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VK7 Amateur Radio News 29Oct23
Text edition:
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 29th October 2023
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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News and this was first broadcast on Sunday the 29th October 2023. At the mike of VK7WI this week is Mike, VK7FB.
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 24 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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ALARA NEWS
ALARAMeet 2023 only a week away!
As heard on the National News twice! we will be welcoming many ALARA members and their partners into VK7 for the national meeting of ALARA that occurs every three years. The last time it was in VK7 was in 2008 in Ulverstone.
The weekend is centered around the Woolstore Motel.
There is a huge weekend of activities planned for ALARA participants and partners.
https://alara.org.au/alarameet/index.html
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Contest news
Spring VHF/UHF Field day.
Well the days are getting longer thanks to daylight savings, and with that the higher bands are starting to percolate. The Spring field day is happening this year on the weekend of 25th November from 01:00 UTC to 26th November 00:59 UTC, with the usual 3 hour offset for our Western Australian friends.
This event is a great opportunity to dust off that VHF/UHF and microwave gear and get out into the great outdoors and make some contacts.
All bands are used from 6M and upwards as far as you dare. There are many categories in this event, single band, 4 band, 8hr section, 24 hour section and there is even a section for base station operation, something for everyone. Why not head out and find a nice spot,set up a portable station and you may be surprised at the results.
Usual frequencies 52.525, 146.500, 439.000, 1296.150, 2403.150, 3398.150 and 10,369.150 all on FM with SSB as an option if conditions suit.
There will be a few people out and about in various parts of Tasmania and you just never know who you may make contact with.
VKCL or your favourite log program will help keep things in order and make the process of submitting logs rather painless.
Good luck and hope to hear you on the bands.
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/
73, Richard, VK7ZBX
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Statewide News
Thursday Night SSTV Nets
Another quiet net night that saw the following participants,
VK7s – EV, PD, FGGT, KT and PAK all sharing thirteen photos.
The various subjects were:
An evenings greeting with a sunset over a bay
A Mack truck with a container on the tilt tray trailer
A parks activation - VKFF-3391 at Redbill Point
Conservation Area and scenery of Bellbay
A neat perspex Iambic or dual-lever CW paddle
A communications satellite over the earth and the ISS or
International Space Station with a docked Shuttle
Wildlife – a Kangaroo and a Tiger
Remember Ken VK7KRJs and Steve VK7OOs fully automatic
24/7 monitoring sites 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 current list of cards held as at 26 October is in the email version of the broadcast.
If I am holding card(s) for you and you would like them mailed to you rather then being delivered on an opportunity basis please send me some stamps. Thanks to those who have sent stamps. While SAE's are OK, I prefer stamps as I can then provide an appropriate envelope to suit the number of cards.
If you have any questions re QSL cards, please contact Herman by email vk7bureau(at)wia.org.au
Thank you to those Amateurs who have been in contact with Herman about their QSL card(s) listing.
73, Herman, VK7HW, WIA Manager VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
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Following Card(s) were recently delivered to REAST Club Rooms
XTC
Cards held at 26 October 2023 ( Any errors in the listing are mine, I sometimes miss culling a call sign)
A, AAA, AAD, AAE, AAH, AAP, AAR, AB, ACE, ACG, ACN, AD, ADE, AED, AG(2014), AGC, AHT, AIR, AJC, AKK, ALZ, AM, ANC, AO, APZ, AR, AS, ATH, AXZ, AY, AZ
BA, BB, BO, BPV, BT, BYE
CA, CBK, CBR, CC, CEJ, CJ, CL, CMV, CV, CX
DC, DD, DG, DIK, DM, DN, DO, DON, DP, DQ, DW, DY, DZ
EA, EG, EI, ER, EV
FADZ, FALX (alx), FAZZ, FCDW, FCIA, FLAR, FF, FG, FGGT, FPRN, FRJG(RG), FTAS
GA, GGZ, GM, GOP, GR, GS, GZ
HCH, HCK, HDM, HDX, HOB, HL, HPD, HRS, HSA, HSD, HSJ, HVK, HZ
IAN, ID, IK, IS
JA, JAZ, JB, JCR, JGD, JJ, JOK, JP, JW
KA, KAC, KBA, KD, KDO, KI, KJ, KKR, KL, KO, KRJ, KT, KW
LCW, LDH, LL, LLL, LM, LT, LVH, LW
MAG, MBD, MC, MD, MEL, MET, MHZ, MJ, MOO, MR, MRS, MS
NA, NC, ND, NEC, NET, NFI, NIK, NRF, NRT, NSE, NSS, NTE, NVH, NW, NWQ, NWT
OB, OR, OT
PAF, PBD, PD, PM, PRN, PSJ, PSZ, PW
QK, OT
RC, RG/FRJG, RJ, ROY
SN, STO, SV, SZ
TCE, TED, TK, TO, TS, TU, TUX, TX, TZ
UJ
VA, VAC, VAZ, VDC, VEK, VH, VR, VTM
WA, WC, WH, WL, WN(0), WO, WT, WUU
XDM, XV
YN
ZE, ZJJ, ZK, ZM, ZR, ZT, ZX
VI70MI [2018], VI70HI(op DIANE[2018]), VI75G [2023], VK75FAA
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North West News
JOTA 2023 North West Tasmania
A collaboration of North West amateurs on Saturday 21st October, assisted in running JOTA, at the Paton Park Scout camp at North Motton, behind Ulverstone.
