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VK7 Amateur Radio News 24Mar24
Text edition:
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 24th March 2024
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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News and this was first broadcast on Sunday the 24th March 2024. At the mike of VK7WI this week is Justin, VK7TW.
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 Peter, VK7TPE
On 7.140 MHz by Ross, VK7ALH
On 14.130 MHz by Garry, VK7JGD,
On 28.525 MHz by Dale, VK7DG.
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 and UHFCB24 in Southern VK7.
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Silent Key
Cedric Lockley VK7CL
It is my sad duty to inform you of the passing of Cedric Lockley VK7CL last Monday the 18th March 2024.
Cedric was someone who was never short of a story or three and many WICEN meetings started with a story!
His huge experience included a stint as a secondary teacher of maths and science who influenced and taught many many students. Cedric was quietly chuffed when some of those student would seek him out and introduce themselves in later life.
He was a lapidarist who cut, faced and polished opals and other gemstones and then sold them on and there were many stories of his trips to Cooberpedy and Lightning Ridge to wheel and deal with the shifty miners. Cedric and Justin VK7TW shared a passion for geology and shared many stories about some of the more interesting UTAS lecturers of earth sciences and the friendships we struck with them.
Cedric was a racing yacht navigator of some repute and completed the Sydney Hobart Yacht race eight times and everyone knew Cedric at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania and in fact in recent years you could have heard Cedric on the race radio from the RYCT radio room during the race.
He came into amateur radio later and appears in the callbook around 2010 and was a regular on the Sewing Circle Net and for quite a while was net controller. He was a fixture at the Meet the Voice events and took out the Sewing Circle Trophy in 2019 as the most loquacious amateur in VK7 - some would say a long overdue award..HIHI!
His other interests included computers and for a long time he helps out around schools fixing up their various computer problems.
Cedric was also a legendary fixture and long term President of WICEN Tas (South) and was a formidable Equine Endurance base radio controller that checkpoints would call into and there was always a friendly voice on the other end ready to take their rider numbers and times.
Our sincerest condolences to Janet and the family we will really miss hearing Cedric's voice on the air and in person.
Cedric's big heart unfortunately let him down.
Vale Cedric, VK7CL.
Justin VK7TW, Chris VK7CDW and Garry VK7JGD
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Contest News
John Moyle Memorial Field Day Contest
Thanks to all who operated in the Field Day. Logs are due by midnight on the 7th April 2024. For more information take a look at the link on the email edition of the broadcast.
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 quiet net night that saw the following participants, VK7s – TW, DMH, EV, ZAB, OO and ZSB all sharing over thirty photos.
The various subjects were:
An old London double-decker bus
The wind powered grain mill at Oatlands
A cruise on the Gordon River
A bee with a tiny telemetry package
Contesting in the “John Moyle Memorial Field Day”, a setup on a quiet beach without people or electrical noise
The Popular Science monthly magazine featuring “propeller powered cars”
A series of home made “propeller powered cars”
One of the Cigar Box Guitars shown on a recent REAST DATV Experimenter's Night
The stepper motor and drive system to the variable capacitor of an HF magnetic loop antenna
A newly constructed transmitter for the 630 metre band
A Helicopter landing on the Royal Hobart Hospital
An old PMG/Telecom TV and audio Operations Centre
The White Alice Communications System or WACS. This was a telecommunication network of 80 radio stations constructed in Alaska during the Cold War. It used tropospheric scatter at 900MHz for over-the-horizon links and microwave links for line-of-sight. The system typically used a 10kW transmitters and two 17 metre reflectors.
And 73 from a cat not sure how to drink from a bowl
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.
The theme for next weeks net is “Test Equipment”.
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
While I have your attention I have a reminder…… There will be no Coffee Morning this coming Friday the 29th of March at the NTARC club rooms, this is due to the Easter break.
Now thats out of the way, there are two carry over items from the recent Wednesday evening club technical night. It is actually a combination of two items from different time periods, about forty years apart. Firstly, the not really old but quite heavy and secondly its newer lighter equivalent. I will let Idris VK7ZIR explain the rationale behind the arrival of a parcel at his front door a couple of days ago and the displaying of both items of equipment on the club table recently.
Over to Idris: “The time had come for me to look around for a better RF signal generator, as my current instrument could not reach the higher frequency bands I was interested in. The Rohde and Schwartz SMS 302.4012.25 had served me well, built in the 1980s but had too many limitations, a major one being size and weight. At 12 Kg it was a lump to carry around. The infrastructure consisted of a large number of plug in cards, which had needed the connectors cleaning and reseating on occasions when strange effects started happening. So after much research into what was available at the time, with the features I wanted, and what it was going to cost, I settled on a RIGOL DSG821 RF signal generator with an upper limit of 2.1 GHz, and most of the features I wanted. A much smaller form factor and only 4 Kg meant less bench space and much lighter weight. With a large LCD display and easy menus, it was a joy to use, and the signal stability was superb. But the thing that struck me the most was the giant strides that test equipment had made in ergonomics, construction and accuracy since the era of my previous instrument. Watching a video subjecting one of these instruments to a “tear-down” with critical inspection, further influenced my choice. The construction of the completely sealed RF deck with surface mount devices was a wonder to behold! Such was my satisfaction with my purchase, and the aforementioned amazing advances in the technology, inspired me to put fingers to keyboard. I can only recommend the current crop of compact instruments of similar quality for Amateur Radio purposes. The old R & S has been retired to lighter duties in the Club workshop.”
