In this New Amateur edition of the news we look at getting on air, antennas, power connectors and learning the ropes. There's an update on HARGfest, some contest updates and more. On behalf of the team, thanks for joining us. In this edition: New Hams: Foundations of Amateur Radio New Hams: Episode 54 Navigating the on-air minefield New Hams: Antennas New Hams: Group Chat - Learning the ropes New Hams: Antennas - Build or buy? New Hams: New Licences and Callsigns on-air New Hams: Power Connectors Contesting: QRP Hours Contest Wrap Activity: World Amateur Radio Day - April 18 Contesting: JMFD Logs due in by midnight 25/4 NO PDFs Activity: Quick Meetings News: Next Week Contesting News: Helpline Activity: HARGfest next week (VK6ZMS) Our website vk6.net where you'll find a copy of this news, a calendar of events, contests and meetings and contact points for clubs and courses across Western Australia. newswest@vk6.net is the address for feedback and the deadline for submissions is noon on Friday. If you have questions or comments, feedback, good or bad, the address is newswest@vk6.net. You'll find links to resources on the vk6.net website where you'll also find information on where to hear the news, where to download it, how to rebroadcast this news and how to register your callbacks. If you want to join in, you can. Send an email to newswest@vk6.net and we'll be happy to respond. Send your stories, tall or true, audio production, scripts, events, updates, membership information, meeting announcements, AGM alerts, contests, swap-meets and more to us and we'll happily present your contribution on-air. Please register your callback, either on-air, or on-line. Visit vk6.net and click on the callback button. You can also subscribe to our announcement list and we'll let you know when the news is hot off the press. Originating in Perth Western Australia NewsWest is produced by WA Amateur Radio News for listeners on-air, on-line and on-demand. You can tune into this news on-air across many amateur frequencies, download the show from vk6.net or subscribe via your favourite podcast application, whichever way you're listening, whether you're a licensed radio amateur or not, experienced or just a beginner, old or young, thanks for being here and thanks for joining us. Get your copy: http://vk6.net/news/ NewsWest is broadcast and relayed across VK6 and far beyond by many transmitters and operators. Details can be found on vk6.net. The main VK6 NewsWest broadcast occurs at 09:30 WST (01:30 UTC). If you'd like to broadcast this news in your local area, you can. There are no restrictions on broadcasting NewsWest, other than that you must broadcast it as supplied without any modification. We ask that broadcasters advise us that they're transmitting the news. We look forward to hearing callbacks from the new network when it goes live! Our address is newswest@vk6.net Producer: Onno
