QNEWS – MARCH 19 2023 – VK4 ON AIR
--------------------------------------------------------------------* DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK? --------------------------------------------------------------------* THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE Available in Audio RIGHT NOW http://www.wiaq.org.au/ftp/vk4_qnews_64.mp3 Also search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS) in your podcast. --------------------------------------------------------------------* VK4 SILENT KEYS @ WIA YEAR COMMENCING MAY 2022 SK CALL SK NAME DATE ADVISED BY VK4ZHL Errol Hopper June 2022 (vk4vp) VK4MBH Keith Allison 03/06/2022 (vk4vp) VK4AVF Des Flor 13/06/2022 (vk4hit) VK4DV Merv Deakin 18/06 (vk4cnq - vk4zz) VK4SO Les Parker 21/06 (vk4atc) VK4AJL George Glendinning 22/06 (vk4zz) VK4NW Warwick Marshallsea 14/07 (vk4vp) VK4ET/5WC Tony Van Lysdonk 16/07 (vk4vp) VK4SF Jack Ford 18/07 vk4hit) VK4AVS Jim Storch 22/07 (vk4zz) VK4AGS Geoff Strom 23/08 (vk4zz) VK4HGT George Turner 02/09 (vk4gcr) VK4DK Stanley 'Dave' West 08/09 (vk4zz) VK4HAJ Merrell Coleman Sept or Oct? (vk4acc) VK4YT Nick Watling 22/10 (vk4zz) VK4HS Howard Stephenson 06/01/23 (vk4acc) VK4IX Ian Creighton 03/02/23 (vk4vp) --------------------------------------------------------------------* --------------------------------------------------------------------* Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. One of the things that we forget at times is how our minds develop and mature through out our life spans. I don’t mean to be insulting to any of our young listeners but there is the humorous expression that pops up from time to time, “employ a teenager whilst they still know everything.” This has its humour in the idea that in youth we assert things that are beyond our learning and experience and claim them to be true. If I remember any developmental psychology, there are good reasons why our mind struggle with the developing logic of adulthood and try and find reason as our young minds expand. Now that I am on the other end of this continuum, I am having to accept that certain things that I have experienced do have an influence on my thinking and attitudes. I don’t know whether a few bouts of major surgery or the anaesthesia that made it possible are the reason but trying to get the brain to do things it used to is more than a struggle at times. No doubt the ageing of the brain is of itself a reason that certain parts of my thinking have changed and if the books are correct, then this is just part of the ageing processes. Why raise this in the club section of the news you may well ask. It is because, as I have commented in times past, there can be an intolerance of behaviours particularly aimed at on air practices. I see the same criticisms on line and they aren’t restricted to just one call area but seem to emanate from many areas where English is the common language. It seems that there is a thin skinned lot who must surf the bands, especially the lower HF ones, to identify the rag chewers who share the state of infirmity with those in the QSO and those who dain to sit and listen. These masochists seem to delight in analysing the mental prowess of the person behind the microphone and then subject all they contact with complaints as to how insufferable that person’s discussion is. It has been a long standing practice of at least 5 or six decades to have a rotary control on most receivers that allows the frequency on which you can listen to be changed. Nobody is invited to private contacts, although we can all listen, and I suppose technically the content is not to be divulged if we check the regulations. It seems pointless, other than to distress others, to have these rants when so simply people could just rotate the dial and listen elsewhere or, heaven forbid, put out a call in what ever mode they feel comfortable using. It is such an easy adjustment to the personal attitude and would certainly go a long way to minimising the angst that some operators develop. Many thanks to those clubs that are contributing to their local broadcast news services and to this one, QNews, in particular. I’m Geoff Emery VK4ZPP and that’s what I think....how about you? --------------------------------------------------------------------* 2023 Social Scene Clubs are welcome to submit text with audio for this section VK4 - REDCLIFFE - REDFEST APRIL ONE (vk4tfn) St. Michael's College, Caboolture. VK - WIA AGM May 13 at 10:30am AEST proposed for Canberra (vk8zz) A hybrid event conducted both in person and by video conference and able to be viewed on an internet streaming platform. VK4 - SUNFEST - SEPTEMBER 9 (vk4an) At Mountain Creek State School’s massive air conditioned auditorium, just off the Sunshine Motor Way. 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