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Text edition: VK7 REGIONAL NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 27 January 2019
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VK7 REGIONAL NEWS BROADCAST FOR SUNDAY 27 January 2019
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Welcome to the Australia Day edition of the VK7 Amateur Radio News for the 27th of January 2019. This broadcast is brought to you by VK7WI, and read today by Mike, VK7FB.
This broadcast utilises repeaters around VK7 and the following HF rebroadcast stations:
On 3.670 MHz by Ross, VK7ALH
On 7.140 MHz by Peter, VK7TPE
On 14.130 MHz by Garry, VK7JGD
On 28.525 MHz by Tony, VK7VKT
Australia wide on Talk Group 3809, user activated, VK7 News only from 0930 - 1000 by Clayton, VK7ZCR
This broadcast is repeated on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RTC in the South and VK7RAA in the North.
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Silent Key
Ron Churcher VK7RN
We were saddened to hear of the passing of our amateur friend Ron Churcher OAM (ex VK7RN) on January 20th. in his 93rd. Year.
Ron was a well known identity in the North West Community and described by many as very friendly and gregarious
which was indeed very true being involved in many community activities.
For many years, Ron held the Call VK7RN, relinquishing it a couple of years ago when his health started to decline.
He was very active in the N/West Branch of WIA just prior to the WIA becoming a National Body for Amateurs & Radio Clubs
being formed. Ron was of great assistance to Tony VK7AX in forming the first Club in the N/West
"North West Tasmania Amateur Radio Interest Group".
He was a big HF operator and his favourite country was Canada.
Farewell, Ron we will all miss your gregarious and friendly banter.
VALE Ron Churcher. (VK7RN).
(Tony, VK7AX and Eric VK7EV)
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Contest News
Summer VHF/UHF Field Days
Reminder that logs are due for the Summer VHF/UHF Field Day held on January 12 and 13.
The closing day for logs is Monday 28 January 2019. THATS TOMORROW!
http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/
Another reminder that the Ross Hull Contest is still running until the end of January. Please give participants a call if you hear them.
http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/rosshull/
Later in the year the John Moyle Contest is to be held over March 16-17 and the Winter VHF/UHF Field Day on June 22-23.
(73, Peter VK7PD)
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Ross Hull Contest and 23 CM QSO Party in January
For QSOs to be counted in the Ross Hull it is necessary to move off the calling frequency of 1296.1. So as to enable 23 cm QSO Party contacts to be counted for the Ross Hull the 23 cm QSO party will move up to 1296.175 FM during January. Digital Operations up to Launceston will continue on QRA64-C on 1296.2.
The QSO Party will start straight after the broadcast at around 10:00 am local each Sunday in January on 1296.175 and then beam to Launceston at 10:30 am Local. For those stations who have time please come up again on 1296.175 at 11:00 am for a second Ross Hull QSO as those QSO's can be counted again each UTC day.
(73 Rex VK7MO)
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Event News
Meet the Voice 2019
Plans are underway for this year's Meet the Voice gathering in Ross on the weekend of 23rd to 24th March. The event has moved to the Ross Recreation Ground, and those who wish to camp can do so on site for a small fee, which will ensure access to the kitchen, shower and toilet facilities.
The event will span two days, and is a great opportunity to meet face to face with old and new friends alike, and of course, the annual gifting of the Sewing Circle trophy!
Weekly updates will be provided by the Sunday broadcast, on Facebook, and via email. If you want to receive the email, let Dani know by emailing vk7freq@gmail.com. Shortly a call out for volunteers will occur. If you are interested in donating some time please let Dani know. Of course, there will be a raffle. If you wish to donate a prize, again, please let Dani know.
Dani can be contacted on vk7freq @ gmail.com or 0409232419 outside business hours.
Meet the Voice 2019 at the Ross Recreation Grounds on March 23rd and 24th.
Many Thanks
(73, Dani VK7FREQ)
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NEWS FROM THE NORTH WEST
North West Tas. Radio & TV Group (NWTR&TVG)
Meeting Notice
The next meetings of the NWTR&TVG are scheduled for Saturday, February 2nd. 2019.
YES.. THAT'S NEXT SATURDAY !!
This will be the Club's AGM followed by the Bi Monthly General Meeting.
Venue is the Leven District Scout Headquarters, 73 Alexander Road, Ulverstone.
As per the Club Rules, ALL Executive Positions will fall vacant at the AGM, so it is suggested members give this some serious consideration, and maybe consider themselves or alternatively nominate a Club friend for one of the 5 positions.
The appropriate Nomination Form for Executive has been emailed or posted to all members.
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Membership Subscriptions now Due.
