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VK7 Amateur Radio News 12Mar23
Text edition:
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 12th March 2023
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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News and this was first broadcast on Sunday the 12th of March 2023. At the mike of VK7WI this week is Peter, VK7PD.
On Sunday this broadcast goes out on repeaters all over VK7 and on digital radio - DMR Talk Group 5 and D-Star Reflector 91C by VK7WP and VK3PG
We go out on medium and high frequency courtesy of the following rebroadcast stations:
On 1.862 MHz by Any Takers,
On 3.670 MHz by Garry, VK7JGD,
On 7.140 MHz by Dale, VK7DG,
On 14.130 MHz by Peter, VK7TPE and
On 28.525 MHz by Tony, VK7VKT.
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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Silent Key
Ken Hancock VK7KH Silent Key
Ken passed away on the 2nd March at the age of 101.
Ken was born on the 23rd September 1921, he resided in Burnie and became the Toyota Motor vehicle distributor.
Ken was responsible for importing the first diesel Landcruiserâ€Ös to Tasmania, and with no tax on diesel in the early days, according to Bob VK7BY, a 44-gallon drum of diesel cost $15, so many farmers were keen to purchase a diesel 4WD.
Besides his amateur radio, Ken was a very keen golfer, even when calling to visit him about 2yrs ago, he wouldnâ€Öt be home, but playing golf at the Wynyard Golf Course, much to his wifeâ€Ös amusement.
According to Malcolm VK7NSS, he played a game of golf with Ken, over a trailer load of sheep, with Malcom winning the game.
Ken was a prolific operator on the HF bands both CW & SSB, on one of my last visits with a big smile, he proudly displayed he could still send CW accurately. Ken had told me, obtaining his amateur licence, opened many doors, he spoke to many amateurâ€Ös in Japan and Europe, as well as many other countries.
He travelled to Japan on numerous occasions and stayed with amateurâ€Ös he regularly talked to on air, and once stayed in an actual Castle in Europe, with a real Count, a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, who he communicated to on HF.
Ken made all these contacts on a multi trap vertical on the garage roof, and a multiband quad in the backyard.
In 2003 Ken was the QSL Manager for the WIA NW Branch. Ken recollects the Radio Club on the North West coast, where they used to meet at Syd Medfordâ€Ös garage in Mount Street in Burnie many years ago.
I can recall meeting Ken at the WIA meetings in Lakins Hall in Ulverstone in the 1980s, I believe Ken is also honoured on the WIA VK7 Divisional Honour Role board, now located at REAST in Hobart.
Ken was a member of our club for many years, a quietly spoken, gentle man.
Ken was a very generous man, when we were updating Shirley VK7HSC antennas, Ken donated all the poles needed to support the fan dipole.
When I last met Ken, he was his usual gentle self, and had a great chat. Ken was residing at Umina Park in Burnie, on his passing.
Ken is survived by his wife of 70 years Elaine and daughter Wendy
73, Eric VK7EV, News Officer
North West Tasmania Amateur Radio Club
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Silent Key
Ian Milne ex-VK7IR SK
We have some additional recollections from Dave VK7DM and Brian VK7TX that did not make it to the Silent Key notice for Ian last week.
Dave recollected that Ian was an ardent tinkerer with all things associated with radiocommunications electronics. I guess a typical radio amateur. I remember him DFing and locating fallen Weather Balloon telemetry units with great pride.
He held a 1st Class Operators Certificate.
Ian was interested in aviation and hence Hang Gliding to which he organised a take-off path (runway) on the escarpment at Quoin Ridge (unbeknown to management!).
He loved all living things and animals. I remember we came across an injured snake on the road to up Quoin Ridge one time and Ian insisted we stop the car and he tried to rescue it! We were horrified. That was Ian.
Ian was a regular attendee at the REAST Wednesday lunch time meetings whilst he held a current Amateur Radio Licence. Great memories. Dave Marsland VK7DM
Brian recollects that Ian came to the “Department of Communications†from AWA and at some time before that he worked at the Carnarvon satellite station in WA.
He told me once of an American scientist who came running out of some comms room, yelling with some desperation, “Has anybody got the code?â€. When asked which code, he replied, “the MORSE code!â€.
We took Ian and Janet fishing one day in our boat and Ian caught a nice whiting – but Janet said, “let him live†and so back it went. No more fish that day. They both turned vegetarian around that time because on the way to work up the Southern Outlet Ian seemed to regularly end up behind a truck of cattle on the way to you know where.
