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VK7 Amateur Radio News 19Nov23
Text edition:
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VK7 AMATEUR RADIO NEWS BROADCAST
FOR SUNDAY 19th November 2023
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Welcome to the VK7 Amateur Radio News and this was first broadcast on Sunday the 19th November 2023. At the mike of VK7WI this week is Mike, VK7FB.
On Sunday this broadcast goes out on repeaters all over VK7 and on digital radio - DMR Talk Group 5 and D-Star Reflector 91C by VK3PG.
We go out on medium and high frequency courtesy of the following rebroadcast stations:
On 1.862 MHz by Graham, VK7GS,
On 3.670 MHz by Dale, VK7DG,
On 7.140 MHz by Peter, VK7TPE,
On 14.130 MHz by Ross, VK7ALH,
On 28.525 MHz by Bob, VK7BS and we welcome Bob to the VK7 ARNews rebroadcast team - he is filling in for Garry VK7JGD.
We also go out on UHF CB Channel 24 thanks to Mark VK7FMAC in the Hobart area.
You can hear this broadcast again on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RAA in Northern VK7 and VK7RHT in Southern VK7.
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Contest news
Spring VHF/UHF Field day.
One week to go to the Spring VHF and Above Field Day which is happening this year on the weekend of 25th November from 01:00 UTC to 26th November 00:59 UTC, with the usual 3 hour offset for our Western Australian friends.
This event is a great opportunity to dust off that VHF/UHF and microwave gear and get out into the great outdoors and make some contacts.
All bands are used from 6M and upwards as far as you dare. There are many categories in this event, single band, 4 band, 8hr section, 24 hour section and there is even a section for base station operation, something for everyone. Why not head out and find a nice spot,set up a portable station and you may be surprised at the results.
Usual frequencies 52.525, 146.500, 439.000, 1296.150, 2403.150, 3398.150 and 10,369.150 all on FM with SSB as an option if conditions suit.
There will be a few people out and about in various parts of Tasmania and you just never know who you may make contact with.
VKCL or your favourite log program will help keep things in order and make the process of submitting logs rather painless.
Good luck and hope to hear you on the bands.
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/vhfuhf/
73, Richard, VK7ZBX
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Statewide News
Thursday Night SSTV Nets
A busy and late net night that saw the following participants, VK7s – GS, FGGT, DMH, ZGK, EV, PD and KT all sharing over thirty photos.
The various subjects were:
Vintage traction engines at Steam Fest at Deloraine
A Tasrail train decorated with Christmas lights, “Symmetry” in the London tubes and railway tunnel.
Open top motor racing of the 1920 and 30s, a prime mover and ghostly Helicopter
Riverboats – modern and old including paddle steamers
A pair of Potoroos
A section of the Berlin wall at the London War Musem
Mt Roland covered in snow and the scenic Launceston City Park including a “Manneken Pis” statue
A map with Australia at the top of the world
Remember Ken VK7KRJs and Steve VK7OOs fully automatic 24/7 monitoring sites that allows anyone who has sent an SSTV picture the ability to check them on their pages almost immediately, any time, both South and North Tasmania.
Also if you missed the net there are archives of all SSTV nights. These photos can be seen on Kens 2m SSTV website as an infinitely-scrolling web page or on NTARCs website under blogs and arranged as weekly nets.
https://vk7oo.tasme.com/vhfsstv
https://sstv.vk7krj.com/scrolling%20web%20gallery.html
https://www.ntarc.net/blogs
73 from Andre VK7ZAB
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QSL NEWS
Report - from Herman VK7HW Manager of the WIA VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
The current list of cards held as at 10 November is in the email version of the broadcast. I have just received another package of QSL Cards and they will be listed in next weeks email version of the broadcast.
If I am holding card(s) for you and you would like them mailed to you rather then being delivered on an opportunity basis please send me some stamps. Thanks to those who have sent stamps. While SAE's are OK, I prefer stamps as I can then provide an appropriate envelope to suit the number of cards.
