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VK7 Amateur Radio News 03Jul22
Text edition:
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 3rd July 2022
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Welcome to the New Financial Year edition of the VK7 Amateur Radio News for the 3rd July 2022. At the mike of VK7WI this week is Justin, VK7TW.
This broadcast goes out on repeaters all over VK7 and on digital radio - DMR Talk Group 5 and D-Star Reflector 91C by Clayton VK7ZCR.
We 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 Dale, VK7DG
On 7.140 MHz by Peter, VK7TPE
On 14.130 MHz by Ross, VK7ALH and
On 28.525 MHz by Garry, VK7JGD
We also go out on UHF CB Channel 15 thanks to Mark VK7FMAC in the Hobart area.
You can hear this broadcast again on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RAA in Northern VK7 and VK7RAD in Southern VK7.
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RAOTC
Broadcast for July
This is a reminder about the RAOTC broadcast for Monday the 4th of July 2022 over 3 of the VK7 repeater networks; that’s tomorrow night if you are listening on Sunday.
The first item is titled QRP in 1922; it describes experiments successfully carried out by radio pioneer Charles Maclurcan who successfully sent CW and speech from Strathfield NSW to Melbourne in 1922 using a power of 3.2 watts. Maclurcan is said to be Australia’s first licensed radio broadcaster; he was subsequently allocated the call sign 2CM.
The second item is titled Before Radar; it is a follow-up of an earlier article on aircraft sound location which was used in World War 1. Further research reveals more information about the technique and places where it was used.
World War 2 saw faster aircraft and the gradual introduction of radar which was kept secret for as long as possible, meanwhile the continued use of sound location was widely publicised to mask the fact that radar was being used. Various sound horns are described. Some very large ‘sound mirrors’ still exist including one in Kent, UK.
The third article celebrates the 90th birthday of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; it also reveals some historic facts; these include the origin of the numeric prefixes which, as we know, were also inherited by radio amateurs. The alphabetic suffixes originated from the stations’ former private ownership.
It is interesting that 3LO Melbourne started out on the long wave band.
Listen at 8 pm Monday, local time, over the VK7RAA network in the north, VK7RAD in the Hobart area 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. Audio feed is available on VK7RDR, 439.775MHz, Dazzler Range.
The date again is July 4th. Call backs will follow on all networks. Please call in if you are able. Call back 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.
https://www.raotc.org.au/
73, Peter VK7PD
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Expressions of Interest
Tasmanian Ham Radio Conference
Hello All,
On behalf of the Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania Inc (REAST) we'd like to invite expressions of interest to a proposed event to be held in the last quarter of 2022 in Hobart, Tasmania.
The main event will be a premiere Amateur Radio conference consisting of a mix of practical, technical and demonstrative talks from hams all over Australia and perhaps even the world! The event will also be able to be accessed online, but extra rewards for those who attend in person with raffles, show and tell, tours + more!
We know you've been locked down and are starving to get back to more Amateur Radio conventions, eager to show off what you've been building in the shack, so, why not consider a Tassie holiday? Bring the XYL, come down and enjoy the sights, food and experience that Hobart will have to offer.
A short 20 minute trip from the airport, Flights into Hobart run from all major capital cities and direct to Auckland, NZ, so our ZL buddies across the ditch, why not come over for a weekend of fun and socialization!
We are calling for those who wish to present or attend such an event to please contact us ASAP, either by replying to this post or email below to register your interest.
Once we gauge sufficient interest in such an event, more specific event details will be released.
Email your expression of interest to Hayden at vice.president(at)reast.asn.au
Look forward to seeing you all in Hobart!
73, Hayden, VK7HH
Vice President - REAST Inc
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Statewide News
Thursday Night SSTV Nets
The following stations were seen to participate by exchanging SSTV pictures last Thursday night -
VK7s - PD, EV, DW, TW, ZCF, KRJ, DMH, HXT and ZGK.
