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VK7 Amateur Radio News 05Dec21
Text edition:
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 5th December 2021
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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News for the 5th December 2021. At the mike of VK7WI this week is Mike, VK7FB.
This broadcast goes out on repeaters all over VK7 and on digital radio - DMR Talk Group 5 and D-Star Reflector 91C by VK7ZCR.
We also go out on medium and high frequency courtesy of the following rebroadcast stations:
On 1.862 MHz by Graham VK7GS
On 3.670 MHz by Ross, VK7ALH
On 7.140 MHz by Garry, VK7JGD
On 14.130 MHz by Dale, VK7DG and
On 28.525 MHz by Tony, VK7VKT
You can hear this broadcast again on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RAA in Northern VK7 and VK7RTC in Southern VK7.
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RAOTC News
December Broadcast
https://www.raotc.org.au/
This is a reminder about the RAOTC broadcast for Monday the 6th of December 2021 over 2 of the VK7 repeater networks; that’s tomorrow night for those listening on Sunday.
The first article is sourced from Cosmos Magazine and takes a fresh look at solar panels in space.
As everyone knows, photovoltaic generation is intermittent due to cloud cover and the day-night cycle. The idea of generating electricity in space and beaming it towards earth has
been around for decades.
This article examines several design concepts that take into account such issues as satellite size and mass, safety limits and size of so-called ‘rectennas’.
The second article is the final in this series of computer history; it deals with a brief history of Apple Macintosh.
In January 1984 the first Macintosh operating system appeared. Details are given of the various operating systems that followed including several name changes.
Listen at 8 pm Monday local time over the VK7RAA/RTC state-wide network or at about 8:30pm as a telecast on VK7AX ‘Spectrum Tasmania’ via the BATC members’ stream or in
the Ulverstone area on 445.50MHz DATV.
The date again is December 6th. Call backs will follow on both networks. Please call in if you are able. Callback statistics are sent to the RAOTC broadcast committee.
If you miss the off-air broadcasts you can listen to the audio file on the RAOTC website.
73, Peter VK7PD
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Contest News
WIA Spring VHF / UHF Field Day
Last weekend was the Spring Field day.
Thanks to all who operated during the weekend and contributed contacts. Your logs are now due and need to uploaded by midnight AEDST, Monday 13 December 2021.
To submit your logs - for direct import into log checking software with no transcription, logs in ASCII text format, as produced by VKCL, are preferred now. No cover sheet is required with these logs.
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/upload/
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/
73, Richard, VK7ZBX
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QSL News
Report - from Herman VK7HW Manager of the WIA VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
The current list of QSL Cards held as at 19 November is in the email version of the broadcast.
If you have recently upgraded and/or changed your callsign please contact Herman to advise him of your old and new callsigns.
Thank you to those amateurs who have already been in touch advising me of new calls and SK information.
73, Herman, VK7HW, WIA Manager VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
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VK7 Inwards QSL Cards held as at 19 November 2021
AAA, AB, AD, AIR, AL, AM, AP, AS, AV
BA, BB, BEN, BYE
CJ, CL, CV, CX
DD, DG, DT, DZ
ER
FG, FJFJ, FTAS
GA, GC, GM, GZ
HCH, HCK, HDM, HOB, HRS, HRW, HVK, HZ
IK, IS
JA, JB, JJ (for new CH?), JP, JW
KBA, KD, KI, KJ, KL, KO, KRJ, KX
LAZ, LDH, LJ, LTD
MAG, MBD, MC, ME, MHZ, MI, MK
NA, NRF, NSE, NTE
PSJ, PW
RG, ROY
SV
TAS, TCE, TED, TK, TU
VAC, VAZ, VH, VKV, VR, VZ
WA, WC, WIA, WT, WX
XDM, XTC
ZA, ZJJ, ZM, ZT, ZZ
NTARC Club Rooms -
AU, AP, CH, DON, KPA
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NEWS FROM THE NORTH WEST
North West Tasmania Amateur Radio Club next Meeting
NWATRC had their Christmas outing, on Saturday the 27th November.
This was to be held at Legions Park on the Esplanade West Ulverstone, however unfortunately the facility was unavailable and it was moved to Airforce Park, which was a larger facility, right beside the beautiful Leven River.
The Weather was absolutely awesome, blue skies, slight breeze and beautiful scenery . Club members, family, children and friends enjoyed a scrumptious bar-b-que lunch beside the river.
The socialising and banter carried on throughout the afternoon, and those attending had an enjoyable time.
73, Eric VK7EV, News Officer, NWTARC
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NEWS FROM THE NORTH
SOTA/WWFF PARKS GROUP
The Summits On The Air/World Wide Flora and Fauna parks group is now meeting twice weekly – Mondays and Fridays 10.30AM till 12.00 at the Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry Street, Launceston.
