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WIA's Club Grant Scheme gets into gearAs reported last week, President of the Wireless Institute of Australia, Michael Owen, has announced grants to WIA Affiliated Clubs under the Club Grants Scheme for 2006. Ken Fuller VK4KF as Chair, Deane Blackman VK3TX and Wally Howse VK6KZ had accepted the WIA Board's invitation to constitute the Grant Committee for 2006. 18 proposals for were submitted to the Committee, 5 grants will be made, some subject to certain conditions, as follows, in no particular order. The Scout Radio Activities Group, with approximately 50% WIA membership,
a grant of $770 to support the building and operating of 3 APRS Tracking
Units as a demonstration project for scouts and like groups, subject to
the Group agreeing to providing a report on the project's achievements The Orana Region ARC, with approximately 50% WIA membership, $930 toward a project to link 5 repeaters to improve 2 meter and 70 centimetre coverage over an extensive area in the Condobolin and Dubbo areas of New South Wales. The Northern Tasmania ARC, with a 58% WIA membership, $1,900 toward
the purchase of a commercial diplexer to allow mounting of the transmitter
and receiver antennas at single point on its Mt Barrow site, covering
a wide area of Tasmania, subject to the condition that the club can, within The East Gippsland ARC, with an 86% WIA membership, $500 to replace solar panels stolen from the club's repeater site at Mt Cann. Ballarat Amateur Radio Club, with an 80% WIA membership, $900 to fund phase 3 of stage 1 of a project to establish a modern HF and 2 metre and 70 centimetre club station providing facilities for remote access in times of emergency and for members from their homes and elsewhere, described by the Committee as the most innovative of all the proposals submitted, and also commended as being very well presented. The full report of the Grant Committee can be found on the WIA website. wia.org.au Source: Wireless Institute of Australia
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