Modes used included MP73, Scottie 1 and Robot36. Some of these pictures were captured and uploaded to the NTARC Blog thanks to Andre VK7ZAB and can be found on the email edition of this broadcast.
https://www.ntarc.net/blogs/1u6lzeqdjj85rnz66jnkqkvi7nr6i9-txhff-8x8gj
A reminder in Southern Tasmania, VK7RAF (146.650 -600kHz) can be used both locally and linked to VK7RJG by using different CTCSS tones. 123Hz for local Southern operation and 141.3Hz for linking RAF to VK7RJG (438.55 -7Mhz).
We will continue these nights so why not join in and share some pictures. It’s a great way to test your digital interfacing. We get underway from around 7:30pm.
73, Peter VK7PD and Justin VK7TW
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Contest News
Winter VHF and Above Field Day Reports
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/
North/South Report
Thanks to all who participated in the Field Day, especially Peter VK7KPC who we believe was the only VK7 that braved the elements and went fixed mobile above Poatina on 6, 2 and 70cm in shocking weather. More on that in the NTARC report.
At the time of writing there were at least 16 stations who participated across Northern VK7, some with only one contact and at least 15 stations who participated across Southern Tasmania.
VK3MD was heard having a voice contact with VK3ZAT/p and VK7s HH, DW and PD had FT8 contacts with VK3MAP on 2 and 70cm.
The upload website at the time of writing showed 9 logs identifiable as from VK7s.
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/upload/
Not such a bad effort considering the wintery conditions and complete lack of ducting indicated on the Hepburn Chart.
If you have already please finalise and upload your log before midnight EAST, Monday 11 July 2022.
73, Peter, VKPD and Justin VK7TW.
North West Report
Eric VK7EV said the weekend went rather well, with club members, Anne VK7BYL, Keith VK7KW , Eric VK7EV, Dave VK7DC and Ross VKWP enjoying the day, other members may have participated, but were out of our radio range.
We were supported and made contacts with Mike VK7MD, Graeme VK7KT and some were fortunate to speak with VK7PD in Launy on 144.130 SSB, unfortunately we didn’t hear any of our other Northern Amateurs which was unusual.
The inclement weather certainly discouraged mobile stations.
Eric advised, “I don’t think any of us were serious contesters, more in it to have some fun and support other amateurs. The event had the added benefit, that some amateur’s got to speak to people they hadn’t spoken to before, and some got to operate on bands they hadn’t used before. In between the contesting, Channel 50 146.5 got a good work out, we solved some of VK7BYLs Anne’s antennas queries, and got her active on 70cm. So lots of radio activity, learning, chatting and making new friends, which the hobbies is all about. All of us were operating in the 8hr home base setup as we are getting too old for the 24hr home base marathon! A good time was had by all.ö
73, Eric, News Officer, NWTARC
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Contest News
QRP Hours Contest Results
The QRP Hours contest was run in April 2022 and it is the contest run by the VK QRP Club with contest manager Andrew VK1DA/VK2DA.
It was great to see Anthony VK7AG equal 5th and Tony VK7LTD equal 6th in the SSB section.
Tony VK7LTD was also 7th in the CW section.
Peter VK7STO was 1st in the Digital section.
Congratulations to all.
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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 24 June 2022 is in the email version of the broadcast.
Herman has been advised that more inwards cards will be posted to State Inwards QSL Managers in the next few weeks.
Amateurs are asked to keep the size of their QSL cards to a single 'page' within the ITU guidelines of 140mm x 90mm .
