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VK7 Amateur Radio News 05Feb23
Text edition:
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 5th February 2023
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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News for Sunday the 5th of February 2023. Your reader on VK7WI this week is Rick, VK7RI.
On Sundays the news is broadcast on repeaters all over VK7 and nationally on digital radio - DMR Talk Group 5 and D-Star Reflector 91C by VK7ZCR.
The following rebroadcast stations are rostered this week:
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,
On 28.525 MHz by Tony, VK7VKT and
On UHF CB Channel 15 by Mark VK7FMAC in the Hobart area.
You can hear this broadcast again on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RAA in the north and VK7RAD in Southern VK7.
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RAOTC
RAOTC Broadcast for February
Further to that mentioned on the WIA National News, this is another reminder about the RAOTC broadcast for Monday the 6 th of February 2023 at 8pm local time; thats tomorrow night for those listening on Sunday.
This months broadcast includes a warning not to let Amateur Licenses lapse. If a call sign is reallocated it might prove impossible to regain.
The first technical article once more highlights the achievements of Edwin Armstrong: his invention of the super-regenerative receiver. This begins with a demonstration of air traffic control messages heard on a ‘super-regen receiver in Perth.
The story goes on to explain how Armstrong discovered the super-regenerative effect by accident. It was found that such a receiver can increase amplification by up to several hundred thousand times.
Some listeners might remember the ‘Fremodyne 4 Receiver described by Electronics Australia in 1967.
The forgotten inventor of Radio
This title refers to Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden.
Known as the ‘Father of Voice Radio, he is perhaps best remembered for a broadcast of sound and music on Christmas Eve 1906 using an alternator and carbon microphone. Until that time, all transmissions were in Morse Code.
Fessendens inventions include the heterodyne principle and sonar; he had over 500 patents to his name.
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 February 6th. Call backs will follow on all 3 networks. Please call in if you are able; this provides the RAOTC broadcast committee with an idea of how many are listening to these broadcasts.
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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Statewide News
Thursday Night SSTV Nets
Another great net night that saw the following participants, VK7s – ZAB, KPC, PD, KRJ, ZGK, ZMS, KT, ZBX, PAK and ZSB all sharing nearly forty photos with a few doubling on transmit.
There were various subjects like:
• Aboriginal theme mural through to “The Joker” street art.
• Military radios and antenna kits
• Black and White shots of a Campbell Town Hamfest from the archives – do you recognize these faces?
• A sky full of lighting and a Tasmanian map from a weather satellite
• Sunset across solar heated water panels and the Earth rising above the Moon from NASA for their 50th anniversary of Apollo 8
• Pet dogs and a prize catch of a Crayfish
• WSPR transmitter using a Raspberry Pi
• That “skin is waterproof” and you can play in the snow
• Yagi antenna setups for the 2m and 70cm VK to ZL day
• A microwave dish setup for the 3cm VK to ZL day
• But the main theme was transport with many
• Road Prime movers, small and large agriculture tractors
• Ferries on Sydney Harbour and the Tamar River
• And a Jet Fighter
Remember Ken VK7KRJs and Steve VK7OOs fully automatic 24/7 monitoring site that allows anyone who has sent an SSTV picture the ability to check them on their pages almost immediately, any time, both South and North Tasmania.
A reminder in Southern Tasmania, VK7RAF (146.650 -600kHz) can be RF linked to VK7RJG by using a CTCSS tone of 141.3Hz. We get underway from around 7:30pm.
https://vk7oo.tasme.com/vhfsstv
https://www.ntarc.net/blogs
https://sstv.vk7krj.com/scrolling%20web%20gallery.html
73 from Andre VK7ZAB
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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 3 February 2023 is in the email version of the broadcast.
If you have any questions re QSL cards, please contact Herman by email vk7bureau(at)wia.org.au
If you do not wish to receive QSL Cards please let me know as well as the stations you work.
