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VK7 Amateur Radio News 17Mar24
Text edition:
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 17th March 2024
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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News and this was first broadcast on Sunday the 17th March 2024. 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 Clayton, 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 Garry, VK7JGD
On 7.140 MHz by Ross, VK7ALH
On 14.130 MHz by Peter, VK7TPE,
On 28.525 MHz by Tony VK7VKT.
UHF CB Channel 24 in the Hobart area - Mark VK7FMAC.
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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Contest News
John Moyle Memorial Field Day Contest
The Field Day is currently running over this weekend of the 16th-17th March 2024 and will run from UTC 0100 on the Saturday to 0059 on the Sunday.
Logs need to be submitted by midnight 14th April 2024.
The aim of the contest is to encourage and provide familiarization with portable and field operation, and provide training for emergency situations. The rules are therefore specifically designed and focused to encourage field operations.
Although the contest is primarily for portable or field operators, home stations can take part using a different scoring system.
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.
Single or multi-operator portable or home entries can be 24 or 6 hour using Phone, CW, Digital or All modes and can be on HF, VHF/UHF or All Bands.
Multi operator stations are not permitted in the Home Category.
Most logging programs - VKCL and N1MM cover the field day rules.
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/johnmoyle/
73, WIA Contest Committee
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Tassie Ham Conference
Save the Date
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/tassie-ham-radio-conference/
Friday 1st, Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November 2024 are the dates for the next Tassie Ham Conference.
After the very successful 2022 event and the fantastic feedback we received from the event, we are holding the next one on the first weekend in November 2024.
The event will be a slightly different format with one and half days of presentations, activities and fun!
We are not going to hold a ham expo on the Sunday and finish up proceedings at lunchtime on Sunday to enable our interstate and overseas attendees to fly/drive back home.
REAST will again be holding a social evening and BBQ at the REAST clubrooms located at the top of the Queens Domain on the Friday evening.
Saturday 2nd and 3rd of November 2024 will be an Amateur Radio Conference with a full program of presentations, activities and fun!
The location will again be the University of Tasmania Sandy Bay Campus.
Watch the conference website for details of the presentations and details as they come to hand.
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/tassie-ham-radio-conference/
Our previous VK7 Ham Conference presentations are available on the Ham Radio DX YouTube channel playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arb2ywWSwLs&list=PLSuX83ay4OujogylrO6FQRw6c2vM5JeFa
There will also be many wonderful and impressive raffle prizes that will be drawn across the weekend.
73 Tassie Ham Conference Organizing Committee
tassiehamconference(at)gmail.com
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Statewide News
QSL Update
Report - from Herman VK7HW Manager of the WIA VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
If you live near another Amateur and can collect and deliver their cards to their QTH that would be a big help. Let Herman know if you can help.
Herman received another package of QSL Cards in the mail a few days ago and the updated list of cards held as at 15 March 2024 is in the email version of the broadcast.