For more information contact Al on 0417 354 410.
73, Al, VK7AN
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Northern Tasmanian Amateur Radio Club Incorporated
www.ntarc.net
Once again, we had a very good roll up on Friday at coffee and as usual, there was lots of chatter. A number of members visited the main hall to pour over the stock items for sale. It’s amazing, you get one person down there and then suddenly it becomes like bees around the honey pot. All feverishly go through boxes and bits and pieces, to find that jewel in the crown or locating that item they have to have but didn’t realise they needed it till it was in their hand. Not to worry guys, I understand that obsession but in my case it is fabric for quilting.
We now hand over to Idris to bring you up to speed on the events of the Club tech night held last Wednesday, 1st December;
“This Session was packed full with interesting presentations and equipment. We had presentations from two of our Peters, starting with VK7PD.
Peter VK7PD gave us a presentation about his adventures with the 10GHz band. He took us through the basics of working with the GHz bands, including some history with a slide show. He had brought some of his field day equipment to show us and detailed how the various modules connected together, using an FT-817 to provide the IF. During the recent VHF/UHF Field Day exercise, Peter made voice contact with Rex VK7MO in Hobart on 10GHz FM.
Thanks Peter for a very interesting session. At a later session, Peter will add to this presentation with a talk about his Field Day Console, and its features. On to the next Peter.
Peter VK7KPC has been participating in a project for the HamSCI program. HamSCI is the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation, which is a platform for the publicity and promotion of projects to advance scientific research and understanding through amateur radio activities. Peter’s particular project concerns the total Solar Eclipse across Antarctica, which produces disturbances in the Ionosphere. These disturbances are known to cause Doppler shifts in HF radio ray paths, which can be measured by Amateurs and SWLs using their HF radios taking and recording results using transmissions from time standard beacons such as WWV/H in Hawaii, which is what Peter is using. The HF radio ideally should have a GPS Disciplined Oscillator for frequency stability, and at previous Club gatherings, Peter had given us progress reports on this process, which he has had success with. During the eclipse phenomenon, audio recordings are made of the demodulated time signal, in this case 10 MHz, and the files produced are sent away for analysis. This program is worldwide and many Amateurs and SWLs in many countries are participating in collecting frequency data. The actual eclipse will have taken place on Saturday December 4th. As it has taken place over Antarctica, it won’t have been seen very well in Tasmania. Thanks Peter for a fascinating insight into these programs. It’s amazing what volunteer power can achieve.
And now for something completely different, Ross VK7ALH showed us his latest bargain! Answering an advert in an online buy and sell, he managed to acquire two items advertised as “tunersö. They were a 3kW Palstar which was indeed an antenna matcher, but amazingly the other item was a Chinese manufactured medium frequency AM transmitter, quite large, but solidly constructed. With the covers off both items, there was much interest from all in attendance. Thanks Ross that will go nicely with your 160m large antenna. Good luck.
That’s all folks, I have rambled on enough, so 73 from Idris VK7ZIRö
Thanks Idris for that update sounds like an interesting evening and enjoyed by all. They will now have to wait till January 2022 before we hold another Club tech night. Just imagine the goodies that will roll up on the first night .
2022 Membership fees – yes with the year rapidly disappearing it is time to start reminding all that your 2021 Membership fee expires on 31 December. A letter advising of the fee payable for 2022 was to be forwarded to all members in late November, to the email address noted on our records, but a glitch in the system did not see this happen. Hopefully it will be sorted in the coming week.
We confirm that the 2022 membership fee will see a slight increase to $40 for each voting member with an additional unchanged $5 for each member of the family that the voting member wishes to add to his or her membership.
A number of members have already paid by direct deposit to our bank account so if you would prefer to use that method, the bank details are Bendigo Bank BSB 633 000, Account Number 120432687 in the name of NTARC. Please remember to notate your payment with your call sign. Other options are by paying on a Friday coffee morning or by cheque to our Postal address, PO Box 275 Launceston 7250.
UPCOMING EVENTS
TestNet and TECHNET – Wednesday 8th December. TestNet/CW course on 3580 from 7pm till 7.30pm….and a TECHNET on 3567 from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm. Your host for the evening will again be Nic VK7WW.
Christmas Dinner – Wednesday 15th December. Venue Mowbray Hotel, meet time is 6.00pm. Tables have been booked under the name of NTARC. Menu is a-la-carte and there is plenty of parking at the rear. Please RSVP the secretary at either of these email addresses news(at)ntarc.net or ypmaxwell(at)bigpond.com or jot your name down on the sheet next to the sign in register on a Wednesday night session or coffee morning. We will need to confirm final numbers with the Hotel on Tuesday 14th December, so please ensure you get your name on the list before that date. As of Friday we had 28 names listed and the Hotel has been advised to extend seating numbers to 30, so if you are planning to attend please advise so that your name can be added.
