Sunday, August 21, 2011
WESTLAKES BROADCAST FOR 21st AUGUST 2011.
Good Morning and welcome to this week's local news broadcast. This is VK2ATZ, The callsign of Westlakes Amateur Radio Club
located at Teralba, Lake Macquarie. Your reader this morning is Greg. There may be a simulcast being transmitted this
morning on 3.565 MHz courtesy of Warren VK2UWP Callbacks follow at the conclusion of this news.Then at 9.30am is a relay
of the Australia-wide amateur radio news from VK1WIA.
This week the broadcast comes LIVE from Norah Head Lighthouse. Lighthouse number AUS 0024.
Special Offer to Club Members.
This week some members received mail from the secretary/Treasurer of a special offer to club members only. The offer is a
Yaesu HF station. FT757GX Transceiver, FC757 Auto Tuner, FP700 Power supply and a MD100 Microphone. The equipment comes
with all manuals and in oringinal boxes. All are in perfect working condition except for the dial light on the FT 757GX is
not working. The reserve price for all of the above items is $550.00. Offers in writting at this amount or higher are invited from interested club members. The envelope should be clearly marked "RADIO OFFER" and addressed to The Secretary, WARC.P O BOX 3001, TERALBA,2284. Offers must be received by 2 pm Saturday 27th August 2011. Highest tender wins.
PLEASE NOTE The items are to be sold as one lot and will not be split.
The second offer to all Westlakes members for our Fund raiser is a FT7900 2m/70cm dual band transceiver and comes with full warranty.
When you get your club magazine and some of you will get them separately in the mail. The book of 10 tickets at $2 a ticket.You can buy 10 or one or none - the choice is yours. The entire proceeds of this raffle help fund the operations of your club. The draw will take place at the Westlakes Field day on Sunday 18th September 2011 at 12 noon.
On the Lighthouse and lightships weekend Paul (VK2HV ) will be opeating from Montague Island with Tommy ( VK2IR )and his club members. Listen out for them.
Wafflers net is progressing well on Wednesday nights. Operating frequency is 146.525 MHz simplex and commences at 1900 hrs. All welcome.
Our club Field Day will be held on the 18th September this year so clean out your bedrooms, radio shack and garages for anything that
might be of some value that you might like to donate to the club for it auction table. If you have any items please bring them down and
give them to a Committee member.
Have you forgotten to visit the club store lately? There are always lots of bargains to be purchased. See Aly for the best buys and support your club.
World News From Southgate Amateur Radio.
Amateur radio set to light-up Sandy Cape Lighthouse
Sandy Cape Lighthouse will be home to four amateur radio operators from Queensland's Ipswich and District Radio Club for the International Lighthouse and Lightship weekend, this weekend, August 20 and 21.
The 4WD permit for travel on Fraser Island has now been obtained, and also the special callsign VI4FI.
A TH3 Junior Tribander will be used for 10, 15 and 20 on a 10m Clark Mast and the Butternut HF6V for the lower bands in addition to a Multi-band dipole in an Inverted V configuration.
The main radio will be a Yaesu FTDX-5000 with back up rigs consisting of an Icom IC-7600 and a Kenwood TS-480HX.
Power will be supplied 24 hours a day via a RAPS Solar System so on air time will be around the clock as much as possible.
A special QSL Card to celebrate this activation will be designed by UX5UO QSL Print Services.
The DXpedition to Fraser Island is supported by club sponsors Ipswich City Council and VK4ICE Communications.
All updates via the website at www.sandycape2011.com and LIVE status updates via Twitter @VI4FI which links directly with the VK4WIP Facebook page at www.facebook.com/vk4wip as the Twitter updates are posted
The Ipswich Sandy Cape team of Paul VK4FPDW, Derek VK4MIA, Mike VK4QS and Graham VK4FGCC are looking forward to working you on the bands.
