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VK7 Amateur Radio News 10Nov24

Text edition:

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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 10th November 2024

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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News.

This was first broadcast on Sunday, November 10th, 2024 and we bring you the la

This week, joining you from the Tasmanian Amateur Radio News desk is Peter, VK7

Tune in as we share updates and insights across VK7, broadcast through an arra

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 Ross, VK7ALH

7.140 MHz by Garry, VK7JGD

14.130 MHz by Dale, VK7DG

28.525 MHz by Tony, VK7VKT and

UHF CB Channel 24 in the Hobart area, hosted by Mark, VK7FMAC

If you missed today’s broadcast then you can catch the replay on Tuesday nigh and VK7RHT and UHFCB24 in Southern VK7.

Thank you for tuning in and enjoy the broadcast!

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SILENT KEY
Bob McCulloch VK7MGW

NWTARC Club Members, were sadden to hear on Thursday, the 31st of October, of t
McCulloch, in his sleep overnight at Umina Park.

Bob was a very active Amateur radio operator, and Motor sport tragic, he partic ties, keen on HF, a big supporter of JOTA, providing Radio Comms for horse endu or his other great love motor racing.

He joined the WIA in 1997, in January 1998, Bob as a new WIA Recruit, won a Flu th held a draw of new WIA signups, amateurs could win a multimeter, and he won

Bob at one stage was President of the WIA North West Branch, and was also a mem Tasmania (Northwest, North & South) in the late 90's into the early 2000's.

In 1998 he was awarded the "Joan Fudge Memorial Award" for outstanding service

Bob and his partner Ursula VK7FROO were very active in the club, with Ursula th
to host club meetings at their QTH, and one year the clubs Christmas party was the Bar B Que.

He was very active in motorsports, and amateurs have commented on his great abi arga, he also assisted with radio comms for Targa Tasmania and Rally Tasmania, hile living in Umina Park,

Bob was blessed, that some local amateurs assisted to keep him on air in Umina he had trouble dealing with.

In my visits to Bob, he would recall some very interesting stories re amateur r
the years have shared some funny Bob stories with me.

He was still in regular contact with amateurs through social media messenger ap

Our condolences to Bobs family and friends, and his amateur mates

Vale Bob McCulloch SK

From Eric, VK7EV, News Officer, NWTARC

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Tassie Ham-E-Con Conference
Highlights

The Tassie Ham Radio Conference showcased a compelling lineup of keynote speake
of innovation, technical insights, and future-focused topics. Here are the con

Our three keynotes were:

Dr. Tamitha Skov (WX6SWW) presented on "Space Weather and How It Can Work for Y vity on communications.

Dr. Justin Thurley explored "Amateur Radio: An Innovation Perspective," examini pace.

Kristen McIntyre (K6WX) delivered an insightful talk titled "Ground is a Myth!" n radio.

Our other presentations included

Dr. Paris Buttfield-Addison (VK7SYN) discussed "Artificial Intelligence & Machi
potential for AI to enhance audio and other aspects of radio and congratulatio t week

Marcus Berg VK3TST talked to us about easy to implement cyber security measures

Our very own Murray Southwell VK7ZMS gave a great talk on the fine line between

Marty Nelson VK4KC demonstrated how easy it is to setup a POTA station and oper

Our very own Rex Moncur VK7MO presented on lightning scatter propagation experi

Martin Luther VK7GN gave a BC or “before computers” to Gameboy talk on cont

Andy Perryman (NoAPX) introduced the "World Radio League: Bringing Amateur Radi logging and analytics tools.

Kyle Krieg AA0Z talked us through the used of the flow programming tool - Node- ystem.

Phile Wait VK2ASD outlined and announced the WIA’s new EME Flowchart and wond
to allow the WIA to use.

Going up in frequency - David Minchin VK5KK took us on a 241GHz transceiver des

Adam Kimmerley K6ARK took us on a journey of shrinkage where everything he touc ration.

Hayden Honeywood VK7HH even ran a couple of Amateur Radio Quiz sessions to get

We finished the formal sessions with a clubs forum with members from the WIA, A
Slido to capture innovative things the clubs were doing into on-screen lists a as distributed to all conference and online attendees for them to use with thei

We finished with the Raffle Draw and we congratulate all raffle winners.