They looked accusingly at Ian and that was it. I recall another quote from Ian. Lyn and I went overseas for 5 months in 1974- 75 and when we got back, he said, “absolutely nothing has changedâ€! I wasnâ€Öt sure if that was good or bad news.
Ian was one of a kind and he and Janet were a very devoted couple.
Vale Ian.
Brian Muir VK7TX
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VK7 Event News
Meet The Voice 2023
The Meet the Voice event will be going ahead this year on the weekend of the 18-19 March 2023 with the main event happening on the Sunday the 19 March from 11am.
It will be happening at the Ross Caravan Park on the banks of the picturesque Macquarie River.
As in past years attendees are welcome to make a weekend of it and stay at the Caravan Park - bookings are encouraged to ensure you get a space! The BBQs will be fired up on the Sunday for lunch and the presentation of the Meet The Voice Sewing Circle Trophy will be made around 11:00am.
The weekend coincides with the John Moyle Memorial Field Day contest where the focus is on portable operation so, why not bring your portable station along and operate in the John Moyle as well.
There will be a car boot sale so bring along those pre-loved items for sale or give away or barter.
73, Sewing Circle Net
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Statewide News
Thursday Night SSTV Nets
Another great net night that saw the following participants, VK7s – KT, FGGT, PD, ZAB, ZMS, ZGK, ZSB and ZBX all sharing twenty four photos.
There were various subjects like:
Home station Icom HF and UHF transceivers
A brightly coloured Sunset
Historical series of the Mt Barrow repeater site and moving equipment in snow and icy conditions
Lifelike street art and local murals
A smiling fisher that has caught his first Kingfish
The Shot Tower at Taroona near Hobart photographed in the 1960â€Ös. This was the tallest structure in Tasmania until it was superseded by the broadcast towers on Mt Wellington
And this weekâ€Ös mystery item is a PointLink platform! You may recognise it? Probably made by Ceragon
A selection of birds of flight, butterfly and an Owl
An Australian map proudly identifying where Tasmania is
A temple of worship
This weekâ€Ös transport theme was a new looking ute, a local 4 wheel drive truck based camper, a series of shots from the Tasman Bridge traffic camera, a drag racing Chrysler Valiant and an American semi-trailer
Remember Ken VK7KRJâ€Ös and Steve VK7OOâ€Ös 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.
If you missed the net there are archives of all SSTV nights.
These photos can be seen on Kenâ€Ös 2m SSTV website as an infinitely-scrolling web page or on NTARCâ€Ös website under blogs and arranged as weekly nets.
A reminder that 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://sstv.vk7krj.com/scrolling%20web%20gallery.html
https://www.ntarc.net/blogs
73 from Andreâ€Ö VK7ZAB
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Contest News
John Moyle Field Day 2023
Just to remind everybody that the John Moyle field day is coming up soon. The next Field Day will be held over the weekend of the 18th/19th March 2021 and will run from UTC 0100 on the Saturday to 0059 on the Sunday. The contest is open to all VK, ZL and P2 stations. All other stations are welcome to participate, but can only claim points for contacts with VK, ZL and P2 stations. All VK, ZL and P2 stations can claim points for all contacts, with any station in the world, as long as valid serial numbers are exchanged.
The contest is divided up into 8 X 3 Hour blocks. You can rework each station in each block on the same band / mode for extra contacts and points.
There are several categories, and they cover portable stations and home stations with the following options.
a) 24 or 6 hour;
b) Phone, CW, Digital or All modes;
c) HF, VHF/UHF or All Bands.
For instance, you can operate for 6 hours, Phone and HF, as an example.
Why not set aside some time to exchange some numbers with those that will be out and about, even if you stay home. The John Moyle field day is a little different than other field days as you can operate on HF is thatâ€Ös your interest. Suitable logging software makes the task of keeping track of rework times and point score. Here are a few options such as VKCL, VK5DJ, N1MM and many others. This also makes the job of sending your log in an easy task. On VHF / UHF a good spot to checkout will be the usual simplex channels on 6M, 2M, 70cm and 23cm. For those with SSB try the usual XX.150 on USB. With HF we can execute the tried and proven “Band Danceâ€. If a few people exchange numbers from 160M up to 23cm that makes for many points.
Hope to hear you out and about!
73 Richard VK7ZBX
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Bob VK7BS and Anthony VK7AG and Garry VK7JGD are planning on setting up a field day station primarily for the Menâ€Ös Shed group using their new call sign VK7CMS (Channel Mens Shed) and some new operators hopefully.
