Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania Inc Contacts QSL Page

Office	Holder	Email
President	Gavin O'Shea, (VK7HGO)
Vice-President	Justin Giles-Clark, (VK7TW)
Secretary & Public Officer	Tony Lathouras, (VK7FTCL)
Treasurer	Richard Rogers (VK7RO)
Committee Members	Barry McCann (VK7TBM) Warren (VK7FEET)
Ex-officio	Holder
Membership Officer:	Richard Rogers (VK7RO)
WICEN Coordinator:	Roger Nichols, (VK7ARN)
Clubroom Officer:	Barry McCann (VK7TBM)
QSL/Awards Manager:	John Bates, (VK7RT)
Repeater Coordinator:	Dave Marsland, (VK7DM)
Information Technology & Communications Officer:	Ben Short, (VK7BEN)
Website/ Events/ Presentation Officer:	Justin Giles-Clark, (VK7TW)
Broadcast Stats Coordinator:	John Rogers, (VK7JK)
Education Officer & Assessor:	Reg Emmett, (VK7KK)
Nominated Assessor:	Ian Ellings, (VK7QF)
Learning Facilitator:	Justin Giles-Clark, (VK7TW)
Learning Facilitator:	Alan Jeffreys, (VK7KAJ)
Historian:	Richard Rogers (VK7RO)

REAST was incorporated on 10 September 2004 following the cancellation of the Wireless Institute of Australia - Tasmania Division.

Year	President	Vice- President	Secretary	Treasurer	Committee Members
2004[1]	Justin Giles-Clark VK7TW		Dale Barnes VK7DG	Richard Rogers VK7RO
2005	Justin Giles-Clark VK7TW	Brian Stevenson VK7HSB	Dale Barnes VK7DG	Roger Nicholls VK7XRN	Bob Warren VK7KRW
2006[2]	Justin Giles-Clark VK7TW	Clayton Reading VK7ZCR	Ben Short VK7HAH	Roger Nicholls VK7ARN Scott Thomson VK7FREK	Brian Stevenson VK7HSB Rod Finlayson VK7TRF
2007	Justin Giles-Clark VK7TW	Clayton Reading VK7ZCR	Danny Moss VK7HDM	Scott Thomson VK7FREK	Gavin O’Shea VK7HGO Ken Sulman VK7XDY
2008	Clayton Reading VK7ZCR	Gavin O’Shea VK7HGO	Danny Moss VK7HDM	Scott Thomson VK7FREK	Ben Short VK7BEN Thomas Karpiniec VK7NML
2009	Gavin O’Shea VK7HGO	Dave Marsland VK7DM	John Slevin VK7HJS	Richard Rogers VK7RO	Bob Warren VK7ZL Warren Nicholas VK7FEET
2010	Gavin O’Shea VK7HGO	Justin Giles-Clark VK7TW	Tony Lathouras VK7FTCL	Richard Rogers VK7RO	Barry McCann VK7TBM Warren Nicholas VK7FEET

REAST Life Members

Year	Life Member
2009	John Rogers VK7JK

[1] Transitional committee following the cancellation of the Southern Branch of the Tasmanian Division of the Wireless Institute of Australia Inc and the incorporation of the Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania Inc on 10 September 2004.

[2] In 2006 the membership voted to change the rules for the appointment of two Committee Members.

Only WIA members are entitled to use the QSL Bureau. Being a member of REAST or any other local club only, is not sufficient. You must also be a WIA member.

The QSL bureau is funded by the WIA and is for the exclusive use of members of the WIA. The state QSL manager is appointed by the WIA and is supported by the WIA is all respects.

As of 1 December 2007, all WIA members will be responsible for the dispatch of their own cards to the NSW QSL Bureau at Teralba (address below). WIA members may dispatch their cards as often as they like. The cost of sending their QSL cards is the responsibility of that particular WIA member.

WIA National will pay for the delivery of incoming cards to each WIA member once a year. Only if the number of cards received for a WIA member is excessive will WIA National pay for more than one delivery.

Non member’s cards will be held in a holding bin for a period of 12 months. These cards will not be sorted. It will be the task of the individual to search for his/her own cards. There is to be no sorting or time expended by the bureau manager in sorting out non member’s cards.

Currently the “State” and Southern QSL Manager sorts and deposits Southern WIA members’ cards at the Domain Club rooms. This practice will continue after 1 December 2007.

SASE WIA members will still receive their cards in the manner in which they receive them now.

SASE members are now required to forward their cards directly to the NSW QSLBureau at Teralba, unless they are REAST Members as well. They are not to be forwarded to the Southern QSL Manager any more. If such an amateur is a REAST member, the following “action” would apply to them:

The QSL Manager receives a list of WIA members every 3 months. If the QSL Manager believes that QSL cards have been received from an amateur who is not on the latest membership list, those cards will not be forwarded on to Teralba. If doubt arises as to whether or not an amateur is a WIA member, those cards will be forwarded to Teralba, who in turn will check whether or not that amateur is a WIA member or not, and then act accordingly.

It is proposed that the QSL Manager continue to collect all cards from VK7 WIA members in the South who are REAST members and, when it is cost effective, call upon REAST to provide funding for the cost of postage to the NSW QSL Bureau at Teralba. This is virtually what is happening at present, except that the cost has been met by the “State” and Southern QSL Manager as a form of “donation” to both REAST and WIA National. This would be on a cost effective basis.

It is up to each individual amateur to forward their cards directly to the NSW QSL Bureau. A local club may wish to proceed in the way that REAST does for Southern amateurs who are both WIA and REAST members.

The payment of the cost of forwarding member’s QSL cards to the NSW QSL Bureau is one of the benefits that REAST provides to its members.

If any further information is required, please contact me on 0409 778 382 or email at

or post to GPO Box 371 , Hobart Tas 7001

Qsl cards should be well designed with the following information displayed prominently on the card:

Cards are best printed on light weight card. Flimsy paper type cards and heavy card is not recommended.

Cards collected by overseas amateurs for the purpose of gaining awards require precise information.