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VK7 Amateur Radio News 16Apr23
Text edition:
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 16th April 2023
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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News and this was first broadcast on Sunday the 16th April 2023. At the mike of VK7WI this week is Rick, VK7RI.
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 VK7ZCR.
We go out on medium and high frequency courtesy of the following rebroadcast stations:
On 1.862 MHz by Graham, VK7GS
On 3.670 MHz by Peter, VK7TPE
On 7.140 MHz by Ross, VK7ALH,
On 14.130 MHz by Garry, VK7JGD and
On 28.525 MHz by Dale, VK7DG.
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 VK7RHT in Southern VK7.
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Event News
VK7 Centenary
The centenary of organised amateur radio in VK7 happens in June 2023. We thank the WIA Board for their support of this event.
The VK7 Centenary committee is planning a host of events that will include:
For the month we will be operating special callsign - VK7WIA.
There will be a callsign usage rostering system so VK7 amateurs book, operate and log contacts for their roster period.
AR Magazine for June will be a focus on VK7 edition.
There will be a WIA National News Broadcast run by VK7 in June.
There will be a special QSL card and award certificate for contacting VK7WIA during June.
Appreciation Certificates for the weekly Broadcast Operators - Confirmed
There will be Open Days around VK7 during June incorporating media opportunities, historical displays and special operating days; and,
There will be a focus on 100 years of VK7 Amateur Radio history and the standing up of a VK7 Amateur Radio News history web-based repository.
If you have an idea for the centenary month of June please let your club representative know - In the North - Peter VK7PD, in the North West - Eric VK7EV or in the South - Rod VK7TRF.
73, VK7 Centenary Committee
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ALARA News
ALARAMeet 2023
ALARAmeet 2023 is happening from 3 – 6 November in Hobart Tasmania. Registrations are now open, and will close at the end of July. The registration form can be found at the following link.
PDF FORM
Looking forward to working with you for the OM tour on the Saturday afternoon and the BBQ and associated activities on the Sunday midday. Lee VK7LEE is booked in to take photos for the weekend.
From expressions of interest (EOI) last year we are expecting about 40 people, including about 20 OMs. However, since the EOI went out I have had contact with several additional people who are planning to come.
https://www.alara.org.au/
73, Linda, VK7QP
ALARAMeet Organiser
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Statewide News
Thursday Night SSTV Nets
Another great net night that saw the following participants, VK7s – KT, ZGK, FGGT, ZAB, EKA, PD, ZBX, ZSB and TW all sharing twenty five photos.
There were various subjects like:
All creatures great and small
The Cuckoo Hill SOTA site
Trains and railway stations
A drag racer, a trio of Hot Rods and sports cars
A fighter jet, World War 2 bomber and a helicopter
A cloudy night sky above The York Creek Observatory at George Town. https://www.astro.yorkcreek.net/index.html
A couple of Icom transceivers on 1296 MHz
“Winnie The War Winner” transceiver set that was built from salvaged parts in Timor by Sparrow Force in 1942. One of the constructors was Max Loveless, who had been a radio technician with the ABC in Hobart. There is a replica of the set on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Note: an update on last weeks photos of Towers Hill. These were not of a tourist location but the now unused repeater site of VK7RNE on Tassies NE coast.
Also a reminder to embed your call-sign in the transmission. This is done in the software setup by enabling the FSK ID function.
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.
Also if you missed the net there are archives of all SSTV nights. These photos can be seen on Kens 2m SSTV website as an infinitely-scrolling web page or on NTARCs website under blogs and arranged as weekly nets.