We will be setting up in the area beside the boat ramp at Dru Point Margate, weather permitting as the area is quite exposed in windy weather.
We should be set up to go by the start at 0100z the 18th of March, Saturday next weekend.We will be set up for HF, VHF and UHF so if you hear us we would be looking forward to some calls.
All visitors are welcome, so come and have a look.
73, Garry VK7JGD
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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 start this weekâ€Ös happenings with the Wattlewood Park Equine Endurance Ride update as promised in last weekâ€Ös broadcast, luckily I didnâ€Öt jinx it after saying “hopefully it will have been a successful rideâ€. It was indeed successful from the providing of communications point of view and mainly because no emergency assistance was required for any of the horses or riders participating in the event.
A quick word from the NTARC safety co-ordinator Roger VK7ARN on the event. “NTARC provided the usual support at Sassafras for the Wattlewood Park endurance ride. VK7s Roger ARN, Stuart ES, Peter KPC, Peter SP, Andreâ€Ö ZAB, Idris ZIR, Stefan ZSB, Tony ZTT attended on one or more days transporting equipment to and from, setting up and on the day. The weather was fine, so much so that the horses were kicking up dust to the extent that one ‘operatorâ€Ö took to wearing a ‘COVID maskâ€Ö for a while.†Thank you Roger and I agree that the sandy dust at one of the check points found its way onto anything that moved or stood still for too long. In contrast Peter VK7KPCâ€Ös check point problem was completely different.
As you may have heard Peter on the northern call back after the broadcast, where his comment went something like this, “a note to selfâ€, in future I may not pitch my tent quite so close to a busy highway, even if it is in a picturesque orchard, well at least if you intend to camp the night with the vague idea of getting any sleep! Sorry Peter but what can one say!
Event pictures of the clubs weekend outing are available on the NTARC website, under Blogs.
Winter is definitely thinking about coming our way, Wednesday Tech Night at the club rooms was not necessarily cold outside but it was good to see Luke Sky Warmer slowly burning away in the background, having successfully taken the overnight chill off the club rooms. Many thanks to Stuart VK7FEAT, for kick starting Luke for the first time since summer.
Stuart also brought along a solid-state Codan Marine Radio, Type 6801 Mk2 SSB Transceiver, Circa 1980. It had been converted, or should I just say it had been gutted as anything to do with receiving had been removed, the only original board left was the 100Watt PEP final Output board. Four switchable RF transmit band pass filters had been added along with many RF switching relays. Apart from the original channel changer that now functions as a band select switch for 10, 20 40 and 80 Metres and the on/off switch everything else on the front panel is now redundant. Hopefully next tech night we will plug a dummy load in and put it through its paces.
Also in Stuartâ€Ös box of goodies was a “Key Telegraph†which certainly looked like an ex-armed forces style Morse Key. According to the MorseMad.com site, it was an impressive key incorporating the classic Scandinavian long tapered lever following the Ericsson Swedish Pump Key design. Evidently it was designed for use by NATO forces. Made by Pryce Edwards Ltd. and Marconi S. & R. Systems Ltd it was manufactured throughout the 1960's/70's & 80's. The cover of this key is not surprising painted in battleship grey and like the rest of the unit made of brass.
Is the Morse key and Stuart possible future recruits for Nic VK7WWs, Wednesday nights TestNet and CW course? If so I hope he remembers his steel capped boots as this Morse Key comes in at a hefty 2.2kg! It certainly is one you would not want to accidentally drop on your toes!
Andreâ€Ö VK7ZAB also brought along a Yaesu FT-991 that seemed to suffering an intermittent “High SWR†warning problem, this warning situation was only when using the internal Antenna Tuning Unit or ATU. This occurred initially on an external antenna and during further testing also into a Dummy Load! That certainly ruled out the antenna having an intermittent. When the “High SWR†warning comes up, if you push the bypass button for the ATU then the alarm clears and the SWR shows as back in normal range. When ATU is switched back in the warning may or may not come back on. After hitting the Yaesu forums Andreâ€Ö came across an article by George Tuck G4RNI, on the mods.dk web site. (Text edition link mods.dk - Modifications for radioamateur) It looks like some of these transceivers manufactured about 2016 left the factory with lacquer covering the tinned earthing pads on the ATU unit, this would certainly upset the board performance. This, in Georgeâ€Ös situation was causing the “High SWR†warning to intermittently come up. His solution was to carefully remove the lacquer back to the solder with an abrasive fibre pen. It will be interesting to see if this rigs problems was caused by the same factory “hic-upâ€. It didnâ€Öt take long for the covers to be removed and its innards revealed, the ATU module has been removed for further investigation.
