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VK7 Amateur Radio News 17Nov24
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 17th November 2024
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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News.
This was first broadcast on Sunday, November 17th, 2024 and we bring you the latest from the world of amateur radio in VK7.
This week, joining you from the Tasmanian Amateur Radio News desk is Nic, VK7WW.
Tune in as we share updates and insights across VK7, broadcast through an array of platforms and frequencies:
On DMR Talk Group 5 and D-Star Reflector 91C, managed by Gavin, VK7HGO.
On Medium and high frequency rebroadcasts thanks to our dedicated operators:
1.862 MHz by Graham, VK7GS
3.670 MHz by Garry, VK7JGD
7.140 MHz by Dale, VK7DG
14.130 MHz by Any Takers
28.525 MHz by Tony, VK7VKT and
UHF CB Channel 24 in the Hobart area, hosted by Mark, VK7FMAC
If you missed todayâ€Ös broadcast then you can catch the replay on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RAA in Northern VK7 and VK7RHT and UHFCB24 in Southern VK7.
Thank you for tuning in and enjoy the broadcast!
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VK7 News
Huge Thank You
Peter Henry VK7TPE has had to step down from the re-broadcasting roster due to health issues.
Peter has been a dedicated HF re-broadcaster for well over 10 years and has broadcast out the WIA and VK7 Amateur Radio broadcasts each week on a variety of HF frequencies.
Peter has been always improving his antenna system and station to improve his rebroadcasts.
Thanks to Peter for his service over the years.
73, Justin, VK7TW
On behalf of the VK7 ARNews Team
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Contesting News
WIA Spring VHF/UHF field day
Well, it's time to clear the dust and spiders from the portable VHF and above equipment and get ready for the WIA Spring VHF/UHF field day. This year it will be on the 23rd and 24th of November, from 01:00 UTC through till 00:59 UTC. There are several sections and then sub sections so there is something for everybody. Broadly speaking there are two main streams of participants, those that are happy to pack up a fair bit of their shack, associated bits and bobs, then reassemble it in some remote spot, discover they have forgot to pack "something", brave or enjoy the weather and conditions, supply power, make some contacts then do the reverse and pack it all up take it home, and those that are not quite that mad and operate from the comfort of their shack. Then there are the Rovers.. they are special individuals as they move about and repeat the portable things all over the place.
There are sub sections that are aimed at the new licensees as well, like the single band section, or the 4-band section that covers up to 4 of the traditional VHF/UHF bands. There is the option to work either 8 hours, or the full 24 hours.
It's a great day of fun and there will be many people out and about so why not allocate some time to come on and exchange some numbers that weekend. You can rework stations after 2 hours. The usual logging programs like VKCL, YACL and others will keep your contacts logged just don't forget to check the time is correct and that you check all details before hitting the "log" key as a small error will cost you a contact. You will need to determine your 6 digit maidenhead square locator from your operating location, there are many smartphone apps to help obtain this.
The places to look for contacts are the following.
6M - 52.525 FM, 2M - 146.500 FM, 70cm - 439.000 FM, 23cm - 1296.150 FM, 13cm - 2403.150 FM, 9cm - 3398.150 FM and on 3cm - 10,368.150 FM
Checkout the WIA website for all the rules and other information.
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/
If anyone would like some help with any aspect of the field day I am happy to offer assistance, along with the wealth of knowledge and experience of other members, just reach out and well do what we can to assist.
Here's hoping for a great Spring Day, hear you on the bands.
73, Richard, VK7ZBX
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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 2 November 2024 is in the email version of the broadcast.