Allan VK4FABR
Punta del Este Lighthouse on the air for ILLW
Ham radio operators from the Radio Club Uruguayo will be active as CW1R, the special event callsign for the Punta del Este Lighthouse (ARLHS URU-008, ILLW UY0005, Grid Loc. GF25ma), during the International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend (August 19-21st).
Activity will be on 80-10 meters using CW, SSB and the Digital modes with at least two stations on the air.
QSLs for this activity is via Bureau or direct to:
Radio Club Uruguayo, P.O.Box 37, 11000, Montevideo,
URUGUAY, SOUTH AMERICA,
with a SAE and 1 new IRC or 2 green stamps.
ILLW heads in the right direction
So far more than 430 have made online entries and already counted towards this year’s grand tally for the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend.
There’s been improvements this year have been in Australia, Chile, Portugal, South Africa and the USA, while generally Europe has been lower than previous.
Notable by their absence so far are those from Alaska, China, Cuba, Hawaii, Japan, Taiwan and Uruguay.
The event came into being from the Scottish Northern Lighthouses Award Weekend first held in 1994 and has grown in statue ever since.
The basic objective of the fun event is to promote awareness of lighthouses and lightships and their need for preservation, and to promote amateur radio and to foster International goodwill.
It’s not too late to enter and activate one this weekend.
Check out the latest on the website illw.net which has access to an online registration form for August the 20th and 21st, and there’s Facebook too.
Do you have a news item that you would like read out on a broadcast? Contact Richard VK2FRKO on email address vk2frko@tpg.com.au
or give the item to Richard at the club.
Now to wind up. Westlakes Amateur Radio Club Inc. is located in York Street, TERALBA - and is open on Saturday Afternoons from around 12 noon. Also on a Tuesday evening from around 6pm. To make contact at other times, try dialling (02) 49 581588 where an answering service
operates. Visitors are alway welcome at the club. We have plenty of tea, coffee, long-life milk, and an interesting selection of biscuits.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
BROADCAST NEWS FOR 7TH AUGUST 2011
Special Offer to Club Members.
This week some members received mail from the secretary/Treasurer of a special offer to club members only. The offer is a
Yaesu HF station. FT757GX Transceiver, FC757 Auto Tuner, FP700 Power supply and a MD100 Microphone. The equipment comes
with all manuals and in oringinal boxes. All are in perfect working condition except for the dial light on the FT 757GX is
not working. The reserve price for all of the above items is $550.00. Offers in writting at this amount or higher are invited from interested club members. The envelope should be clearly marked "RADIO OFFER" and addressed to The Secretary, WARC.P O BOX 3001, TERALBA,2284. Offers must be received by 2 pm Saturday 27th August 2011. Highest tender wins.
PLEASE NOTE The items are to be sold as one lot and will not be split.
The second offer to all Westlakes members for our Fund raiser is a FT7900 2m/70cm dual band transceiver and comes with full warranty.
When you get your club magazine and some of you will get them separately in the mail. The book of 10 tickets at $2 a ticket.You can buy 10 or one or none - the choice is yours. The entire proceeds of this raffle help fund the operations of your club. The draw will take place at the Westlakes Field day on Sunday 18th September 2011 at 12 noon.
Meat tray winner. Last weeks happy meat tray winner Steve was at the club with a big grin. After the meeting Steve reached into the barrel and picked a winning ticket. The callsign on the ticket read -VK2EO - Mr Casual. How much did you pay Steve Geoff??? Congratulations.
VK2LW Steve was showing Ted VK2UI the merits of his quadbander IC-T81A when Greg VK2CW made a bet of $2.00 ( last of the big betters ) that no one would come back to a call put out on 23cm. Within seconds of calling on the repeater, Peter VK2ZTV answered his call much to Greg's disgust. Peter was running 1 watt on his 23 cm mobile rig and wanted a audio check. All had good signals. Has Greg paid his debt off Ted.
Rickerty Kate Raffle. 1st prize of $50.00 went to VK2XBF. 2nd Prize $20.00 VK2LW and 3rd Prize $10.00 Alex VK2ZM Good on you for supporting your club in this fund raiser.
