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August 2022

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Phil Longworth moved to University of Canberra Hospital for Rehab !
by Phil Longworth 28 Aug '22

28 Aug '22

Good afternoon everyone,I have been transferred across to UCH in Belconnen for ongoing ReHab activities centred around rebuilding leg muscle tone. I am doing a 90 minute Gym session each morning Mon-Sat, though probably a third of the time is doing 'recovery' of breathing and/or heart rate.UCH has a less stringent visitor policy and indeed I'm allowed to have a small meeting of people down in the Cafe (but only a single visitor in the room), so I'm thinking of wandering down to "the Brindabella Cafe" about 1300 each weekday for a coffee if anyone would like to meet up. Unfortunately the Cafe is not open on the weekend.Parking is either in the multi storey car park to the east of the main building, or under the main building. Both have a "ticketing" system but it's at no cost, just bring your ticket in and validate it in the machine on the reception desk. University of Canberra Hospital is the new one set back from the Ginninderra / Aikman Drive intersection.According to the status board in my room, I now have an expected date of discharge of 13 September 2022.Cheers,...Phil Longworth (Sent from my phone so please excuse any typos)

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Somebody to set up a repeater and look after issue and return of radios for the Narooma Rally on 9-11 September !
by Phil Longworth 17 Aug '22

17 Aug '22

Good evening everyone in the WICEN Members email list,I had hoped to be out of hospital and fit enough to handle the Narooma Rally in just over 3 weeks time, but as the last 'tube' only came out of my abdomen today and I have a few (unknown number) of weeks in Rehab I realise that's not realistic.This event is normally done by John Woolner VK1ET and/or myself but neither of us is available, hence this call out for help.The event uses 2 networks, one being an 80 MHz WICEN repeater we erect on a hilltop just out of town, and the other being the Eurobodella Shire Council repeater on 'Peak Alone. The WICEN repeater is normally put in place early afternoon of the Friday and remains in place til Mid Sunday morning.Once the repeater is in place, you grab lunch and head to Rally HQ (this year this is at the Swimming Club rooms adjacent the service park) to set up the HQ radio's for each network and prepare the various other radio's ready to be issued to the Officials.It's proposed the Council Network is used as the main "Officials" network, and the WICEN network is used to provide the SOS tracking (now know as "Positive Tracking") in a manner similar to the way WICEN has done the tracking for NatCap and Rally of Canberra over the years, it just won't be a trained radio operator out in the field.It's understood this is a big ask of an individual to take on by themselves, and are happy if a couple of people want to team up to do all the different tasks, etc.If you can help then please send an email to the wicen(a)crarc.org.au email address and I'll try to coordinate things from here.Cheers,....Phil Longworth VK1PL (Sent from my phone so please excuse any typos)

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