Please note there will not be a Club tech session on this night. They will be recommencing in January, the date to be confirmed in coming news.
FUTURE EVENTS
January General meeting – Saturday 8th January 2022. Meeting to commence at 14:00 hours (2.00pm). Afternoon tea will follow.
Annual General meeting – the Annual General Meeting of NTARC will take place on Wednesday 9th February 2022 at the NTARC Club Rooms, Rocherlea Scout Hall, Archer Street Rocherlea commencing at 19:30 hours (7.30 pm).
I will be writing to all the NTARC Coordinators soon requesting they start to think about their yearly report.
The AGM will be followed by the February General meeting. More information on this matter in January.
COFFEE MORNINGS – currently held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Catch up time is from 10.00 am to noon and we look forward to seeing you all.
These coffee events represent a good opportunity to collect your QSL cards. We currently have cards awaiting collection, so why not pop in and check the QSL box and join us for a cuppa and chat.
Just a friendly reminder, please demonstrate your appreciation of all the effort that goes into operating the club, its facilities and the other services we provide, especially in these abnormal and very trying times, enjoying the company, coffee, biscuits and cake, by leaving a gold coin or two, or even a small bank note, in the jar to assist in our on-going operations.
Christmas and New Year closure – the last day the Club will be open in 2021 for coffee mornings will be Friday 17th December. We re-open on Friday 7th January 2022.
This gives all members and especially the team that set up each week some down time to celebrate with family and friends. Plenty of warning on this one folks so please note your diaries.
FINALLY – A reminder to all members that if you have any items of news you would like added to our weekly roundup, no matter how trivial, then please email me at the following address news(at)ntarc.net all items to be received no later than 17:00 on the Friday prior to the Broadcast.
Your continued cooperation in this regard will be greatly appreciated.
We will bring you all such contributions next Sunday morning.
73, Yvonne VK7FYMX, Secretary NTARC Inc
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NEWS FROM THE SOUTH
WICEN Tasmania (South)
https://wicentas.org/
XMAS Lunch
WICEN Tas (Sth) is holding their XMAS lunch and gathering at the Top Pub (opposite the RSL) at Cygnet from 12 noon today, Sunday the 5th December 2021.
We hope you have been fasting for the last few days as we understand that the meals are huge and come with free icecream if your dessert stomach is still available...HIHI!
73, WICEN Committee
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Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania
https://www.reast.asn.au/
https://www.facebook.com/reasttas/
https://www.youtube.com/reasthobart/
December Presentation
VK0PD on Antarctic Adventures
We have been fortunate to be able to secure a presentation from Paul Daniels VK0PD / VK2PAD who gave us an illustrated talk on his experience spending the winter at the Australian Antarctic Division Casey station. Paul started with some background on his interest in radio and Antarctica.
Paul did a site survey once down at Casey and the RF noise was not good but found a location for the antennas and operated from the Hobby Shack. Paul took a IC-7300, an IC-705 and HLA-305 PA and ATX converted SMPSU. Paul built a foot switch from workshop rubbish and showed his operating position in the hobby hut.
Paul showed the weather forecasts in Antarctica and the snow storms/blizzards engulfing and breaking the antenna regularly. It emphasised that there are relentless wind and blizzard conditions that saps your enthusiasm over time.
As the building services supervisor he visited the past radio antenna installation however all the V beams were broken and tower installation was condemned.
He outlined some fun stuff they get up to namely a sauna for 25m then into an ice bath for about 10m - yeah right!
Paul outlined an engineering job he undertook to improve safety and there is constant maintenance that is required to combat the relentless weather and this included some RF engineering work on the tandem delta with the comms tech.
Paul played a video of the first plane coming in along with the fog and it couldn't land! But then an RAAF C-17A came into the next day and Paul got to come back on a nice big RAAF transport plane - nice!
Paul then took questions.
Do you realise that a job in Australia takes three to ten times longer in Antarctica!
Paul talked about operating radio and the polar flutter and outlined that he was operating radio down there not to make quick contacts but to operate radio and have conversations.
Paul described the size limits for the hardware that you can take down to Antarctica and the need to take down things to keep you busy.
Paul answered some late questions about heading south to work for the AAD and the opportunities that working for the AAD present. He finished with the comment that the AAD is a very supportive organisation to work for.
A huge thank you to Paul for this presentation and to Hayden for liaising with Paul.
There is a recording that is available from the REAST YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEz-Nww-dno
73, REAST Committee
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REAST Christmas BYO BBQs
REAST will be holding two Christmas BYO BBQs on 15 December 2021. The first at lunchtime for the Wednesday Afternoon Group (WAGs) and the second from 7:30pm for the DATV Experimenter’s Group.