73, Herman, VK7HW, WIA Manager VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
QSL Cards Held as at 3 February 2023
A, AAA, AAB, AAE, AAH, AAP, AAR, AB, ACG, ACN, AED, AG(2014), AIR, AKK, AL, AM, ANC, AO, AP, APZ, AS, ATH, AXZ, AY
BA, BB, BPV, BT, BYE
CH/T, CJ, CL, CMV, CV, CX
DG, DM, DN, DO, DQ, DX, DZ
EA, ER
FALX (alx), FG, FGGT, FPRN, FRJG(RG),
GA, GGZ, GM, GS, GZ
HBR, HCH, HDM, HOB, HL, HPD, HRS, HSD/MRS, HVK, HZ
IAN, IK, IS
JA, JAZ, JB, JJ, JP, JW
KAC, KBA, KD, KI, KJ, KL, KO
LAG, LDH, LVH, LW
MAG, MBD, MBP, MC, MEL, MHZ, MR
NA, NFI, NRF, NRT, NSE, NTE, NVH
OB
PM, PSJ, PW
RG(FRJG), ROY
STO, SV
T/ch, TCE, TED, TL, TK, TS
VAC, VAZ, VDC, VEK, VH, VR, VTM, VZ
WA, WC, WIA, WT, WX
XDM, XTC
ZJJ, ZM, ZT
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News from the North West
North West Tasmania Amateur Radio Club, meet and greet an amateur day.
Hi fellow amateurs,
The club held a meet and greet amateur radio day, on Saturday the 28th of January. It was held at the open day being run by VMR Ulverstone and some other agencies. The location was beside VMRs headquarters on the west bank of the Leven river. The club is wanting to lift the profile of amateur radio in the community. You couldnt have asked for a better day with a nice cooling Seabreeze and a reasonable temperature.
We had club members Dave VK7DC, Matt, Anne VK7BYL, Ross VK7WP, Kirsty, Eric VK7EV attend at 9am to set up the display. Matts employer kindly loaned the gazebo. Dave brought his self-supporting 9m mast, which we erected a 40m dipole on, and a painters extension pole for the dual band flowerpot.
We brought along some beam antennas and handhelds for people to play with. Anne sorted out some banners and we were good to go, with flyers to advise what our club gets up to, where we meet and our contact numbers.
Club member Kirsty, a volunteer radio broadcaster with Coastal FM, had their outside Broadcast van on site doing live crosses. Firing up the HF radio, S9 noise, even though the surrounding sub-division has underground power, and all other power lines underground to stop boat masts getting caught in them.
We were right beside a path that runs from the mouth of the river to the road bridge, so a lot of foot traffic and people stopping to ask what we were up to.
We had a few QSOs on 40m to VK3s and VK7s, and a few contacts on Mt Duncan to local amateurs and 7MAD up at West Montagu.
It was a great test run for attending other events on the North West Coast. We plan on obtaining larger banners and other promotional material.
A great day was had by all. A big thankyou to our Club members for attending and setting up.
Photos of the event can be viewed on the VK7 Amateur Radio FaceBook page.
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 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
The Club Technical night – Every second Wednesday certainly seems to come around quickly. Even so the night continues to be very well attended with over three hours disappearing very rapidly, especially when you are deep in technical or other discussions. As always the arrival of various items act as a catalyst in the ensuing discussions, tonight was no exception.
Lionel VK7ZLB, brought along a 12Kg, 750 VA, Australian made transformer. Not intended for show and tell but for the future re-use by another amateur. The really good thing is that the possible alternative was way less than ten dollars from the scrap metal recyclers, for a still perfectly good and superbly manufactured unit. But like anything, there is a limit to what you can stock pile waiting for that, “It might come in useful sometime”, moment to come along. Luckily this saved component has found a happy home.
Kevin VK7KJL, brought in an Icom IC-F1010 from the early 1990s which he is trying to resurrect and programme with some State repeaters. As the programming software was old it would also only run on Windows XP so Kevin built up a working computer from old parts and installed windows XP operating system and the required vintage Icom software. Idris tracked down and installed some old serial interface drivers and by the end of the evening HyperTerminal was working into a loop back on the radio end of serial cable. Next step is interfacing to the radio and attempting to programme it, a work in progress Kevin.