They were VK7AK Tony, VK7NB Tanya, VK7EV Eric, VK7LSB Lucas, VL7BYL Anne, VK7DC Dave, and Shirley VK7HSC operating from home as a backup for JOTA users to chat to. VK7AX Tony assisting with Echo link access. We had an 80/40m HF station and a 20/15/10m HF station, as well as separate 2m and 70m Stations. We had great success on 40m, but struggled to get contacts on 20m, even with zero noise levels. NTARC kindly erected a 70cm beam on their club rooms, and we could communicate with Paton park through the 70cm Mt Duncan Repeater behind Penguin. Some contacts were made on Echo link. We had 34 Joeys, Cubs, Guides, Scouts, Venturers engaged on the day, from midday till 6ish. We greatly appreciated Idris VK7ZIR having conversation with JOTA participants at our site, when NTARCS JOTA visitors were doing other activities.
Beside Radio activities, the participants had other activities, Fox Hunts, building electronic projects, Word Search, JOTI, Morse Code sending and receiving, and using UHF CB Handhelds to do map reading etc, using phonetic alphabet. We were kindly supplied with afternoon tea, and the participants had a BBQ. The atrocious weather expected on the day, didnt arrive, and beside some light rain towards the end, a great day was had by all.
Thanks to Tony VK7AK and Dave VK7DC, some minor repairs were made to the tower, tidying up the metal sheeting to prevent people climbing the tower, which covers the last 4m of the tower lattice. A great day was had, I think we all went home tired, but good tired, having had a successful day
Pictures from the day, can be seen on the VK7 Amateur radio, facebook page.
73, Eric, VK7EV, NW Coordinator JOTA
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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
NTARC News for Sunday Broadcast – 29th October 2023
Last weekend saw what has now become a very familiar event in NTARCs yearly calendar. For as long as I can remember the event has been organised and co-ordinated on the two days by Peter VK7KPC. So who better is there to give us a rundown on last weekends happenings, over to you Peter;
“JOTA/JOTI for 2023
Northern Tasmanian Amateur Radio Club Inc. located in an outer suburb of Launceston hosted over 70 Scouting members over the JOTA/JOTI weekend. Scouts were from Tamar, Riverside, Newstead, Summerhill and 4th Launceston plus Norfolk Plains which covers some nearby country towns and surrounds. We commenced set up on the preceding Wednesday and Friday with last minute tasks like hiding the foxes on Saturday morning.
Equipment activated included HF on a multi-band folded dipole, VHF handheld accessing VK7KPC-l echo-link node, DMR mobile radio accessing VK7RJG and another UHF unit connected to a yagi to access VK7RMD on the North Coast. We also had a DMR hotspot set up as backup if needed.
Several Morse code practice oscillators were set up as well as a Morse keyboard with its sidetone audio fed to a Morse decoder program on a laptop.
The club also provided a large screen monitor in the attached hall for accessing Skype, and internet access for a number of pcs connected to a hub for Scoutlink chat connection. Snap together electronic kits and Edison robots also available. There were 4 aforementioned foxes disguised as various other animals in surrounding bush waiting to be found by the Scouts wielding measuring tape yagis and VK3YNG df receivers.
There were about 20 Scouts of various ages through the event on Saturday afternoon and the remainder in 2 by 2 hour blocks from 10 am and 1pm on the Sunday.
The club was assisted in running the JOTI portion by a number of Matthew Brady Venturer Scouts.