A huge thank you to all our sponsors, presenters, volunteers and participants.

The presentations will all appear on the REAST and Ham Radio DX YouTube Channel

See you back in 2026.

73, Justin, VK7TW

On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee.

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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 versi

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

AAC, AAD, AAH, AAP, AAR, AB, ACE, ACG, ACN, ADE, AED, AG(2014), AGC, AHT, AIR, Y

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

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Statewide News
Thursday Night SSTV Nets

A quiet net night that saw the following participants, VK7s – EV, ZAB, KT, AA .

The highlights were:

A map with Tassie on the top of the world

A spark-gap transmitter and matching Germanium crystal receiver that was de F spectrum to nearly 1 Gigahertz

Fine craft from a “Wooden Boats Festival”

The “Fat Car” at Mona, an obese Porsche

A jet engine powered dog

A pair of cuddly looking White Tigers

Insults from the “French Taunter” in Monty Python’s Holy Grail

A t-shirt listing the important things in life ….. for an amateur

A Hex Beam antenna on top of probably a 10 metre mast

An operational WSPR station using the QRP-Labs QDX digital transceiver and
controlled by a Raspberry Pi 400 and was reviewed on a previous REAST Wednesda

and a typical 24 hour WSPR HF propagation map from the QRP-Labs transceiver

Note - Ken VK7KRJ’s and Steve VK7OO’s fully automatic 24/7 monitoring sites bility to check them on their pages almost immediately, any time, both South an

If you missed the net there are archives of these SSTV nights.

These photos can be seen on Ken’s and Steve’s SSTV websites or on NTARC’s

Don’t forget to enable the transmit FSK ID to send your callsign and use your

SSTV VK7OO Tasmania Australia (tasme.com)

VK7KRJ's 2m SSTV scrolling web gallery

Blog 3 — NTARC Inc.

73 from Andre’ VK7ZAB

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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 weekl 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

At last week’s Club Room Technical night session there was much discussion ab ious weekend. All attendees found the weekend jaunt well worth the effort, with the raffle prize draws. Funnily, I have been asked not to mention the early mor ily commitments I was unable to physically attend but found the ability to sign
days to be brilliant. Still being able to be part of the excellent line-up of happy! The Tassie Ham-E-Con committee certainly deserve congratulation on such

Now back to Wednesday night, Ross VK7ALH arrived with two Yaesu FT-757 HF trans
be identical. So when is a Yaesu FT-757 not a Yaesu FT-757 as we know it? When only market! On much closer visual inspection there was a difference. Yaesu had ode changing, to a group of push buttons for selection on the Japanese only mar that really seemed different internally was the lack of a cooling fan! After so RF output as opposed to our 100 watt version, this could explain the lack of a the main printed circuit board solder-able link pads for Australian Amateur ban e if he comes across any other variations.

Colin VK7ZCF brought in his recently acquired larger than usual hand held Vecto
little gem is manufactured in China under the name SYSJOINT. It is the 7 inch ers from 50kHz to 4.4GHz. It is fully enclosed and device interface connections
standard with an internal rechargeable battery, which makes it a very portable ed outside. One nice touch with this purchase is that it comes complete with a F adaptors and patch leads. Compared to the now quite common and small NanoVNA enu system when operating. Like any piece of test equipment, it has a setup and all aspects of its ability and limitations, have fun experimenting Colin.

Peter VK7KPC disappeared into the radio room to test his Xiegu CS108G transceiv lk all in one handset. This handset is very reminiscent of those used on a port
of Nic’s Wednesday night TechNet session he could get instant feedback from oom attendees were able to check quality via the off air audio streaming provid Nic’s Net Nights certainly have proven to be very handy, time and time again. so the handset can be tried on different rigs. Don’t forget to visit the NTAR s self-contained, portable, field station for phone and CW use.

Now back to housekeeping and NTARC QSL Cards - Andrew VK7DW, our QSL manager h
QSL cards has arrived”. VK7’s AT, AU, BO, DON, GC, HBR, JFD, KW, MAT, MX, -sign then there are cards waiting at the NTARC club rooms for collection on th you Herman for your continued support regarding QSL deliveries and thank you An

As always, pictures will be available on the NTARC Web site under “Blogs” f

UPCOMING EVENTS

TestNet and TechNet session - Every Wednesday, TestNet/CW course on 3.580MHz fr
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 2
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 ere. So why not pop in check the QSL cards and join us for a cuppa, there is en le 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 woul w trivial, then please email them to the Secretary at the following address new
than 5 pm on the Friday prior to the Broadcast.