Herman has a copy of the Log File for VK7WIA (716 QSO's) and will be getting cards ready to distribute in the next several weeks or so. At a $1.20 per card for direct mail it will be expensive so will likely send VK cards to the various States Inwards QSL Bureau. If you want your card direct please send me a stamp. As usual happy to send VK7 cards to the regular distribution teams or distribute them on an opportunity basis. Herman asks to please let him know by email, if you want a QSL Card or not.
If you have any questions re QSL cards, please contact Herman by email vk7bureau(at)wia.org.au
Thank you to those Amateurs who have been in contact with Herman about their QSL card(s) listing.
73, Herman, VK7HW, WIA Manager VK7 Inwards QSL Bureau
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Cards held at 10 November 2023 ( Any errors in the listing are mine, I sometimes miss culling a call sign)
A, AAA, AAD, AAE, AAH, AAP, AAR, AB, AC, ACE, ACG, ACN, AD, ADE, AED, AG(2014), AGC, AHT, AIR, AJC, AKK, ALZ, AM, AN, ANC, AO, AP, APZ, AR, AS, ATH, AXZ, AY, AZ
BA, BB, BBB, BO, BPV, BT, BYE
C/GH, CA, CBK, CBR, CC, CEJ, CJ, CL, CMV, CV, CW, CX
DC, DD, DG, DIK, DM, DN, DO, DP, DQ, DW, DY, DZ
EA, EE, EG, EI, EK, ER, EV
FADZ, FALX (alx), FAZZ, FCDW, FCIA, FF, FG, FGGT, FLAR, FLI, FPRN, FRJG(RG), FTAS
GA, GC, GEL, GGZ, GH/C, GM, GN, GOP, GR, GS, GW, GZ
HBR, HCH, HCK, HDM, HDX, HH, HOB, HL, HPD, HRS, HSA, HSD, HSJ, HVK, HZ
IAN, ID, IK, IS
JA, JAZ, JB, JCR, JGD, JJ, JOK, JP, JW
KA, KAC, KBA, KD, KDO, KI, KJ, KJL, KKR, KL, KO, KRJ, KT
LCW, LDH, LH, LL, LLL, LM, LT, LVH, LW
MA, MAG, MBD, MC, MD, MEL, MET, MHZ, MJ, MOO, MR, MRS, MS, MX
NA, NC, ND, NEC, NET, NFI, NIK, NRF, NRT, NSE, NSS, NTE, NVH, NW, NWQ, NWT
OB, OR, OT
PAF, PAL, PBD, PD, PM, PRN, PSH, PSJ, PSZ, PW
QK, QP
RG/FRJG, RJ, ROY
SM, SN, STO, SV, SW, SZ
TCE, TED, TK, TO, TS, TUX, TW, TX, TZ
UJ
VA, VAC, VAO,VAZ, VDC, VEK, VH, VR, VTM
WA, WC, WH, WL, WN(0), WO, WT, WUU, WX
XDM, XTC, XV, XX
YN, YUM
ZA, ZBX, ZE, ZGK, ZJJ, ZK, ZM, ZMS, ZT, ZTA, ZX
VI70MI [2018], VI70HI(op DIANE[2018]), VI75G [2023], VK75FAA
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NEWS FROM THE NORTH WEST
NW Tassie Amateur Repeater Group Net 3rd year anniversary
Last Wednesday night was the 3rd anniversary of the Net held on Wednesday nights, on the VK7RMD repeater at Penguin.
The Net was initially started to help Amateurs to interact with others during the COVID period.
Mt Duncan was chosen, as it has a large radio footprint from far NW Tassie, back into the hills south of Mt Duncan, and able to be accessed in the Launceston area. and from many locations using a Handheld.