Members are also advised that Membership Subscriptions for 2019 are now due as of 1st. Jan. 2019.
The appropriate reminder has been forwarded by email or posted to all members recently, including the Renewal Forms (Regular & Student) for 2019. Members are asked to return the renewal form along with the appropriate payment, to the Club Membership Officer at their earliest convenience.
Thank you to those members who have now renewed their membership for 2019.
73 until next time,
(Tony VK7AX - Club News Officer)
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news from the north
SOTA and WWFF Parks and Reserves Group
Meeting times are from 10:30am on Monday and Friday At Glebe Gardens Cafe, 166 Henry St, Launceston.
For more details contact Al on Mobile: 0417 354 410.
73, Al, VK7AN
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Northern Tasmanian Amateur Radio Club Incorporated
Here we are again, Australia Day weekend but with Mother Nature, perhaps assisted by a lot of human intervention, ensuring that Australia is living up to its reputation as the land of floods and fires, of rugged mountain ranges and wide brown sweeping plains. We have floods in the north and widespread fires in the south.
So to any amateurs in the State who reside in the fire inflicted areas, please stay safe. Remember possessions can be replaced but lives cannot.
2019 Membership fees – a big thank you to all those members who have paid their 2019 subs. Our Treasurer has been very busy writing up receipts. To those that as yet havent renewed just a further reminder that your 2018 membership expired on 31 December and you are now listed on the membership register as an unfinancial member. Your status will stay that way until you have renewed your membership or until 30 June when your name will be removed permanently from the membership register.
In case you have forgotten, NTARCs 2019 membership fees are just $30.00 for a Full voting member and $5 additional for each Family member that the voting member wishes to add to his or her primary membership.
As all listeners must be aware, the replacement of aging legacy equipment along with other ongoing care and maintenance of our repeater systems does not come cheap. For you to be able to continue to enjoy this aspect of your hobby and for NTARC to continue to provide this great network, we need your support now.
If you are not a member of NTARC please consider joining. If you have been a member in the past but have let that membership lapse for any reason, please consider rejoining. In either case, an application form can be found on our website
www.ntarc.net
or why not pop into the clubroom on a Monday or Friday, during coffee hours and collect an application. You will be made most welcome.
If club membership is not your cup of tea, we fully understand. In those circumstances, perhaps you might care to make a direct donation to our repeater fund, rather than pay a yearly subscription. If so, we would be happy to receive your contribution, either in person at a club meeting or coffee morning, or by post to PO BOX 275 Launceston 7250. Any donation will gladly be accepted. All donations will be officially receipted and noted accordingly against the repeater project.
WIA 2019 Callbook -With the announcement by the WIA of the availability of the 2019 callbook, NTARC is again arranging bulk buys for members.
We received one order of Call Books on the Friday before Christmas and we will place another order once the WIA Office opens in late January. In the interim therefore, if you are interested in taking part in this purchase, could you please let the Treasurer André VK7ZAB know either at coffee on a Monday or Friday or email him at the following treasurer@ntarc.net so that we can gauge interest and order the appropriate number as soon as possible
The cost for the 2019 Call Book will be $35, the same as last year. This is still a significant saving on the cost of a WIA member ordering directly from the WIA Bookshop, once postage is added on and is significantly cheaper than the price available to non-WIA members.
Now on to Coming events
Technical sessions – our first Technical session for 2019 is definitely getting closer, it is now only a matter of days before we resume on Wednesday 6th February. Meet time will be from 7.30 pm to 10.30 pm, at the Club room Archer Street, Rocherlea. Please also note that there will be no Technical session on Wednesday 13 February due to our AGM being held that evening.
I know you have all been champing at the bit to get back into these technical sessions and I am certainly looking forward to reports of a bumper crop of projects being demonstrated on the night.
February Annual General meeting – the Annual General Meeting of NTARC will take place on Wednesday 13 February 2019 at the NTARC Club Rooms, Rocherlea Scout Hall, Archer Street Rocherlea commencing at 19:30 hours (7.30 pm).
Business at the AGM will consist of confirmation of the Minutes of the 2018 AGM, then reception and consideration of reports from the Committee, including the Treasurers report and reports from our various managers and coordinators. This will be followed by the election of officer bearers and committee person for 2019. The meeting will then consider any item of special business for which the requisite notice has been received by the closing date.
All current office holder and committee positions fall vacant at the AGM. Nominations for each office bearer and the Committee member are invited and should be made in writing to the Secretary, along with the signatures of the Nominator, Seconder and that of the member nominated. Appointments will also be required to the positions of Internal Auditor and Public Officer.