If you have any questions re QSL cards, please contact Herman by email. herman(at)ozemail.com.au
73, Herman, VK7HW, WIA Manager VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
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Cards held at 15 March 2024 ( Any errors in the listing are mine, I sometimes miss culling a call sign)
A, AAA, AAC, AAD, AAH, AAP, AAR, AB, AC, ACE, ACG, ACN, AD, ADE, AED, AG(2014), AGC, AHT, AIR, AJC, AKK, ALZ, AM, ANC, AO, AP, APZ, AS, ATH, AXZ, AY, AZ
BA, BB, BBB, BBW, BD, BO, BPV, BT, BU, BYE
C/GH, CA, CBK, CBR, CEJ, CH/T, CEJ, CJ, CMV, CV, CW, CX
DD, DG, DIK, DN, DO, DON, DP, DQ, DW, DY, DZ
EA, EE, EG, EI, EK, ER
FADZ, FALX (alx), FAZZ, FCIA, FF, 75FFA, FG, FGGT, FLAR, FLI, FPRN, FRG, FRJG(RG), FTAS
VI75G, GA, GEL, GGZ, GH/C, GM, GN/QP, GOP, GR, GS, GU, GW
HBR, HCH, HCK, HDM, HDX, HH, **HL, HOB, HRS, HSA, HSD, HSJ, HVK, HZ
IAN, ID, IK, IR, IS
JA, JAB, JAZ, JCR, JFD, JGD, JJ, JOK, JON, JP, JS, JW, JX
KAC, KBA, KD, KDO, KI, KJ, KJL, KKR, KL, KO, KRJ
LCW, LDH, LH, L J, LL, LLL, LM, LT, LVH, LW
MA, MAG, MAT, MBD, MBP, MC, MD, MEL, MET, MHZ, MJ, MR, MRS, MS
NA, NC, ND, NEC, NET, NFI, NIK, NRF, NRT, NSE, NSS, NTE, NVH, NWQ, NWT, NX
OB, OT
PAF, PBD, PM, PRN, PSH, PSJ, PSZ, PW
QK, QP/GN
RB, RG/FRJG, RN, RO, ROY, RJ
SD, SM, SN, STO, SV, SZ
TCE, TED, TK, TL, TO, TR, TS, TUX, TX, TZ
UT,
VA, VAC, VAO, VAZ, VDC, VEK, VH, VI75G, VK7/AG9A9Mark), VR, VTM, VZ
WA, WC, WH, WIA, WL, WN, WO, WT, WUU, WX
XDM, XTC, XV, XX
Y, YN, YUM
ZA, ZE, ZJJ, ZK, ZM, ZR, ZT, ZX
VI7ALARA Cards for QSO's with VK7's
Note * - There are a few OS cards amongst the ALARA cards for VK7's.
AAE, AC*, ALB
BO*
CMV
DD*, DG*, DHT, DT
EK, EV
FKLW, FMI
HAM, HCK*
IAN, ID
JFD
KAM, KPC, KT, KW
LA
MAT
NB, NET*
OT
PSJ
RG*
STO
TPE
VKT
WN, WUU
YUM*
ZA, ZGK, ZPE
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Statewide News
Thursday Night SSTV Nets
Another busy net night that saw the following participants, VK7s – ZGK, FGGT, DMH, EV, EKA and PD all sharing over thirty photos.
The various subjects were:
Murals
Light houses
The International Space Station
Spitfires from Wold War 2 on static display
Radio controlled target drones, model OQ-2, made by Radioplane in the 1940s for the US army
A photo of one of the Radioplane factory workers call Norma Jeane Dougherty, who later changed her name to Marilyn Monroe
The fifty year anniversary of the release of the song “Candle in the Wind” by Elton John. This song was in honour of the life of Marilyn Monroe
A statue that has been chainsaw carved from an old tree
Statues in Launceston parks, including Dr. Pugh the first surgeon in the southern hemisphere to use “Ether”
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 and Steves SSTV websites or on NTARCs website under blogs and arranged as weekly nets.
There is no theme for next weeks net.
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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NEWS FROM THE NORTH WEST
North West Tasmania Amateur Radio Club Meeting
The next club meeting will be commencing at 1.30pm on Saturday 6th April 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, 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
A little bird told me that one of our members, Stephen VK7SVG, recently had an article published in the March edition of Silicon Chip, in the Servicemans Log section entitled “The old days of TV antennas”. So as soon as my copy arrived that section was quickly turned to. It is an interesting article on antenna installation and servicing. One service call was for an installation that had previously grown in size over the years. Unfortunately it was not really “Worlds Best Practice” or maybe it was lack of knowledge or just leave it to the next guy to fix! In this case Stephen was the next guy to fault find and receive an electric shocks where you might not expect one.
But apart from that I am sure I have never been in a room with sixteen 26-inch cathode ray tube television sets, let alone all displaying teletext…. Do you remember Teletext?? Thank you Stephen, we now know who S.G. from Tasmania could be.
