Andrew Dixon promoting amateur radio course
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Arts and crafts at home
THE Queen Victoria Home in Milford St, Lii
farne, will hold an art and craft exhibition
NEWS weekend, starting from Friday at 10.30am.
[] Eastern Shore re- works will be for sale and are by both establi
and emerging artists. All commissions earnel
sident and former towards extras for frail and aged residents.
secretary of lobby Sunday, starting at 10.30am at the home, will
group Bicycle Tas- fair with entertainment for all the family, T
mania, Stephen Jay, will be camel rides, wandering minstre{a, 1
has welcomed Clar- rides, trash and treasure stalls, plants, vegety
ence City Council's and more. The giant auction starts at 12.30pn
A 5%
initiative to develop a feertesily
Wilderness rally against chi
bicycle plan. THE Wilderness Society will hold a rally and my
Page 3 about “How we can save our forests from wood
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A pilot 12-month ping” on Saturday. The rally will be held at noo
program is planned the Parliament House lawns in Hobart. All
welcome.
by Clarence City
Council for kerbside St Patrick’s Day festivities
collection of recycl- THERE will be a St Patrick’s Ceili and spit ¢
ables. this Saturday at the City Gate convention centy
Page 7 Mornington at 7pm. The entertainment will ing
Irish dancing displays with Australinn cham
[JNew Kids on the Conor Hayes and live music with Ralish '
Block: The latest arri- Entry to the Ceili (pronounced Kayloe) conts ‘r.l
vals at Queen Alex- a sit-down meal and the chance to get up and
andra Hospital. Inquiries: 65 2598.
Page 10 Preparing for birth — natura
[] Just Married A PANEL of midwives will take classens on nal
wedding pictures in birth preparation, starting on Monday, at 0.1(
colour. The panel will lead expectant couplos thi
exercises, meditation and discussion on us
Page 11 birth preparation. The approach will he tow
making birth as natural as possible in a hospit
DIARY home birth context. There will be plonty ofro
Andrew Dixon, president of the Southern Branch of the Wireless Institute of Australia, Tasmania discussion of choices and individual Inte:
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Division, which will begin a 15-week course in amateur radio on March 21. classes will be two hours long, last for 10
sive Community Ex- cost $100 or $80 concession. lnclulrlm h
press diary. Information Service, 143 Davey St, Hobart, or
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FOCUS Wide-ranging hobby Addresses on monarchy
THERE will be two addresses orga
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Creek Show. be held on Monday, at 7pm. Under the i
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“Our National Inheritance”, will be b
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Valley Hop Festival. be “The Golden Threads of Britiuh Ju
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Wide-ranging hobby Addresses on monarchy
FOCUS THERE will be two addresses organised by the
[]Focus on Bream Australian Council for Constitutional Monarchy to
Creek Show. be held on Monday, at 7pm. Under the title “The
Page 8 British Heritage of Australia”, the first address
“Our National Inheritance”, will be by Reg Watson
[] Focus on Derwent that could save lives of the Anglo-Saxon Keltic Society. The second will
Valley Hop Festival. be “The Golden Threads of British Justice”, by Dr
Page 13 By MONIKA ANDERSCH in Yugoslavia. “I was just tuning around when David Mitchell. The addresses will be at the Victoria
“We have a lot of shortwave I picked it up and I contacted the League Building, 197 Macquarie St, Hobart. In-
AN amateur radio operator could quiries: 29 1239.
save your life. listeners,” Mr Dixon said. police and then had to get in
SPORT Operators aren’t merely people “Some people just build stuff touch with maritime,” he said.
Flower show at Lindisfarne
who tinker around with com- and only speak two or three words “And during the 1967 bush-
[]A sport for young munication devices, chatting to on air in their life. THE ABC’s Judy Tierney will officially open the
fires, communication collapsed Lindisfarne Garden Club’s “Gardening is Great
and old, orienteering one another, they are sometimes “Some people design antennas and the radio people set up a
has started its new involved in civil emergencies and or try and build radios that use as Flower Show”, to be held at the Uniting Church
network. Hall, Lindisfarne, on Saturday. The show will run
season, and with it a have often been the first point of little power as possible, while
contact in moments of distress. others have ambitions to get QSL “The first message out of Dar- from 1.45 pm to 4.45pm, with the official opening at
Come And Try It pro- 2.30pm. Admission is $1 adults and afternoon tea
cards, which are cards that prove win during Cyclone Tracy was by
gram supported by President of the Southern an amateur radio operator,” he will be available for $2.
Branch of the Wireless Institute.
you’ve made contact with some-
the Hobart City one,” he said. said.
Council. of Australia, Tasmania Division,
Andrew Dixon, said a lot of people In fact, Mr Dixon and another The Wireless Institute will be Classes at Rosny centre
Page 20 thought amateur radio enthu- member of the institute, John commencing a 15-week course in ROSNY neighbourhood classes will be held at the
siasts were just interested in Rogers, pointed out that amateur amateur radio on March 21, Rosny Seventh-day Adventist Community Centre,
radios, but it was really much radio was such a wide-ranging which will enable participants to Riawena Rd, Rosny. Enrolments are now bemg
INDEX more than that. hobby that people couldn’t hope to achieve up to the level of an taken for classes in silhouette cards, Easter buns
know every facet of it. intermediate exam. Mr Dixon and bread rolls, lampshade making, vegetarian
Classifieds 14-19 “A lot of people don’t know “For example, people don’t said the course would be a good cooking and paper tole. Inquiries: 48 1083.
Diary 6 quite what it is,” Mr Dixon said. know that the first non-govern- way to find out what’s involved
Focus “It’s basically a hobby based ment communication satellite with the hobby.
around electronics and radio com- was put up by amateur radio
The course is open for anyone,
Choir seeking members
_munications,” he said. people,” Mr Dixon said. ST ANDREW’S Caledonian Choir would like to hear
Crosswords And people participate in club costs $45 for 15 two-hour sessions
He was also involved with an and will be held on Tuesdays at from any tenor or bass singers interestedinJjoining
Reunions activities for many different SOS once, being the first person this mature age choir which has been running for
7.30pm.
reasons, even to the point of to pick up the distress signals more than 30 years. The choir sings at a variety of
keeping abreast of happenings from a ship that was going down For further information call venues, including homes for the aged. Inquiries:
during the Gulf War and events off the coast of Victoria. 48 6824 after hours.
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