The Net has 5 to 10 regulars from a wide area, VK7MAD Andy at Montagu, VK7BV Terry on a handheld south of Ulverstone, amateurs from Launy including VK7PAK, VK7PD, VK7NSS, and a persistent VK7RC Ross, whose uses the Net nights to fine tune beams he has made, to enable him better access to the repeater from his Launy QTH.
Other regulars are VK7HSC, VK7BYL, VK7WP and VK7KT and others.
We also have a few listeners, amateurs who no longer transmit, or some who dont have amateur licences, who enjoy the evenings banter. And may report in via social media or text.
When the propagation is running we enjoy having VK3s join in, with Brodie VK3MAP a regular.
We run a round robin net, giving everyone a chance to have a say, comment, ask questions whether radio related or on any other topic.
A big thank you to those who support the net and each other, and we will continue to run the net every Wednesday night, while people join in. and thanks to Shirley VK7HSC who has stepped in as net controller when Im unavailable
Eric VK7EV Net Controller
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NEWS FROM THE NORTH
SOTA/WWFF PARKS GROUP
The Summits On The Air/World Wide Flora and Fauna parks group meets twice weekly – Mondays and Fridays 10.30AM till 12.00 at the Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry Street, Launceston.
For more information contact Al on 0417 354 410.
73, Al, VK7AN
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Northern Tasmanian Amateur Radio Club Incorporated
www.ntarc.net
The last technical night update will be carried over to next weeks broadcast due to club commitments at this years Equine Endurance Ride 24 hour State Championships held at Sassafras. This is the major Equine Endurance Ride event for the year commencing at Friday midnight for 24 hours. When this broadcast goes to air on Sunday, hopefully we will be packing up after another successful weekend of providing emergency radio communications and ride tracking. More to follow next week.
For those of us that may not be aware the Ben Lomond repeater VK7RBH is temporarily off air. Unfortunately we cant blame Optus, hihi. This one is our problem and I will hand over to Tony VK7YBG for an update on his Ben Lomond Trip:
“As most of you are aware we had interference on VK7RBH that was ongoing and was threatening to cause battery issues, so a small team went to the site to rectify the issue.
We had a good day and all went to plan, the coaxes on the tower were secured with stainless clamps, sheath damage on the coax repaired with self-amalgamating tape, all other site checks and clean-up went ok, VK7RBH removed from site for 7MHz split and upgrades. Some heavy roof damage was evident from falling flag ice and will need some attention in the near future
I was lucky to have a good crew yesterday and the timing of the thunderstorm and our travels went smoothly resulting in a bonus coffee break at the shop at the village.
Thanks go to Wayne and Kathy Tyrill, Stuart Kincade and Colin Fuller for their attendance and hard work.
There is work on VK7REC Snow Hill to be sorted, but it is currently operational. The next trip will be to Mt. Arthur for a big site clean-up and rubbish removal, finish the rigging on the small tower so we can mount antennas on it, and a general site check.”
Thank you Tony for the repeater update and as always “Normal services will be restored as soon as possible”.
NTARC QSL Cards - Andrew VK7DW, our QSL manager has advised me that the following QSL cards are available for collection. VK7s AT, BO, AU, GC, DON, JFD, KPA, KW, RC and ZR. If you just heard your call-sign then there are cards waiting at the NTARC club rooms for collection on the next Coffee morning or Technical Night. Thank you Herman for your continued support regarding QSL deliveries and thank you Andrew for the update.
NTARC Auction Hosting – Ok this will be the last time we mention the Auction, this time next broadcast it will be all over bar the shouting. Thats correct, the “Shack Clear-out” auction is next Saturday at the NTARC Club rooms Archer Street, Rocherlea. As at last count we were rapidly approaching 160 Lots!
This Auction is open to ALL enthusiasts, Short Wave Listeners and Radio Amateurs worldwide – you do not have to be a member of the Club to Buy or Sell. Please sort your gear out that you wish to dispose of, and bring it along. Acceptance of items closes the morning of the Auction up to 10:30am.