That’s 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://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/upcoming-events/?event_id1=2542

From 1800 on Wednesday 13th November we will be holding a conference pizza tha

Please come along and enjoy pizza and a drink on the club.

If you have any dietary requirements that we might be able to accommodate with

Then from 1930 we will be holding a Conference Feedback Forum so, please come a ference - the good, the bad and the ugly.

We will be providing some structure to the night and run through each aspect of put into the conference review so we can make the next one in 2026 even better.

See you there.

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

This will be held after the broadcast on Sunday December 8th, 2024 from 1100 -

BRING YOUR SHOVELS - after lunch we will be holding a working bee to clean up t er and a range of other exciting things!

Please let us know if you are coming along (secretary@reast.asn.au) so, we can

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 co

Want to sell something - it will cost you $10 to setup your carboot then you ca you.

There will be a Sausage Sizzle on the day with Snags and Bread at $3 and Burger
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 m ge.

https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/upcoming-events/

The final Standard, Advanced, and Regulations licence assessments will be held

We are currently working through our 2025 training calendar and this will be pu

For Bookings, Queries, and Questions:

Email: reast.assessor(at)gmail.com

This email is forwarded to the Learning Organiser, who will respond to all requ

Foundation Licence Training Videos:

These have been updated to reflect the new Class Licence arrangements. Availabl laylist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiSE6GEhcXU&list=PLsnsP_zjw831mdC6sY4XqavRUY-53

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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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 VK7R st - VK7RJG on 438.55 -7MHz and in the South - VK7RAF (146.650 -600kHz) CTCSS t

State-wide – MICROWAVE QSO Party – following the Sunday broadcast call-back art 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 statio

REAST - WAGs - Wednesday Afternoon Group from 12 noon in the REAST Clubrooms Qu

REAST - WEGs - Wednesday Experimenter’s Group from around 6pm in the REAST Cl

SOTA/WWFF Group – Meeting Mondays and Fridays 10.30-12.00 midday at Glebe Gar

NTARC - Club Room Technical night session on Wednesday 20th November from 6.30

NTARC - TestNet and TechNet sessions every Wednesday night. TestNet/CW course o
3.567MHz from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm

NTARC Coffee Mornings are held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Time is fr

NW VK7 – Wednesday from 8:00pm local – NW Tassie Amateur Repeater Group Net

NW VK7 - Thursday commencing at 8:30pm local - N.W. Tassie 2m DX Net 144.190 US Events:

REAST - November 13 - Conference Volunteers Thank-You Pizza Night - from 6:30pm
Domain Clubrooms from 7:30pm

REAST - December 1 - End of Year Free BBQ and Spring Cleaning workshop from 11a
- December 4 - End of Year Celebration at the Iron Horse Bar and Grill located Let the Secretary know if coming along.

REAST - January 19, 2025 - CarBoot Sale of the Century and Sausage Sizzle.

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A reminder to those people rostered for next week’s broadcast:

Newsreader: VK7WW

Repeaters: REAST, NTARC and in the NW thanks to N W T A R C, West Coast Radio G AX, VK7JH and VK7DC

160m: VK7GS

80m: VK7JGD

40m: VK7DG

20m: VK7TPE

10m: VK7VKT

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 broadc

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That wraps up this week's edition of the VK7 Amateur Radio News. We hope you fo

You've been listening to VK7WI, or if you’ve just tuned in, you've just misse
catch the

rebroadcast on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RAA in Northern VK7 and

We encourage you to share your news, stories, and updates with us. Email your c

For more information about the broadcast and to join the discussion, visit our

groups.io/g/vk7arnews.

Remember, the deadline for submissions is 21:00 on the Friday before the Sunday

Stay tuned for callbacks on the frequency you’re currently listening to. Rela his time.

On behalf of the entire VK7 Amateur Radio News Team, this is Peter, VK7PD wishi



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