If you have any questions re QSL cards, please contact Herman by email vk7bureau(at)wia.org.au
73, Herman, VK7HW, WIA Manager VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
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A, AAA, AAB, AB, ACN, AD, AG(2014), AIR, AL, AM, AO, AP, APZ, AS, ATH, AV
BA, BB, BEN, BM, BPV, BT, BYE
CJ, CL, CV, CX
DG, DM, DN, DO, DQ, DZ
EE, EG, ER
FALX, FAZZ, FCIA, FG, FGGT, FJFJ, FLAR, FRJG(RG), FTAS
GA, GC, GM, GR, GZ
HCH, HDM, HOB, HL, HRS, HSA, HSJ, HVK, HZ
IAN, IK, IS
JA, JCR, JJ, JJJ, JOK, JP, JW
KBA, KD, KDO, KJ, KKR, KL(KI ?), KO, KR
LAZ, LDH, LLL, LM, LT, LTD, LVH
MAG, MAT, MBD, MET, MHZ, MS
NA, NC, NRF, NSB, NSE, NTE, NWQ
OB
PBD, PRN, PSJ, PW
QK
RG(FRJG), ROY
SN, SV
TCE, TED, TK, TU
UT
VA, VAC, VAZ, VDC, VH, VR, VZ
WA, WC, WIA, WT
XDM, XTC
YN
ZA, ZM, ZT, ZX, ZZ
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NEWS FROM THE NORTH
SOTA/WWFF PARKS GROUP
The Summits On The Air/World Wide Flora and Fauna parks group meets 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
First item this week is a thank you to Peter, VK7KPC for his contribution to the “Winter VHF and Above Field Dayö last Saturday and Sunday. He single handedly ventured out into a raging blizzard and set up a remote site at Poatina and later in the day moved even higher up towards the Great Lakes. Well it may not have been raging or even a blizzard but it was indeed very cold, blustery and a miserable day to be stuck out at a remote site trying to make contacts with softies like me that stayed warm at home. I am sure that “Kay’s Fruit Cakeö replaced the “Kendal Mint Cakeö to sustain life on this venture. His call sign seems to appear in every event log that I have seen so far, I would confidently say that all contestants that managed to make contact with Peter were very appreciative of the effort that he put into helping get more points on the board for the state. I don’t know of anyone else that was brave enough to make this sacrifice! Well done Peter.
The Wednesday club night was well attended and as usual Peter VK7KPC was first there. After he had carried out the required club room start up sequence we found him ensconced in the heated radio shack, tuning in to the Double Scotch hour, run by Nic, VK7WW. Now to expand on the evenings happenings, I will pass it over to Idris VK7ZIR for a rundown of the night’s other activities.
“One of our members has been downsizing and has supplied a range of items for disposal at our Tech Session. There was a selection of instruments and other miscellaneous items on display. Of particular interest was a plethora of Grid Dip Oscillators with and without coils, including a vintage Grundig GDO, in original case with complete accessories. A professional analogue field strength meter and other TV related kit rounded off the collection. In one of the boxes was a “mystery itemö. This took the form of what looked like a vacuum tube with a valve type base and a very heavy steel surround. The end was open with a probe and adjustment rings. The only visible marking was the word ‘Vibron’ printed on the steel sleeve. Most intriguing! After much wondering and mostly vacuous suggestions from the audience, our resident valve specialist Lionel VK7ZLB arrived and took charge of the investigation. Mr. Google gave us no clues as to the origin of the marking but Lionel postulated that, because of its construction, it could be a microwave component. It was therefore left to Lionel to take it and consult his voluminous reference library with instructions to report back to the next Tech Session with his findings. If anyone else thinks they could help us in identifying this item, please notify one of the Committee. Lionel also contributed a piece of computer history for our interest. A massive, by today’s standards, hard drive of 1980’s vintage. Manufactured by Seagate, an ST412, its capacity was 10 MB and it had to have its own plug in ATA interface card. A real ‘blast from the past’. Moving forward, there was the continuing obligatory handheld radio programming with more removal of cranial covering due to non-compatible software drivers.
Andre’ VK7ZAB setup a PC with the large wall monitor and demonstrated Slow Scan TV using the popular programme MMSSTV.
He has been decoding all the images sent via the VK7RJG repeater on the Thursday night nets and then posting these images on the NTARC web site under the “Blogsö menu. As a backup he has also been recording the repeater audio via the PC’s internal sound card using the “Sound Forgeö editor. This software is a fore runner to the now popular and free Audacity programme. This audio file can be replayed and using a physical patch cable or software virtual patch from the sound card’s output to input the original images can be decoded again. Andre’ replayed the sound file from the inaugural northern SSTV net and decoded the images from that night for all to see.
Andre’ then demonstrated the procedure for loading photos and your call sign template ready for transmission. He didn’t send the output to a transceiver but used the audio recorder to save it to a file. This was then replayed into the decoder to show the results, a simple way to make a test signal for checking the system. Andre’ used the more modern PD90 mode and then showed the higher resolution PD120 and PD180 modes that are used by the International Space Station for their amateur broadcasts.