As usual pictures of items from the evening are available on the NTARC website under “Blogs†for this broadcast.
Now for one of many things I donâ€Öt know, the NTARC club Software Defined Radio SDR has a recording function as I am sure most other SDR software probably do have as well but I didnâ€Öt know this! I gave it a try on Wednesday night from 19:00 to record Nic VK7WWâ€Ös slow Morse course. Normally I am unable to listen due to other commitments or am helping set up the club rooms for the Technical Night. This time with the downloaded file I was able to sit back at leisure and listen to the Morse evening unfolding. I took Nicâ€Ös advice, printed a Morse code sheet, and followed along in my beginnerâ€Ös mode. Nic sends at a good pace and there was enough time to look up the character before the next during the “new characters for the day†portion of the net. Playing the file also gave me the ability to pause or go back to figure out the previously sent characters. This particular night certainly had a high number and level of static crashes to contend with. Nic, with his excellent signal strength was not a problem, although towards the end the mainland contacts were really taking a battering from the lightning. Now I am not saying I will take up CW but itâ€Ös one less excuse I can now use. HiHi. Certainly an enjoyable nights CW Net even though it was time shifted.
For all of you John Moyle Memorial Field Day-ers here is some important information.
Peter VK7KPC is intending participating in the John Moyle Memorial Field Day from the Ross Caravan Park this coming weekend 18-19 March.
He should be on air on 70cm, 2m, 6m and HF.
FM and SSB on the VHF bands and SSB, fairly slow CW and maybe RTTY on the HF bands.
Hoping to be operational for the entire duration, but with a mid-afternoon start due to a conflicting scout leaders meeting, fortunately also at Ross.
He will be monitoring usual VHF contest frequencies.
Hoping to make more than the 82 points scored last year.
And that was from Peter VK7KPC.
Good luck Peter and hopefully we will catch you on air from Ross.
Mug Order - yes, we are talking about the white mugs for drinking out of, those that have our club logo on one side, personalised with your name and call sign on the other. We are placing another order so if you would like one then please see André at the Friday coffee mornings or at the Wednesday bi-weekly club Technical Nights. Those members who have already requested a mug, please email secretary@ntarc.net to confirm order, and anyone else who wants one please specify what name is to be printed above the call sign. The final price will be about $12 depending on eventual quantity ordered.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The TestNet and TechNet session - Wednesday the 15th of March. 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 be Nic VK7WW.
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. Why not pop in and join us for a cuppa there is endless tea and coffee along with biscuits are available for a donation.
The Club Technical night - The next session will be on Wednesday 22nd of March and will commence at the usual time of 7.30 pm, running through to about 10.30 pm, at the Club room Archer Street, Rocherlea.
Club General Meeting - Saturday 1st of April at 2.00pm. Held at the NTARC Club Room, Rocherlea Scout Hall, Archer Street, Rocherlea. At this point it will be the standard agenda. If you have items you would like added to the agenda please email the secretary at: secretary(at)ntarc.net no later than Friday the 31st of March. The meeting will follow a midday BBQ lunch, this is the clubs first BBQ since Covid 19 reared its ugly head. Donations of cakes, slices etc. would be appreciated. I know itâ€Ös on the 1st of April, but it is after midday, so trust us, it is a “for real†BBQ and meeting. Funnily enough this April does hold a special place and meaning for the club, information to follow.
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.
Thatâ€Ös 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 Nights
Magnetic Loops - Myth-Busting Demo
https://fb.me/e/2lMJiTddt
The REAST April presentation and demonstration will be all about Magnetic Loop antennas.
There are many many myths out there on the interwebs about magnetic loop antennas and so this presentation and demonstration will focus on myth-busting by presenting the facts, demonstrating them in real-time and busting some of the myths that many amateurs hang on to about these fascinating antennas.
We will also be be demonstrating the Magnetic Loop Tuner design from Dave Trewren G7IYK.
The presentation will be given by Justin VK7TW and will be streamed and go out on DVB-T RF.
This will take place on Wednesday 5th April 2023 from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain Clubrooms.
See you there.
73, REAST Committee
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DATV Experimenter's Night
https://fb.me/e/2JoFedbKt
We started te night with Rex VK7MO who took us through his experimentation with Auroral propagation experiments with VK3MAP, VK3DXE, VK3AXH and VK3KZM with assistance from Andrew Klekociuk from the AAD. Rex outlined that there was an event on 27 February 2023 with a Kp greater than 5 Auroral event. This group used WSJT-X Q65-15C mode with smaller 2m stations using 100 watts and single yagis all pointing South. Over the night they achieved over 800 decodes.