The following members of NTARC Inc. helped during the weekend many for the whole operational period. Andre VK7ZAB, Stefan VK7ZSB, Kevin VK7KJL, Ian VK7IG, Tony VK7ZTT, Brendan VK7VIP, Tony VK7YBG, Ian VK7IH, Idris VK7ZIR, Douglas VK7DGD and Bernie VK7BR.”
Thank you Peter for the update on another very successful JOTA/JOTI weekend. It was excellent to see so many NTARC members and Matthew Brady Venturer Scouts giving up their time to help with this long-running scouting event.
NTARC Auction Hosting – Its official, lock in Saturday the 25th November for the “Shack Clear-out” auction. To date we have received pictures and descriptions on over seventy items of equipment for the auction. Covering transceivers, scanners, power supplies and test equipment including dummy loads and SWR meters. The auction will definitely be going ahead and will be held at the NTARC Club rooms Archer Street, Rocherlea on Saturday the 25th November. Remember, this auction will be open to all amateurs not just NTARC members! If you have items please let NTARC Secretary know by e-mailing secretary(at)ntarc.net . All that is needed is a quick note stating your name, call-sign and proposed items to be re-home. If you would like some or all of your items included on the NTARC Web sites, ever growing auction catalogue, please include a picture and very brief item description when e-mailing.
To view current items please go to the NTARC website link on the email version of the broadcast and select “Notices” option to view the latest catalogue of items.
www.ntarc.net
NTARC QSL Cards - Andrew VK7DW, our QSL manager has advised me that the following QSL cards are available for collection. VK7s AT, BO, AU, GC, JFD, KPA, WW and ZR. If you just heard your call-sign then there are cards waiting at the NTARC club rooms for collection on the next Coffee morning or Technical Night. Thank you Herman for your continued support regarding QSL deliveries and thank you Andrew for the update.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Club Technical night - The next session will be on Wednesday the 1st of November and will commence at 6.30 pm through to about 10.00 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. So 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 – Every Wednesday, 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.
“Shack Clear-out” auction - Saturday the 25th November, NTARC club rooms.
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 Inc.
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NEWS FROM THE SOUTH
WICEN Tas (South) Inc.
Notice of Special General Meeting
Sunday 26 November 2023 at 14:00 in the REAST Domain Clubrooms or via Zoom for those who have pre-notified.
The object of the SGM is to allow the committee to present its report to the membership, on the proposed merger / amalgamation discussion with the committee of REAST held at a joint committee meeting of both WICEN and REAST on 9 October 2023 at 18:30 hours at the REAST Domain Clubrooms in pursuance to the motion passed at the WICEN General Meeting (GM) on 20 August 2023 at 14:48 hours at the property of Peter Henry VK7TPE.
To proceed 75% of the membership present must support a proposed motion to proceed with a merger.
To be eligible to vote members must be financially paid up, present at the meeting (proxy voting will not be accepted) and members joining via Zoom or Teams, will be counted as present provided, they are financially paid up and prior notice of their intention to do so is received by the Secretary no later than 14:00 hours of Sunday 26 November 2023.
There will be no other business discussed at the meeting.
For further information and to provide notice of intention to attend the meeting by Zoom or Teams please forward all communication to the Secretary at:
dmgoodrick_nbn(at)iinet.net.au
David Goodrick VK7DMG
Secretary
WICEN Tas (South) Inc.
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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/
November Activities Update
A huge thank you to the REAST Members who have volunteered to help with the various ALARAMeet activities. REAST is very proud to help ALARA over the weekend to make it the best ALARAMeet yet and showcase what VK7 can do!
REAST is participating in ALARAMeet with a Mystery History Radio Tour of Hobart on Saturday the 4th November and a BBQ and fox hunt for the ALARAMeet attendees on Sunday 5th of November and so there will be no presentation night on the first of November. It will be a normal DATV night and preparing for the ALARAMeet activities on the following weekend.
LAST CALL - There are still bus seats available for the Mystery History Radio Tour of Hobart on the afternoon of 4th November 2023 from 2-4:30pm so, if you are interested please let Justin VK7TW know at vk7tw(at)wia.org.au
73 REAST Committee
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December End of Year Activities
REAST will be celebrating the end of a very successful 2023 with a free BBQ, car boot sale and fox hunts on the Queens Domain.
This will be taking place on Sunday December 3rd from 11am at the Queens Domain clubrooms.
Bring along any car boots that you would like to sell and as a bonus for attendees you might possibly put some some radio equipment within the boots and sell that as well….HIHI!