https://vk7oo.tasme.com/vhfsstv
https://sstv.vk7krj.com/scrolling%20web%20gallery.html
https://www.ntarc.net/blogs
73 from Andre VK7ZAB
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QSL NEWS
Report - from Herman VK7HW Manager of the WIA VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
The updated list of QSL Cards held as at 7 April 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
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A, AAA, AAD, AAE, AAH, AAP, AAR, AB, AC, AD, 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, BO, BPV, BT, BYE
CH/T, CJ, CL, CMV, CV, CW, CX
DD, DG, DM, DN, DO, DQ, DX, DW, DZ
EA, EE, EG, ER
FALX (alx), FAZZ, FCIA, FLAR, FLYN, FF, FG, FGGT, FPRN, FRJG(RG), FTAS
GA, GC, GGZ, GM, GN, GR, GS, GZ
HBR, HCH, HCK, HDM, HOB, HL, HPD, HRS, HSA, HSD/MRS, HSJ, HVK, HWW, HXT, HZ
IAN, IK, IS
JA, JAZ, JB, JCR, JGD, JJ, JOK, JON (VK6,2014 to 2016), JP, JW
KAC, KBA, KD, KDO, KI, KJ, KKR, KL, KO
LAW, LDH, LJ, LLL, LM, LT, LVH, LW
MAG, MAT, MBD, MBP, MC, MD, MEL, MET, MHZ, MR, MRS, MS
NA, NC, NET, NFI, NIK, NRF, NRT, NSE, NTE, NVH,NWQ
OB,OR
PAF, PBD, PM, PRN, PSJ, PSZ, PW
QK, QP
RG(FRJG), ROY
SM, SN, STO, SV
T/ch, TCE, TED, TK, TL, TO, TS, TX
VA, VAC, VAZ, VDC, VEK, VR, VTM, VZ
WA, WC, WIA, WL, WN (VK0), WO, WT, WX
XDM, XTC, XV, XX
YN, YUM
ZBX, ZGK, ZJJ, ZK, ZM, ZR, ZT, ZTA
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NEWS FROM NORTH WEST
NWTARC
The Club would like to advise that member Martin VK7AAH , has now receive his amateur licence, Martin has acquired some very nice radio gear and antennas, and hopes to be on air soon, as well as doing park activations
Welcome to amateur radio Martin.
73, Eric, 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
April certainly seems to be this clubs month for historic happenings, commencing with ten years at the club rooms as mentioned in previous broadcasts. The next happening was well and truly beyond our control, three years ago the club rooms and just about everything else for that matter closed and all came to a grinding halt as protective measures were put in place to slow the spread of Covid-19. With this went the weekly coffee mornings as well as the Wednesday evening Technical sessions held at the club rooms. All club activities ceased…… until a knight in shining armor came along in the form of our very own Nic VK7WW or as we knew him then VK7BEE.
Nic enthusiastically suggested that he could run a weekly Wednesday night “Tech Net” session on 3.567MHz. The idea was greeted with instant approval, so with Nic hosting the on air Net and Paul VK7KPA managing Discord, they went live in April. It was a monumental success and within about a year had morphed to include a Test Net and CW Morse code training session. The rest, as you say is history, it has been successfully running for three years and approximately 150 evenings, it now also boasts a good mainland amateur participation, propagation allowing. Phil VK7ZPD now keeps Discord ticking away and also provides the off air audio stream. Rick VK7HBR along with Phil, also have been known to stand in as the Guest Host and Net controller when Nic has been unavailable. Finally thanks to all who have participated in the nets, whether on air, on Discord or as a short wave listener.
Did you know Australia entered two teams in the recent RSGB Commonwealth Contest? Well it turns out that congratulations are in order for both teams. Team 1 for coming 1st again and Team 2, with NTARC member Alan VK7BO, which came in 2nd this year. Quite an achievement against VE, G and other Northern Hemisphere Commonwealth Teams. Remember this was a CW only contest. Congratulations must go to Alan for helping wave the flag for Australia and Tasmanian amateurs.
While we are on the subject of competitions we still have a few members waiting on the next round of results to be posted by the John Moyle contest organisers, stay tuned and fingers crossed.
Mug Order - Those members who ordered a personalised club mug, they have arrived and are available for collection at Friday coffee mornings or at the Wednesday bi-weekly club Technical Nights. Special deliveries can be arranged for our far-flung members.
Because of the high number of enquiries we will be placing another order fairly soon, so if you would like one then please see André. So 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 Club Technical night - The next session will be on Wednesday 19th of April 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.
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 available for a donation.
The TestNet and TechNet session - Wednesday the 26th of April. 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.
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
Scout Centenary - Cygnet - VK7HSD
On Sunday the 30 th of April, Huon Districts Scout Station, VK7HSD will be operating portable from Cygnets Burtons Reserve to celebrate 100 years of Scouting.
