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VK7 Amateur Radio News 12Feb23
Text edition:
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 12th February 2023
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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News for Sunday the 12th of February 2023. Your reader on VK7WI this week is Mike, VK7FB.
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 Garry, VK7JGD,
On 7.140 MHz by Dale, VK7DG,
On 14.130 MHz by Peter, VK7TPE,
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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Statewide News
Thursday Night SSTV Nets
Another great net night that saw the following participants, VK7s – ZGK, ZAB, ZMS, PD, ZBX, PAK, ZCF, OO and KT all sharing over thirty photos.
There were various subjects like:
• A statue of Dr William Pugh, the first doctor to use ether in surgery in Australia and the southern hemisphere.
• Aboriginal theme mural on a multi-storey building and on a Launceston flood levee
• Outdoor setups for a Parks Contact and DigiRig testing on a wet day
• A series of construction stages of the new Mt Duncan repeater tower including its delivery by helicopter
• A 3 phase trailer mounted generator used to charge a battery pack for a power tool
• Ukrainian Hams enjoying water testing a communications dish
• A fantastic series of "Ice flowers" on Heilong and Songhua rivers in China. The broadcast notes contain a link to a short video. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8grdm9
• Sunsets in the outback and a 4 wheel drive near Lake Eyre
• A cat posing for a QSL card
• A couple of radio shack setups
• And this weeks transport theme was
• A Runabout for a fish trip
• A Jet Fighter
• A motorised esky
• And a Yellow Torana
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, AAD, AAE, AAH, AAP, AAR, AB, ACE, ACG, ACN, ADE, AED, AG(2014), AGC, AHT, AIR, AJC, AKK, AL, ALZ, AM, ANC, AO, AP, APZ, AR, AS, AT, ATH, AXZ, AY, AZ
BA, BB, BPV, BT, BYE
CH/T, CJ, CL, CMV, CV, CX
DG, DM, DN, DO, DQ, DX, DZ
EA, EG, ER
FALX (alx), FAZZ, FCIA, FLAR, FLYN, FF, FG, FGGT, FPRN, FRJG(RG), FTAS
GA, GGZ, GM, GR, GS, GZ
HA (HH), HBR, HCH, HDM, HOB, HL, HPD, HRS, HSA, HSD/MRS, HSJ, HVK, HWW, HZ
IAN, IK, IS
JA, JAB, JAZ, JB, JCR, JJ, JOK, JP, JW
KAC, KBA, KD, KDO, KI, KJ, KKR, KL, KO
LAG, LDH, LJ, LLL, LM, LT, LVH, LW
MAG, MAT, MBD, MBP, MC, MEL, MET, MHZ, MR, MS
NA, NC, NFI, NIK, NRF, NRT, NSE, NTE, NVH,NWQ
OB
PAF, PBD, PM, PRN, PSJ, PSZ, PW
QK
RG(FRJG), ROY
SN, STO, SV
T/ch, TCE, TED, TK, TL, TO, TS, TX
VA, VAC, VAZ, VDC, VEK, VH, VR, VTM, VZ
WA, WC, WIA, WO, WT, WX
XDM, XTC
YN
ZJJ, ZK,ZM, ZT
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News from the North West
NWTARC Annual General meeting
The Annual General Meeting of NWTARC took place at 1330 hrs on Saturday 4th February 2023.
Presidents Shirley report:-
Shirley advised that she felt the club had had quite a successful year. We are a small club, she said, with a very small volunteer group.
What has been achieved by so few has been very impressive, with Paton Park being perhaps the greatest achievement. Unfortunately, the passing of members has had an effect on the club.
The mail-out sent to over 80 amateurs to assist with JOTA was a positive move.
The Club has been successful with its less formal atmosphere at meetings, and the social events were a great success.
Shirley is always reminding members it is the club members club. The committee is there to facilitate the club members ideas and instructions.
Treasurers report
The Treasurer advised that the club is in a very good position financially, with the Scout camp at Paton Parks upgrades being the major expense again this year.
The club has an ongoing offer to assist amateurs and Clubs who need financial assistance to maintain their repeaters in the North West.
Shirley had advised the committee at the last Executive meeting she would not be re-standing for President after her 4 terms as President.
Executive committee elected
President:- Ian VK7FICR
Vice President:- Ross VK7WP
Secretary:- Anne VK7BYL
Treasurer:- Eric VK7EV
Committee member:- Matt
Committee member:- Kirsty
Public Officer:- Dave VK7DC
The club thanked Shirley for her dedication to make the club more member friendly, with members involved in club decisions, and a more social club.
NWTARC Special general meeting
A special general meeting was held after the AGM on Saturday the 4th February 2023, to allow members to vote on amendments to rules 13, 14 and 16.
The amendments were passed unanimously.
North West Tasmania Amateur Radio Club general meeting
The general meeting took place after the special meeting
The following non-committee members were elected:-
Repeater officers:- Matt, Dave VK7DC
Social Coordinator:- Kirsty
Training Officer:- Dave VK7DC
News Officer Eric:- VK7EV
The club welcomed new members, Matthew, Sarah, Brock and Martin, all very keen to obtain their amateur license, so it looks like training and AMC assessor, Dave, VK7DC, is going to be busy.
