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updated 24January 2012

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Hey What in the world is the SUN up to......... Have you seen/heard all the news about the huge solar flare that's affecting earth this week? Solar protons accelerated by an M9-class solar flare are streaming past Earth.

This is a photo taken by Bjørn Jørgensen from Tromsø, Norway

This aurora resulted from the impact of the solar flare compressing Earth's Magnetic Field. It may also reboot computers onboard some satellites but that's life up there amongst the stars, I guess. You can, and should, read the whole story here on Spaceweather.com.

Don't forget that we all get back to work in February......... February's General Meeting will be held on Saturday 25th.

We held the final General Meeting for the year in November and two new members joined the club. Welcome to Allan VK4VAT and Bob Avery we look forward to making good memories with you over the years. We had some Certificates on hand for members who joined at the previous meeting and Ross VK4JRO was pleased to present them to Jim VK4FAAY (soon to be upgrading we hear) and Peter VK4AAB.

Prior to the Meeting we held our end of year break up party. This year we decided on a lunch at Sizzler on Saturday 26th November.... We had 13 people make the lunch and the Secret Santa gifts were a treat.... some presents were large other quite small but everyone stuck with the rules and spent less than $3... isn't it amazing what you can find when the xmas spirit is upon you.

Bob VK4UD seems to have received earrings... or perhaps one nose ring and one for a spare???	Now VK4CAB Anske's gift was in fact a xmas present... it flashed in different colours too
Bill VK4XZ seems to be telling us "We're Welcome" ?	And Marg VK4FHAM now has a tape so she can measure just how big the Treasurer's job is
Strange coincidence - both Graham VK4SR and Gary received food as their gifts... Irish cream puddings and Rosella Jam! *yum* We couldn't persuade them to put it on the sizzler toast for us	Judy, Sue and Ron VK4BRG chatting away

We've been busy with WICEN........ We were delighted to have 6 Hervey Bay Amateur Radio Club members come and join us for our November WICEN training. It was a great day of theory and practical work. There are some photos on the WICEN NEWS page. Our own members took the lead in taking the individual teams through their set up and packing up of the portable stations and the ENVIS Dipole antenna so it was good practice all round.

JOTA Wyper Park update........ We have some photos of the 2011 Scout camp. Club members VK4JRO, VK4TZ, VK4DAD & VK4UD ran the event for an eager group this year until the storms closed down operations early in the evening.

VK4UD has an eager group on the Mic in the hut and VK4DAD plays CW with others out in the pavilion

Joe VK4FDJB and our newest F call Glenn VK4FGLE try their hand at a morse key as well under the guiding hand of Don VK4DAD

JOTA @ GIN GIN 2011........... This year the club managed to provide two venues for the 54th Annual JOTA over the weekend of October 15th & 16th.

We had our team at the usual Scout camp at Wyper Park and this year we also supported the regional Girl Guide camp held at Gin Gin.

From Gin Gin we hear there were around 90 girls in attendance at the Gin Gin show grounds. They began with a tent set up on Friday night but were driven into the show pavilions by the storms. The lightning crashes caused a great deal of QRN but the girls managed to talk to some Qld, NSW and New Zealand stations.

Listening to all the long pass traffic into France, Italy, Belgium was a treat too and wondering what someone was doing Mobile Pedestrian in Blackpool England gave them a lot of laughs.

Unfortunately the forecast storm front & electrical storms rolled in early in the evening and everything had to come down for safety. Let's hope next year brings better weather as the girls enjoyed seeing the possibilities of radio communications.

The old farm ute came in handy to hold vertical antennas back and front and due to the inclement weather the station had to be set up inside a pavilion

WHAT's THIS..... Club member demonstrating his fire fighting skills... Bill VK4XZ was at the TARC Convention in September and couldn't resist this bright red fire engine at the historical museum.

And while at TARC - what's wrong with this photo?

It seems all the club members saw the sign and approved it's use.... just goes to show the mind can play tricks

REMEMBER the International Lighthouse weekend?........... We told you the Club station event at the Burnett Heads Historical Lighthouse had a funny ending and here are the photos........

VK4UD began his stint on the Mic later in the afternoon just when the team thought it was time to pull up stakes (literally) and go home.

The cover became less as the team packed up the tent

Then the table went............ until finally undeterred and still talking to a lighthouse this was VK4UD's final hoorah

We celebrated our 50th Anniversary in October .......... We began with an early morning trip up to Mt Goonaneman, for those intrepid visitors who felt like an early wake up call and trek up a steep mountain path.

A storm drove them off the mountain, drenched them in rain and they raced back to town.

Then it was off to the Young Australian Hotel for a fabulous lunch, served a little late as the Chef battled electricity blackout for a couple of hours.

There were some presentations.........

The club honoured 6 members with medallions in honour of their 25year membership of the WIA

Bill VK4XZ, Joscelyn VK4JJ, Rusty VK4JM, Michael Owen VK3KI, Anske VK4CAB, George VK4AMG, Ron VK4BRG with their WIA 25 year membership Medallions

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