The Lighthouse and Lightships weekend is 2 weeks away and once again Westlakes ARC will be at Norah Head Lighthouse. The lighthouse weekend officially commences at 1000 Saturday morning and will continue until Sunday arvo. Visitors are most welcome but you will have to bring your tucker. Tea and coffee will be provided.
Next weekend is the RD contest BUT because of the lack of interest Westlakes will not be taking part in it.
Wafflers net is progressing well on Wednesday nights. Operating frequency is 146.525 MHz simplex and commences at 1900 hrs. All welcome.
Our club Field Day will be held on the 18th September this year so clean out your bedrooms, radio shack and garages for anything that
might be of some value that you might like to donate to the club for it auction table. If you have any items please bring them down and
give them to a Committee member.
News from the W I A
Applications for Club Grants for 2011 closed on 25 July. In the WIA’s release of 27 July, we reported that only a disappointing three applications had been received. Since then one club has asked that a late entry be accepted, and offered very legitimate reasons for the lateness of the lodgement of the application. The WIA Board has decided to accept that application. It is also conscious of the fact that other clubs may be in a similar position and so it has decided to also accept any other late application that is lodged at the WIA office by not later than 4 pm Victorian time, next Tuesday, 9th August 2011. Reasons for the lateness of the lodgement are not required.
Clubs are reminded that this year Grants will be given for projects falling in to either of two categories:
1) Projects and activities to be conducted before 1 June 2012 to attract new amateurs, but focussed on people under 25; and
2) Amateur radio projects that are useful and innovative and that utilise both information technologies and radio communications.
Michael Owen
President WIA
News from Southgate Amateur Radio.
Have you ever wanted to be BAD?
Well, a large group of VK and ZL radio amateurs are going to be BAD for thee days, in fact they are going to be VERY BAD, VK3BAD that is.
VK3BAD will we active from Cape Liptrap from Friday 19th August through Monday 22nd August, from Bear Gully cottages just down the road from the Cape Liptrap Lighthouse.
Our team of eighteen amateurs will be active on most HF bands so please listen out for us, when we are not cooking steaks , drinking red wine and generally having a BAD time, we will be on the air and eager to take your call.
This is John VK3DQ
Earth bound solar flare
The Space Weather site reports that an Earth-directed M1 class solar flare occured August 2 at 0619 UT.
They say: Magnetic fields above sunspot 1261 erupted this morning [Tuesday] at 0619 UT, producing a long-duration M1-class solar flare.
At the peak of the action, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a surge of extreme ultraviolet radiation around the sunspot.
The blast also hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) almost directly toward Earth. Space-based coronagraph images from SOHO and from STEREO-A show the cloud racing away from the sun at almost 900 km/s.
Minor to moderate geomagnetic storms are possible when the CME arrives on or about August 5.
Space Weather
http://spaceweather.com/
Spy Vs. Spy - 20th century style
How many of you remember the old 'Spy Vs. Spy' comic in Mad Magazine. Well here’s something that reads like its right out of that genre. Its a story about the Internet foreign intrigue that will leave you smiling and maybe wanting something sweet to eat.
Amateur Radio Newsline’s Bruce Tennant, has the story of the spies that got hacked by food:
According to published news reports, British spies successfully hacked into an al-Qaida website to replace instructions on how to build a bomb with – ready for this? Recipes for making cupcakes.
Nope, we are not kidding. The cyber offensive reportedly took place last year when the English language magazine aimed at Muslims in the West called Inspire was launched by supporters of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
British intelligence officers based at the Government Communications Headquarters, which is the state eavesdropping service, attacked the 67-page magazine, leaving most of it garbled. Instead of being able to read how to "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom," readers were greeted with computer code which actually contained recipes from The Best Cupcakes in America, published by U.S. talk show hostess Ellen DeGeneres.
