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from AR Magazine 1988 April page 57 - QRM from VK7 This is the first opportunity to bring news of the changes in Branch Officials which has been brought about by the various Annual General Meetings NORTH WESTERN BRANCH President � Greg VK7ZBT Vice-Presidents � John VK7ZPT and Noel VK7EG Secretary�Tony VK7AH Treasurer � Bruce VK7MB Repeater and Beacons Coordinator � Andrew VK7ZAP Assistant Repeater and Beacons Co-ordinator � Andrew VK7ZHA QSL Organiser � Steve VK7EQ Stores � Rob VK7KAB Publications � Terry VK7BV WICEN Director � John Duncombe VK7ZPT News Scribe � John VK7KDR Branch Publicity Officer � Ron VK7RN Volunteers from the NW Branch are looking forward to a great day helping with the exercise at Wynyard this month. The ANZAC weekend always seems to be a times for enjoyable activities and this year should be no exception. In the south, the new officers are: President � Stuart VK7NXA Vice-President � Russ VK7ZRP Secretary � RaiVK7VV Assistant-Secretary � Mike VK7MC Treasurer � David VK7NDO Assistant-Treasurer � Peter VK7GT Equipment Officer � Mike VK7MC Southern Broadcast Co-ordinator � Mike VK7ZMH WICEN Coordinator � Alan VK7CI Repeater Coordinator � Antony VK7ZTA Membership Officer � Vic VK7VK QSL Officer � Peter VK7GT Publicity Officer � Lew VK7U Honorary Auditor � Brian VK7BS Activity Centre � Russ VK7ZRP State Council Delegates � Peter VK7ZPK and MikeVK7ZWW There Is an important change of address: The Southern Branch, PO Box 123, Sandy Bay, which replaces the 105 Newtown Road, Hobart address for all official correspondence. The WICEN (South) group has established a close working relationship with the State Emergency Services, and so has formalised their call-out procedure to enable quicker deployment of their resources in the event of an emergency. There are four sections � Base, Satellites, VHF Mobiles and VHF Special Services. Details of how contacts are made "down the line" have been circulated to registered members, but are also available to others who may be interested in becoming part of the network. Contact Alan VK7CI, QTHR. WIA meetings for the month will be held as follows: Northern Branch � at the Maritime College, Launceston on April 8 at 7.30 pm. North Western Branch � at Penguin High School on April 12 at 8 pm. Southern Branch � at the Activity Centre, 105 Newtown Road, Hobart on April 6 at 8.15 pm. For VK7s who travel to the mainland for their holidays for the winter, a reminder that the VK7WI Sunday Morning Broadcast relay on 20 metres will be recommencing soon. Please watch for detailed announcements during the month. For the first time in many-a-year there is a newscoordinator for the VK7WI broadcast in the north (Bill VK7AV, who is happy to make tapes of his contribution), in the north-west (John VK7KDR, temporarily anyway!), and in the south (Mike VK7ZMH, who has acquired a rig for HF so that he can collect news on the Saturday morning net). Now, there should be very close to a commercial/ professional level of news-gathering In VK7 from now on. WOrk is progressing at the Hobart Activity Centre on a vintage AM transmitter, originally a commercial station, 7CA, and, if Barry VK7RS has anything to do with it, it should be heard on the air by the time the 1988 TARC comes around. Rumour has it that it will be used to skyrocket the interest in top band! As this column was being prepared, both the north and south of the island were making a common approach to improving their two metre repeaters. Both branches were in the process of acquiring new control units and, by the time this is published, all should be reaping the benefit. There is no doubt about it � the VHF repeater groups may not be large in number but they are great in their efforts) Two small appeals to end this month's QRM � the first is for actual, real, practical support for the much-talked-about idea of having two or three minute tapes from members for insertion in the weekly broadcast, much the same as the Federal Tape. The subject can be of your own choice, preferably directly concerned with amateur radio topics � but remember that the editor would retain the right to edltl The second appeal is for members to come forward with an offer of a short talk, again on some point of interest to operators, to be given at branch meetings throughout the year. Last year this did happen a few times, always with good results. This year could we make it a regular feature of monthly meetings? 73, John VK7JK AR