73, Herman, VK7HW, WIA Manager VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
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Cards held at 2 November 2024 ( Any errors in the listing are mine, I sometimes miss culling a call sign)
AAC, AAD, AAH, AAP, AAR, AB, ACE, ACG, ACN, ADE, AED, AG(2014), AGC, AHT, AIR, AJC, AKK, ALZ, AM, ANC, AO, APZ, AS, ATH, AXZ, AY
BA, BB, BPV, BT, BU, BYE
C/GH, CA, CBK, CBR, CH/T, CJ, CTV, CV, CX
DAN, DHT, DI, DN, DO, DQ, DT, DV, DY, DZ
EG, EI, ER
FADZ, FALX (alx), FAZZ, FCIA, FF, FG, FGGT, FKLW, FLAR, FMI, FPRN, FTAS
GA, GEL, GGZ, GH/C, GM, GOP, GR, GU
HCH, HH, HL, HOB, HRS, HSA, HSD, HSJ, HVK, HXT, HZ
IAN, IR, IS
JA, JAB, JAZ, JCR, JG, JOK, JP, JS, JW, JX
KAC, KAM, KBA, KD, KDO, KJ, KKR, KL, KO, KQ, KRJ
LA, LDH, LJ, LL, LLL, LM, LT, LVH
M, MA, MAG, MBD, MBP, MD, MEL, MET, MHZ, MI, MJ, MRS, MS, MV
NA, NB, NC, ND, NEC, NIK, NRF, NSE, NTE, NVH
OB
PAF, PBD, PM, PRN, PSH, PSJ, PSZ, PW
QK
RG, RJ, RN, ROY
SG(vi7SG), SN, SV, SZ
TCE, TED, TK, TL, TPE, TR, TS, TUX, TX, TZ
UT
VA, VAC, VAO, VAZ, VDC, VEK, VH, VI75G, VK7/AG9A9Mark), VR, VTM
WA, WC, WIA, WL, WO, WT, WUU
XV
Y, YN
ZA, ZJJ, ZK, ZM, ZR, ZT
Cards held at REAST Club Room 30 October 2024 (Sorted In wooden box on desk as you enter the door). AZ, HSD, SD, STO, VKT
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Statewide News
Thursday Night SSTV Nets
Due to VK7RAF being off the air it was a quiet net night that saw the following North and NW participants, VK7s – ZAB, EV, PD and ZCF all sharing twenty photos.
The highlights were:
The 50th anniversary of “Count Down” on ABC TV
The TFS or Tasmanian Fire Serviceâ€Ös communications van at Grandville Harbour and at a “Fun Run”
A rescue crew using a powered cutter on a vehicle
A new fire truck equipped with a remote controlled snorkel
The twenty year old battery powered and electric motor driven tourist ferry on the Tamar River
A well-equipped radio shack
A Tasmanian map with aircraft locations decoded from their ADS-B signals
A neat Kenwood TR-7400A 2M FM mobile from last century
Modern transceivers used for the SSTV nets
Excalibur – King Arthurâ€Ös Sword and the use of modern potions
A cautionary note about Wombats selling dice
And a modern take on birds sitting on telephone wires
Note - Ken VK7KRJâ€Ös and Steve VK7OOâ€Ös fully automatic 24/7 monitoring sites allow 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 these SSTV nights.
These photos can be seen on Kenâ€Ös and Steveâ€Ös SSTV websites or on NTARCâ€Ös website under blogs.
Donâ€Öt forget to use your own photos or those that are copyright free.
SSTV VK7OO Tasmania Australia (tasme.com)
VK7KRJ's 2m SSTV scrolling web gallery
Blog 3 â€ö NTARC Inc.
73 from Andreâ€Ö VK7ZAB
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NEWS FROM THE NORTH WEST
VK7RVP back on air
The North West Coast Radio Repeater Association has put VK7RVP back on the air in the 70 centimeter amateur band and with a 78 Megahertz repeater for the North West Car Club.
Australia's top gravel rally championships are hosted in Tasmania by the North West Car Club for the first time in 20 years. This year's rally will be held in areas from Burnie to the forests south west of Mawbanna. The Club asked the North West Coast Radio Repeater Association if they could use Saint Valentines Peak as the perfect location for repeater communication during the Rally on the 22nd of November. The Australian Rally Championship runs in forestry areas requiring radio coverage from Oonah through to the South West of Mawbanna.
Last weekend, a combined car club and radio repeater association expedition carried up and installed the rally event repeater, the amateur repeater and a heap of other equipment including battery management electronics, antennas, a 5 Gigahertz microwave internet link and the repaired duplexers for the original 6 meter transceiver.