Colin VK7ZCF then went through setting up the remote control of rigs through the serial port, now days generally a USB computer interface. A control string is required and is different for each rig, this will require some research, copying of posts and testing. As a starting point for control strings and general information, Phil, VK7ZPD has included some excellent screen shots and configuration information that can be found within the NTARC Discord Channel under “sstv-groupö. This information has been added to over the previous month since the local SSTV Net started.
Colin also showed an option where the software can be used automatically to send images as a beacon or receive, store and then replay images as a repeater. These options could be useful for testing. ö
Thank you Idris, it was yet another monumental evening, thanks to all who attended.
Now on to Thursday night, our northern SSTV operators were once again able to join the Southern SSTV Net via VK7RJG in the North on Mt. Arthur and VK7RAF in the South. In excess of thirty five images were transferred via the state wide linkup that started about 7:30pm. By the look of things, a good time was had by all. The great thing for me was that even though I was not able to participate at the time, I recorded the hour or so of audio, played it back later through my MMSSTV decoder software and was able to decode all the images successfully. If you cannot or don’t want to decode the images at the time, then they are available on the NTARC website under ‘Blogs’ or follow the link in the text version of this broadcast.
https://www.ntarc.net/blogs
UPCOMING EVENTS
TestNet and TechNet – Wednesday 6th July. TestNet/CW course on 3.580MHz from 7pm till 7.30pm….and a TechNet on 3.567MHz from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm. Your host for the evening will again be Nic VK7WW.
Club Technical night – Wednesday 13th July. Held at the NTARC Club rooms, 7.30pm until whenever.
SSTV Net - held every Thursday night on the 70cm repeater, VK7RJG and linked to the South via repeater VK7RAF. Conducted from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm. These SSTV images are available on the NTARC website under ‘Blogs’.
Coffee Morning – held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Get warm while you catch up, time is from 10am to noon and we look forward to seeing you all there. 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.
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 them to the Secretary at the following address news(at)ntarc.net all items to be received no later than 5pm on the Friday prior to the Broadcast.
That’s all folks,
73’s from Stefan, VK7ZSB, Secretary NTARC inc.
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NEWS FROM THE SOUTH
WICEN Tasmania (South) BBQ and AGM
WICEN Tasmania (South) will be having their annual BBQ and AGM on Sunday the 17th of July, at the residence of Peter Henry VK7TPE and Maureen, at 30 Haigh Road, in Snug. All are welcome to attend, so if you're in the neighborhood then why not pop in, have a drink and a sausage, and catch up with some of the WICEN amateur radio contingent.
The BBQ starts at mid-day, and the AGM will follow at 14:00. BYO food, drinks, and XYL's!
For queries and directions, contact the secretary at VK7WCN(at)wia.org.au .
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/
Ham Radio Trivia Night
https://fb.me/e/2sUlj73f2
Save the date of Wednesday 13th July 2022 from 7:30pm REAST will be holding a Ham Radio Trivia Night.
This will be a fun filled night that will be a hybrid event held in person at REAST’s Queens Domain clubrooms and online.
More information as it comes to hand.
73, REAST Committee
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Ham Radio Fox Hunt Morning
https://fb.me/e/2xwfHjZtu
REAST will be having a Fox Hunt day on Saturday 23rd July meeting at the Domain from 9:30am
Get your yagi antennas and attenuators ready for a fun morning of searching for our Foxes!
There will be prizes to be won on the day for finding the Fox too! We'll have a lower powered trial Fox Hunt on the Domain followed by a city wide hunt!
The Fox will be hidden somewhere within the Greater Hobart area on the 2 metre band.
Get your friends together and form a team to try and track down our elusive Fox.
We currently have a **very limited** supply of tape measure yagis at the clubrooms so might be a good opportunity to hit up Bunnings and start building!
https://www.instructables.com/The-Tape-Measure-Antenna/
At this stage we're also planning to have a BBQ too, so come along and have a fun filled day with us at the Domain clubrooms.
More info to come!
73, REAST Committee
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Training and Assessments
REAST’s next Foundation Licence training and all licence assessment day is Saturday the 30th July 2022. Please note this has been moved back one week to not clash with the Fox Hunt Day.