Please note that for your convenience a nomination form is now available from the NTARC club room. Please ensure that the completed nomination form is returned to the Secretary by COB 7th February 2019 at the following address: The Secretary, NTARC Inc. PO Box 275 Launceston Tas 7250 or it can be handed to the Secretary in a sealed envelope at either coffee mornings.
Members are reminded that they will need to have paid their 2019 renewal subscription before the meeting commences at 19:30 hours (7.30 pm) to be able to vote at the Annual General meeting. Similarly, they will need to have paid their 2019 subscription before they can be nominated or nominate or second someone for office, as only financial members can exercise those privileges.
The AGM will be followed by the February General meeting.
A reminder to all those that are required to write reports that time is marching on, so please start to think about it and put pen to paper. It would be appreciated if a hard copy of your report could be sent to the following email ntarc.emails@gmail.com by Tuesday 12 February to assist in preparing the necessary paper work for the AGM..
Coffee mornings – are normally held every Monday and Friday in the NTARC Club rooms and are now in full swing. Catch up time is from 10.00 am to noon and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2019. Tomorrow being the public holiday for Australia Day we will be open at our normal time. I have been advised the order of fare will be lamingtons and pies and that sounds good to me. I just hope we put the tomato sauce only on the pies though.
Please remember that aside from the good company, freely offered philosophical views, maybe less than expert political analysis, tall tales and funny stories and genuinely good fare on offer, these coffee events are normally a good opportunity to collect your QSL cards. Currently though we do not have any cards awaiting collection.
Please demonstrate your appreciation of all the effort that goes into operating the club and its facilities and other services we provide by joining us at these sessions, enjoying the company, coffee and the cake and leaving a gold coin or two, or even a small bank note, in the jar to assist in our on-going operations.
Finally
As always I look forward to catching up with you all at Rocherlea. A reminder to all members that if you have any items of news you would like added to the weekly roundup, then please email me at the following address
ntarc.emails @ gmail.com
73, Yvonne VK7FYMX, Secretary NTARC Inc
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NEWS FROM THE SOUTH
Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania
Member Packs Now Available
A big thank you from the secretary as most members renewed before the new year. This has made life a lot easier for Ben, and has meant that he was able to bring forward the printing of membership packs, which are now available for pickup at the clubrooms if you renewed before January 5th and can be found in the membership area by the door.
If you didnt renew until after the 5th, dont panic! Ben will be printing a second batch in around 2 weeks time which will make their way up to the clubrooms as well. Any packs still at the clubrooms after the AGM will be posted out to members at the address they have provided.
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REAST Annual General Meeting
The REAST AGM will be held on Sunday 17th February from 11.00am a the Queens Domain Clubrooms with a BBQ lunch to be held after the AGM completes. Members will have received an email announcing the AGM last week. If you did not receive the email, please check your spam folder.
Reports for the AGM will be available sometime this week in the Meeting Minutes section of the website. Members are encouraged to download their own copy to read or print, as there will a few copies available for reading at the clubroom on the day.
Members are reminded that nominations for committee positions close 10 days prior to the AGM & if only a single nomination is received for a position, then that position is considered filled, with no need for a ballot on the day of the AGM. If you would like to consider a role on the committee, please download the nomination form from the Member Resources page of the website.
The BBQ will be supplied by REAST including sausages, hamburgers, bread and condiments. A small amount of vegetarian options will also be available.
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No February Presentation
We wish to advise that as there are a number of events planned from late February and into March including the AGM, there will be no February Presentation on 6th February & that this will be a regular experimenters night.
(73, Ben, VK7BEN, Secretary)
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REAST Foundation Training and Assessment Days
Our dates for 2019 are 16th February, 20th April, 15th June, 17th August, 19th October and 21st December.
These dates are pending the transition to the new training and assessment arrangements and will be fully confirmed once we know what is happening.
So, the next Foundation training and assessment day is on 16th February from 9am.
Please contact Reg, VK7KK if you are interested in attending the day. Check out the REAST Website or Facebook page for events. So, if interested please contact Reg on
assessor @ reast.asn.auor phone mobile0417 391 607.
73, Reg, VK7KK
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Experimenter's Night Wrap-Up
Another huge night of experimentation.
Ron Cullen has been building 5.6GHz clover leaf antennas and perfecting his jig to hold them in place whilst they are soldered. Ron also ordered an on screen display (OSD) module for one of his fixed wing radio controlled aircraft. This unit was installed and wired up and gives Ron full telemetry like artificial horizon, heading, lat long, height, etc and all this information is superimposed on the 5.6GHz video stream back to the ground. Ron will be trying the setup out over this long weekend. On ya Ron.
