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      Club meetings: 2nd Sunday of the Month at 2:00 pm

      New Venue: 

Laidley Youth Center, William St, Laidley
      On air meetings: 3570KHz Friday nights at 0730 local (0930 zulu)
      Club repeater: VK4RIL - 147.700 (negative offset)  Echolink Node 491940

Club's address: P.O. Box 343, Laidley QLD 4341 - Australia

email: secretary@lvrec.org

 
Club News
Keeping members up to date with the latest news and events

February 4th


The Bunya Mts & District AmCom Inc will be holding there
annual
Wine & Hamfest in Maclaghan, north west of
Toowoomba.
 

Great
Contest
News


The
club beat its own VK MS record set in 1999 (VK4DZ)
for the ARRL 10 Meter Contest.
Now the long wait to see if anyone beat us,
but we are very confident :-)

VK4WIL Ops were VK4HS, VK4MN, VK4QH, VK4SN
 

March 17 - 18


The
John Moyle Memorial Field Day will be another club
event.
  Put the date in your diary for full time
participation, or come along over the weekend to assist us.
All welcome.  Contact our secretary for details.
 

Contests
Soon to be heard in a shack near you.
 

2012

 
February 18-19    ARRL DX Contest - CW Rules
March 3-4    ARRL DX Contest - SSB Rules
March 10-11    Commonwealth Contest - CW Rules
March 17 18    John Moyle Memorial Field Day - Club event Rules

 



S.O.L.A.R. AWARD

Shire of Laidley Amateur Radio Award
On the 14th of March 2008, the Laidley and Gatton Shires amalgamated forming the new Lockyer Valley Regional Council. Even though the Shire of Laidley officially does not exist, we are keeping the award as is with the information of the change contained on the certificate. The award colours have been kept in line with the new Councils logo colours.
 

To qualify for this award, licenced amateur radio operators anywhere in the world need only work any three (3) amateur operators who are residents of the Lockyer Valley Regional Council OR, any ONE member of the Lockyer Valley Radio and Electronics Club Inc. (see member pages for listing)

The award costs  AU $5.  This includes return postage, and if required, can be plastic laminated for an extra $1. All applications should be accompanied by a copy of relevant log book entries or preferably a QSL card and sent to :

SOLAR AWARD,  Lockyer Valley Radio & Electronics Club, P.O. Box 343,  Laidley QLD 4341 Australia

If you have any questions or queries, please  e-mail one of the club committee members.


The LVR&E Club supports JOTA each year for the local Scout Groups.