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THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD IN SEGMENT TWO (2) OF OUR AUDIO SERVICES
QNEWS -- ALL OF THE NEWS ALL OF THE TIME at www.wia.org.au/vk4
FRIEND OF VK4, VK2AXZ falls SILENT KEY
Les Daniels VK2AXZ passed away on Wednesday 29 January 2003 after
spending several weeks in the John Hunter Hospital.
Les was born at Minmi in 1925 and remained in the Newcastle area all
of his life.
Les was a long-standing member and solid supporter of Westlakes Amateur
Radio Club He was also an avid rag-chewer on the HF and VHF bands.
He had many interests apart from amateur radio.
Les was a keen fisherman, an accomplished golfer, a keen chess player,
and a talented artist. He surprised his friends, and perhaps himself,
when three years ago he married for the first time.
He often commented that his two best times in life had been his
early retirement and his marriage.
Our deepest condolences are extended to his widow, Rose.
A large contingent of relatives, friends and club members paid their
final respects to Les at the funeral service at Broadmeadow on
31 January 2003.
The old now-closed cemetery at Minmi is his last resting place.
It should be mentioned that Les left the entire contents of his
radio shack to Westlakes. Thank you Les.
Vale Les Daniels VK2AXZ
(details from Frank VK2FJL)
VK4 COUNCIL
Audio report by WIAQ Councillor VK4EHT Bruce Jones.
The arrangements for the WIAQ AGM are now being finalised.
The meeting will be held on the 22nd of March.
Bayside Radio Club 'MINE HOST'.
Redlands Sporting Club, Anson Rd, Wellington Point has been booked for
the AGM on 22 March. Buffet lunch available for about $12.
It is proposed to start the meeting at 10 am, and complete business in
time to go to lunch.
There is still time to nominate for council.
If you are planning to raise any issues at the meeting please
advise your WIAQ representative or the secretary Bob VK4YBN.
Your councilors are:-
In Brisbane:
Ewan VK4ERM , President
Bill VK4AZM , Treasurer
David VK4OF , Federal Councilor
David VK4DCG and Bruce VK4EHT
In Gladstone area,
Ronnie VK4CO and Ron VK4AGS
In Rockhamton area Clive VK4ACC and John VK4AJS
In North Queensland Gavin VK4ZZ
and in far North Queensland Dale VK4DMC and Glen VK4DU
We also often have WIA Federal Director Don VK4BY as a guest at our meetings
The next WIAQ Council meeting is planned for February 25.
Ordinary members are welcome to attend council meetings but
do call first as the venue is generally a private residence.
Any member wishing to assist by hosting a council meeting
please contact us.
One requirement is to have 2 telephone lines available.
73 from Bruce VK4EHT
CLUB ACTIVITY
BRISBANE VHF GROUP
"Grid squares? Locator? Or just plain 'grid'. Do you know yours? What
do they mean anyway? What are they good for?
All interested amateurs and friends are welcome at the Brisbane VHF Group
meeting on Wednesday 26 February where the feature discussion will be the
Maidenhead grid square system for amateur radio location reference. This
is now universally used as a convenient and readily understood method for
assisting radio amateurs in location finding, path calculation, bearing and
a host of other interesting uses.
So, if you want to learn more about this system or you just want to gather
with other VHF/UHF interested amateurs, go along to the meeting! It's
held at the home of club member Rob Bathgate at 53 Arrol Street, Camp Hill,
Brisbane. Gathering time is around 7:30 pm.
Speaking of Grid Squares, a little later Chris Edmondson and Mal Johnson
will take a look at the WIA's Grid Square Award.... comming soon on the Q.
BUNDABERG
Club has been busy with AOCP theory and regulations exams held last week.
Monday night saw the commencment of a novice level morse class with
four students enrolled. Any one in the area of Bundaberg wishing to join
this class should ring the Secretary on 4159 6224.
CITY OF BRISBANE RADIO SOCIETY
PRESIDENT Mick VK4NE
TeleText page 903
Moreton College of TAFE off Cavendish road Mt Gravatt.
on the 4th floor in Block B 7.30pm. TUESDAY'S (March 11th)
DALBY AND DISTRICT
TeleText page 910
President is Reg VK4AQU Phone 4662 2193
Good roll up and good results at the BBQ come working B last weekend
in the Bunya's.
GOLD COAST AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY
President; Roy Cotterill VK4LPV
Just a quick cheerio call to all the members friends and hangers on,
on that McCaffety's Coach Tour to Wyong this weekend.
Also VK4RGG, located on Mt Springbrook, is now up and running 146.950mHz.
Subject to all being well on the day, Gold Coast expect to change daily 8am
nets to the the new repeater on Saturday 1st March.
Don't forget that 3 day Ham Cram course, the fast track way to become a ham
happening over 3 of the 5 Sundays in March.
This is a three-day fast-track course for the Novice Radio Amateur
Theory Exam. The course will be held at the clubrooms at 85 Harper St
Nerang.
The course will be intense exam preparation for the Theory & Regulations
exam. On completion of the fast track course you will have the option
to sit the examination at the clubrooms.
INQUIRIES AND REGISTRATION: 5539 3530
www.radioelectronicschool.com
www.goldcoastamateurradio.com
LOGAN WEST AMATEUR RADIO & ELECTRONICS CLUB
IRLP NODE 6402
President VK4JPH Peter 3800 3305
Don't forget the BOOT Sale to be held TODAY, Sunday 23rd 1Oam.
Boot sale is in the Car Park behind the Greenbank Community centre
adjacent to the Scout den, 10:00am entry free except for exhibitors.
