20180225 - VK6WIA NewsWest for Sunday 25 February 2018 - Contesting Edition

In this bulletin the Commonwealth Contest, the John Moyle Memorial Field Day and the Harry Angel Memorial Sprint. Don VK6DN needs your help to save the Mossman Park Mens Shed Radio Shack. Glynn breaks down the art of contesting and Bob shares some of his contesting war-stories. We'll hear from Scott K9JY about logging and we'll also cover the upcoming HARGfest, news from the WA VHF Group, find out what Roy's got cooking on the Helpline and Bob rinses the dust from his mouth for tales from the road.

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Producer: Onno VK6FLAB

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