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DID YOU TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK?
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THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICES
QNEWS -- ALL OF THE NEWS ALL OF THE TIME at www.wiaq.com
QNEWS available in Audio by 0400Hrs UTC Saturday.
http://www.wia-files.com/wiabroadcast/vk4_qnews_64.mp3
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Contact QAC by HF Radio 3.605 Mondays 7:30pm after QNEWS
QAC qac(AT)wia.org.au OVERSEES HAM RADIO MATTERS IN VK4
QNEWS newsroom qnews(AT)wia.org.au USE TO SEND US YOUR NEWS STORIES!!
QTAC qtac(AT)wia.org.au HANDLES TECHNICAL QUERIES
QTC qtc(AT)wia.org.au AR MAGAZINE COLUMN
QAC office officers :-
VK4AHW Harvey Wickes
VK4AQ Ross Anderson
VK4BY Don Wilschefski
VK4UH Kevin Johnstone
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The wia office address is:
The Wireless Institute of Australia
P.O. Box 2042
BAYSWATER VIC 3153
Telephone: 03 9729 0400
Fax: 03 9729 7325
AR MAGAZINE—VK4 QTC COLUMN
Written by Chris Comollattie VK4VKR
news for ar magazine to qtc(AT)wia.org.au
GYMPIE
www.gceginc.org.au
Geoff Emery vk4zpp
Officially summer is with us and locally to mark the change of season the
weather put on a demonstration. As vehicles marked their passage down the
local road with a pall of dust and the pastures and household yard now seem
covered with faded Christmas tinsel instead of the green grass, it was fair
to say that we needed rain.
The Bureau of Meteorology rainfall radar images suggested that the storm cell
was going to slither past and out to sea. As the old Brisbane area Storm
Watch nets proved time and again, local observed conditions are not
necessarily reported, even by good technology. With low level wind bringing
rain from one direction meeting the storm rain and hail aprroaching from the
opposite direction, we were left with the roar of the wind and a complete
whiteout.
From news reports, it appears that our local school suffered the most damage
from the winds and fallen trees. Locally, our access road was closed by two
trees blasted out of the ground.
The good thing was that the antenna systems all survived. It has been a lesson
well learned from the advice of old timers and experience that when you live
in summer storm areas to engineer for expected conditions. Many people, in the
early days of CB, learned that their shiny sky hook raised to the sky on water
pipe could still be destroyed when the pipe bent or the over tightened guys
fractured.
There is good reason to use thin walled mast and to leave sufficient slack in
the guys to allow the forced vibrations and stresses to be disappated in the
structure.
Even the inverted V survived when a large branch was blown from the tree that
is used as a tie off point for the feedline. With our backup battery system,
the station was able to stay available for use.
I hope that your preparations have been completed and you don't have to
subject them to such a field test. Let us all enjoy the benefits of amateur
radio this summer.
TOWNSVILLE
vk4wit(AT)wia.org.au
4773 1196 or 0408 001142
po box 333 Garbutt East, QLD 4814
www.tarc.org.au
GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS! THIS IS DON VK4FNQA
WITH ALL THE GOOD NEWS FROM NORTH QUEENSLAND...
TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR YOU TO GET YOUR ATTENDANCE
NUMBERS IN FOR,THE TARC 2009 CHRISTMAS PARTY.
IT IS HAPPENING NEXT SUNDAY AT THE VK4TJS SATELLITE DISH CITY.
THE PARTY FESTIVITIES INCLUDES A MONSTER AUCTION, A
MYSTERY PRESSIE AUCTION AND IS A CATERED EVENT. DONT
MISS OUT ON HAVING A SCRUMPTIOUS FEED AT THE
PARTY, CONTACT GAVIN VK4ZZ BEFORE THIS TUESDAY DECEMBER 8TH !
THE TOWNSVILLE CLUB HELD ITS EX-OFFICIOS ELECTIONS
AT LAST TUESDAYS MANAGEMENT MEETING. SOME THAT WERE
NOT THERE STILL GOT JOBS, BUT I AM SURE THEY WONT
MIND - THEY WERE WARNED ABOUT IT... HI HI.
THE TARC INC HAS THE PROJECT NIGHT HAPPENING THIS
TUESDAY EVENING FROM 7-30PM AT THE CLUB ROOMS IN
GREEN STREET WEST END. EVERYONE WELCOME TO COME
ALONG AND HELP LET SOME OF THE MAGIC SMOKE ESCAPE
FROM THE LATEST TECHNICAL PROJECT !
WELL THATS ALL FOR THIS WEEK FROM TROPICAL
PARADISE. WE ARE ABOUT TO MOVE THE MATCAVE A
FEW KILOMETRES WESTWARDS SO HOPEFULLY NEXT
WEEK I WILL BE COMMUNICATING TO YOU FROM AN ENTIRELY NEW GRID SQUARE !
THIS HAS BEEN DON VK4FNQA FOR THE TOWNSVILLE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB INC,
AND YOU HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO; AND ENJOYING QNEWS FROM VK4WIA.
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