Steady work from the NWCRRA has put a new roof on the historic summit radio shack and repaired damage to the solar battery array, bringing a heartbeat back into this remote mountain top radio repeater.
The 70cm channel is on 438.775 Megahertz with a negative 7 split and is already busy with VK7 traffic, providing radio coverage across the North West as far as Launceston and even across the straight to VK3 Victoria. This work brings the Repeater site, VK7RVP, out of its long sleep and back on the air with great big cheer from local radio amateurs.
Many radio amateurs across the state have keenly missed the punchy coverage of the 6 metre VK7RVP repeater which went silent after the aluminium roof of the hut was torn off in a violent storm in 2020. Although 6 meters isn't on the air just yet, the North West Coast Radio Repeater Association is on the job so keep your rig's tuned in for more on this story soon... and support your local Radio Repeater Association.
73, North West Coast Radio Repeater Association
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North West Amateur Radio Club Meeting
The next club meeting will be commencing at 1.30pm on Saturday 7th December 2024 at our usual venue, the Scout hall, 73 Alexandra Road, Ulverstone. afternoon tea will also be held.
Members are encouraged to bring items for show & tell, and club rooms are open till 6pm for members to socialise.
A small plate of afternoon tea would be appreciated, We have Tea, Coffee etc available for members and guests. Visitors are most welcome to attend.
If you have any cold or flu symptoms , or are unwell , or been in contact with a confirmed COVID case, then please do not attend the meeting.
73, Eric VK7EV, News Officer
North West Tasmania Amateur Radio Club
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Mt Duncan repeater maintenance
The Club was advised, that the 2m repeater will be taken out of service, on Thursday 14th November for maintenance, and removed from site, we will advised when its operational again
73, Dave VK7DC, NWTARC repeater committee
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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
First up there are still a couple of carry-over items from the previous Club Room Technical Night.
First up was Ian VK7IG, who had a rack mountable RMA900 series receiver set up on the work bench.
He was using it to demonstrate his new RF “noise source” unit that was designed by BG7TBL and available on the internet. It uses a reverse biased Zener as the noise source heart and generates random noise in the 138 MHz to 4.4 GHz region. Although not linear across the entire spectrum, for most limited bandwidth measurements the linearity is more than adequate for go-no-go testing, plotting and visualising. You can always do a baseline plot, over the desired frequency range, to ascertain the noise linearity as a reference before the device to be analysed is put into circuit.
For the demonstration Ian had tapped into the 35 MHz IF output of the RMA900 and fed it to his TinySA Ultra spectrum analyser. Connecting the “noise source” to the input to the receiver allowed you to see the curve of the IF passband on the TinySA. Some excellent displayed results were forthcoming.
A link to a tutorial on general testing using this device is included in the text version of this broadcast.
RTL-SDR Tutorial: Measuring filter characteristics and antenna VSWR with an RTL-SDR and noise source
For interest the RMA900 units were made in Australian by AWA and with its matching transmitter pair they made up one end of a 900MHz point to point link system. The basic system comprised a 900 MHz transmitter, diplexer, and receiver at each end. A link provided 60 voice channels and a sub-baseband channel, commonly called an order wire, for the technicians to talk over the link. These were extensively used throughout Australia from the 1980â€Ös and proved to be very reliable. This wasnâ€Öt the actual show and tell item but it certainly brought back some fond memories.
Ian also brought in a small USB-C socketed printed circuit board, it was very cute but what did it do?
It had been designed to mimic a device that requires a certain DC voltage. While powered down simply select and set the three on board dip switches for the voltage required. Then connect to the USB-C power source using the appropriate USB-C to C cord. On powering up it communicates with the USB-C power source, mimics the protocol and requests a specific voltage. The user selected voltage of 5, 9, 12, 15 or 20 Volts will appear at the boardâ€Ös output terminals.
How simple is that! I have already placed an order for some of these tiny boards, thank you Ian for the demonstrations.