We are looking to run some fox hunts around the top of the Queens Domain and will have some prizes for those lucky enough to find those pesky little foxes.
If you are intending to come along please let our Secretary know so we can have some idea of the number of snags, patties and special food requirements that we will need to cater for - just drop and email to: secretary(at)reast.asn.au.
The fee for carboot sellers is the enormous amount of $5 into the donations box or tap at the square.
See you there.
73 REAST Committee
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DATV Experimenter's Night
https://fb.me/e/39VVdqDCq
The DATV Experimenters night started with a zoom session with the Sisters Akousmatica - Julia and Pip who were at Wave Farm at Acra which is between the Hudson Valley and Catskills Mountain about a 1.5 hours out of New York in the United States. It was 4:30am in the morning in Wave Farm!
https://wavefarm.org/
The Sisters were successful in getting a residency at Wave Farm for 10 days and traveled to America.
Wave Farm has a community radio station on the farm - WGXC 90.7MHz FM and Technicians are available to assist artists and Pip described the equipment available to use.
Julia showed our audience around the residence with great equipment available that the Sisters have been using to listen to the radio spectrum.
Pip showed the HackRF SDR they have been using and then Julia showed the installation by Jeff Thomson that plays every radio station and toured their accommodation.
Pip & Julia described how the Sister got to America through San Francisco, Brooklyn in New York and through to Wave Farm. The Sister received an Art Tasmania Bridge to cover the travel fees to get them to Wave Farm.
The Sisters were on WGXC with Gregory Whitehead on Saturday and the radio station is located above their accommodation. The transmitting footprint is large for WGXC. The Sisters will be playing live music and effects at the Open Day at Wave Farm. It is also an indigenous celebration day.
Julia and Pip then gave some historical context to the radio station and Wave Farm as a hub for the artistic community in the area. Julia went through the many people involved in the Farm and Transmission Arts. The Sisters will be finishing the book they are putting together along with many recordings they have been making. They have been using a NanoVNA to listen for many organic items. They heard a train PA signal from somewhere whilst they were listening - they used a device called a EtherSonar. Some stories and recordings are coming back to Tasmania!
The Sisters proudly got their callsigns in morse code tattooed on their arms - VK7SEA and VK7HAG. A huge thank you to the Sister - Julia and Pip for getting up at 4:30am in the morning and talk with our REAST DATV audience.
Justin VK7TW then showed an article about the 14th October Solar Eclipse and the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Centre for Solar-Terrestrial Research used the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array and were able to map the Eclipse across 20-88MHz.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-solar-radio-eclipse.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-24/ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-imagery/103014018
Justin showed the video of the eclipse that captured some interesting ring effects at different frequencies and then we finished with future events.
This week's show we will be looking at the RadioBerry SDR, some interesting historic optical communications equipment and if time permits the latest DUBUS and Lo-Key Magazines.
See you there or on the stream.
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 on Saturday November 25th from 9:00am.
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/1565NKnuu
73, Reg, VK7KK
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Regular VK7 gatherings and events over the coming months:
Regular gatherings:
Sewing Circle Net – Daily on 3.640MHz commences at 5:00pm 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.
SOTA/WWFF Group – Meeting Mondays and Fridays 10.30-12.00 midday at Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry St, Launceston.
The TestNet and TechNet session – Every Wednesday. 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. So why not pop in and join us for a cuppa, there is endless tea and coffee along with biscuits available for a donation.
The Club Technical night - The next session will be on Wednesday the 1st of November and will commence at 6.30 pm through to about 10.00 pm, at the Club room Archer Street, Rocherlea.
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
NW SSTV Nights - 27 November - hosted by Eric VK7EV from 7:30pm using VK7RMD 70cm repeater on Mt Duncan on the 4th Monday in the Month.
Events:
ALARA - November 3-6 - ALARAMeet 2023 - Hobart Tasmania
NTARC - November 25 - NTARC Shack Clear-out Auction Hosting
WICEN TAS (Sth) - November 26 - Special General Meeting at Queens Domain from 2pm (Zoom & In-Person)
REAST - December 3 - EOY BBQ, Car Boot Sale and Fox Hunt - Queens Domain Clubooms from 11am after broadcast.
NTARC - December 6 - End Of Year Celebration - details to be announced.
NTARC - December 13 - Club General meeting will be held in the Rocherlea club rooms from 7:30pm.
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A reminder to those people rostered for next weeks broadcast:
Newsreader: VK7PD
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
UHFCB24: 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.
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 Mike, VK7FB.
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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