See you there.
https://fb.me/e/OZaCeR9W
73, REAST Committee
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REAST Open Day
The REAST committee is holding its Open Day on Sunday January 30th, 2022 from 11am to 3pm.
More details about the day will be in future broadcasts.
See you there.
https://fb.me/e/1MR2uxYba
73, REAST Committee
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Training and Assessments
REAST’s next Foundation Licence course and all licence assessment day is on next Saturday the 25th January 2022 from 9am to 3pm.
If you are thinking of coming along then please let Reg Emmett VK7KK REAST Learning Organiser know ASAP that you will be coming along by phoning 0417 391 607 or email assessor(at)reast.asn.au.
Check out the REAST Foundation Licence Training Videos that can be found on the REAST YouTube Training and Assessment playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsnsP_zjw831mdC6sY4XqavRUY-53ZWUn
Checkout the REAST Facebook page events for further details.
https://www.facebook.com/events/718404075716863/
73, Reg, VK7KK
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DATV Experimenter's Night
We get back underway this Wednesday night with our DATV Experimenter’s nights.
We will have a review of the new NANOVNA-F V2 - this wonderful piece of cheap RF test equipment is a must in any shack.
https://sysjoint.com/en/content/?144.html
There will also be a quick review of more articles from the latest DUBUS and AR Magazines
We get underway on Wednesday the 8th December from 7:30pm.
Keep an eye on the REAST Facebook Events for more details.
And a reminder that we go out on RF on 445.5MHz DVB-T 7MHz Standard Definition. So, if you have a TV, Set-top box or USB DTV Dongle that you can tune and scan 445.5MHz and you can see the Queens Domain, then you have a good chance of receiving the DATV Experimenter's Night Signal.
Look out for VK7OTC. We also stream the nights on the REAST YouTube channel.
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/live-stream/
https://www.reast.asn.au/special-interest-groups/amateur-tv/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ReastHobart/
73, Justin, VK7TW
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Regular VK7 gatherings and events over the coming months:
Regular gatherings:
SOTA/WWFF Group – Meeting Mondays and Fridays 10.30-12.00 midday at Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry St, Launceston.
NTARC – Friday coffee session – Rocherlea clubrooms Launceston from 10:00am
NTARC - TestNet and TECHNET – Wednesday 8th December. TestNet/CW course on 3580 from 7pm till 7.30pm and a TECHNET on 3567 from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm
NW VK7 – Wednesday from 2000 local – NW Tassie Amateur Repeater Group Net on VK7RMD
NW VK7 - Thursday commencing at 09:30 UTC (20:30 local) - N.W. Tassie 2m DX Net 144.190 USB (upper sideband).
REAST – MICROWAVE QSO Party – following after the Sunday broadcast on 1296.15 MHz FM.
REAST – WAGS – Wednesday Afternoon Group meet in the Queens Domain Clubrooms from 12 noon.
REAST – DATV Experimenter’s Nights from 7:30pm live in the club rooms also on DVBT RF and YouTube Streaming
Sewing Circle Net – Daily on 3.640 MHz commences at 6:00pm AEDST.
Events:
WICEN Tas (Sth) - 5th December - XMAS lunch - Top pub - Cygnet from 12 noon.
NTARC - 15th December - Xmas Dinner at Mowbray Hotel from 6.00pm - let secretary know if coming along.
REAST - 15th December - XMAS BYO BBQs for WAGS at lunchtime and DATV Experimenter’s Night from 6:00pm
NTARC - 8th January 2022 - General Meeting from 2.00pm in the Rocherlea clubrooms with afternoon tea to follow.
REAST - 30th January 2022 - REAST OPEN Day from 11am to 3pm
REAST - 6th February 2022 - Annual General Meeting - Queens Domain Clubrooms from 11am followed by BYO BBQ
NTARC - 9th February 2022 - Annual General Meeting from 7:30pm in the NTARC Club Rooms, Rocherlea Scout Hall, Archer Street Rocherlea
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A reminder to those people rostered for next week’s broadcast:
Newsreader: VK7PD
Repeaters: REAST, NTARC and in the NW thanks to N W T A R C, West Coast Radio Group, Cradle Coast Radio Amateur Radio Club, VK7AX, and VK7DC
160m: VK7GS
80m: VK7JGD
40m: VK7DG
20m: VK7TPE
10m: VK7VKT
DMR: Talk Group 5 and D-Star: Reflector 91C VK7ZCR
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You can hear this broadcast again on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RAA in Northern VK7 and VK7RTC in Southern VK7.
A huge thank you 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.
You have been listening to or have just missed VK7WI. Next week the National WIA news can be heard at 0900 followed by the VK7 Amateur Radio News around 0930 hours.
Items for the broadcast can be emailed to vk7arnews(at)@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.
On behalf of the VK7 Amateur Radio News Team it’s 73 from Mike, VK7FB.
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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