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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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PO Box 199 Wavell Heights, Qld 4012
Contact QAC by HF Radio 3.605 Mondays 7:30pm after QNEWS
QAC qac@wia.org.au OVERSEES HAM RADIO MATTERS IN VK4
QNEWS newsroom qnews@wia.org.au USE TO SEND US YOUR NEWS STORIES!!
QTAC qtac@wia.org.au HANDLES TECHNICAL QUERIES
QTC qtc@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
news for ar magazine to qtc@wia.org.au
VK4 SILENT KEYS @ 2007 - 2008 QAC COUNCIL YEAR
VK4ZFJ Frank Smith August 10 2007 advised by vk4apd
VK4BDV Noel Kohler December 14 2007 advised by vk4zz
VK4RQ/ZRG Bob Grummitt December 2007 advised by vk4zz
VK4AZV John Balazs December 24 2007 advised by vk4bbs
VK4NRA Gus Angus December 26 2007 advised by vk4zz
VK4BQG Quinton Greene February 1 2008 advised by vk4vp
VK4FUT John Tait February 2008 advised by vk4zz
John Tait VK4FUT SK
Sad news to hand on the passing of John Tait VK4FUT following a heroic battle
with cancer.
John lived in Ayr North Queensland and apart from being active on the bands
for most of his years was also active within the community, being the Founding
President and past Secretary of the Burdekin Machinery Preservationists Inc
and a Foundation Member and Technician for the Burdekin Volunteer Marine
Rescue Group.
John was laid to rest at Ayr Cemetery on Wednesday February 13th following a
well attended service at Ayr Presbyterian Church.
We pass on our best wishes and commiserations to XYL Lorna and family and
believe that John will be sorely missed by all.
(Gavin VK4ZZ)
This is QNEWS from VK4WIA for week commencing February 17 2008
I'm Gordon VK4VP and we welcome to the QNEWS stable of rebroadcasters
John VK4JKL who is putting both State and National WIA MP3 files to air
on the VK4RCA 2M rptr in an endeavour to keep the Cairns HAMS up with the
latest news from WIA.
Welcome aboard John..
(John VK4JKL IRLP 6163)
CLUBBING - WITH GORDON VK4VP SUNSHINE COAST ARC
BARC
http://www.qsl.net/vk4ba
or, by E-mail to vk4ba@qsl.net
D-Star Repeater for Brisbane.
barc sECRETARY Kevin VK4UH recently gave a report regarding the proposed
establishment of a D-Star repeater for the area following the donation of
a number of these repeaters in a joint initiative by the WIA and ICOM
Australia.
A consortium of clubs in the South East Area was being set up by Kevin to
make this possible and already interest had been apparent from the Queensland
Digital Group, WICEN and the Redcliffe Amateur Radio Club and the support of
B.A.R.C. was sought.
A live demonstration of the new D-Star digital voice mode will be given at
the next BARC meeting.
(sourced to qsp)
DALBY AND DISTRICT
ervons@bigpond.com.au
The Dalby & District and Sunshine Coast Radio Clubs are holding their annual
get together at Kirkleigh Somerset Dam on the weekend of the 5th & 6th of
April this year.
We extend an invitation to your club members and friends to come and join us
as we camp out and have a fun weekend,
We hope to have a car boot sale as well as other radio related activities, and
create some discussion and maybe some ideas relating to your favourite
electronic project.
We are currently negotiating for a deal for the camping fees, so we will need
to know numbers as soon as possible, and we are planning to cater for a BBQ
tea on the Saturday evening for a very reasonable $5 donation. All other
meals will be self catered.
So if you have the weekend free and wish to join in, please let us know, we
would love to see you there
Please contact Neil VK4NF on 4662 4950
Or Email holmzie@bigpond.com
Or Ricky VK4NRL on 4662 0095
Or Email rjlammas@optusnet.com.au
Gold Coast Amateur Radio
Well what a wonderful time was had yesterday by all those who attended
the ALARA luncheon which was put on by Pam vk4pto. A great day was had by
all and even the OM's had their own BBQ to enjoy.
To all Club Members there is a change of date for the AGM It will now be
held on Saturday 29th March at 10.00am. Please come along.
Remember to contact Roy VK4IG if you know of anyone who is interested in
doing the foundation Licence. Remember classes are held at a time to
suit you so please contact Roy on 07-5539-3530.