The night must have been an “Items from last century evening” because Ian VK7IG, brought in a “FishPro 80 Commander”. The manual describes it as “The Fishermans Personal Guru & Trip Planner” and comes “Programmed from years 1970 to 2050”. Ian purchased it in the late1980s or early 90s and it has absolutely no radio receive or transmit capability but what an incredible example of programmable handheld technology from that period. Designed and manufactured in Melbourne by OCS, Outdoor Computer Systems, the unit has widely spaced cursor and data entry keys that could easily be used while wearing any thickness gloves and the display was a glorious two line LCD screen that was actually quite large for the time and easily readable. Not a touch screen to be found and therefore no water droplet on screen problems! As this unit is capable of providing information for any location on the planets surface, it comes with a transparent numbered grid squares reference that sits over the general area maps provided, enter the grid square reference nearest to where you are, enter barometric pressure and update time and you are ready to go. It will give you sun up/down times, comprehensive tide coverage with graphical display on the two line LCD, best daily solar / lunar fishing times and much more. Funnily I have never heard of any Fish all Grids competitions though. HiHi
Just to break the trend Stefan VK7ZSB, brought in a currently available External display module suitable for the Yaesu FT-817, 818, 857, and 897. This accessory connects via the CAT control connector and mimics the information displayed on the radios LCD screen. It can also provide an extended microphone interface if needed. It has two display modes: “big character mode” where it displays frequency, transmission mode, battery voltage, signal strength or power output, depending on receive or transmit state of the rig and “calendar mode” where it includes date, time and temperature. It is of the expected construction method nowadays that comes with some cost effective equipment from China, all the electronic boards are stacked and sandwiched between two clear acrylic sheets, ready for integration into whatever project case you desire. It provided me with a considerable increase in screen size on the FT-817, from 35mm to 80mm diagonal, more suitable for aging eyesight, and can be located within 1.8 metres of the transceiver using the provided CAT interface cable.
Yet another good session and as usual the photos of all items from the night are available on the NTARC web site under blogs and the broadcast notes for this week.
Members are reminded that the NTARC AGM will take place on Wednesday the 8th of February at the NTARC Club Rooms, Rocherlea Scout Hall, Archer Street, Rocherlea, commencing at 7.30pm (19:30).
All current office holder and committee positions fall vacant at the AGM. Nominations for positions closed last Friday, the 3rd of February 2023.
As usual, the AGM will be followed by a General Meeting which in turn will be followed by the usual get-together and refreshments. Feel free to bring a “plate”, preferably with some type of edible food on it.
2023 Membership fees - Its that time of the year again and a big thank you to all those members who have paid their 2023 subs. Remember NTARCs 2023 membership fees are still just $40.00 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. This gives you the right to vote at the AGM.
NTARC QSL Cards - A quick note from Andrew, VK7DW.
Thanks to Herman VK7HW for his continued support regarding QSL deliveries.
Following a recent deliver, the following call signs are waiting at the NTARC club rooms for collection.
VK7WW, VK7KPA and VK7LG
Thank you Andrew for the update.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Annual General Meeting - Wednesday the 8th February. Members are reminded that the NTARC AGM will take place at the NTARC Club Rooms, Rocherlea Scout Hall, Archer Street, Rocherlea, commencing at 7.30pm (19:30). February General Meeting to follow the AGM.
Coffee Morning - held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Time is from 10am to noon and we look forward to seeing you all there. We currently have cards awaiting collection, so why not pop in and check the QSL box and join us for a cuppa and chat.
The TestNet and TechNet session - Wednesday the 15th February. TestNet/CW course on 3.580MHz from 7pm till 7.30pm…. and a TechNet on 3.567MHz from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm. As Nic, VK7WW is unavailable, your host for the evening is to be announced.
The Club Technical night - Wednesday 22nd of February. Held at the NTARC Club rooms, 7.30pm until late.
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.
Thats all folks,
73 from Stefan, VK7ZSB, Secretary NTARC.
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NEWS FROM THE SOUTH
Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania
https://www.reast.asn.au/
https://www.facebook.com/reasttas/
https://www.youtube.com/reasthobart/
Presentation Night Wrap-Up - My Time at Casey Station
Last Wednesday night we had a fantastic talk by Warren VK7WN/VK0WN about his time at Casey Station over the Winter of 2022.
Warren started by outlining the expedited recruitment process as the Division was looking for a communications officer. Warren went through all the checks successfully and was very quickly on a 319 aircraft for a 4.5 hour flight.
Warren was one of 30 people to cover the Winter for a nine month stint at Casey coming back at the end of November 2022 and getting used to paying for goods and meals…hihi.
