar magazine to qtc(AT)wia.org.au
The Queensland President's lunch will be held again this year.
The date will be Sunday 9th November. WIA President Michael Owen,
WIA Directors Ewan McLeod and Ron and Queensland Advisory Committee
Chairman Don Wilschefski will be there to talk about what is happening
in Amateur radio , the WIA and what we can expect in the near future..
The venue will be the Geebung-Zillmere RSL Club located at Corner Newman
Road & Collings Street, Geebung, opposite Geebung Railway Station. Arrival
at 11:30am for Midday start for lunch. . Lunch will be followed by
a presentation by Michael Owen and discussion..
You will also get plenty of opportunities to ask questions.. So we can advise
the caterers and function organisers please advise participation by club
members by emailing QAC chairman Don Wilschefski VK4BY at qac(AT)wia.org.au
A golden opportunity to get together and discuss those issues that are
important to the development of amateur radio in VK4land.
(Regards Ken Fuller on behalf of the WIA Queensland Advisory Committee)
GOLD COAST AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY
http://www.goldcoastamateurradio.com
IRLP Node 6702
HAMFEST NOVEMBER 8 will be held at Albert Waterways Hall Broadbeach.
Gympie Communications and Electronics Group.
www.gceginc.org.au
This is a new club formed with an enthusiastic group of members in an area that
has not been able to support a viable club for some years according to
Bob VK4MR, the inaugural Chairman.
Bob continued, "much of our time over the past months has been involved in the
mechanics of gathering a core of amateurs and deciding whether we could
proceed and in what form we could proceed."
From this beginning a 3 man committee was formed and the routine of opening a
bank account, drafting a constitution, applying for incorporation and
WIA affiliation proceeded.
The Gympie group has been well supported by the Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio
Club and the Maryborough Electronics and Radio Group.
The weekly Gympie Net, which was maintained by Len, VK4JZ, on behalf of SCARC,
for the past couple of years has been continued by GCEG Net Controller, Dawn,
VK4FTBA with call ins each Monday averaging 10 to 12 stations. After achieving
incorporation, the presidents of the 3 neighbouring area radio clubs made a
point of joining the net to offer congratulations.
As the Sunday news went to air on 19th October, a small group of GCEG members
were manning the barbecue again. This time it was the first fund raising event,
being a sausage sizzle sponsored by Melco Hardware, Gympie, in the car park of
their main store. Not only were hot sausages being sold but amateur radio was
explained to interested people.
MARYBOROUGH RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CLUB
For more info, call Secretary Kathy Johns 040-939-8853
Email: kathy.johns(AT)bigpond.com
Channel 14 UHF CB call "CQ MERG"
Maryborough Electronics & Radio Group members Rick VK4CAW and Ray VK4TPT set up
JOTA stations for HF, VHF and UHFCB at the ALDERSHOT Scout camp, North of
Maryborough, QLD. last weekend.
The plan was to utilise to the fullest extent Both the Amateur EchoLink and the
CB eQSO systems to enable most of the 200+ Scouts, Cubs, Guides and Brownies
who were present to talk to similar groups around the world.
BUT! As we all know "The best laid plans of men and mice (and obviously MERG
members) are apt to go astray!"
The guys had not counted on the effect of the well known Ironstone Ridge
between Maryborough and the Campsite.
As a result, despite 20+ watts and Yagi antennae at each end, they could not
get a useable signal on 2metres.
They fared slightly better on UHF CB despite the 5 watt limitations. Mainly due
to higher gain Yogis and a taller tower at VK4VAN's QTH.
Thus, by Sunday morning the score was eQSO: - 10, EchoLink: - 0.
In desperation Ray swung the 2 metre Yagi towards the Mt Goonanaman repeater
and found VK4JM, Rusty, with a troop of Cubs from Gin Gin.
As Ray had a Guide unit from Hervey Bay with him at the time they could all
talk to the Cubs at Bundaberg.
A check of the EchoLink Log showed that over 30 JOTA stations had tried,
unsuccessfully, to connect during the weekend.
To all of those and any others, Ray and Rick offer their sincere apologies and
advise that the new tower and antenna farm to replace the storm damaged ones
will be in place at the Scout Camp for next years JOTA."