Both Cygnet and Huonville Scout groups boast a large group of youth who currently hold their Foundation licenses; will no doubt be looking forward to sharing their journey in Amateur Radio to
the wider community.
Both voice and digital on H.F, along with DMR; Echolink will be utilized from 10 am till 4 pm on the day.
There will also be lots of “electronical” hands on displays to experiment with too.
On air contacts will receive a commemorative QSL card to mark the occasion.
We look forward to hopefully making the contact on air, or even in person!
For more information, please email Michael, vk7mrs(at)gmail.com.
73, Michael, VK7MRS
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Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania
https://www.reast.asn.au/
https://www.facebook.com/reasttas/
https://www.youtube.com/reasthobart/
May Presentation
Subsea Acoustic Communications
A huge thank you to Brendan from FIOMarine who will be giving us a presentation on subsea acoustic communications including:
Challenges faced in the underwater environment such as wave propagation, thermal and salinity layering, multipathing.
Techniques used such as DSP, spread spectrum, and OFDM.
A demo of acoustic comms used in the fiobuoy system.
A demo directly sending ASCII text between two acoustic modems.
And if time allows I might talk about Brendan's audio design business building guitar pedals and synthesizers too.
It happens on Wednesday 3 May from 7:30pm in the Queen's Domain Clubrooms.
https://fb.me/e/HaNV5pTE
(73, REAST Committee)
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DATV Experimenter's Night
https://fb.me/e/2JoFedbKt
Last Wednesday night Richard VK7ZBX took the audience through the VK4AMG kit from the City of Brisbane Radio Society. There are some limitations with the IC-9700 as there is only one PTT for all three bands. This kit is a breakout board that takes the CI-V from the rig and via an Arduino switches the relevant band. The project was shown by Richard VK7ZBX, thanks Richard.
http://brisbaneradiosociety.net/icom-ic9700-ptt-extender/
Justin VK7TW then outlined the crowd-source Project called the LiFePoweredPi. This RaspberryPi hat plugs into the 40 pin GPIO connector and provides an Uninterruptible Power Supply for a RaspberryPi. There are drivers to install to shutdown and startup the PSU.
Justin then demonstrated the functionality with the a 10inch touch screen running a RaspBerryPi 4 and pulled the power connector out of the Pi and everything continued to operate.
https://lifepo4wered.com/lifepo4wered-pi+.html
Justin and Richard then did a reminder of the recent upgrade of the VK7RAD repeater. There is a snazzy function on the VKlink software that provides the RSSI of the various voting receivers on a nice web interface.
http://hh.vk7.com.au:83/link.php?nodes=1727
https://www.vklink.com.au/status/
We then went through the latest DUBUS Magazine with and in depth look at the articles in the latest magazine.
Justin and Rex VK7MO then went into the two articles written by Rex.
We then took a look at the RAOTC - Latest OTN Magazine and an article called Recollections of High Altitude Thermonuclear Explosion - Starfish Prime by Paul Edwards VK7ZAL.
We finished with some reminders about future events and activities.
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/upcoming-events/?event_id1=1971
This Wednesday night we take a look at an All-Sky Camera project, the latest AR Magazine and 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/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ReastHobart/
We also 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.
73, Justin, VK7TW
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Training and Assessments
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 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 - Fridays - Coffee mornings in the NTARC Club rooms from 10am to noon.
NTARC - Wednesday 19th April - Club Technical night - from 7.30 to 10.30 pm in the club room Archer Street, Rocherlea.
NTARC - Wednesday 26th April - 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 - 24 April 2023 - SSTV nights from 7:30pm using VK7RMD 2m repeater on Mt Duncan on the 4th Monday in the Month.
Events:
REAST - 3 May - Subsea Acoustic Communications - FioMarine - Queens Domain Clubrooms from 7:30pm
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: VK7TW
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: VK7ALH
40m: VK7JGD
20m: VK7DG
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 VK7RHT 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. PLEASE NOTE: given the number of potential statewide callbacks we will be taking and acknowledging callsign only. Once the callbacks are over, there will be plenty of time to chat statewide about other matters.
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, 73, stay safe from Rick, VK7RI.
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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