The Washington Post reported that the British action followed a dispute between the CIA and the newly formed U.S. Cyber Command. The cyber unit had wanted to block the al Qaeda magazine but the CIA, which had countered such an attack, would expose sources and intelligence methods, won the debate and declined to allow an attack on Inspire.
So the U-K did it for them and reports say that it took almost two weeks for magazine to post a corrected version after it had been sabotaged.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I’m Bruce Tennant, trying not to laugh too hard as I read this from Los Angeles.
Do you have a news item that you would like read out on a broadcast? Contact Richard VK2FRKO on email address vk2frko@tpg.com.au
or give the item to Richard at the club.
Now to wind up. Westlakes Amateur Radio Club Inc. is located in York Street, TERALBA - and is open on Saturday Afternoons from around 12 noon. Also on a Tuesday evening from around 6pm. To make contact at other times, try dialling (02) 49 581588 where an answering service
operates. Visitors are alway welcome at the club. We have plenty of tea, coffee, long-life milk, and an interesting selection of biscuits.
This week some members received mail from the secretary/Treasurer of a special offer to club members only. The offer is a
Yaesu HF station. FT757GX Transceiver, FC757 Auto Tuner, FP700 Power supply and a MD100 Microphone. The equipment comes
with all manuals and in oringinal boxes. All are in perfect working condition except for the dial light on the FT 757GX is
not working. The reserve price for all of the above items is $550.00. Offers in writting at this amount or higher are invited from interested club members. The envelope should be clearly marked "RADIO OFFER" and addressed to The Secretary, WARC.P O BOX 3001, TERALBA,2284. Offers must be received by 2 pm Saturday 27th August 2011. Highest tender wins.
PLEASE NOTE The items are to be sold as one lot and will not be split.
The second offer to all Westlakes members for our Fund raiser is a FT7900 2m/70cm dual band transceiver and comes with full warranty.
When you get your club magazine and some of you will get them separately in the mail. The book of 10 tickets at $2 a ticket.You can buy 10 or one or none - the choice is yours. The entire proceeds of this raffle help fund the operations of your club. The draw will take place at the Westlakes Field day on Sunday 18th September 2011 at 12 noon.
Meat tray winner. Last weeks happy meat tray winner Steve was at the club with a big grin. After the meeting Steve reached into the barrel and picked a winning ticket. The callsign on the ticket read -VK2EO - Mr Casual. How much did you pay Steve Geoff??? Congratulations.
VK2LW Steve was showing Ted VK2UI the merits of his quadbander IC-T81A when Greg VK2CW made a bet of $2.00 ( last of the big betters ) that no one would come back to a call put out on 23cm. Within seconds of calling on the repeater, Peter VK2ZTV answered his call much to Greg's disgust. Peter was running 1 watt on his 23 cm mobile rig and wanted a audio check. All had good signals. Has Greg paid his debt off Ted.
Rickerty Kate Raffle. 1st prize of $50.00 went to VK2XBF. 2nd Prize $20.00 VK2LW and 3rd Prize $10.00 Alex VK2ZM Good on you for supporting your club in this fund raiser.
The Lighthouse and Lightships weekend is 2 weeks away and once again Westlakes ARC will be at Norah Head Lighthouse. The lighthouse weekend officially commences at 1000 Saturday morning and will continue until Sunday arvo. Visitors are most welcome but you will have to bring your tucker. Tea and coffee will be provided.
Next weekend is the RD contest BUT because of the lack of interest Westlakes will not be taking part in it.
Wafflers net is progressing well on Wednesday nights. Operating frequency is 146.525 MHz simplex and commences at 1900 hrs. All welcome.
Our club Field Day will be held on the 18th September this year so clean out your bedrooms, radio shack and garages for anything that
might be of some value that you might like to donate to the club for it auction table. If you have any items please bring them down and
give them to a Committee member.
