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.