Silent Key - Joe Sebastiani VK4SWR A big shock to the Amateur Radio Community and most Radio Nets, long time member of The Townsville Amateur Radio Club Inc, Joe Sebastiani VK4SWR went Silent Key after a horrific domestic accident. Joe had slipped on wet tiles at his home at Burdell North Queensland a couple of weeks previously and rushed to Townsv…

Roger, VK4FANG passed away in the Townsville University Hospital on Monday evening 22/07 after suffering a long and painful fight against multiple terminal diseases. Roger is survived by his Wife, Suzette and three sons, Stephen, Daniel and Lee, Lee was at his father's side at the time of his passing. VK4FANG eventually found himself entrenched in …

Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. One of the challenges of our activity is to work out what is an improvement. If you are engaged in many sports, the aim is to improve the score whether it is getting a higher number of points, a lower handicap or reeling in a bigger fish on a lighter line. We tinkerers in the electronics field…

Robert Thomson VK4TFN here. The Redcliffe Club will hold our Annual CarBoot Sale on Saturday 24th August 2024 at our clubhouse in MacFarlane Park at Kippa Ring in the City of Redcliffe. The raffle prize is an electronic weather station. There will be lucky door prizes as well. So, vendors are in at seven, breakfast is at eight, gates open at nine a…

Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. There is the old saying that a change is as good as a holiday. One thing we can all say is that we have lived through many changes and some are more momentous than others, of course. Take, for example, the transition from analogue TV to digital. It created a bit of a ripple for people getting …

The Pinnacles Classic was held on June 16th with Greg VK4GJW and Mark VK4SMA on the base. About 86 runners started the event. From a communications standpoint everything went well. The Guzzler Ultra Marathon is on July 20 and 21. Mark VK4SMA said he now has enough operators to run the event. If you have time to help put your name on the reserve lis…

Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. Welcome to the end, no not the Universe but the end of the financial year when wage earners and small businesses collect those important documents that support the claims that will bolster the hoped for tax return. There is an area which we should all spend some time on when we think about bui…

Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. One of the basics of marketing is getting to know your customer base and being able to promote a not-for-profit activity surely falls into that category. Whether we look at our local club level or at a hierarchy which includes state and federal structures, it is being able to relate to our mem…

WAR on TOWNSVILLE: 29th. July 1942. In the early morning hours of the 29th. July 1942 a Japanese aircraft dropped eight x 250 lbs. bombs, supposedly on Townsville Q. Seven of the bombs fell in Cleveland Bay and the eighth bomb fell on Oonoomba, a suburb of Townsville. Thankfully the damage caused was a crater and the destruction of one palm tree. I…

VK4 - Caboolture Radio Club Hamfest Saturday 13th July. The venue, a new one, the Caboolture Uniting Church Hall, 257 King street. That's the corner of King and Smiths Road. Breakfast will be served from 8 am, with the Hamfest opening at 9 am. Admission is $5. For further information see the Club's Facebook page facebook.com/vk4qd (Alan VK4TG Secre…