Broadcast - 10 July 2022
Over the past few weeks there have been many expressions of interest in the up and coming club rooms working bee. There will be inside and outside jobs (weather permitting), including a big garage clean out, HF Antenna replacement and miscellaneous inside jobs. Needless to say tea and coffee will be provided but BYO lunch. A date will be forthcoming in the next few weeks.
Mug Order – the ones that have our club logo on one side, personalised with your name and call sign on the other. There has been an unbelievably fast turnaround, thanks to Anne VK7ANN, the order has been fulfilled and delivered. They are now available at the NTARC club rooms. If you have ordered one but can’t get in to pick it up drop a note to the Secretary and we will see what we can arrange. Because of the large order, we received a very favourable discount this time. Your final price is only ten dollars. If you want the handle attached it will be extra……. Only joking. HiHi
Thursday night, state wide SSTV Net. Any interested operators can view all images decoded from the output of VK7RJG on the NTARC website under ‘Blogs’, or follow the link in the text version of this broadcast. https://www.ntarc.net/blogs
This will give you a valuable tool as to how you are being received, including signal strength and any noise or interference that may be present. Also over the month you can see subtle atmosphere effects exhibited on the UHF Radio Link that is connecting VK7RJG and VK7RAF. This will show up on any Southern originated SSTV images also included in the NTARC “Blogs”.
Did anybody noticed the “Aunty Jack Show” SSTV image going through last Thursday night?
As the ABC is celebrating its 90th year of broadcasting it seemed an interesting piece of trivia that the picture was from the first ABC television show that contained a colour segment that went to air, and it introduced colour to the ABC audience. This was on the 1st of March 1975. It was a special edition of the “Aunty Jack Show” and was filmed in colour, but the majority of the show went to air in Black and White. The final colour segment was created by overlaying the colour image in a gradient fashion to create the sense that the characters were gradually being saturated with colour. The colour was shown as a rising tide of water that could not be stemmed, eventually flooding the show. From this point on colour was considered the normal and within five years of colour starting almost eighty percent of Australian homes had a colour TV set.
Included in the text version is a link to an interesting article on the ABC introduction of colour.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Club Technical night – Wednesday 13th July. Held at the NTARC Club rooms, 7.30pm until whenever.
SSTV Net - held every Thursday night on the 70cm repeater, VK7RJG and linked to the South via repeater VK7RAF. Conducted from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm. These SSTV images will be available on the NTARC website under ‘Blogs’.
Remember, to be able to link with VK7RAF you must enable a CTCSS tone of 141.3 Hz.
TestNet and TechNet – Wednesday 20th July. 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 again be Nic VK7WW.
Coffee Morning – held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Get warm while you catch up, time is from 10am to noon and we look forward to seeing you all there. These coffee events represent a good opportunity to collect your QSL cards and recently delivered Mugs. We currently have cards awaiting collection, so why not pop in and check the QSL box and join us for a cuppa and chat.
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@ntarc.net all items to be received no later than 5pm on the Friday prior to the Broadcast.
That’s all folks,
73 from Stefan, VK7ZSB, Secretary NTARC.