Warren talked about the RAAF C-17 aircraft coming in to pick the expeditioners up and the trip back to Hobart.
Warren related that they had to get some critical spares for machinery that grooms the aircraft and these were airdropped by the RAAF with one of the parachute releases not working and the pallet of the material was being dragged by the extreme wind and being caught by one of the tractors.
The 319 requires 3.3km of runway whereas the C-17 can land and take-off with half that distance.
Warren talked about the runway crew and the schedule of preparing the runway along with the aircraft communications on airband around 120MHz and the protocol involved in the communications.
Warren was luck to get a look at the cockpit of the C-17 aircraft on his way back by swapping some historic stickers of the first 319 flight into Antarctica.
The RAAF woman on the flight recognised Warrens voice as the voice of VNJ Casey.
Warren then went into the amateur radio operations at Casey Station - the Hobby Hut was employed and the inverted V and 7300 Transceiver. There was a fair bit of local QRM from the Station and settled on 20m and on weekends the noise dropped.
Warren made contacts at lunch time and after work chores were completed. Warren made 600 contacts with half to VK and the remaining to 40 countries.
Warren described a typical day starting with his monster coffee and printing the newspapers for expeditioners. Warren went through the rostered duties that all expeditioners are required to undertake.
Warren talked about an interesting RF interference issue with the caterpillar tractors that were being used for the ice core transverse. The satellite dish building needs constant maintenance and there was an outage on the ANZAC Day weekend that Warren talked about.
There were IT duties to fulfill - Warren then talked about the challenges of getting a coax to the outside in these significantly insulated buildings.
Warren then talked about going to the old Wilkes Station and there is a building that expeditioners can go to with a wood heater and pizza making facilities. In fact there is a tradition to go to Wilkes and make a Pizza and the noise floor was SOOOO low!
There is plenty of wood to be found on an Antarctic Base - scraps from everything!
Warren then talked about the power generation and fuel arrangements at the base with over one million litres of fuel being stored at base.
There is always a good collection of movies held at the base via internet, hard disks, USB keys, etc. The broadband is about 9MBits/s so a little slow and applications like WhatsApp were being used to talk between expeditioners and families.
A huge thank you to Warren for the presentation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LcRn2IwSp0
73, Justin, VK7TW
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Annual General Meeting
The REAST AGM will be held on Saturday 18th February 2023 at 13:00 (1pm) in the Queen's Domain Clubrooms.
Before the AGM there will be a free BBQ from 12 Noon.
The ordinary business of the annual general meeting is to be as follows:
to confirm the minutes of the last preceding annual general meeting and of any general meeting held since that meeting;
to receive from the committee, auditor and servants of the Association reports on the transactions of the Association during the last preceding financial year;
to elect the officers of the Association and the ordinary committee members;
to appoint the auditor;
A nomination form for officers of the Association is available from the REAST Website and is to be signed by financial members of the Association and returned to the Secretary by 8 February 2023.
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/upcoming-events/?event_id1=1928
See you there.
REAST Committee
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Kraken Direction Finding SDR
Save the date of 1st March 2023 from 7:30pm for Ollie VK7NFI who will be presenting and demonstrating the crowdfunded Kraken Software Defined Radio that is built specifically for direction finding.
The five antennas are placed into a circle and used to direction- find using a notebook or the smart phone application which integrates nicely with Google Maps to let you know what the closest driven path to the radio source or fox is.
Ollie will be showing us the hardware and demonstrating the software and if we are lucky there may be some Amateur Radio Direction Finding around the QD Clubrooms.
Thanks Ollie.
See you there from the REAST Committee.
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DATV Experimenter's Night
https://fb.me/e/2JoFedbKt
Digital Amateur Television (DATV) Experimenter's Nights can cover anything from radio, electronics, science, technology, social, political, and much more!
The night can consist of anything - helping new amateurs, projects, presentations, demonstrations, HF & Digital comms, Software Defined Radios, microwave comms, optical comms, contests, training, and many many other activities.
So, why not come up to the Queens Domain clubrooms and see what we get up to.
Please note we will not have any DATV from the studio on this night so, no streaming or RF will be broadcast. We will focus on it being a social night with the shack radios fired up and operating along with any projects that members bring along.
Happening next Wednesday night 8th February 2023 from around 6pm.