Last Wednesday evening had a very pleasant surprise, three new faces turned up for a visit to the club technical night. Adam and Vicky arrived just after the doors were opened with Denis arriving shortly thereafter. Hopefully they all felt welcomed and included in the night. It did see our last copy of “Your Entry Into Amateur Radio” walk out the door though. Luckily Vicky and Adam had purchased a copy while on a recent trip to Hobart, from a certain Caltex Service Station at Moonah, thank you Clayton for saving our embarrassment over our low stock level. Feel free to visit us again.
Later in the tech night Ross VK7ALH, arrived with a couple of items.
Firstly a “Megger BR3 Bridge Megger Testing Set”, still in its original dove-tailed wooden case. The case was essential for protection during field use. The unit is still in mint condition and is probably circa 1970s.
It is a highly accurate high-voltage bridge. Designed to locate cable and outer sheath faults, especially useful when fault finding on underground cables.
These instruments are to be treated with respect, not only because it is a fine piece of test equipment but when it is actually testing there can be upwards of 500 Volt DC present on the external connection terminals!
As the instrument name implies it is capable of performing different test functions.
There is effectively five states the instrument can be in depending on the function selector.
“Insulation” position - This can check cable conductors for insulation resistance measured in Meg Ohms at 500 Volt DC. The leakage / breakdown results are displayed on a meter scale. This testing is especially useful for underground cables.
“Discharge” position – this one is most important, you should always go back to this one for a while after testing insulation breakdown. Why? Well when testing long cable pairs they behave as a capacitor that has just been charged up to 500 Volts! If the insulation resistance is in good condition and not leaky, then trust me they can stay at a high potential for quite a while! Discharge position does as it says, dissipates the stored energy in the conductors under test.
The other three functions are “Bridge”, “Varley” and “Murray” test modes. These three positions are for the initial balancing or nulling of the instruments internal Wheatstone Bridge and shown on the moving coil meter. This is accomplished by the adjustment of the four inbuilt ten position rotary switches for a middle or null reading on the bridge meter. This is not unlike twiddling the knobs on antenna matching unit for lowest VSWR.
Simplistically with the values on the balancing rotary switches and a couple of other “Null” measurements and mathematical formula or two you can calculate the distance from the unit to the fault in the cable.
However the fun part is where the 500 volts comes from, nowadays you push a test button and it automatically goes off and completes the test with minimal fuss using internal batteries. However this one is from the days where you located the folding crank handle which was attached to the internal generator. You then had to wind or crank the handle for the duration of the test or measurement at about 200 revolutions per minute, as constantly as you could. Real hands on “Test and Measurement”!
The term “Megger” now days is common language for checking insulation resistance. However there would be a hundred manufacturers or rebranded models on the market now. But this one was actually built by “Megger”. Like the English expression “to hoover” the floor, it has taken on the original manufacturers name for the actual function being performed. To Megger something has passed into our language lexicon also.
Ross other goody was an ex-military “Telephone Sets D mark V”. Manufactured by Standard Telephones and Cables Company Pty Ltd from Sydney in 1941.
A compact field station metal box with a folding lid measuring 225 x 150 x 115 mm closed and is painted in good old olive drab. It is powered by two 1.5 Volt dry cells, has a magneto bell and a buzzer. It comes with a permanently attached single Bakelite ear piece and a detachable handset as well as a compact Morse key mounted between the bell and buzzer. It was used for verbal and Morse code communications over short distances via a telephone line. It could however provide reliable speech over 8 to 10 miles and 15 miles for Morse telegraphy using standard field cable. Thanks once again for delving into you collection Ross.
NTARC QSL Cards - Andrew VK7DW, our QSL manager has advised me that “Yet another recent delivery of QSL cards has arrived”. VK7s AT, AU, BO, DON, GC, JFD, KPC, KW 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.