Idris VK7ZIR brought in a new acquisition, well new to him, considering it was actually manufactured back in 1946. He had a fine example of a classic Eddystone 504 General Coverage Communications Receiver. This is a Single Conversion Superheterodyne receiver with a compliment of ten valves and a coverage spanning from 600 kHz to 30 MHz divided into five selectable bands. This particular model is also referred to as the S 504 as it has an “S” preceding the model number on the tuning dial. This evidently refers to the fact it was manufactured by Stratton & Company Ltd. in Birmingham England. This means the radio was manufactured nearly twenty years before Eddystone was acquired by the Marconi Company in 1965. Nowadays this unit is considered and is listed as “Extremely Scarce”, especially one in such a good condition. Hopefully it is destined for restoration and a pride of place amongst its other Eddystone siblings.
Idrisâ€Ös next acquisition up for perusal brought us forward into the 1960â€Ös.
A Tektronix RM504 oscilloscope, this is the rarer rack mountable version of the 504 which was the usual workshop style. Must have been something about rare objects that night, Hi-Hi.
These models were DC to 450 kHz vertical input bandwidth and not intended for wideband laboratory work. Being a reduced bandwidth unit also came with a much reduced price tag, which undoubtedly kept the “Bean Counters” happier. It was usually found mounted in racks of fixed communications equipment permanently monitoring signals from selected sources.
Not sure what you intend using it for Idris, but it certainly is in very good condition.
As always, pictures will be available on the NTARC Web site under “Blogs” for this broadcast. NTARC Blogs
https://www.ntarc.net/blogs
UPCOMING EVENTS
TestNet and TechNet session - Every Wednesday, TestNet/CW course on 3.580MHz from 7 pm till 7.30 pm, then a TechNet on 3.567MHz from 7.30 pm till 8.30 pm. Your host for the evening is Nic VK7WW.
Club Room Technical night session - The next session will be on Wednesday the 20th November and will commence at the usual time of 6.30 pm at the Club Room Archer Street, Rocherlea.
Coffee Morning - held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Time is from 10 am to noon and we look forward to seeing you all there. So why not pop in check the QSL cards and join us for a cuppa, there is endless tea and coffee along with biscuits available for a donation.
End of year NTARC celebration – locked in for Wednesday the 4th of December.
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 5 pm on the Friday prior to the Broadcast.
Thatâ€Ös all folks,
73 from Stefan, VK7ZSB, Secretary NTARC Inc.
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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/
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Conference Volunteers Thank You Pizza and Feedback Forum Night
https://youtube.com/live/wIDMhMWzalA
Last Wednesday night saw a bunch of our volunteers enjoying pizza and softdrinks as a thank you for their help during the conference.
The pizza then morphed into a Forum night where we went through the summarised feedback we received using the Slido application during the conference and took comments from the floor and online about the following areas of the conference weekend.
Catering and Refreshments
Content and Presentations
Venue and Logistics
Program Flow and Scheduling
Social and Networking Aspects
Online Participation and Accessibility
Improvements
These comments will be fed into the Conference Review document so we capture it for 2026.
Donâ€Öt forget that the Brisbane VHF group announced at the conference that they will be hosting a VHF and Above Conference on the Gold Coast in November 2025 and the intention is to alternate with the Tassie Ham-E-Con every two years.
Thanks for everyone who came along and contributed in person or online.
73, Justin, VK7TW
On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee
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End Of Year Celebration BBQ and Working Bee
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/upcoming-events/?event_id1=2562
We will be holding a free BBQ for club members to celebrate a fantastic year at REAST.
This will be held after the broadcast on Sunday December 8th, 2024 from 1100 - 1500.
BRING YOUR SHOVELS - after lunch we will be holding a working bee to clean up the shack, run new cable, dig trenches to our tower and a range of other exciting things!
Please let us know if you are coming along (secretary(at)reast.asn.au) so, we can gauge the numbers for the food.
See you there.
REAST Committee
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HUMONGOUS Amateur Radio Car Boot Sale
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/upcoming-events/?event_id1=2565
REAST will be holding a huge amateur radio carboot sale in the Queens Domain compound from 11am on Sunday 19th January 2025.
Want to sell something - it will cost you $10 to setup your carboot then you can sell as much as you want - all profit goes to you.
There will be a Sausage Sizzle on the day with Snags and Bread at $3 and Burgers and Bread at $5 - Soft drinks available $1 per can.