It was cloudy in Tasmania so nothing too much from an optical auroral and Rex outlined the STEVE Phenomenon which refers to - Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement which is different to Aurora and possibly a candidate for radio propagation.
There was historical background from QST in 1939 referring to the first reference to Auroral propagation and then Rex went through the decodes – with strong signals with huge variation in frequency. We then looked at the spreadsheet of the decodes and some points of interest.
Rex plotted the audio and signal levels and showed +8 to -17 signal variation. There is a dramatic drop in signal level in the middle of the night and is a known phenomenon called Magnetic Midnight.
Using single tones Rex demonstrated frequency spreading with +400Hz of spreading. Rex uses NOAA forecasts using a G scale and the 27th Event was 7 on G scale and the Auroral ring was very close to Australia for this event.
Rex finished with a montage of Auroral photos.
Justin VK7TW then showed some wonderful photos from David Brunet FT4YM who has just come back from the French Concordia Station, thank you David. David did watch the YouTube stream and let us know.
Justin showed the QSL card from David with a Concordia Post Mark. Justin exchanged QSL cards.
We then talked about the recent strong gale force winds and the damage it did to Justinâ€Ös Magnetic Loop antenna. The 100mm PVC pipe snapped at a weakness in the pipe.
We finished with a reminder that this week we will be focusing on the working Cariboulite SDR plus much more.
We 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/
We go out on RF - DVB-T 7MHz Standard Definition on 445.5MHz. 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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Training and Assessments
Yesterday we had a great turnout from the Channel Menâ€Ös Shed with five candidates sitting their Foundation Licence and another four candidates sitting their Standard upgrade assessments. Good luck to all.
The next REAST Foundation Licence training and all licence assessment day is Saturday May 13th.
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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AR News
Home of the Good Guys
Back before just before Christmas 2022 the call went out from David Brunet FT4YM who was a French amateur based at Concordia Station who had blown up the finals in his transceiver. He was looking for replacement transistors or a linear amplifier to borrow.
The only catch was we had two days to get the items onto the ship going South - L'astrolabe 3. We managed to find a 200W linear and package up and delivered to the Hobart wharf on Christmas Eve.
It arrived in Antarctica and was used whilst David was traversing an Ice Dome on a two week trip to gather an ice core. So you could say it was used Antarctic Mobile..hihi!
Well David arrived back in Hobart on the boat along with 16 other expeditioners all heading back to France.
Justin VK7TW and XYL Helen caught up with David for a very enjoyable brunch and eye-ball QSO.
It was fascinating to hear about Davidâ€Ös time in Antarctica and he has been down there 5-6 times and is a seasoned expeditioner and will be going back.
David lives in Grenoble which is a small French village near the Italian border and enjoys mountaineering and skiing in the Alps.
We exchanged QSL cards for the eyeball QSO and on Davidâ€Ös card was written “thanks Justin, perfect amateur radio spiritâ€.
David shared many photos from his trip down South that we featured at the DATV Experimenterâ€Ös night and can be seen on the REAST YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xl1UUpLxcs&t=2723s
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 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-Sng Mondays and Fridays 10.30-12.00 midday at Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry St, Launceston.
NTARC - Fridays - Coffee mornings in the NTARC Club rooms from 10am to noon.
NTARC - Wednesday 22nd March - Club Technical night - from 7.30 to 10.30 pm in the club room Archer Street, Rocherlea.
NTARC - Wednesday 15th March - 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 Experimenterâ€Ös Nights from 7:30pm live in the club rooms also on DVBT RF and YouTube Streaming
CCARC - 27 March 2023 - SSTV nights from 7:30pm using VK7RMD 2m repeater on Mt Duncan on the 4th Monday in the Month.
Events:
MTV - 19 March - Meet The Voice BBQ just next to the Ross Caravan Park on the banks of the Macquarie River presentations start 11am.
VK - 18-19 March - John Moyle Memorial Field Day.
NTARC - 1 April - Club General Meeting from 2.00pm held in the NTARC Club Room, Rocherlea Scout Hall, Archer Street, Rocherlea
REAST - 5 April - Magnetic Loop Antennas - Mythbusting with demo with Justin VK7TW from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain clubrooms.
VK7 - June 2023 - VK7nia
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A reminder to those people rostered for next weekâ€Ös 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: 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.
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.
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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