As always, pictures will be available on the NTARC Web site under “Blogs” for this broadcast.
https://www.ntarc.net/blogs
UPCOMING EVENTS
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. Dont forget to check the QSL card frame after the recent delivery.
Club Room Technical night session - The next session will be on Wednesday the 27th of March and will commence at the usual time of 6.30 pm, running through to about 10 pm, at the Club room Archer Street, Rocherlea.
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
Broadcast News
UHFCB24 Rebroadcast Tuesday Nights
Mark VK7FMAC, has let the VK7 AR News team know that he will be rebroadcasting the WIA and VK7 News broadcasts on Tuesday nights on UHF CB Channel 24.
Please note there will be no callbacks taken.
73, Mark VK7FMAC
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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/
April Presentation
The History of UTC and the Leap Second
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/upcoming-events/?event_id1=2095
REASTs April presentation night will be a fascinating presentation from Peter Pokorny VK2EMR.
This will be a humorous presentation about how universal coordinated time (UTC) came into existence and why we need Leap Seconds.
There will also be a very timely update from WRC 23 on Leap Seconds as well.
Peter attended the World Radio Conference 2023 with Dale Hughes and is a well versed in the ITU and WRC behemoth as he has been involved many years due to his professional maritime background.
It will be held on Wednesday night the 3rd April 2024 from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain Clubrooms and it will also go out on DVB/T RF and via the REAST YouTube Channel streaming service.
This should be a great night, see you there.
73, REAST Committee
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May Presentation - Save the Date
Frederick “Pop” Medhurst A7AH - Tasmanian Pioneer
REASTs May presentation night will be a fascinating presentation on a true Tasmanian telegraphy and wireless pioneer - FW “Pop” Medhurst who started his wireless experimentation at A7AH.
It will be held on Wednesday night the 1st May 2024 from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain Clubrooms and it will also go out on DVB/T RF and via the REAST YouTube Channel streaming service.
This should be a great night, see you there.
73, REAST Committee
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DATV Experimenter's Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLeSeiAcK3w
Last Wednesday night was a fantastic presentation from Tony VK7XTC who makes Cigar Box Guitars. We covered how Tony got into cigar box guitars, a little of the heritage and the many things used as the basis of the guitar. Tony has made 11 guitars to date and he took the audience through the elements of making a cigar box guitar starting with the neck, the cigar box and strengthening the box, the pick-ups used, the frets, sound holes for acoustic and electric versions.
Apologies as we had some audio issues when looking at photos and we did a quick re-review of the photos with descriptions later in the presentation.
Huge thank you to Tony for showing us this fascinating hobby.
We then had a special quest in Norbert who is VK0AI / VK5MQ and he was fresh back on the last flight out of Antarctica from Casey Station after spending four months over summer.
There was a huge amount of science performed over Summer out of Casey Station and Norbert gave us some insight about what was happening.
Norbert operated VK0AI using mainly FT8 and made over 800 contacts.
Some of the experiments included NASA programs and a space analog with astronauts using medical equipment in extreme environments.
It was heartening to hear about the science being performed and how many countries all work together in Antarctica and that country borders really do not exist in Antarctica.
Thanks to Norbert for dropping into the Studio.
We finished with a Space Weather report and and future events.
This week we will have some interesting hysterical…whoops…historical items, magazines, mind altering substances, magical tricks and much more - see you in the studio or on the stream.
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 stream the nights on the REAST YouTube streaming channel and 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
Our next REAST training and assessment day is Saturday 27th April 2024. If you would like to book for the next session 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
73, Reg, VK7KK
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Technology History News
Digital sensor network to monitor air traffic at vertiports
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR have been developing an entirely digital sensor network, including a radar sensor, that in the future will be able to closely monitor air traffic at so-called ‘vertiports (landing sites for drones and air taxis) and ensure safe flight operations. Not only is the system being considered for use in vertiports, it could also monitor corridors across cities used by transportation drones.