The REAST club will be selling 5.4m and 8.1m portable Aluminium masts.
No need to book - just turn up.
73, REAST Committee
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REAST Training and Assessments Update
Foundation Training and Assessment Days are held every two months.
Standard, Advanced, and Regulations licence assessments held on the alternate months. Dates can be found on the REAST Events Page.
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/upcoming-events/
The final Standard, Advanced, and Regulations licence assessments will be held on Saturday 30 November 2024 from 10 am.
Our 2025 training calendar has been drafted and looks like Foundation Training and Assessment days will be on:
22/02/25, 12/04/25, 28/06/25, 30/08/25 and 25/10/25
Standard, Advanced & Regulations Assessment Days will be on:
29/03/25, 31/05/25, 26/07/25, 20/09/25 and 29/11/25.
For Bookings, Queries, and Questions:
Email: reast.assessor(at)gmail.com
This email is forwarded to the Learning Organiser, who will respond to all requests.
Foundation Licence Training Videos:
These have been updated to reflect the new Class Licence arrangements. Available on the REAST YouTube Training and Assessment Playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiSE6GEhcXU&list=PLsnsP_zjw831mdC6sY4XqavRUY-53ZWUn
Additional Resources:
Check out the WIA Foundation Trial Exams.
https://www.wia.org.au/licenses/foundation/onlineexams/foundation.php
73, Reg, VK7KK
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Technology History News
Flying the Beam - WWII Aviation Navigation using CW
Before there were the sophisticated digital systems that are used for aviation navigation there were some fascinating systems used that were developed in 1930s that used directional antennas and novel CW combinations to guide aircraft into landing fields.
The system was called “Flying the Beam” and involved a low/medium frequency directional Adcock antenna array with four antennas that aligned with the runways.
These radio towers transmitted directional radio signals, the radio range defining specific airways in the sky. Pilots navigated using low-frequency radio by listening to a stream of automated "A" and "N" Morse codes signals.
The reason for the A and N signals is that they are opposites - dit dah for A and dah dit for N - Combine the two together and it creates a constant tone.
For example, they would turn or slip the aircraft to the right when hearing an "N" stream ("dah-dit, dah-dit, ..."), to the left when hearing an "A" stream ("di-dah, di-dah, ..."), and fly straight ahead when these sounds merged to create a constant tone indicating the airplane was directly tracking the beam.
At its maximum deployment, there were over 400 stations exclusively using low-frequency radio range in the Continental U.S. alone.
This system was overtaken in the 1970s with the VHF Onmidirectional Range (VOR) system.
Sourced from the Wikipedia and other Internet Sources
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Satellite News
Celebrating AO-7: First Earth-Space-Space-Earth Relay Communications
As AO-7, launched on November 15, 1974, approaches is 50th Anniversary and setting a record as the longest operating satellite, we look back at a few of its noteworthy accomplishments.
The downlink spectrum of AO-7â€Ös UHF/VHF transponder overlapped with AO-6â€Ös VHF-to-HF transponder. The overlap of the two was approximately 50 kHz wide. The two orbits were the same - almost. AO-7â€Ös mean motion was slightly higher than that of AO-6, which means, once every year of so, AO-6 will “lap” its younger sibling in space. During the time when the two spacecraft are in closer proximity, it was already known to be theoretically possible (if AO-7 has its UHF/VHF transponder on) for one user to communicate through two spacecraft in succession, with the downlink of AO-7â€Ös transponder being relayed through AO-6â€Ös VHF/HF transponder uplink, and then, with the doubly relayed signal arriving on 29.5 MHz to another user on the ground. This could be done, in certain geometries, in both directions, making a two-way double-hop communications possible.
The first successful Earth-Space-Space-Earth relay of this type took place on January 6, 1975. This happened early in AO-7â€Ös “first” lifetime and during the first occasion when AO-6 approached AO-7, in their very similar orbits. The two stations were both located in the state of Texas – one in Dallas and one in Richardson. This method of communications was also conducted and reported by 55 other user stations from 12 countries during 1975. These events were documented in the IEEE Proceedings in October of 1975.