If you would like your items included on the NTARC Web sites auction catalogue, please send us a brief description of each item or “Lot” to the: secretary(at)ntarc.net .
Nic VK7WW, will be doing the honours as master of ceremonies and auctioneer for the day, this is assuming Sean Connery is unable to make it! hihi All eager participants will be congregating abou10:00 am ready for the auctioneers first Hammer strike to occur at 10:30. To view current items please go to the NTARC website and select the “Notices” option to view the two catalogues of items.
Any NTARC club members with some spare time and wish to assist at the auction, please contact the secretary. Any assistance would be appreciated. See you all next Saturday!
End of Year Club Celebration – is locked in, it will be on Wednesday the 6th of December. To be held at the Iron Horse Bar and Grill located at 468 Westbury Rd, Prospect Vale, Launceston. We will be in a quiet function room at the rear of the dining area. Tables have been booked under the name of NTARC and the Menu is a-la-carte. We will be arriving at 6pm for a 6:30 meal.
Please RSVP to the secretary at secretary@ntarc.net or jot your name and number of places required on the registration sheet next to the sign in register on a Wednesday night session or Friday coffee morning. We will need to confirm final numbers with the Iron Horse by December,
A link to the Iron Horse location and menu information is available in the text version of this broadcast.
Iron Horse Bar & Grill
Just for information, the main access to the restaurant is via a wheel chair and climbing friendly gentle ramp.
Now back to the house keeping.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The TestNet and TechNet session – Every Wednesday, TestNet/CW course on 3.580MHz from 7pm till 7.30pm…. and a TechNet on 3.567MHz from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm. Your host for the evening will be Nic VK7WW.
Coffee Morning - held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Time is from 10am to noon and we look forward to seeing you all there. So why not pop in and join us for a cuppa, there is endless tea and coffee along with biscuits available for a donation.
The Club Technical night - The next session will be on Wednesday the 29th of November and will commence at 6.30 pm through to about 10.00 pm, at the Club room Archer Street, Rocherlea.
FINALLY - A reminder to all members that if you have any items of news you would like added to our weekly roundup, no matter how trivial, then please email them to the Secretary at the following address news(at)ntarc.net all items to be received no later than 5pm on the Friday prior to the Broadcast.
Thats all folks,
73 from Stefan, VK7ZSB, Secretary NTARC Inc.
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NEWS FROM THE SOUTH
WICEN Tas (South) Inc.
Notice of Special General Meeting
Sunday 26 November 2023 at 14:00 in the REAST Domain Clubrooms or via Zoom for those who have pre-notified.
The object of the SGM is to allow the committee to present its report to the WICEN membership, on the proposed merger / amalgamation discussion with the committee of REAST.
To proceed 75% of the WICEN membership present must support a proposed motion to proceed with a merger.
To be eligible to vote WICEN members must be financially paid up, present at the meeting (proxy voting will not be accepted) and members joining via Zoom or Teams, will be counted as present provided, they are financially paid up and prior notice of their intention to do so is received by the Secretary no later than 14:00 hours of Sunday 26 November 2023.
There will be no other business discussed at the meeting.
For further information and to provide notice of intention to attend the meeting by Zoom or Teams please forward all communication to the Secretary at:
dmgoodrick_nbn@iinet.net.au
David Goodrick VK7DMG
Secretary
WICEN Tas (South) Inc.
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Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania
https://www.reast.asn.au/
https://www.facebook.com/reasttas/
https://www.youtube.com/reasthobart/
December End of Year Activities
REAST will be celebrating the end of a very successful 2023 with a free BBQ, car boot sale and fox hunts on the Queens Domain.
This will be taking place on Sunday December 3rd from 11am at the Queens Domain clubrooms.
Bring along any car boots that you would like to sell and as a bonus for attendees you might possibly put some some radio equipment within the boots and sell that as well….HIHI!
We are looking to run some fox hunts around the top of the Queens Domain and will have some prizes for those lucky enough to find those pesky little foxes.