Remember if you wish to attend the campover at Sharpe Park during the long
weekend in June then please contact Dave VK4AO and he will give you all the
information.
REDCLIFFE
http://www.qsl.net/vk4iz
http://vk4rc.we.net.au
2M IRLP node 44666; 70CM IRLP node 6404.
The Redcliffe 2 metre and 70 cm repeater will be off the air from 1pm until
about 4 pm today, Sunday, to allow for the installation of a new dual band
antenna.
A further reminder that a 91.5 htz CTCSS sub encode tone has been added for
access to the Redcliffe 70 cm repeater. So please program your radios for
91.5htz tone in your Tx carrier.
Alan, VK4KZ reported to the Monthly meeting of the Club that last weekend
10 students had commenced their advanced licence training & on Sunday a
further 10 students had commenced their foundation training.
These are the biggest classes that the club has seen and with more than
80% of students also becoming club members the club is going from strength
to strength.
With Peter VK4TGV completing his Assessor’s training, and new club members
who are currently also assessors, Chris VK4ANI and Adam VK4AI, will join
Alan VK4KZ, Laurie, VK4BLE and Ray VK4VKC (still awaiting his full call)
in providing a strong band of assessors to manage exams and training for new
amateurs.
Andy VK4KY outlined the plans for the John Moyle competition and believes
that this year could be a wet one given the current weather.
The Club will be operating all 6 bands in both voice & CW.
Andy also outlined his plans for a Friday night seafood nosh up prior to the
competition and Peter VK4TGV outlined the Saturday night lamb and pork roast.
If Any Brisbane amateurs wish to visit, or assist the club over the weekend,
please advise Peter VK4TAA via the club’s website (above) for further details.
SUNSHINE COAST
Maleny VK4RSC 146.850 and 438.075 VK4RSN 53.7 Noosa Heads VK4RSL 146.825
and 438.175 91.5 tone Mt Corella 147.975 thanks to Jason VK4MIH
Annual General Meeting
Our annual general meeting will be held on Tuesday 4th of March from 7:30pm
at the clubrooms 85 Godfreys Rd Bli Bli. This is an opportunity for members
to be part of the decision making team that shapes your club. A reminder
that member fees were due from 1st of January and you must be financial to
vote, nominate or be nominated.
Our last meeting featured Geoff VK4KEL provided an excellent power point
presentation on wait for it....packet radio. Yes that's right, quite a few
members are interested in packet due to its use in the Rally Queensland event
for scoring and also as a means of keyboard to keyboard comms during emergencies.
TABLELANDS RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CLUB
www.trec.aussiewide.com
vk4wat@wia.org.au
February 16 0900 (Saturday) Meeting/activities Club rooms - Luncheon
February 16 1300 (Saturday) Management meeting
TOWNSVILLE
vk4wit@wia.org.au
http://vk4zz.no-ip.org/tarc/
This Tuesday February 19 th the TARC Social Evening will be happening at the
Club Rooms atop SES HQ Green Street West End from 7-30pm. Go along and lend a
helping hand to put the 39th anniversary edition of magazine of renown,
Back-scatter together and socialise with fellow hams.
All welcome !
theTARCinc Committee are seeking to gauge the level of interest
in the club holding a Breakfast Sausage Sizzle onboard
Pop Sullivan's Ross River Dam Cruising Platform one
Sunday in April.
If good solid interest is shown and things go ahead then the cruise
will be captained by Roger VK4CD, will take in parts of Lake Ross
not normally accessible on a dam tour (thanks to the dam being at
full capacity) and will feature the first ever maritime portable
transmission of WIANews from a dam.
Express your firm interest by getting in contact with Tony VK4TJS,
either on the repeater or by telephone 47740582.
TARC are also calling for expressions of Interest for a tour of
Channel 10.
The proposed Technical Tour of Southern Cross Broadcasting North
Queensland Transmission Hub and Production Facility at Garbutt will
hopefully take place on the TARC Project Night April 8th and be
conducted by John Hawkins VK4KJH, one of Southern Cross Broadcasting's
very busy broadcast engineers.
For occupational health and safety reasons, covered work style
footwear is a necessity for the tour.
If you want to go and see one of the newest television facilities
in the country then get in contact with Don VK4FNQA at the Matcave
either on the repeater or on telephone 47756579.
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