Sourced from the AMSAT News Service
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Satellite News
ARISS SSTV Event Scheduled for November 11-18
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) announces an SSTV event to be held next week. The event is scheduled to begin on Monday, November 11 at 11:50 UTC and to end Monday, November 18 at 13:40 UTC. SSTV transmissions will be paused during scheduled school contacts on November 15 and 16. Downlink transmissions will be at 145.800 MHz and the mode is expected to be PD 120.
The transmissions will consist of 12 images featuring activities from the 2024 40th Anniversary Celebrating Amateur Radio in Human Spaceflight. If you are a past participant in our SSTV events, please note that we will be using our newly updated gallery at https://ariss-usa.org/ARISS_SSTV/.
ARISS has a new way to request a special certificate. When participants successfully receive at least one image and submit it at the new gallery, participants will be moved to a thank-you page. There, a person can read text about data protection, and press the button that says “I agree,” and receive an email in two weeks or sooner with a certificate. If a person submits additional images, the thank-you page tells them they have already asked for a certificate.
Thanks to our user community for participating in ARISS.
Sourced from the AMSAT News Services via Dave Jordan, AA4KN.
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Regular VK7 gatherings and events over the coming months:
Regular gatherings:
Sewing Circle Net – Daily on 3.640MHz commences at 6:30pm AEST.
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.
REAST - WAGs - Wednesday Afternoon Group from 12 noon in the REAST Clubrooms Queenâ€Ös Domain.
REAST - WEGs - Wednesday Experimenterâ€Ös Group from around 6pm in the REAST Clubrooms Queenâ€Ös Domain.
SOTA/WWFF Group – Meeting Mondays and Fridays 10.30-12.00 midday at Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry St, Launceston.
NTARC - Club Room Technical night session on Wednesday 20th November from 6.30 pm at the Club Room Archer Street, Rocherlea.
NTARC - TestNet and TechNet sessions every Wednesday night. TestNet/CW course on 3.580MHz from 7pm till 7.30pm and a TechNet on 3.567MHz from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm
NTARC Coffee Mornings are held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Time is from 10am to noon in the Rocherlea Clubrooms.
NW VK7 – Wednesday from 8:00pm local – NW Tassie Amateur Repeater Group Net on 2m VK7RMD and Node 56780
NW VK7 - Thursday commencing at 8:30pm local - N.W. Tassie 2m DX Net 144.190 USB
Events:
NTARC - December 4 - End of Year Celebration at the Iron Horse Bar and Grill located at 468 Westbury Rd, Prospect Vale, Launceston. Let the Secretary know if coming along.
REAST - December 8 - End of Year Free BBQ and Spring Cleaning workshop from 11am after the broadcast at the Queens Domain REAST - January 19, 2025 - CarBoot Sale of the Century and Sausage Sizzle - Queens Domain Clubrooms from 11am.
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A reminder to those people rostered for next weekâ€Ös 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, VK7JH and VK7DC
160m: VK7GS
80m: VK7JGD
40m: VK7ALH
20m: Any Takers
10m: Any Takers
UHFCB24: VK7FMAC
DMR: Talk Group 5 and D-Star: Reflector 91C VK7HGO
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A huge thank you to all people and organisations that assisted with this broadcast.
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That wraps up this week's edition of the VK7 Amateur Radio News. We hope you found it informative and enjoyable?
You've been listening to VK7WI, or if youâ€Öve just tuned in, you've just missed our live broadcast. But donâ€Öt worry! You can catch the
rebroadcast on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RAA in Northern VK7 and VK7RHT and UHFCB24 in the South.
We encourage you to share your news, stories, and updates with us. Email your contributions to vk7arnews(at)gmail.com.
For more information about the broadcast and to join the discussion, visit our VK7 Amateur Radio News Groups.IO Group.
groups.io/g/vk7arnews.
Remember, the deadline for submissions is 21:00 on the Friday before the Sunday broadcast.
Stay tuned for callbacks on the frequency youâ€Öre currently listening to. Relay stations will use their own callsigns during this time.
On behalf of the entire VK7 Amateur Radio News Team, this is Nic, VK7WW wishing you 73. Stay safe and have a fantastic week!
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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