If you are intending to come along please let our Secretary know so we can have some idea of the number of snags, patties and special food requirements that we will need to cater for - just drop and email to: secretary@reast.asn.au.
The fee for carboot sellers is the enormous amount of $5 into the donations box or tap at the square.
See you there.
73 REAST Committee
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DATV Experimenter's Night
https://www.youtube.com/live/6AxCuaBZhro
We started the night with Andrew VK7HPC who has recently had an AMPRNet Adventure. Andrew uses Aussie Broadband and they have provision BGP routing and he showed the BGP records that Aussie Broadband broadcast in the 44 address space. Andrew showed the AMPRNet portal and went through the registration process and the simple modem configuration. He then described what he will use the allocation for - SDR, ADSB, AIS, FT8, webSDR and maybe packet radio. Justin talked about the other amateurs in VK7 that have AMPRNet allocations - VK7HDM and VK7HSE.
Justin then showed some hysteric sorry historic Baycom-like Modem that he built late 1980s - early 1990s - 300/1200 baud using the world modem chip.
We took a look at the Hitchhikers Guide to Packet Radio in VK5 circa 1993 and the ARRL Packet Radio book and finished with the NOSIntro Book by Phil Karn KA9Q and gave some history.
We then took another look at the RadioBerry SDR with improvements and PiHPSDR interface.
Justin then showed his recently created Mini-Variac 0-240VAC at 0.6A with voltmeter and circuit and we finished with future events.
This week's show we will be focusing on all those magazines we have been postposing and some other interesting SDR items. See you there or on the stream.
We stream the nights on the REAST YouTube channel.
https://www.reast.asn.au/news-events/live-stream/
https://www.reast.asn.au/special-interest-groups/amateur-tv/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ReastHobart/
We also go out on RF - DVB-T 7MHz Standard Definition on 445.5MHz. So, if you have a TV, Set-top box or USB DTV Dongle that you can tune and scan 445.5MHz and you can see the Queens Domain, then you have a good chance of receiving the DATV Experimenter's Night Signal. Look out for VK7OTC.
73, Justin, VK7TW
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Training and Assessments
The next REAST Assessment day is next Saturday November 25th from 10:00am.
If you are thinking of coming along then please let Reg Emmett VK7KK REAST Learning Organiser know ASAP by phoning 0417 391 607 or via the REAST Website Contact Form.
https://www.reast.asn.au/contact/online-contact-form/
Check out the REAST Foundation Licence Training Videos that can be found on the REAST YouTube Training and Assessment playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsnsP_zjw831mdC6sY4XqavRUY-53ZWUn
And checkout the REAST Facebook page events for further details.
https://fb.me/e/1565NKnuu
73, Reg, VK7KK
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Digital News
D-STAR QSO Party 2023 Announced
This is an invitation to D-Star user to join the QSO party over 27th December 2023 0:00 UTC to 5th January 2024 23:59 UTC.
This is a JARL authorised event.
There are activities and prizes available. See the website on the email edition of this broadcast for more details.
https://www.icomjapan.com/event/dqp2023/
73, Scott, VK7HSE
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Technology News
Brightest flash ever disturbed Earth's atmosphere last year
Quickly nicknamed the "BOAT"for Brightest Of All Timethe flash lasted just seven minutes but its afterglow was visible to amateur astronomers for seven hours.
The flash activated lightning detectors in India and triggered instruments that normally study explosions on the sun called solar flares.
It also affected long wave radio communications in the lower ionosphere, a section of Earth's upper atmosphere around 60 to 350 kilometers (37 to 217 miles) above the surface.
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-brightest-disturbed-earth-atmosphere-year.html
Sourced from the Phys.org website and thanks to Ian VK7IG and Stefan VK7ZAB
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Regular VK7 gatherings and events over the coming months:
Regular gatherings:
Sewing Circle Net – Daily on 3.640MHz commences at 5:00pm AEST.