At the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the first passengers in Europe will be transported by air taxis, with air travel companies planning to equip Olympic venues with electrical vertical take-off and landing systems (eVTOLs) to transport visitors to events directly from the airport. Initially, these drone systems will be piloted by a human, with one passenger per taxi; in the coming years, they could be piloted autonomously. An important aspect of this concept is the safety of the vertiports used for launching and landing eVTOLs, which will be integrated into roofs, train stations, parking lots and other urban structures.
Researchers at Fraunhofer FHR aimed to tackle an important part of the safety of the new drone stops by equipping them with a modular, fully digital sensor network including a radar sensor. The network can be adapted to the size of each vertiport and uses both active and passive sensors with fully autonomous functionality, linking to each other and collectively sensing the port.
“The nodes are fully digital, and each sensor in the network functions entirely autonomously,” explained Oliver Biallawons, a scientist at Fraunhofer FHR. “The sensors arent coordinated by a central computer unit; they network themselves. They are able to independently localise and organise themselves. Based on the principle of edge computing, each sensor has its own computer unit and can detect the location of other sensors in the network.”
The job of sending and receiving is shared between the individual sensors, which coordinate with each other. The decentralised active and passive sensors are installed on the ground and work together to sense the entire take-off and landing pad as well as the airspace above it. The network decides which sensor to operate in active (sending and receiving) and passive (receiving only) mode as required. The more sensors in the network, the greater the area that can be monitored. Even if a sensor or radar node is added or removed, the radar network can continue to function flawlessly.
The key to the networks autonomous organisation and decentralised processing is the connection between the individual nodes via wireless communication channels integrated into the radar signal. By integrating the network communication in the radar signal, the signal can be seamlessly integrated into future telecommunications infrastructures. This represents an important milestone on the path toward merging fully fledged radar and telecommunications, according to Biallawons.
“We are integrating the communication signal into the radar waves instead of using separate channels for radar and communication,” he said.
Another key feature of the so-called Civil Drone Systems (CDS) Network is that, in contrast to test monitoring systems based on mobile radio, the system is able to detect eVTOLs that dont have a communication device such as a chip or tag. With the addition of AI, the safety solution can not only detect obstacles that block incoming or outgoing flight paths but also classify them. This means that it is able to classify objects such as trees, birds and drones. The radar network can even recognise the size of a drone and how many rotors it has.
“As urbanisation continues to progress, we expect at some point to see transport systems take to the air, too,” Biallawons said. “This can only be achieved with the help of sophisticated safety systems, such as our modular, resilient network of low-radiation, communicating radar nodes, which can achieve flawless take-off and landing.”
https://www.criticalcomms.com.au/content/research/article/digital-sensor-network-to-monitor-air-traffic-at-vertiports-352645539
Sourced from the Critical Comms Web E-zine
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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 ADST.
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 Queens Domain.
REAST - DATV Experimenters Night from around 6pm with show starting at 7:30pm in the REAST Clubrooms Queens Domain.
SOTA/WWFF Group – Meeting Mondays and Fridays 10.30-12.00 midday at Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry St, Launceston.
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 held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Time is from 10am to noon in the Rocherlea Clubrooms.
NTARC - 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 - Monday 25th March - hosted by Eric VK7EV from 7:30pm using VK7RMD 70cm repeater on Mt Duncan on the 4th Monday in the Month.
Events:
REAST & NTARC - April 3, 2024 - History of UTC and the Leap Second with Peter Pokorny VK2EMR - from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain and streamed into the Rocherlea clubrooms.
NWTARC - April 6 - Club meeting from 1.30pm at the Scout hall, 73 Alexandra Road, Ulverstone.
REAST - May 1 - Pop Medhurst - Tasmanian Wireless Pioneer with VK7TW - from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain and streamed.
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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, VK7JH and VK7DC
160m: VK7GS
80m: VK7ALH
40m: VK7TPE
20m: VK7JGD
10m: VK7DG
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 brst 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 and stay safe from Mike, VK7FB.
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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