Thank you Idris, hopefully once you get a chance to familiarise yourself fully with your newest purchase you will bring it back in for a more comprehensive demonstration of its capabilities. This new crop of equipment certainly has a “smaller footprint” on the workbench while increasing the overall performance and functionality. It is indeed a very capable instrument.
Over the years some of us have been fortunate enough to work with this Rohde and Schwartz SMS 302 signal generator plus equipment of similar high calibre, but it was a bit of a shock lifting one again. It was much heavier than I remembered or maybe I am not as strong as back in the eighties! HiHi
I believe the clubs electronics work shop is lucky enough to be the benefactor of Idriss retiring Rohde and Schwartz. Retired maybe, but still fully functional and needed, thank you Idris.
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.
No Coffee Morning - the NTARC Club rooms will be closed this coming Friday.
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.
Club General Meeting - Saturday 13th. of April at 2.00pm. Held at the NTARC Club Room, Rocherlea Scout Hall, Archer Street, Rocherlea. If you have items you would like added to the agenda please email the secretary at: secretary(at)ntarc.net no later than Friday the 12th of April.
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
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 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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April Special Forum
Radio Safety Communications - Equine Endurance Events
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/upcoming-events/?event_id1=2158
Ever wondered about going portable in the bush and helping out the WICEN crew with radio at Equine Endurance checkpoints?
We are holding a special forum on Wednesday 10th April from 7:30pm on everything involved with providing Radio Safety Communications.
The format will be a short presentation on the basics and then we will be opening up the floor to anyone to tell us about their experience and ask any questions. If you have been involved with these events in the past, please come along and relate your experience and what you learned.
The event will be streamed with an open chat channel where we will take questions and go out on DVB-T RF.
Wednesday 10th April 2024 from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain clubrooms.
See you there
73, REAST and WICEN Committees
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May Presentation - Save the Date
“Pop” Medhurst A7AH - Tasmanian Wireless Pioneer
REASTs May presentation night will be a fascinating presentation on a true Tasmanian telegraphy, telephony and wireless pioneer - F.W. “Pop” Medhurst who started his wireless experimentation as 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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May Special Forum
Field Day Operation
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/upcoming-events/?event_id1=2160
You have seen those operators out in the bush or on top of a mountain with their antennas, batteries and rigs making contacts around the world and thought, I really wish I could do that!
The format will be a forum getting everyone together to share their experience, tricks of the trade, epic or not so epic fails and hints and tips of operating portable and mobile.
If you have any experience operating outside your shack be it through a contest, SOTA, POTA, WWFF, VKFF or Silos or some other “OTA” then please come along and share your experience with the group.
Bring along your “tricks of the trade” and show them off.
It will happen on Wednesday 8th May from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain Clubrooms.
The event will be streamed with an open chat channel where we will take questions and go out on DVB-T RF.
See you there.
73, REAST Committee
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DATV Experimenter's Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLeSeiAcK3w
Last Wednesday night we had another blast from the past with a highlight segment on the DEC PDP-11 Minicomputer. We cover the history, architecture, interrupts, instruction set and programming. We then took a look at a book that Justin VK7TW found called PDP Programming Fundamentals Training Book that took the reader through structured work examples on programming a PDP-11. There was then a look at a PDP-11 Emulator called a PiDP-11 using a RaspberryPi from SimH. Sean VK7WTF bought along some original DEC storage media - Hard Disk Platter and tape reels and 8 inch double sided disk - thank you Sean.
Justin then did a quick update on the WICEN and REAST Merger and an update on our recent Presenter Mars Buttfield-Addison who has been named as a Science Superstar of STEM update
https://themartianlife.com/
Justin finished with an update on his 15-6m Magnetic Loop antenna and what was under the weather proof housing.
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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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 - No Coffee Morning this Friday 29th March - the NTARC Club rooms will be closed this coming Friday.
NTARC - Club Technical nights - Wednesday the 27th March 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 - 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.
REAST - April 10 - Equine Endurance Events Forum Wednesday 10th April 2024 from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain 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.
REAST - May 8 - Field Day Forum - Wednesday 8th May from 7:30pm in the Queens Domain Clubrooms.
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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, VK7JH 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 and UHFCB24 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 and stay safe from Justin, VK7TW.
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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