John VK7FJPA bought along a few interesting items in a home brew high power dummy load that was build from the heatsinks found on a large LED industrial light fitting, there was also a TRIO signal generator and another interesting meter, thanks John.
Rex VK7MO and Richard VK7ZBX were back testing the GPS heading devices and trying to work out why there are varying results. There was much walking outside the move the heading device to see if there was improvement with the 900MHz ISM communications between the devices.
Richard bought in a very nice Kaelus bluetooth antenna VNA that covers 600MHz to 2.7GHz and is made for a rough industrial environment. The unit can be worn on the belt of a rigger who can connect up the antenna or coax on the tower and via bluetooth someone on the ground can sweep the antenna and hopefully work out what the problem is. Very nice piece of kit, thanks Richard.
Ben VK7BEN was running around with his MOXON Yagi trying to hunt satellites.
Justin VK7TW was again wiring up the DATV studio and we now have a camera mounted in the main clubrooms for presentation nights and this camera feeds into the DATV Studio and can be titled, mixed and streamed. Next week will be the audio installation for the studio.
Do you have a project that you need to finish before the end of summer, do you need ideas for projects or help troubleshooting a project, why not come along the the Experimenter's Night where there are plenty of opinions - good, bad and otherwise (HIHI) that can help you out!
See you in the Queen's Domain Clubrooms from 7:30pm this Wednesday night.
(73, Justin, VK7TW)
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Industry News
Codan undergoes rebranding
Following its strategic direction, Codan Radio Communications a division of Codan Limited has now rebranded to Codan Communications.
Codan has been successful in supporting NGOs, but has also recognised significant growth in the tactical and military markets. The new name reflects continued product portfolio expansion that strategically strengthens the division as a full communications solutions provider, rather than simply a ‘radio supplier. Codan Communications provides end-to-end communications solutions with the aim of saving lives, creating security and supporting peacekeeping worldwide.
The divisions innovative history of expansion and evolution continues with this name change as it reflects significant recent wins in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, West Africa and the Americas.
In a recently issued statement, the company said that “the name change does not impact the way in which we support any of our existing customers, rather broadens what we supply”.
More information can be found at the companys new website.
codancomms.com.
Read more:https://www.criticalcomms.com.au/content/industry/news/codan-undergoes-rebranding-290981063
(Source from the Critical Comms Web E-zine)
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Regular VK7 gatherings and events over the coming months:
Regular gatherings:
SOTA Group – Monday and Friday Coffee Sessions from 10:30am at Glebe Gardens Cafe 166 Henry St, Launceston
NTARC - Monday and Friday Coffee Sessions from 10am, Technical Sessions on Wednesdays from 7.30 pm to 10.30 pm in the clubrooms Archer Street, Rocherlea, Launceston.
REAST – Wednesday Afternoon Group meets from Noon and the Experimenters Nights from 1930 in the Queens Domain clubrooms.
REAST – MICROWAVE QSO Party – following after the Sunday broadcast on 1296.175 MHz FM then move to 1296.2 beaming North-South on QRA64C
Events:
NWTR&TVG 2 February 2019 – Annual General Meeting followed by the bimonthly General Meeting.
NTARC – 13 February – Annual General Meeting in Rocherlea Scout Hall, Archer Street Rocherlea from 7.30 pm
REAST - 17 February – Annual General Meeting in Queens Domain Clubrooms from 11:00am
VK7 – 23-24 March – Meet The Voice at Ross
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A reminder to those people rostered for next weeks broadcast:
Newsreader: VK7PD
Repeaters: REAST, NTARC and NWTR&TVG
80m: VK7TW
40m: VK7ALH
20m: VK7TPE
10m: VK7JGD
DMR: Talk Group 3809 VK7ZCR
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This broadcast is repeated on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RTC in the South and VK7RAA in the North.
Thanks to all people and organisations that assisted with this broadcast.
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That concludes our VK7 Amateur Radio News Broadcast for this week.
Next week the National WIA news can be heard at 0900 followed by the VK7 Amateur Radio News at 0930 hours.
Items for the broadcast can be emailed to vk7arnews @ gmail.com
Further information about the broadcast can be found at the VK7 Amateur Radio News Groups.IO Group.
https://groups.io/g/vk7arnews
The deadline for items is 21:00 on Friday prior to the Sunday of the broadcast.
VK7WI is now closing but will reopen shortly for callbacks and relay reports. Callbacks will be taken on the frequency to which you are listening. Relay stations will use their own callsigns during the callback.
From the VK7 Amateur Radio News, it is 73 from Mike, VK7FB.
(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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