SO...... If your in the SE of VK4 and CAN'T get to Gosford don't despair
there will be lots of pre-loved "goodies" for sale at the Greenbank
Community Centre off Teviotte Road from 10am this Last Sunday in February,
ie Feb 23rd.
MACKAY
irlp node 6450
teletext page 900
Bruce Lenahan VK4NPF President.
Brian Coleman says "Good Friends" of the Mackay Club, V-K-4-K-B-Q,
Vv-k-4-n-y and associates have re-sited the repeater on their
commercial site, and also, the local IRLP node 6450 is operated from
their business site.
A special thanks to Doug , Vic and Andrew for all the work,
time and know-how they have devoted to this cause.
SUMMERLAND AR CLUB (VK2)
IRLP NODE 622
President - Bruce Smith VK2KAP, SARC72.
SARC PICNIC ROCKY CREEK DAM, Today Sunday 23 Feb.
A day out for those who can't get to Wyong or Greenbank.
Free snags and drinks etc from the Social Fund.
But please bring a selection of nibbles for variety.
SUNSHINE COAST
President VK4ALF Len
TeleText page 909
The Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio Club broadcast CW every Sunday night
from 7:30pm QLD time on 3.535MHZ.
The session lasts about 45 minutes and has sessions of
5, 7, 10, 12 and 15 WPM.
The 15 WPM segment has punctuation.
At the end of each segment read back the text so you can score your
copying. At the end of the 15 WPM segment and after the readback
invite checkins from operators who can check in, and hope there are
many listeners out there who don't have the privileges to check in but
soon will.
(Gordon Taylor VK4VP)
TOWNSVILLE
TeleText page 919
vk4wit@wia.org.au
http://www.vk4tub.org/tarc/
Calculator Night Report - plus more!
There was barely room for everyone in the air-conditioned meeting room
during theTARCinc Radio Theory Class Calculator Night which happened
on Thursday February 13th.
Apart from regular class members there were also some club members
and harmonics wanting to brush up on the plastic brain operating
plus a new member of class who rolled up thanks to information flyers
posted at the local electronics shops.
Calculators ranged from the standard student scientific types,
one Reverse Polish Notation model plus one wag who used the "Teeny-Goooie"
program in a laptop computer.
The Master of Time and Space, Iain/VK4IGM put everyone through the
calculating paces, including a blast from the past with a few Slide Rules
but was dissapointed no one showed up with an abacus!
Everyone went away learning at least one new thing - which proves that
they aren't brain-dead !
The next class with specific theme will be -
the Multimeter Night, Thursday February 27th
Push your way in, Push your way over, where there is no
waiting, no delay! Wallaby Bob and Jeanette announce that
Ham n Eggs on The Strand will be happening from 7am to 10am, Sunday
March 2nd at the BBQs near the Strand Waterpark !
BYO chairs, cooking utensils, food, drink and appetite. Most importantly
BYO self!
World Scouting Jamboree in Thailand, will be talk at
theTARCinc Management Meeting on the 4th of March.
Steve VK4SGW will describe his experiences at the Jamboree in
helping run the RadioScouting facility - a ham station which by
all reports ran nearly 24 hours a day.
So... get to see Steve Watson / VK4SGW - our Federal Radio Scouting
Co-ordinator, at TARC Management Meeting 4th March.
New TARC Publicity Officer on the prowl for media opportunities
He is out there and he wants your media opportunities!
Phil/VK4JOK, TARC Publicity Officer for 2003, wants your media
knowledge and contacts so that he can forge useful and productive
general media feeds in the North and Far North Queensland regions.
Got a good contact or even a good idea that the general public will
notice about Amateur Radio? Then get in contact with Phil on email
plrooke@hotkey.net.au or via theTARCinc email address vk4wit@wia.org.au
(gavin/vk4zz QNEWS north queensland correspondent)
VK4 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
Brian Coleman VK4DFD here with VK4 AREA Special interest group news.
In ATV we see that Wayne V-K-4-Y-W-G has been putting the final
tweaks together on top of Mount Stuart to the refurbished VK4RAT
Amateur TeleVision repeater.
Listen into the VHF repeater in Townsville to find out when the next
test will happen and get ready to tune your TVs and VCRs to the bottom
of the UHF TV band on 444.250MHz or listen to the audio on 449.750MHz
with your transceivers or scanners.
In Brisbane the SEQ-ATV net happens WEDNESDAY NIGHTS at 7:30 on
147.3 MHz.. with a POSITIVE OFFSET, they'd love viewers to call in.
VK4 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- "MATTERS DIGITAL"
You are hereby invited to attend the MARCH 2003 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
of the QDG Incorporated which will be held in the Staff Room of the
Wavell Heights State School in Minore Street, Chermside
Friday, 21st March 2003, at 7.30 pm.
Subs are due... and you NEED to be financial...
IF you want your Vote to count at next month's AGM.
Meeting will fall on Friday, 17th March.
VK4 AREA SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- WICEN
Remember that a regular net exists Sunday mornings 7.075 at 0830am
and WICEN have contacted the Q-D-G to organise a weekend Technical
Training Session... prior to the combined QDG/WICEN Car Rally
which will be held in a few months time.
In Mackay, I'm Brian VK4DFD.
MAJOR GATHERINGS IN VK4 FOOTPRINT
FEB 23 LOGAN WEST AMATEUR RADIO & ELECTRONICS CLUB BOOT SALE
MAR 22 WIAQ AGM
MAY 3-5 Clairview Ham Weekend - Clairview Beach
JUNE 6-9 FNNQARG! South Mission Beach
SEP 19-21 North Queensland Amateur Radio Convention 2003.
SEP 26-28 Central Highlands AGM Weekend from 5-30pm
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