News from the W I A
Applications for Club Grants for 2011 closed on 25 July. In the WIA’s release of 27 July, we reported that only a disappointing three applications had been received. Since then one club has asked that a late entry be accepted, and offered very legitimate reasons for the lateness of the lodgement of the application. The WIA Board has decided to accept that application. It is also conscious of the fact that other clubs may be in a similar position and so it has decided to also accept any other late application that is lodged at the WIA office by not later than 4 pm Victorian time, next Tuesday, 9th August 2011. Reasons for the lateness of the lodgement are not required.
Clubs are reminded that this year Grants will be given for projects falling in to either of two categories:
1) Projects and activities to be conducted before 1 June 2012 to attract new amateurs, but focussed on people under 25; and
2) Amateur radio projects that are useful and innovative and that utilise both information technologies and radio communications.
Michael Owen
President WIA
News from Southgate Amateur Radio.
Have you ever wanted to be BAD?
Well, a large group of VK and ZL radio amateurs are going to be BAD for thee days, in fact they are going to be VERY BAD, VK3BAD that is.
VK3BAD will we active from Cape Liptrap from Friday 19th August through Monday 22nd August, from Bear Gully cottages just down the road from the Cape Liptrap Lighthouse.
Our team of eighteen amateurs will be active on most HF bands so please listen out for us, when we are not cooking steaks , drinking red wine and generally having a BAD time, we will be on the air and eager to take your call.
This is John VK3DQ
Earth bound solar flare
The Space Weather site reports that an Earth-directed M1 class solar flare occured August 2 at 0619 UT.
They say: Magnetic fields above sunspot 1261 erupted this morning [Tuesday] at 0619 UT, producing a long-duration M1-class solar flare.
At the peak of the action, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a surge of extreme ultraviolet radiation around the sunspot.
The blast also hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) almost directly toward Earth. Space-based coronagraph images from SOHO and from STEREO-A show the cloud racing away from the sun at almost 900 km/s.
Minor to moderate geomagnetic storms are possible when the CME arrives on or about August 5.
Space Weather
http://spaceweather.com/
Spy Vs. Spy - 20th century style
How many of you remember the old 'Spy Vs. Spy' comic in Mad Magazine. Well here’s something that reads like its right out of that genre. Its a story about the Internet foreign intrigue that will leave you smiling and maybe wanting something sweet to eat.
Amateur Radio Newsline’s Bruce Tennant, has the story of the spies that got hacked by food:
According to published news reports, British spies successfully hacked into an al-Qaida website to replace instructions on how to build a bomb with – ready for this? Recipes for making cupcakes.
Nope, we are not kidding. The cyber offensive reportedly took place last year when the English language magazine aimed at Muslims in the West called Inspire was launched by supporters of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
British intelligence officers based at the Government Communications Headquarters, which is the state eavesdropping service, attacked the 67-page magazine, leaving most of it garbled. Instead of being able to read how to "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom," readers were greeted with computer code which actually contained recipes from The Best Cupcakes in America, published by U.S. talk show hostess Ellen DeGeneres.
The Washington Post reported that the British action followed a dispute between the CIA and the newly formed U.S. Cyber Command. The cyber unit had wanted to block the al Qaeda magazine but the CIA, which had countered such an attack, would expose sources and intelligence methods, won the debate and declined to allow an attack on Inspire.
So the U-K did it for them and reports say that it took almost two weeks for magazine to post a corrected version after it had been sabotaged.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I’m Bruce Tennant, trying not to laugh too hard as I read this from Los Angeles.
Do you have a news item that you would like read out on a broadcast? Contact Richard VK2FRKO on email address vk2frko@tpg.com.au
or give the item to Richard at the club.
Now to wind up. Westlakes Amateur Radio Club Inc. is located in York Street, TERALBA - and is open on Saturday Afternoons from around 12 noon. Also on a Tuesday evening from around 6pm. To make contact at other times, try dialling (02) 49 581588 where an answering service
operates. Visitors are alway welcome at the club. We have plenty of tea, coffee, long-life milk, and an interesting selection of biscuits.
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