If you are thinking of coming along then please let Reg Emmett VK7KK REAST Learning Organiser know 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
And checkout the REAST Facebook page events for further details.
https://fb.me/e/1YiYqV2wC
73, Reg, VK7KK
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DATV Experimenter's Night
https://fb.me/e/2suL6uBUE
We started last Wednesday night with a quick review of VHF-UHF Winter Field Day with Garry VK7JGD and Justin VK7TW/
We then moved onto the two crystal sets that Garry owns. The first is one that Garry found in a ceiling space when he spotted a set of headphones.
This was made into a nice wooden case that had been covered in possum excrement!
Garry tidied this up and re-varnished the case that contained a single coil, brass variable capacitor and a neat small black tube containing a galena crystal cat’s whisker detector.
We hooked it up to the antenna and ground and a powered loud speaker and listened to a 90 year young ABC in glorious AM!
The second crystal set was a slightly more complex unit with a antenna tuning coil, variable capacitor and multi-tapped main coil that inductively coupled to the antenna coil. This unit had a very nicely mounted galena crystal with phosphor bronze spring cats-whisker and a germanium diode added by Garry. This unit was also demonstrated. Thanks to Garry for showing these units.
We then reset the studio and Chris VK7CDW demonstrated his new Xiegu G90 HF Transceiver which also had the fan deck mounted to the underneath of the unit.
The unit includes a high-performance front end with narrowband pre-selectors, covers 0.5-30MHz for rx andTx in Amateur bands. Inbuilt user selectable preamp and attenuator in receive mode,
1.8-inch high brightness colour TFT LCD screen, ±24k bandwidth Fast-scan spectrum display with waterfall, Fully adjustable RX bandpass filters (CW mode down to 50Hz) and CW decode capability. It has a detachable front panel/display unit, up to 20W of RF output power, a built-in wide-range automatic antenna tuner and I/Q output for interfacing with a PC or XDT1 panadapter.
Thanks to Chris for bring the G90 along.
We then got Hayden VK7HH into the studio for a show and tell of his Baofeng 2m Fox in nice IP-65 pelican case. Hayden hacked a Canadian Amateurs Arduino Uno code that keys the Baofeng with a tone and callsign. The Baofeng antenna mounts onto the top of the unit.
This unit will be used for the fox hunts on the 23rd of July.
Thanks to Hayden for showing us this unit.
This week we will have a review of the RIDEN 60V 18A fully configurable PSU, manual switch hack for a 100W HF RF amplifier, continuation of FT-897 configuration, review of Low-Key & DUBUS Magazines and much more.
We will be streaming 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/
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:
Sewing Circle Net – Daily on 3.640 MHz commences at 5:00pm AEST.
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 6th July - TestNet/CW course on 3580 from 7pm till 7.30pm and a TECHNET on 3567 from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm.
NTARC Technical Night - Wednesday 13th July from 7:30pm in NTARC clubrooms
NW VK7 – Wednesday from 8:00pm local – NW Tassie Amateur Repeater Group Net on VK7RMD
NW VK7 - Thursday commencing at 8:30pm 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
VK7 - SSTV Net - held every Thursday night via the North/South Link on VK7RAF/VK7RJG from 7:30pm. In the North and North West - VK7RJG on 438.55 -7MHz and in the South - VK7RAF (146.650 -600kHz) CTCSS tone 141.3Hz to link RAF North-South
Events:
REAST - 15 July - Ham Radio Trivia Night - in person at the Queens Domain clubrooms and online from 7:30pm.
WICEN Tasmania (South) - 17 July - WICEN BYO BBQ and AGM at VK7TPE QTH from Noon.
REAST - 23 July - Fox Hunt day start at the Queens Domain clubrooms from 9:30am
VK7 - 19 November - VK7 Miena Hamfest - Great Lake Community Hall at Miena from 10am.
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A reminder to those people rostered for next week’s broadcast:
Newsreader: VK7ZIR
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: VK7TPE
40m: VK7ALH
20m: VK7JGD
10m: VK7DG
UHFCB15: VK7FMAC
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 VK7RAD 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 we hope you have a great day, 73 and stay safe from Justin, VK7TW.
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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