See you there
73, REAST Committee
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Training and Assessments
REASTs 2023 Foundation Licence training and all licence assessment days have been finalised and they occur every two months with the next one being on Saturday March 11th.
If you are thinking of coming along then please let Reg Emmett VK7KK REAST Learning Organiser know ASAP by phoning 0417 391 607 or via the REAST Website Contact Form.
https://www.reast.asn.au/contact/online-contact-form/
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/2lrgEJgfd
73, Reg, VK7KK
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Revolutionary New Space Communication Antenna Unveiled In Tasmania
This item was suggested by Stuart, VK7FEAT.
There is a link to the item in the email edition of this broadcast.
The University of Tasmanias Greenhill Observatory has unveiled a new $2-million communications antenna that will provide support for space missions and reduce the risk of collisions.
The antenna, developed in partnership with the Australian Space Agency, was funded by the Australian Governments Space Infrastructure Fund (SIF) and the University and will provide local and global partners with new opportunities to conduct research in the southern skies.
The 7.3-metre antenna, located 70 km north of Hobart, will be the southernmost antenna of its kind in the world and will be operated by a skilled team from the University.
The antenna will provide space-to-earth communications for low-earth-orbit satellites, transmitting messages to spacecraft and receiving data.
This new infrastructure is critical for the development of Space Domain Awareness, allowing ground crews to track satellites and debris in space.
“The growth of satellites being launched into space is exponential,” said Professor Simon Ellingsen, Dean of School of Natural Sciences.
“This new antenna plays an important role in tackling the challenges this brings.”
Head of the Australian Space Agency, Enrico Palermo, said this new capability cements Australias position as a strong partner in space.
“The University of Tasmanias upgraded facilities will further advance Australias expertise in this area and open doors to exciting new research and commercial partnerships,” he said.
University of Tasmania Vice-Chancellor Professor Rufus Black added that the University was proud to be working with industry partners like SpaceX, Skykraft and Hensoldt.
“Tasmanias future as a high-tech gateway to space is bright,” he said.
https://pulsehobart.com.au/news/revolutionary-new-space-communication-antenna-unveiled-in-tasmania/
Sourced from Pulse Hobart
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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 6:00pm AEDST.
Statewide 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.
State-wide – MICROWAVE QSO Party – following the Sunday broadcast call-back on 1296.15 MHz FM. One group in the greater Hobart area and another in the greater Launceston area.
Then North-south digital contacts on 1296.2MHz using Q65-60B.
Stations in the Launceston area transmitting on the odd minute. Southern stations on the even minute.
SOTA/WWFF Group – Meeting Mondays and Fridays 10.30-12.00 midday at Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry St, Launceston.
NTARC - Friday - Coffee Mornings resume at the NTARC Club rooms.
NTARC - Wednesday 15th February - TestNet and TechNet - TestNet/CW course on 3.580MHz from 7pm till 7.30pm and a TechNet on 3.567MHz from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm.
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 – WAGS – Wednesday Afternoon Group meet in the Queens Domain Clubrooms from 12 noon.
REAST – DATV Experimenters Nights from 7:30pm live in the club rooms also on DVBT RF and YouTube Streaming
CCARC - 27 February 2023 - SSTV nights from 7:30pm using VK7RMD 2m repeater on Mt Duncan on the 4th Monday in the Month.
Events:
NWTARC - 4 February 2023 - Annual General Meeting & Special General Meeting of NWTARC will take place from 1.30pm in the Scout Hall, 73 Alexandra Road, Ulverstone.
NTARC - 8 February 2023 - Annual General Meeting of NTARC at the Club Rooms, Rocherlea Scout Hall, Archer Street, Rocherlea from 7.30pm.
REAST - 18 February - Annual General Meeting of REAST at Queens Domain Clubrooms from 1pm with BBQ before from 12 noon.
REAST - 1 March - Kraken Direction Finding SDR presentation and demo with Ollie VK7NFI from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain clubrooms.
VK7 - June 2023 - VK7 Amateur Radio Centenary
ALARA - November 2023 - ALARAMeet 2023 - Hobart Tasmania
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A reminder to those people rostered for next weeks broadcast:
Newsreader: Mike, VK7FB
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
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 the South.
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.
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.
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, its cheers and all the best from Rick, VK7RI.
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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