After the meeting, we got to chat and learn about our new members, who come from varied backgrounds.
73, Eric VK7EV, News Officer
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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
We commence this week with a report on the NTARC Annual General Meeting held last Wednesday the 8th of February. The AGM saw an attendance of 23 voting members and 1 visitor.
Extensive reports by the President, Treasurer, each of the club activity leaders and the all-important Auditors statement were tabled and each well received by the membership, leaving all with the sense that 2022 had been another good year for NTARC, all the more so considering we are still in COVID times.
The elections saw the return of Idris VK7ZIR as President, Peter VK7KPC as Vice President, André VK7ZAB as Treasurer, Stefan VK7ZSB as Secretary and Roslyn (no call sign) as committee member.
Roger VK7ARN was again re-appointed as our Internal Auditor. A slight change this year saw Yvonne VK7FYMX relinquishing the Position of Public Officer and Stefan VK7ZSB accepting nomination for this position.
All the club activity coordinators were again appointed to their respective tasks; Tony VK7YBG as Northern Repeater Officer, David VK7JD continuing his role as Project Manager for Mt Arthur, with both being assisted by Paul VK7KPA and Andrew VK7DW as Assistant Repeater Officers.
Other club activity coordinators agreeing to continue in their roles for 2023 were Peter VK7PD as the Education Officer, Peter VK7KPC as our JOTA/JOTI Coordinator and Roger VK7ARN as our Safety Communications Coordinator.
So there you are folks, you now have the NTARC Committee and Coordinators for 2023. This information is now being prepared for inclusion on the club website by Webmaster Roger VK7ARN.
The business of the meeting proceeded at a good pace, with the agenda completed by 20:15 hrs. President Idris therefore brought matters to a close and after a brief break proceeded to open the February General Meeting which was completed by 20:40 hours.
This was followed by what else but supper, courtesy of the members bringing a plate and what we had hoped for, “preferably with some edible food on them”. Included is thanks to Bernie VK7BR who temporarily forwent his antenna maintenance activities and ventured into the “Dark Art” of cake baking. It turned out to be an excellent specimen, and iced no less.
Thanks go to our stalwart Ros for bringing all the offerings together into a heavily laden supper table that was enjoyed by all at the gathering following the meetings.
It was nice to see a couple of the newest members faces at the AGM. Probably not the most enthralling of times for them, but the after meeting chatter and get together was a good chance to meet other members. Hopefully this made up for it.
At the end of the night when leaving, the subject of the “Green Comet” flyby of Earth came up.
Evidently the coloured glow is due to “the diatomic carbon shed in its wake - a type of carbon molecule that absorbs light from the sun before emitting it as a fluorescent green tail”. Thanks Wiki.
Stuart VK7FEAT produced a pre-programmed URL from the site “Heavens-Above”. This gave a set of excellent directions, with constellation, star and planet locations with which to finally pinpoint the comet, unfortunately the sky was not on our side and the evening was decidedly overcast. Pity, as normally there is minimal light pollution in a northerly direction from the Club Rooms. Stuarts link is included in the text version as there is probably only a few more nights to catch sight of the comet on this pass. Alternatively, as it is orbiting the Sun in an elliptical orbit, just wait another fifty thousand or so years! HiHi
Seriously though, the “Heavens-Above” site is also an excellent resource for the location of objects like the International Space Station etc.
Text edition: C/2022 E3 ZTF directions to help location.
https://www.heavens-above.com/comet.aspx?cid=C%2F2022%20E3&lat=-41.253&lng=148.3069&loc=Binalong+Bay%2c+Tasmania+&alt=0&tz=TST
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.
NTARC QSL Cards - A quick note from Andrew, VK7DW.
Thanks to Herman VK7HW for his continued support regarding QSL deliveries.
Following a recent delivery, the following call signs are waiting at the NTARC club rooms for collection.
VK7KPA and VK7LG
Thank you Andrew for the update.
And now for some blatant cross promotion between broadcast articles. If you get a chance check out the “Ice Flower” Slow Scan TV images broadcast by Colin VK7ZCF on the SSTV night. Whether they are natural or “seeded” by human intervention I dont know but they are pretty cool and worth a look. The link is also guaranteed “Cute Cat” image free.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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.
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 a couple of QSL cards awaiting collection, so why not pop in and check the box and join us for a cuppa and chat.
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 and much more!
Check out the discussion section of the facebook events for more information about each Wednesday night activities.
Projects, presentations, demonstrations, HF & Digital comms, Software Defined Radios, Digital TV in the studio, 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. If you cannot make it to the Domain why not take a look on TV/RF or the YouTube Streaming channel and we will be taking questions via Repeater Two (146.700) and the YouTube Chat channel.
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/
Happening next Wednesday night 15th February 2023 from around 6pm for a 7:30pm broadcast start.
See you there
73, Justin VK7TW
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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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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
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:
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: Idris, 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: VK7DG
40m: VK7TPE
20m: VK7ALH
10m: VK7JGD
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, it is cheers and all the best from Mike, VK7FB.
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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