WESTLAKES NEWS FOR THE 13TH OCTOBER 2013

We start todays news broadcast with news of a SILENT KEY. STAN LLOYD, VK2AYL passed away last Tuesday 7th October. The funeral notice will be in Tuesdays Newcastle herald and the funeral will be held at RYHOPE Lawn cemetary. Vale Stan VK2AYL Yesterday was the clubs October meeting. Dave VK2RD took the chair in the absence of Steve VK2WL who had a prior commitment. Welcomed back to the club as a member, was Paul VK2BPL. The other new members were Nigel VK2FNT, Bruce VK2FSAD and Barry Gilbert - still waiting his callsign. Its ok Barry, you should have it by Christmas.The Committee and Members would like to welcome you to the club. Greg VK2CW advises that there are 13 Call books left to be sold. If you require one get in quick or you will miss out. The meat tray raffle took place after the meeting and last weeks winner, Penny reached in to the ticket tumbler and drew the ticket out belonging to 1st time meat tray winner Peter Waeger. Congratulations Peter. Make sure you are the club next weekend to draw our next winner. Enjoy. After the meeting a feast was put on by Penny who slaved away in the kitchen cooking mini pies, sausage rolls,cakes and other goodies. Thanks Penny - will have to see about getting you a pay rise. Next Saturday in the Westlakes Library is a lecture on SDR transceivers/receivers. This lecture will be presented by Norm VK2KNC who is a master at lecturing. This is must see and listen to lecture. Be early so that you don't miss out on a seat. Lecture to commence at 1300 hrs. Also at the club were most of the crew from STONE THE CROWS net. Ted was handing out cake to all the crows who were celebrating 25 years of the net. Sorry there were only enough pieces of cake for the crows. The YL of Peter VK2GFE cooked the cakes. The STONE THE CROWS net is on EVERY SATURDAY mornings at 0600 and usually goes for about an hour on the frequency of 3588KHz. So why not join in. ALL WELCOME. Also at the club yesterday was Peter VK2GFE who was showing everyone his homebrew DISCONE antenna made out of stainless steel. What a magnificent piece of home brewing. Great to see again members doing home brewing. The current Foundation class led by leading instructor Geoff VK2GL were busy outside and Geoff was showing them how to erect dipole antennas and set up a station outside. Not sure how many contacts were made but maybe you can come up and tell us more of what happened during call backs. Heard a rumour that Ken VK2KJ was leaving us for a better feeding paddock up North. In about 1 months time I believe. It is on again - a Car Boot Sale at Westlakes. Free to sellers and to all who attend. Not only that, there is a free sausage sizzle for all. It will be held in the club grounds, York Street Teralba on Saturday 9 November starting at 9 am. Full details will be in our November Magazine. Remember... What you bring and do not sell you MUST take it home with you. AMATEUR RADIO NSW BARBEQUE: ARNSW is having a barbeque on Sunday 10 November at 63 Quarry Road Dural. Gates open at 9.30 and entry is free to AR NSW members, others pay $10. Registration is required prior to entry and there will be a membership list at the gate Some traders will be in attendance and food will consist of a continuous sausage sizzle, hot dogs, tea, coffee, soft drinks and ice cream all free to AR NSW members. There will be 4 lecture presentations each of about 45 minutes on:- 1 HF antennas 2 P25 3 Microwave 4 Software defined radio. All done by hams who have specialist knowledge in their fields. Due to space restrictions, each presentation is limited to 30 pentodes.Registrations for these lecture presentations are filling fast so book early to confirm a seat lf you would like to register for the event including a particular presentation on your preferred topic, you might email fieldday@arnsw.org.au as we need to know numbers for seating and catering purposes. Leave your name, callsign and a contact number The address again, fieldday@arnsw.orq.au Entry to the lecture presentations is sequential receipt of registration, that is, first in best dressed As a special bonus to our members, in the afternoon, we will be raffling a beautiful pair of strippers... Wire that is... lf any member has recording equipment and is prepared to organise a recording of the lecture presentations for some of our country members, would they please contact the office on 9651 1489 and leave contact details Submitted by Al Hirschel VK2KAM AR NSW event commander Up Up and Away. WIA News reminds radio amateurs who launch small balloons and Quad Copters of the need to keep away from structures such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge. In this day and age of we hams launching small balloons and using ATV on board easily purchased quad copters and the like, comes this story with a message in its tail. A mystery drone crashed into the Sydney Harbour Bridge causing counter terrorism officers to be alerted and an investigation by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority. The incident occurred Wednesday week, just a day before the start of the International Navy Fleet Review. However police believe the two were not linked. A spokesman for CASA confirmed it was investigating the incident. He said those operating remotely piloted aircraft must keep them at least 30m away from any people, buildings or structures and to check with local council where they can be used. He said airspace around the Harbour Bridge was restricted, even for small aircraft such as drones. Australians not malware wise. Nearly half of all adults or more than seven million living in Australia who regularly use the Internet for personal purposes don’t believe they will suffer from malicious software, or malware for short. Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has also found that ten per cent who use home-based computers or laptops on the Internet fail to have virus protection while another eight per cent don’t regularly update it. Malware allows others to steal personal identities including login details a worrying possibility in this increasing digital society. The Australian Internet Security Initiative program reports that 35,500 Australian IP addresses a day are infected by malware. Well that's all the news we have this week.