Statewide SSTV Net - held every Thursday night via the North/South Link on VK7RAF/VK7RJG from 7:30pm. In the North and North West - VK7RJG on 438.55 -7MHz and in the South - VK7RAF (146.650 -600kHz) CTCSS tone 141.3Hz to link RAF North-South.
State-wide – MICROWAVE QSO Party – following the Sunday broadcast call-back on 1296.15 MHz FM. One group in the greater Hobart area and another in the greater Launceston area.
Then North-south digital contacts on 1296.2MHz using Q65-60B.
Stations in the Launceston area transmitting on the odd minute. Southern stations on the even minute.
SOTA/WWFF Group – Meeting Mondays and Fridays 10.30-12.00 midday at Glebe Gardens Cafe, Henry St, Launceston.
NTARC - TestNet and TechNet session – Every Wednesday. TestNet/CW course on 3.580MHz from 7pm till 7.30pm…. and a TechNet on 3.567MHz from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm. Your host for the evening will be Nic VK7WW.
NTARC Coffee Morning - held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Time is from 10am to noon and we look forward to seeing you all there. So why not pop in and join us for a cuppa, there is endless tea and coffee along with biscuits available for a donation.
NTARC - Club Technical night - The next session will be on Wednesday the 29th of November and will commence at 6.30 pm through to about 10.00 pm, at the Club room Archer Street, Rocherlea.
NW VK7 – Wednesday from 8:00pm local – NW Tassie Amateur Repeater Group Net on VK7RMD
NW VK7 - Thursday commencing at 8:30pm local - N.W. Tassie 2m DX Net 144.190 USB
NW SSTV Nights - 27 November - hosted by Eric VK7EV from 7:30pm using VK7RMD 70cm repeater on Mt Duncan on the 4th Monday in the Month.
Events:
NTARC - November 25 - NTARC Shack Clear-out Auction Hosting
WICEN TAS (Sth) - November 26 - Special General Meeting at Queens Domain from 2pm (Zoom & In-Person)
VK - November 25/26 - VHF and Above Spring Field Day Contest
WICEN - November 26 - Special General Meeting for WICEN Members from 2pm - Queens Domain Clubrooms
REAST - December 3 - EOY BBQ, Car Boot Sale and Fox Hunt - Queens Domain Clubooms from 11am after broadcast.
NTARC - December 6 - End Of Year Celebration - details to be announced.
NTARC - December 13 - Club General meeting will be held in the Rocherlea club rooms from 7:30pm.
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A reminder to those people rostered for next weeks broadcast:
Newsreader: VK7ZIR
Repeaters: REAST, NTARC and in the NW thanks to N W T A R C, West Coast Radio Group, Cradle Coast Radio Amateur Radio Club, VK7AX, VK7JH and VK7DC
160m: VK7GS
80m: VK7TPE
40m: VK7ALH
20m: VK7JGD
10m: VK7DG
UHFCB24: VK7FMAC
DMR: Talk Group 5 and D-Star: Reflector 91C VK7ZCR
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You can hear this broadcast again on Tuesday night at 8:00pm on repeaters VK7RAA in Northern VK7 and VK7RHT in the South.
A huge thank you to all people and organisations that assisted with this broadcast.
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That concludes our VK7 Amateur Radio News Broadcast for this week.
You have been listening to or have just missed VK7WI. Next week the National WIA news can be heard at 0900 followed by the VK7 Amateur Radio News around 0930 hours.
Items for the broadcast can be emailed to vk7arnews(at)gmail.com
Further information about the broadcast can be found at the VK7 Amateur Radio News Groups.IO Group.
https://groups.io/g/vk7arnews
The deadline for items is 21:00 on Friday prior to the Sunday of the broadcast.
Callbacks will be taken on the frequency to which you are listening. Relay stations will use their own callsigns during the callback.
On behalf of the VK7 Amateur Radio News Team, 73, stay safe from Mike, VK7FB.
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(Posted to the packet network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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