(Ray, VK4TP)
REDCLIFFE
www.redclifferadioclub.org.au/
A fantastic weekend at Murrembong Campsite, Petrie with some 250 scouts, cubs,
joeys and guides visiting.
There were some 70 electronic kits built including crystal radio sets,
fog horns and L.E.D. testers. All the kits were donated for the JOTA
weekend and many thanks to the donors for their continued support of the club.
There were a few surprises for club members with one young guide after sending
her name in morse code and then continued on by sending information about her
group and when she was asked to receive morse code, she was able to easily read
the message. Some people just have the knack!
Another was the quality of kits built by the female scouts and guides. Their
ability in soldering amazed many club members who acted as tutors for the
scouts during the kit construction.
The Chief Commissioner of Queensland visited the camp for about 2 hours and was
amazed at the activities available for the scouts and the level of
participation and support by Redcliffe club members for JOTA.
Over the weekend about 40 or so members made themselves available to assist in
JOTA. Well done everyone!
The highlight for the weekend was some 42 people for a Saturday night camp
roast, Peter VK4EA and his support crew prepared a fantastic meal which was
well enjoyed as many had seconds and there were was enough even for thirds.
Away from JOTA activities, Andy VK4KY, called CQ Europe on 20 metres last
Saturday night and made contact with a G3 station who told Andy that his signal
was 40 dB over 9 and surely he was not in Queensland. The station actually
recorded the signal to play it back to his club members.
Andy then told him that he was operating a field portable station using only
300 watts and using 12 volt batteries. The G3 station was in total disbelief
but it was true. For the whole JOTA weekend all the club radios were using
200 amp hour batteries recharged by solar panels.
Happy Birthday to Corey VK4BTK, who celebrated his 21st birthday by causing a
major pile-up into Europe and worked 75 stations with better that 5 and 8
signals for all contacts in just over 2 hours.
What a good practice for the John Moyle field day next year!
SUNSHINE COAST
Maleny VK4RSC 146.850 and 438.075 VK4RSN 53.7
Noosa Heads VK4RSL 146.825 and 438.175
October Camp Catch-up at Lake Dyer
There was approximately 50 people that turned out in some rather wet weather
for the October Camp catch-up at Lake Dyer near Laidley two weeks ago. Some
were fairly local and others came from some far flung places in Queensland.
The Saturday night BBQ went well and it seems that a couple of VK4W's spent
rather a large part of the night draining the reserves of a certain distillery
based in Bundaberg. At least they were quiet and didn't annoy anyone, yeah
right...
Noel VK4NL wants to take all the glory for such a well set-up event and so
he should, a big pat on the back to Noel.
A similar event will be held at a similar time, probably at a similar place
next year so stay tuned for details as we approach the second half of 2009.
Don't forget the Somerset Dam/Kirkleigh camp will be on in April 2009.
JOTA
SCARC fielded two JOTA locations this year, one at the clubrooms and one at
Cooroy.
The Cooroy event was run by Noel VK4NL and the event at the clubrooms was
headed by Ray VK4YRS with help from quite a few other club members. There
was not a huge turn out of Scouts so we are looking at ways to improve this
for next year.
A new second-hand 20m monoband yagi was erected at the club atop the rotator
for JOTA and by all accounts it performed quite well, it does need a little
bit of tuning to get it spot on.
General Meeting November 4th
The next general meeting of SCARC is the homebrew competition, where club
members are invited to bring along something they have constructed in the
previous 12months and vie for a prize.
This meeting will also feature a guest presenter, Don Selkirk, who is a
retired Aircraft Engineer. This should be an interesting talk.
(GORDON VK4VP)
TOWNSVILLE
vk4wit(AT)wia.org.au
http://vk4zz.no-ip.org/tarc/
theTARCinc 2008 AGM attendance numbers needed
The 2008 Annual General Meeting of theTARCinc happens Sunday
November 23rd from 7am at Area 2 - Rossiter Park Aitkenvale.
The AGM will start off with Breakfast followed by the meeting
and attendance numbers are needed for catering purposes.
Relay your AGM numbers as soon as possible to
Gavin VK4ZZ either by phone 47791161, mobile 0427 182469
or via Radio.
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